Vilters-Wangs
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 Switzerland
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| Canton : |
 Canton of St. Gallen (SG)
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| Constituency : | Sarganserland |
| BFS no. : | 3297 |
| Postal code : | 7324 Vilters 7323 Wangs |
| Coordinates : | 753 024 / 210120 |
| Height : | 499 m above sea level M. |
| Height range : | 479–2641 m above sea level M. |
| Area : | 32.72 km² |
| Residents: | 4817 (December 31, 2018) |
| Population density : | 147 inhabitants per km² |
| Mayor : | Bernhard Lenherr |
| Website: | www.vilters-wangs.ch |
 Wangs in the morning light with a view of the Churfirsten |
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Vilters-Wangs (officially called Vilters until 1996 ) is a political municipality in the canton of St. Gallen . It is located in the Sarganserland constituency .
geography
Vilters-Wangs is located on the western slope of the Rhine Valley at the Sarganserland motorway junction . The community extends to the Gray Horns.
history
On the Severgall castle hill above Vilters, some finds from the Neolithic , Bronze , Late Latène and Roman times were made. Vilters-Wangs was part of the church of Mels . In 1487 the place became a parish.
In the late Middle Ages, there were fairytale disputes between Vilters and Wangs over the Tobel Valeis, so that the Pfäfers Abbey had the damaged St. Medard Church rebuilt in 1785. In 1816 there was a merger between Vilters and Wangs after both were part of the political community of Bad Ragaz .
In 1800 a fire destroyed the village with the exception of the church, the rectory and the mill. Another fire raged in 1909. The Rhine plain and the village were repeatedly affected by floods, for example in 1764 and 1840. The farmers used the Alps and the Rhine plain (Allmenden Baschär and Rheinau) as pasture areas.
In modern times, agriculture gained in importance near the village and in Rheinau. The economic situation improved after the correction of the Saar, which rises in the Vilterser area, from 1865 to 1876. Later the Vilterser Bach was built. The company Elco (Looser) & Co. (oil and gas firing), founded in 1928, soon became an important economic factor in the village.
The private boys' secondary school in Sonnenberg existed from 1950 to 2011. In 2000, the primary school community of Vilters and Wangs and the upper school community of Vilters were merged to form the school community of Vilters.
literature
- Collection of Swiss Legal Sources, XIV. Department: The Legal Sources of the Canton of St. Gallen, Part Three: The Landscapes and Country Cities, Volume 2: The Legal Sources of the Sarganserland by Sibylle Malamud and Pascale Sutter, Basel 2013 [1] .
population
| Population development | ||||||||
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| year | 1850 | 1900 | 1950 | 1980 | 2000 | 2010 | 2018 | |
| Residents | 1659 | 1720 | 2205 | 3243 | 3891 | 4328 | 4794 | |
tourism
The municipality owns a large part of the Pizol area , which is a popular tourist attraction in winter and summer. In addition to hiking tours, there is also a large network of chair lifts and gondola lifts.
Attractions
Personalities
- Elmar Bigger (* 1949), politician (SVP), 1999–2011 member of the National Council
- Josef Heinrich Dietrich (* 1874 in Vilters, † 1956), teacher, conductor, musician, composer and history writer
- Martin Kohler (* 1985), Swiss cyclist
- Johann Künzle (* 1857 in St. Gallen , † 1945 in Zizers ), herb pastor, pastor in Wangs from 1909 to 1920
- Werner Vogler (* 1944, † 2002 in Paris), church historian
literature
- Erwin Rothenhäusler, Dora Fanny Rittmeyer, Benedikt Frei: The Art Monuments of the Canton of St. Gallen, Volume I: Sargans District. (= Art Monuments of Switzerland. Volume 25). Edited by the Society for Swiss Art History GSK. Bern 1951. DNB 750089172 .
Web links
- Official website of the municipality of Vilters-Wangs
- Werner Vogler: Vilters-Wangs. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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 .