Walenstadtberg

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Walenstadtberg above the Walensee

Walenstadtberg is a small local municipality and belongs to the municipality of Walenstadt in the canton of St. Gallen , Switzerland.

geography

The settlement is 700 to 1200  m above sea level. M. on the southern slope of the Churfirsten above the Walensee .

The former sanatorium and today's rehabilitation center of the Valens Clinic is located on the Walenstadtberg .

Attractions

In the center of the village is the Brother Klaus Church, a stone building clad in wood (exposed ashlar) from 1944.

A little above, near Schrina-Hochrugg, is the Paxmal built by Karl Bickel .

Population and land use

Almost 200 people live in Walenstadtberg. In 1940 there were still 36 families living on the farming trade on Walenstadtberg, in 2005 there were eight.

9 hectares are meadowland, 104 hectares of forest, 141 hectares of alpine pastures on Tschingla, 40 ½ areas of alpine areas on Schrina, 8½ areas of alpine areas on Schwaldis and 84 ha are unproductive land.

traffic

Walenstadtberg can be reached via a mountain road from Walenstadt. Since December 2006, the access to the Schattenbach avalanche has been protected by a tunnel. If there is a danger of avalanches making it impossible to pass safely, there is an emergency road that leads over the Unterwaldweg forest road to the Walenstadtberg.

A bus service connects Walenstadt with Walenstadtberg (to the rehabilitation clinic), on weekdays the buses run every hour, on weekends every two hours.

Sons and daughters of Walenstadtberg

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. Rehabilitation Center Walenstadtberg on kliniken-valens.ch
  2. Paxmal on schweizmobil.ch
  3. local community Walenstadtberg under; Community structure, portrait on walenstadt.ch

Coordinates: 47 ° 8 '  N , 9 ° 17'  E ; CH1903:  seven hundred and forty thousand two hundred and ninety-one  /  222223