Wartau
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 Switzerland
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| Canton : |
 Canton of St. Gallen (SG)
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| Constituency : | Werdenberg |
| BFS no. : | 3276 |
| Postal code : | 9476 Weite 9476 Fontnas 9477 Trübbach 9478 Azmoos 9479 Malans 9479 Oberschan 9479 Gretschins |
| Coordinates : | 755 683 / 216.42 thousand |
| Height : | 472 m above sea level M. |
| Area : | 41.74 km² |
| Residents: | 5297 (December 31, 2018) |
| Population density : | 127 inhabitants per km² |
| Mayor : | Andreas Bernold ( VP ), ( FDP ) |
| Website: | www.wartau.ch |
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Wartau is a municipality in the St. Gallen Rhine Valley cultural landscape in the Werdenberg electoral district in the canton of St. Gallen , Switzerland . The town's landmark and name given to it is Wartau Castle .
geography
Wartau consists of the villages Azmoos , Trübbach , Weite , Oberschan , Malans SG, Gretschins and Fontnas. Then there are the hamlets of Plattis, Murris and Matug as well as several Alps such as Palfries . The municipal administration of Wartau is based in Azmoos.
The municipality of Wartau lies at the foot of the Gonzens and the Alvier massif . Wartau has a diverse landscape with well-preserved flora and fauna. The Rhine forms part of the municipal boundary .
The community has a train station in Trübbach, but it is no longer in operation. However, the municipality is well developed with the network of the bus companies Rheintal Bus and LIEmobil . In addition, Trübbach is connected to the A13 motorway and there is an open border crossing to Balzers in the Principality of Liechtenstein .
politics
Municipal council
The community council , elected by the people, is the executive branch of the community. It meets every two weeks for its meetings. The previously independent school community was incorporated into the political community on January 1, 2017. The municipality president and the school council president are also members of the municipal council.
| Municipal Council (Legislature 2017–2020) | Political party | function |
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| Beat Tinner | FDP | Mayor |
| Andreas Bernold | FDP | Vice President |
| Martin Gabathuler | SVP | member |
| Vreni Kruse-Müller | independent | member |
| Bruno Seifert | independent | School Board President |
The turnout in the community of Wartau is often very low. A voter turnout of around 30% is common.
history
The nobleman Heinrich von Wildenberg, guardian of the Pfäfers monastery, was the owner of the fortress or Wart in der Au in 1261. By inheritance the rule came to the Werdenberg-Sargans house , the Count of Werdenberg and in 1414 to Count Friedrich VII of Toggenburg and in 1429 to Count Bernhard von Thierstein, who accepted the castle rights of Zurich and handed the Wartau fortress over to the city. With the sale of the County of Sargans to Zurich, Lucerne, Uri, Schwyz, Unterwalden, Glarus and Zug in 1483, the sovereignty over Wartau passed to these estates. In 1694/1695, in the so-called Wartau trade, war almost broke out between the Catholic and Reformed umbrella locations.
The county or from 1483 to 1798 the bailiwick of Sargans had high and low jurisdiction in the judicial community of Wartau. The lower jurisdiction within the Etters Gretschins, which belongs directly to the Wartau lordship, was excluded.
population
| year | 1809 | 1850 | 1900 | 1950 | 2000 | 2010 | 2015 |
| Residents | 1214 | 2097 | 3149 | 3316 | 4704 | 5034 | 5231 |
Attractions
Tower and choir of St. Martin's Church in Gretschins
Gretschins church and rectory with castle ruins
Aerial view of the Wartau ruins (1964)
Mood picture of Wartau
So-called town hall Palfries
Municipal votes
- June 10, 2018: ARA union Wartau - Sargans "The WWTP Wartau would have to be renovated and expanded in the next few years. By joining the Saar wastewater association, the municipal council is aiming for a sustainable and, above all, more cost-effective, far-sighted and more ecological variant." Result: 89.78% YES votes
landscape
There are many dry stone walls in good condition in Wartau. These occur more frequently in Azmoos am Rebberg and in Gretschins am Rebberg.
Personalities
- Hans Rudolf Tschudi (1641–1716), worked as a pastor in the parish of Wartau-Gretschins from 1671 to 1716, i.e. at the time of the Wartau trade 1694/1695
- Cosmus Freuler (1780–1838), teacher, printer and librarian, born in Azmoos, founded the first printing company in the canton of Glarus and was one of the first Swiss dialect writers
- Huldreich Seifert (1801–1882), Swiss theologian, author and politician, member and president of the Grand Council of the Canton of St. Gallen (1839–1870), was a citizen of Wartau
- Heinrich Lang (1826–1876), German theologian and reformer, leading exponent of theological liberalism , worked from 1848 to 1863 as a pastor in Gretschins
- Huldrich Arnold Seifert (1828–1885), free-thinking councilor of the canton of St. Gallen, district post director and constitutional councilor, was a citizen of Wartau
- Hermann Seifert (1841–1909), free-thinking councilor of the canton of St. Gallen and governor, was a citizen of Wartau and the last private owner of Wartau Castle
- Johann Jakob Gabathuler (1883–1958), free-thinking councilor of the canton of St. Gallen, national councilor and farmer, was a citizen of Wartau
- Otto Karl Seifert (1902–1971), Swiss diplomat and first envoy in the newly founded state of Israel, was a citizen of Wartau
- Georges Eggenberger (SP) (1928–2010), National Councilor for the Canton of Bern, was born in Wartau
- Walter Müller (politician, 1948) (* 1948), National Councilor for the Canton of St. Gallen, farmer, is a citizen of Wartau
- Martina Hingis (born 1980), former world number first of the women's tennis, grew up in the village of Wartau Trübbach on
literature
- Oskar Peter: Wartau: A community in the st. Gallic Rhine Valley, Werdenberg district. Settlement and economic geography contribution to the local history of the canton of St. Gallen. Köpf-Benz publishing house, St. Gallen 1956.
- Margarita Primas, Martin Peter Schindler, Katrin Roth-Rubi, José Diaz Tabernero and Sebastian Grüninger: Wartau - prehistoric and early historical settlements and burnt offering place. I. Early Middle Ages and Roman Era. University research on prehistoric archeology, Volume 75, Bonn 2001, ISBN 3-7749-3057-0 .
- Martin Graber: Wartau Castle. Verlag BuchsMedien, Buchs 2003, ISBN 3-905222-98-1 .
- Margarita Primas, Philippe Della Casa, Emanuela Jochum Zimmermann and Renata Huber: Wartau - prehistoric and early historical settlements and place of fire victims in the Alpine Rhine Valley (canton St. Gallen, Switzerland), 2nd Bronze Age, Copper Age, Mesolithic. University research on prehistoric archeology, Volume 108, Bonn 2004, ISBN 3-7749-3285-9 .
- 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 [2] .
Web links
- Editor: Wartau. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- Official website of the municipality of Wartau
- The legal sources of the Werdenberg region: County Werdenberg and Herrschaft Wartau, Freiherrschaft Sax-Forstegg and Herrschaft Hohensax-Gams [3]
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 .
- ↑ Local council on the website of the political municipality Wartau, accessed on February 10, 2015.
- ^ Wartau Online: Votes / Elections. Retrieved November 14, 2018 .
- ^ Salomon Hirzel: Zurich Year Books. 2nd volume Zurich 1814. p. 227.
- ↑ August Naef: Chronicle or Memories of the City and Landscape of St. Gallen: With the epitome of the Appenzell events in connection with it. From the oldest times up to the year 1848. Verlag Zürich, St. Gallen 1867, p. 965 ff.
- ↑ Cf. on the rule of Wartau: Collection of Swiss legal sources, XIV. Department: The legal sources of the canton of St. Gallen, third part: The landscapes and rural cities, Volume 2: The legal sources of the Sarganserland by Sibylle Malamud and Pascale Sutter, Basel 2013. p. LXXIV [1] .
- ^ Wartau Online: Votes / Elections. Retrieved November 14, 2018 .
- ↑ Geoportal. Retrieved November 14, 2018 .
