Tablat SG

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SG is the abbreviation for the canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland and is used to avoid confusion with other entries of the name Tablatf .
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State : SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
Canton : Canton of St. GallenCanton of St. Gallen Canton of St. Gallen (SG)
Constituency : St. Gallenw
Political community : St. Galleni2 w1
Postal code : 9001
Coordinates : 748 322  /  255870 coordinates: 47 ° 26 '13 "  N , 9 ° 24' 18"  O ; CH1903:  748,322  /  255870
Height : 662  m above sea level M.
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Tablat SG (Switzerland)
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Parish before the merger on January 1, 1918

Tablat was a municipality in the canton of St. Gallen . The community was located in the eastern part of the city of St. Gallen and was incorporated into the west together with Straubenzell in 1918 . The local community has remained . Today this is a public company, but still has the right to decide on naturalizations . If you want to become a citizen of St. Gallen, you acquire citizenship from Tablat or the city of St. Gallen. The Reformed parishes in the city are also still separate.

Names

Tablat is derived from the late Latin word tabulatum , which means "storage tank ". The name never belonged to a place, but originally to an estate east of the city. Tablat was later used as a name for the entire area east of the city.

scope

Before 1798, the municipality of Tablat comprised the areas east of the city of St. Gallen, up to today's border with Wittenbach (which extends far into the urban settlement area at the Holy Trinity Church in the Holy Cross). The southern border ran south of St. Georgen, the northern border on today's Langgasse. Until 1798 Rotmonten was not part of it, it was its own so-called "Hauptmannschaft" and directly subordinated to the abbot court. The local civil parish of Rotmonten remained in existence until 2009, when it was merged with that of the city of St. Gallen.

Legally, the capture of the pen also belonged to the Tablat community as an exclave. The monastery church therefore served as a meeting place for the community's voters until it merged with the city.

history

Main article: History of the city of St. Gallen

As a subject of the abbot of St. Gallen, the history of Tablat, originally part of Wittenbach , was strongly shaped by the fate of the prince abbey. Until its dissolution in 1805, the area east of the city was strictly Catholic and the monastery was obliged to obey. Only during and after the Appenzell Wars was the rulership of the prince abbot significantly in question, because the inhabitants of Tablat also refused to pay taxes and duties to the monastery. The conflict was settled through Imperial mediation in 1434. Two decades later, in 1458 or 1459, the prince-abbot Wittenbach definitely separated from Tablat and assigned the latter its own court, among other things to curb the influence of the city, which was allowed to determine half of the judges at the prince-abbot court. The main features of the municipal code introduced at the same time were valid until 1798, i.e. until the introduction of the Helvetic Republic .

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.

In the course of the 19th century, with industrialization and the flourishing textile industry, the suburbs suddenly gained greater importance, because within the city the space 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.

The large construction projects at the beginning of the 20th century also ensured a significant increase in the population: the Bodensee-Toggenburg Railway (BT) built the Bruggwald tunnel between St. Fiden and Wittenbach and, together with the SBB, the Rosenberg tunnel between St. Fiden and St. Gallen . Because the local workers were employed in embroidery, only foreigners were left to build the tunnel. In 1900 there were 2908 foreigners per 12,547 inhabitants, and the trend is rising. Most of the foreigners came from Italy. Because these workers were often rented out very bad apartments and they were hopelessly overcrowded, the city founded the Housing Inspectorate in 1910 to prevent speculative housing construction in the future. At the same time, several new school buildings were built, as the old ones no longer offered any space due to the strong population increase - of course the schools were still strictly separated according to denomination.

Personalities

literature

  • Bruno Broder, Heinz Eggmann, René Wagner, Silvia Widmer-Trachsel: City of St. Gallen; a geographical and historical local lore . School administration of the city of St. Gallen. Cantonal teaching material publisher St. Gallen
  • Ernst Ehrenzeller: History of the City of St. Gallen . Walter and Verena Spühl Foundation. 1988, ISBN 3-7291-1047-0
  • Silvio Bucher (editor): The Canton of St. Gallen; Landscape community home . Published by the Office for Cultural Maintenance of the Canton of St. Gallen. Löpfe-Benz, Rorschach 1985, ISBN 3-85819-084-5

Web links

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