Forest 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 in the name Waldf .
Forest
State : SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
Canton : Canton of St. GallenCanton of St. Gallen Canton of St. Gallen (SG)
Constituency : Toggenburgw
Political community : Neckertali2 w1
Postal code : 9105 Schönengrund
Coordinates : 735 151  /  243559 coordinates: 47 ° 19 '45 "  N , 9 ° 13' 36"  O ; CH1903:  seven hundred thirty-five thousand one hundred and fifty-one  /  243559
Height : 836  m above sea level M.
Wald forms a village with Schönengrund AR.

Wald forms a village with Schönengrund AR.
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Wald SG (Switzerland)
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Wald is a street village in the municipality of Neckertal in the Toggenburg constituency of the canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland . Forest and Schönengrund in the canton of Appenzell Ausserrhoden form a village . The usual place name is Schönengrund-Wald or Wald-Schönengrund, which most clubs also have in their name. The double village has around 1200 inhabitants. Until 2008, forest belonged to the municipality of St. Peterzell .

history

Factory owner's house

While Schönengrund almost had its current size and shape around 1800, the forest only developed afterwards. Since the last third of the 19th century, the two villages have formed an economic and social unit. The municipalities of Neckertal and Schönengrund jointly carry out various public tasks in the areas of infrastructure and schools. The Schönengründler have been attending secondary school in St. Peterzell since 1868 and are also taught at the primary level according to the St. Gallen curriculum . In 1973, the primary school Schönengrund-Wald association was founded with a joint school in Schönengrund.

In addition to traditional dairy and cattle farming, weaving became an increasingly important branch of business in the 17th century , and in the last third of the 19th century it was supplemented by embroidery . Most of the factories were located in the forest and not in Schönengrund. The bleaching plant in Wald was the largest employer in Doppeldorf from around 1830 to 1975.

Geography and traffic

Wald lies on the border with the canton of Appenzell Ausserrhoden on the important Herisau - Toggenburg road connection and is surrounded by numerous individual farms. In public transport Forest is from the post bus line Brunnadern -Neckertal- Waldstatt opened -Herisau. Although all the stops are located in the St. Gallen canton, they are called Schönengrund.

economy

Various businesses have settled in the former textile premises. The largest employers can be found in the service sector with the Landscheide dormitory and workshop and the Raiffeisenbank Regio Unteres Toggenburg & Neckertal.

Web links

Commons : Wald (Neckertal)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Thomas Fuchs: Schönengrund. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
    These sections are largely based on the entry in the Historical Lexicon of Switzerland (HLS), which, according to the HLS's usage information, is under the Creative Commons license - Attribution - Distribution under the same conditions 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0).
  2. ↑ a b forest. On the website of the municipality of Neckertal, accessed on June 14, 2020
  3. ↑ 80.182 Brunnadern-Neckertal - Schönengrund - Waldstatt - Herisau. In: Official course book, timetable year 2020
  4. ↑ Map section from Google Maps, accessed on June 18, 2020
  5. ↑ Two become one - Raiffeisenbank Regio Unteres Toggenburg & Neckertral. On the Raiffeisenbank Regio Unteres Toggenburg & Neckertral website, May 8, 2020