Bruggen (St. Gallen)

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Catholic parish church St. Martin, post office and Kantonalbank branch Bruggen on Zürcherstrasse and the confluence with Fürstenlandstrasse

Bruggen is a western quarter of the Swiss city ​​of St. Gallen with around 12,000 inhabitants. The age composition of the population corresponds almost exactly to the urban average with a 2% higher proportion of young people and correspondingly fewer people in employment and retirees. At 31%, the proportion of foreigners is only one percent higher than the urban average. However, at 12%, the proportion of Europeans from the non-EU area is half higher than the urban mean of 8%.

history

Bruggen was the center of Straubenzell . A street with the community name reminds of this. Bruggen, which was first mentioned in a document in 1219, is derived from the Old High German word “brucka” or the Middle High German “brucke” and means “by the bridges”. These still dominate the townscape today. They are part of the St. Gallen Bridge Path .

  • The covered wooden bridge over the Sitter

  • The lower Kräzernbrücke, Friedrich Haltiner, 1811

  • Railway viaduct of the, 1857. Photo: Heer Collection, approx. 1910

  • Railway viaduct of the SBB, 1926

  • Fürstenland Bridge, 1940

  • The Haggenbrücke (also Ganggelibrugg) from Haggen to Stein AR

  • The Sitter Viaduct as seen from the Herisauer Seit.

The oldest covered wooden bridge is now at the foot of the Sitter Viaduct of the SOB. The first stone bridge, the lower Kräzernbrücke with customs house built in 1811, was completed by the builder Friedrich Haltiner.

The railway viaduct planned by Carl Etzel in 1857 was replaced in 1926 by the Sitter viaduct of the SBB , next to it there is the SOB viaduct , a few hundred meters south, the north-eastern half of which is in the Bruggen area, while the south-western half (from the middle of the Sitter) on Herisauer Boden is located.

The Fürstenland Bridge, built by the Chopard engineering firm between 1937 and 1940, has a free span of 134 m. Your architecture resembles a large arch. It connects Bruggen with angles via the Sitter . In addition, the Haggenbrücke connects Bruggen to the south with a footpath and cycle path with Stein (AR).

From 1803 to 1831 Bruggen was the main district of the Straubenzell district in the Rorschach district . Straubenzell was merged with the city of St. Gallen as part of the city ​​merger in 1918, whereby Bruggen also became part of the canton capital.

Schools, sports, churches, traffic

The entrance to the Lerchenfeld ice rink seen from the southeast

The Bruggen district has several sports fields and the handball club of the same name (HC Bruggen). In the Lerchenfeld district, in eastern Bruggen on Zürcherstrasse, there is an ice sports center with an ice rink , curling center and outdoor ice rink , as well as an outdoor pool with diving board, slide and children's pool in the sports center of the same name .

There are also several shopping centers and the Bruggen Evangelical Nursing Home in Bruggen. The Catholic Church of St. Martin and the Evangelical Reformed Church, consecrated in 1906, are located in Bruggen .

SBB railway station, St. Gallen Bruggen

Bruggen is connected by trolleybus lines 1, 2 and bus lines 3, 4, 7 and 8 of the St. Gallen public transport company with the city center to the east and with Winkeln (line 1) and Abtwil (lines 3, 4) to the west . Bruggen also has two train stations, the Bruggen train station of the SBB and the Haggen train station of the SOB , where the regional S-Bahn stops.

There are also various primary and secondary schools in Bruggen. The Engelwies primary and secondary school with 4 associated kindergartens is located on the northern edge , directly on the

The Realschulhaus Bruggen is located in Zürcherstrasse and the Boppartshof schoolhouse with its 7 kindergartens is located in the Haggen district. The schools are attended by over 700 Pirmar students and kindergarten teachers and around 160 secondary school students. Engelwies School achieved notoriety in 1999 for the murder of teacher Paul Spirig by Ded Gecaj, the Kosovar Albanian father of a girl at school. It is one of the so-called 'valley schools' of St. Gallen, which suffer from a poorer image than the 'mountain schools' because of the higher proportion of foreigners.

Cultural events and facilities

The largest cultural event in the city of St. Gallen also takes place in Bruggen with the Open Air St. Gallen , which every year attracts around 30,000 spectators to the Sittertobel below Bruggen an der Sitter and has been taking place there since 1980.

In the immediate vicinity of the open air area is the 'Sitterwerk', a former industrial building that was subsequently converted and now houses several culturally important facilities. These include an art foundry, a gallery, a materials archive and an art library.

Infrastructure and industry

In the Sittertobel near Bruggen there are also important infrastructure facilities of the city of St. Gallen. The KHK St. Gallen Kericht thermal power station burns around 75,000 tons of waste per year from 40 communities in the St. Gallen - Rorschach - Appenzell waste regions . The waste heat is fed into the 16 km long district heating network of the city of St. Gallen, whereby the output corresponds to 24 MW. In the immediate vicinity of the KHK is the ARA St. Gallen Au wastewater treatment plant , which treats the wastewater from the western parts of St. Gallen, the municipality of Gaiserwald and from the eastern part of Gossau and parts of Teufen and thus wastewater from 66,000 residents.

The closed borehole of the failed geothermal project of the city of St. Gallen is located on the same site .

The Sittertal dye works in its heyday in 1935.

In the Sittertal near Bruggen, hydropower was used even earlier than on the Steinach in St. Georgen . From 1604 the royal paper mill in Bruggen was in operation a little below the confluence of the Urnäsch into the Sitter. In 1898 the Kubel power plant was built on the site of the paper mill and put into operation in 1900. The power plant, fed from the water of the Gübsensee, is still in operation today.

In the so-called Au below the Stocken district, a flax spinning mill was established in 1840 , then an embroidery and, at the beginning of the 20th century, a dye works (which replaced the red dye works in the Lachen district ) in the industrial plant last known as the 'Sittertal dye works' . The industrial enterprise existed until 1987. The property was then used by various commercial enterprises before it was converted into the Sitterwerk cultural center.

In the Zweibruggen area in the valley below the Haggen Bridge, a water-powered grain mill was built in 1862.

Bruggen between 1920 and 1930: Stocken brewery in front, Zweibruggenmühle on the right, Bruggen train station next to it. View to the east.

This burned down in 1902. When building the replacement, the new technical developments were taken into account and the grain mill, still called ' Zweibruggenmühle ' after the original location, was rebuilt to the west of the Bruggen train station and operated with electricity. With the direct rail connection, the new location was also much easier to reach than the old one, located deep in a valley that was difficult to access.

The mill was in operation until 1999. After the closure, the 'ensemble of supraregional importance' consisting of the factory building and the silo tower lay fallow for about a decade before a project for the conversion of the factory for residential buildings and the replacement of the silo tower with a high-rise was presented in 2008 and subsequently implemented.

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In the eastern part of Bruggen, near the so-called Lerchenfeld, there is a location of the EMPA , the Eidgenössische Materialprüfungsanstalt. The location called “Im Moos” was moved to the St. Gallen location of EMPA in 1996. The main research areas there include clothing physiology, personal protection systems, functional fibers and textiles, biocompatible materials, material and image modeling and technology risk assessments.

The Zweibruggenmühle building converted into a residential building, on the right a high-rise building on the site of the former grain silo

The Stocken brewery was located on Kräzernstrasse, directly below the former tram and bus terminus , where beer was brewed from 1784 to 1973 at the latest. This was run by the Walser family and when it closed it was one of the oldest breweries in Switzerland and the penultimate brewery still in existence in the city of St. Gallen. The historically significant property was subsequently used in different ways. Since 2015, the property's former brewery inn has housed a private school with basic and primary levels.

literature

  • Straubenzell: landscape - community - district. Local citizen community Straubenzell (Ed.). 2006, ISBN 3-907928-58-X .

Web links

Commons : Bruggen  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.stadt.sg.ch/home/gesellschaft-sicherheit/z togetherleben- vereine/quartiervereine/quartierentwicklung/_jcr_content/Par/downloadlist/DownloadListPar/download_0.ocFile/2015%2005%2021% 20Quartierportraits.pdf
  2. ↑ scope.staatsarchiv.sg.ch: ZMH 64 / 109b St. Gallen: Kräzernbrücke over the Sitter, with the new customs house on the top left, the previous one on the right, and with the covered wooden bridge in the foreground, 1811 (approx.) (Document) , Accessed November 10, 2011.
  3. ^ Division of the canton of St. Gallen. Law of June 23, 1817. (= Johann Jakob Zollikofer [Hrsg.]: Collection of the laws and ordinances of the Canton of St. Gallen currently in force ). 1826, p. 31 ff .
  4. ↑ Lerchenfeld Ice Sports Center. Retrieved February 14, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Lerchenfeld outdoor pool. Retrieved February 14, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Description ( Memento of the original from December 5, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the website of the Evangelical Reformed Church Community Straubenzell St. Gallen West, accessed on January 9, 2013.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.straubenzell.ch
  7. ↑ Engelwies primary school. Retrieved July 11, 2017 .
  8. ↑ Realschule Engelwies Bruggen. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on July 10, 2017 ; Retrieved July 11, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.stadt.sg.ch
  9. ↑ Boppartshof primary school. Retrieved July 11, 2017 .
  10. ^ St. Galler Tagblatt AG, Switzerland: Teacher shot in St. Gallen school . In: St.Galler Tagblatt . ( archive.org [accessed December 1, 2017]).
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  13. ↑ Info. July 5, 2017. Retrieved July 13, 2017 .
  14. ↑ St.Gallen waste incineration plant. Retrieved July 11, 2017 .
  15. ↑ Wastewater treatment plants. Retrieved July 11, 2017 .
  16. ↑ Markus Kaiser: Sitter. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . July 15, 2011 , accessed July 13, 2017 .
  17. ↑ St. Galler Tagblatt AG, Switzerland: Industrialization: Sittertal dye works . In: St.Galler Tagblatt . ( tagblatt.ch [accessed on July 13, 2017]).
  18. ↑ St. Galler Tagblatt AG, Switzerland: Over the fords of the sitters . In: St.Galler Tagblatt . ( archive.org [accessed May 2, 2018]).
  19. ↑ St. Galler Tagblatt AG, Switzerland: built in 1902 after fire . In: St.Galler Tagblatt . ( tagblatt.ch [accessed on July 13, 2017]).
  20. ↑ St. Galler Tagblatt AG, Switzerland: New apartments in an old mill . In: St.Galler Tagblatt . ( tagblatt.ch [accessed on July 13, 2017]).
  21. ↑ Swiss breweries | PUB - Gastronomy Directory. Retrieved July 13, 2017 .
  22. ↑ St. Galler Tagblatt AG, Switzerland: An inn with a history . In: St.Galler Tagblatt . ( tagblatt.ch [accessed on July 13, 2017]).
  23. ↑ St. Galler Tagblatt AG, Switzerland: Legendary inn becomes a school . In: St.Galler Tagblatt . ( archive.org [accessed July 31, 2017]).

Coordinates: 47 ° 25 '  N , 9 ° 20'  E ; CH1903:  742 928  /  252683