Uznach

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Uznach
Coat of arms of Uznach
State : SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
Canton : Canton of St. GallenCanton of St. Gallen Canton of St. Gallen (SG)
Constituency : Sea gaster
BFS no. : 3339i1 f3 f4
Postal code : 8730
UN / LOCODE : CH UZN
Coordinates : 717 043  /  231527 coordinates: 47 ° 13 '27 "  N , 8 ° 59' 3"  O ; CH1903:  seven hundred seventeen thousand and forty-three  /  231527
Height : 415  m above sea level M.
Height range : 405–592 m above sea level M.
Area : 7.54  km²
Residents: 6417 (December 31, 2018)
Population density : 851 inhabitants per km²
Website: www.uznach.ch
Location of the municipality
Pfäffikersee Zürichsee Entenseeli Aatalweier Sihlsee Wägitalersee Obersee (Glarus) Walensee Kanton Appenzell Ausserhoden Kanton Glarus Kanton Schwyz Kanton Zürich Wahlkreis Sarganserland Wahlkreis Toggenburg Amden Benken SG Eschenbach SG Gommiswald Kaltbrunn SG Rapperswil-Jona Schänis Schmerikon Uznach WeesenMap of Uznach
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Aerial photo from 400 m by Walter Mittelholzer (1919)

Uznach (in Swiss German “Uznach” or “Uznä”) is a political municipality in the canton of St. Gallen in eastern Switzerland . Uznach is the market town of the region.

geography

Uznach is on the edge of the Linth plain near Lake Zurich . The Steinenbach is a nature reserve of national importance.

population

3,700 of the Uznach residents are Catholic, 760 are Reformed (as of 2000). At the end of 2011 there were 5,911 inhabitants in the political municipality of Uznach. As of December 31, 2018, the population grew to 6,417.

economy

Around 300 employers employ around 3,000 people in Uznach. These include the central warehouse of the shoe wholesaler Karl Vögele AG , the Linth-Park shopping center, the Grynau substation of the Nordostschweizerische Kraftwerke and Bank Linth LLB .

traffic

The railway lines branch off from Rapperswil in the direction of Wattwil – St. Biliary Romanshorn and brick bridge -Glarus-Linthal. Uznach is also served by the Voralpen-Express , the St. Gallen S-Bahn and various post bus lines. The A53 motorway also runs between Uznach and Schmerikon , which joins the A3 in Reichenburg .

history

Uznach, the settlement of the Alemanni Uzzo was first mentioned in a document in 741 and was donated to the St. Gallen monastery in 744 . From the time between 820 and 912, 15 documents have been preserved that were issued in Uznach. In the year 856 it was mentioned in a document that there was the Gallus Church in Uznach ( in villa Uzzinriuda ). It was founded by the Beata family around the middle of the 8th century.

The Uznach landscape went to the Toggenburgers because Diethelm VI. Between 1180 and 1195 Guta von Rapperswil married, as Oberholzer reports. However, the city of Uznach was only founded around 1200 by the Counts of Toggenburg , who built a small castle at the northern end of today's town . The old village of Uznach was between Aabach and the Kreuzkirche. In 1407 a brotherhood of traveling people , pipers and violinists was founded in the Kreuzkirche . The founding deed, issued by Count Friedrich VII of Toggenburg, is in the church archive. The county of Uznach remained part of the power of the Counts of Toggenburg until they died out in 1436. The heirs of the Toggenburg family, the Lords of Raron , pledged the county in 1437 to the cantons of Schwyz and Glarus .

Zurich's claim to the county, which is important for transport, led to the Old Zurich War , in which the nearby town of Rapperswil fought on the side of Habsburg and Zurich, and the county of Uznach on the side of the Confederates . The defeat of Zurich enabled Schwyz and Glarus to buy the county in 1469. Until the end of the Old Confederation (1798), the county of Uznach remained a common rule with a Glarner or Schwyzer Vogt , who was not allowed to take up residence in the country. Uznach was the main town of the bailiwick but not the seat of the bailiff.

During the Reformation of the 16th century, the town and landscape of Uznach remained in the traditional Roman Catholic faith. Only the people of Kaltbrunn have employed the Protestant pastor Jakob Kaiser , a citizen of Uznach. In the week of Pentecost in 1529 he was arrested by the Schwyzers, sentenced to death in Schwyz and burned. This was the reason for the First Kappel War between Protestant and Catholic locations in the Confederation.

From August 18th to 19th, 1762, the town burned down completely. Among other things, the church, the hospital and 82 houses fell victim to the fire.

After the Helvetic Republic was founded in 1798, Uznach became part of the canton of Linth , and in 1803 it became part of the canton of St. Gallen . Until 2003, Uznach was the seat of the district court and thus the main town of the lake district . Since then, Uznach has belonged to the See-Gaster constituency .

In the 19th century, various companies in the up-and-coming textile industry settled in Uznach, such as the Uznaberg spinning mill or the Rotfarb, which gave the town a modest upturn. The upswing was evident in the generous neo-Gothic building of today's parish church in the town. The new construction of the road over the Ricken via Eschenbach to Rapperswil pushed Uznach on the sidelines in terms of traffic policy.

The construction of the railway lines from Rapperswil to Weesen am Walensee and from Uznach through the Rickentunnel to Wattwil in Toggenburg , which made Uznach a regional transport hub, compensated for this. After a long period of stagnation since the 1960s, Uznach was hit by modest growth again in the 1990s, as the expansion of the transport network around Zurich pulled it into this economic metropolis. In 1980 Uznach had 4269 inhabitants, but in April 2008 it had 5600 inhabitants and 3400 jobs.

In 1963, the merger of two communities of Benedictines resulted in the St. Otmarsberg Monastery in Uznach, also known as "Monastery Uznach". In 1982 it was elevated to the status of an abbey .

Daughters and sons of the church

Attractions

photos

  • railway station

  • Linthhof

  • Schoolhouse "Letzi"

  • Städtli with a Catholic parish church

  • Holy Cross Church (13th century)

  • "Ochsen" high-rise

  • town hall

See also

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Permanent and non-permanent resident population by year, canton, district, municipality, population type and gender (permanent resident population). In: bfs. admin.ch . Federal Statistical Office (FSO), August 31, 2019, accessed on December 22, 2019 .
  2. ^ Paul Oberholzer: History of the city of Uznach. Oberholzer, Uznach 1969, p. 14.
  3. ↑ StiASG , Urk. Bremen 2. Online at e-chartae , accessed on June 12, 2020.
  4. ^ Paul Oberholzer: History of the city of Uznach. Oberholzer, Uznach 1969, p. 16.
  5. ^ Paul Oberholzer: History of the city of Uznach. Oberholzer, Uznach 1969, p. 18.
  6. ↑ Linus Birchler: Diversity of Urschweiz, Olten 1969, p. 118.
  7. ↑ Short chronicle with Uznacher data (PDF; 76 kB) p. 3
  8. ↑ linth24.ch Brotherhood of the traveling minstrels.
  9. ^ Alfred Schaer: The old German fencers and minstrels, a contribution to the German cultural history. Strasbourg 1901, p. 96.
  10. ^ Paul Oberholzer: History of the city of Uznach. Oberholzer, Uznach 1969, p. 41f.
  11. ↑ Uznach in figures on uznach.ch (accessed on February 16, 2011).