Buchs, St. Gallen

Buchs is a municipality in the canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland. She was the district capital of the district Become mountain, today Constituency mountain. Today it is a center of the Upper St. Gallen Rhine Valley.

Geography

In the East, the community is bordered by the Principality of Liechtenstein, the Rhine is the municipal and state border. Through a bridge over the Rhine it is connected with the Liechtenstein Schaan. In addition, the book borders on the municipalities Grabs, Gams, and Sevelen Mountain Forest, in the Principality of Liechtenstein also still on the communities of Eschen and Vaduz. The lowest point is at 441 m above sea level. M. and the highest point is on the Glannachopf with 2,232 m above sea level. M.

Thanks to the border station for the international passenger and freight marshalling yard and with the Interstate University of Technology Buchs NTB Buchs is known nationwide. Book is on the main road 13 and 16 and has a feeder road to the A13.

Population

History

The first time was mentioned as a book Pogio in the will of the bishop of Chur Tello from the year 765 Later the place Bucas Bugu, Bouguereau, 1484 Puges and finally Bux means. In the 9th century one finds a church of St. Jörgen mentioned. In the Middle Ages the village belonged to the county Become mountain. From 1404 to 1483 the landscape Become mountain was then at the Count of Montfort- Tettnang. 1517 Glarus bought the area. 1526 was introduced by Vogt Jost Glarus Tschudi also in Buchs the Reformation. 1798 came the church within the Helvetic Republic to Canton Linth 1803 and finally to the Canton of St. Gallen.

Coat of arms

The Buchserstrasse coat of arms shows in green with a silver stake, topped with trilobal black church banner with golden rings and fringes.

Attractions

The former Council and Court House in St. Galler Street, a noble, neo-Baroque building, impressed not only by his appearance, and the interior still bears the signs of that era. Directly behind it is a smaller building of the same style. Once police and prison accommodation. The Reformed church was built in the years 1931 and 1932. The Catholic church Heart of Jesus is a created in the years 1964-1965 by the architect Justus Dahinden new building. The castle with the town becoming mountain on Grabser municipality is a special attraction for the book. At the foundation of the Canton of St. Gallen was finally settled by arbitration, the municipality of Grabs the castle with town becoming the mountain and the town of Buchs If the lake allocated. Another attraction is the bird of prey park where many bird species from around the world to see.

Seen the book by Egerta from

Paper - Ref Parish

Paper - Catholic Church

Notary Office and District Court Werdenberg

Bezirksgebäude - Once police and prison accommodation

Paper - District building - the interior

The view to the castle and hamlet of mountain

Personalities

  • Simon Schwendenerstrasse (1829-1919), botanist and university professor
  • Jacob Vetsch (1886-1944), Werdenberger District Ammann
  • Gallus Berger (1903-1982), Socialist National and trade unionists
  • Heinrich Rohrer (1933-2013), physicist and Nobel laureate
  • Florian Vetsch ( b. 1960 ), author, translator and editor

Pictures of Buchs, St. Gallen

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