Walenstadtberg
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
- Hartmann Stähelin (* 1925, † 2011 in Basel), pharmacologist and microbiologist
Web links
- Walenstadtberg on heidiland.com
Individual evidence
- ↑ Rehabilitation Center Walenstadtberg on kliniken-valens.ch
- ↑ Paxmal on schweizmobil.ch
- ↑ 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