Mogelsberg

Ebersol was until December 31, 2008, a municipality in the constituency Toggenburg in the canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland.

In the vote on 21 October 2007, the inhabitants of Ebersol agreed to a merger with Brunnadern SG and St. Peter's cell to the new community Necker January 1, 2009.

Geography

The spa town of Ebersol is the Necker Necker above the river on the main road and the south-east rail line between St. Gallen and Wattwil.

The lowest point is on a river Necker at 600 m above sea level. d M, the highest point on the Wilkethöhe at 1175 m above sea level. d M. The village Ebersol is at an altitude of 755 m above sea level. inst

Ebersol possessed for St. Galler conditions over an exceptionally large municipality area and had a road network of more than 200 km on. The municipality Ebersol the villages and hamlets Ebersol, thicknesses were (parts of thicknesses were also on the municipality of St.Peterzell ), Necker, wet, diesel Bach, Hoffeld, Ebersol, Hofstetten, ford and Wolfensberg ( is right after the municipal Degersheim or when village Degersheim located and is mainly served by Degersheim ago). The municipality had nine postcodes and entertained six primary and three high schools.

The neighboring communities of Ebersol were Degersheim SG, Schwellbrunn, St. Peter Zell, Hemberg, Brunnadern, Oberhelfenschwil, Ganterschwil and Lutisburg.

History

Ebersol is first mentioned in 1152, at that time. Still under the name Magoldesberch, which means as much as my golden mountain 1224 existed in Ebersol already a spa. 1468 bought the Abbey of St. Gallen all Toggenburg. 1528 came in the wake of the reform movement almost the entire population Mogelsberger over to the Protestant faith. The Counts of Toggenburg as secular dignitaries sat However, by 1567, that the church for measuring Feieren could be used again. In the 17th century, several times the plague raged in the village. 1798-1803 belonged to the canton Santis Ebersol. 1810 parity James Church was built ( renovations in 1932 and 1992). 1910, the " Loan Fund " was established, today's Raiffeisen Bank. In the same year ran for the first time the Bodensee- Toggenburg Bahn (BT) from St. Gallen to cold Brunn. 1984, the resort was opened with a sports center ( closing 2009).

Attractions

Built in 1810 parity church in the village belongs to the type of the late Baroque sermon hall with a sober space envelope. The renovation in 1992 brought much light into the house of God. The presbytery has a high altar and two side altars.

Located next to the church, built by Johann Jakob Haltiner Gasthaus Rössli is a Strickbau of the 18th century with mansard roof and scalloped cross gable.

In the hamlet Hofstetten there is a group of Strickbauten from the 17th century.

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Philipp Müller ( * 1952 ), politician ( FDP)
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