Grub cell

State :

Switzerland

Canton :

Canton of St. Gallen (SG)

Constituency :

St. Gallen

Political community :

St. Gallen

Postal code :

9001

Coordinates :

742 888 / 252811 coordinates: 47 ° 24 '38 " N , 9 ° 19' 55" O ; CH1903: seven hundred forty-two thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight / 252811

Height :

643 m above sea level M.

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Parish before the merger on January 1, 1918

Straubenzell was a municipality in the canton of St. Gallen . The community was located in the western part of the city of St. Gallen and was incorporated into the east together with Tablat in 1918 . The local community remained until 2015. On January 1, 2016, the local community Straubenzell was integrated into that of the city of St. Gallen. The Reformed parishes in the city are still separate.

structure

Straubenzell belonged to the Straubenzell district in the Rorschach district from 1803 to 1831 , and then to the Gossau district until 1918 . As a result of the incorporation, the former villages have belonged to the St. Gallen district , today the St. Gallen constituency .

The community of Straubenzell consisted of several villages, some of which are still visible today. Today it is the quarters of St. Gallen-West.

Bruggen

Bruggen was the center of Straubenzell and from 1803 to 1831 the main district. A street with the community name reminds of this. The name comes from Old High German “brucka”, Middle High German “brucke” and means “near the bridges” (which cannot be overlooked there). The name is first recorded in 1219.

Haggen

The area south of Bruggen, on the way to Stein, is called Haggen. The name is derived from Old High German "hacko, haggo", which means something like "protruding mountain". One can find such a bridge at today's Haggenbrücke ("Ganggelibrugg"), where the rock drops steeply towards the Sitter.

Chräzern, Kräzern

The Krazern district, which stretches towards Winkel in the rising area west of the Sitter, does not get its name, as one would assume, from “Chräze”, an old expression for carrying basket. Rather, the expression means "scratching, scratching, wound (in the landscape)".

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The quarter, which is now called Ahorn , is to the east of Haggen, south of the large tracks of the freight yard. The name is only indirectly derived from the tree. Rather, it probably goes back to a doctor named Anhorn, who is said to have lived there in the 17th century.

Angles

Winkeln is the westernmost quarter of the city. Although not entirely correct, the whole area west of the Sitter is often called that today . Strictly speaking, only the actual core belonged to the village, i.e. the houses on Herisauerstrasse, which is still the most direct connection from St. Gallen to the main town of Appenzell Ausserrhoden.

history

As the subject of the abbot of St. Gallen, the history of Straubenzell was strongly influenced by the fate of the prince abbey . Until its dissolution in 1805, the areas east and west of the city were strictly Catholic and the monastery was obliged to obey. The scattered village centers in this area did not play an essential role in the political and economic environment of the city, except that discord arose again and again due to the narrow borders in which the city itself was located, especially after the Reformation. To Straubenzellstrasse included the commercially important to the West Sitter bridges . The way to Wil, the second most important city in the abbey, led through here. Several medieval castles , some of which still exist today, testify to the importance of the traffic routes.

In the course of the 19th century, with industrialization and the flourishing textile industry, the suburbs suddenly gained greater importance, as the space within the city for new factories and locations for the textile industry was running out. The population in the suburbs grew rapidly, while the city could no longer accept new citizens. When the cities were merged in 1918 (which was already a fact in terms of geography and settlement area), the suburbs made up about half of the new city's population. Even today the people of St. Gallen speak of going "into town" when they actually mean the old city center.

Traffic also played an important role in the Straubenzell area in the 20th century. In 1927 the new, two-lane SBB railway bridge was opened. In 1941 the Fürstenlandbrücke was opened, which was supposed to complement the much older Kräzernbrücke. In 1987 the city motorway through St. Gallen was opened - the importance of the other Sitterbrücken suddenly decreased, but also the meanwhile strong increase in through traffic.

Web links

Commons : Straubenzell - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Local civil parish of Straubenzell
Evangelical-Ref. Parish Straubenzell St.Gallen West
Marcel Mayer: Straubenzell. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .

literature

Grub cell; Landscape - community - district; Ortgemeinde Straubenzell (Ed.) 2006, ISBN 3-907928-58-X