Oberriet

View of Upper Riet

Oberriet is a municipality in the constituency Rhine valley in the canton of St. Gallen.

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Geography

Bounded by the Alpine Rhine and the foothills of the Alpstein the community Oberriet located in the heart of the St. Gallen Rhine Valley on the border with Austria (Vorarlberg). It is with their 34.5 square kilometers, one of the larger municipalities in the canton of St. Gallen. On the political community nor are next to the village of the same villages Mont Lingen, Kriessern, Eichenwies and Kobelwald as well as the hamlets of moss, Rehag, Stieg, Free Stream, Stone, Kobelwies, Watt and Hard. The highest point is at the upper reed field journal with 1,302 m above sea level. Level, while the lowest point of 407 m above sea level. M. is at the bridges over the Rhine valley inland canal (three Bruggen ) on the road between Balgach and Diepoldsau.

Oberriet also has a special piece of land: the Alp Sämtis in the canton of Appenzell Inner Rhodes, near Brülisau. It is owned by the local church courtyard General Oberriet, but is not on the municipal territory. This is known as the most beautiful Alp the Alpsteinarea and there were already several quarrels, as the Appenzeller wanted to get back this nightmare. The Alp since the Middle Ages heard safely to the community Oberriet or to Reichshof Kriessern.

Between the villages of various nature reserves are a great wealth of plant and animal species.

The municipal area is 3456 ha, of which 292.2 ha is building zone. 234.7 ha of which was largely built over.

Population

By December 31, 2010, the municipality had a total Oberriet 8254 inhabitants. Separated by gender, there are 4239 male and 4015 female inhabitants. 6146 the population are Catholics, 921 Reformed and 1183 belong to a different or no denomination at.

In the community Oberriet lived 4087 local citizens, 1812 Canton citizens as well as citizens of the rest of Switzerland 1289. Oberriet hosted 1066 foreign nationals.

On 31 December 2010 the village Oberriet counted 2'711 inhabitants. This corresponds to 33 % of the population of the political community Oberriet.

Policy

The community Oberriet consists of the 5 villages of Upper Riet, Mont Lingen, Kriessern, Eichenwies and Kobelwald (see also above). Each village is organized in a local church. Thus, the community Oberriet has five local churches, you might think. But she has 6 For as a remnant of the Reichshofs Kriessern remained the local church " General Court Oberriet ". All citizens of a local community of polit community Oberriet are automatically Hofbürger. This is like an umbrella organization for all congregations.

The General Court is primarily responsible for forestry in the local communities and this also has its own maintenance depot. Since Diepoldsau also has forest, the " General Court " maintains, the local church Diepoldsau is a member of the court. The Court thus has 6 local churches with them, the municipality Oberriet but only 5

History

The historical roots of the community begin about 3000 years ago on the Montlingerbergli ( monticulus ). At that time the island mountain offered the immigrants from the south Ur - Rhaetians protection from the Rhine floods. This prehistoric settlement belongs to the list of cultural property of national significance. They were later displaced by the moving up from the north Alemanni. They brought along with many customs and traditions of German as their native language in the area of Upper Riet. Even today, the rustic dialects valley on this Ancestors.

In the 8th century was the royal Reichshof Criesserrun. Through the construction of a place of worship in Montlingen in the 9th century, two centers were in the court: The secular government in Kriessern and the ecclesiastical center in Mont Lingen.

The German king presented in 1229 the yard of the monastery of St. Gallen and Abbot Berchtold von Falkenstein left to defend the possession of the castle Blatten build. The defense tower, the only remains of the castle today is the landmark of Upper Riet and greets from the front tip of the leaf mountain travelers who on from the motorway exit Oberriet or Customs ago the village. In the population the ruins known as ' Castle Blatten '.

Another castle ruins, the castle cave weighting Stone, also an item on the list of cultural goods of national importance, is located in a rock wall at the Semel mountain, below Kobelwald.

From 1490 to 1798 the whole left bank of the Rhine between Bad Ragaz and Rheineck subjects was a country of the Confederates.

With the French Revolution in 1798 the Swiss Rhine Valley received from the confederate hearing the full independence. But only for a short time was a yard of Republic Rhine Valley. For five years, the French Occupied constrained him to the canton Santis, whose border against the Canton Linth went over the mountain sheet. From the free Reichshof Kriessern was 1803, the municipality Oberriet.

Within the municipal boundaries developed the five villages, and finally also received each his own church. As everywhere in the Rhine valley here was the main livelihood in agriculture. Later, the embroidery always gained greater importance. For industrial location, the community slowly developed after the Second World War.

In the beginnings of the modern community Oberriet ( beginning 19th century) divided the church into various local churches and the school in various local schools. In the years 2008 and 2009, but some schools were consolidated for financial reasons again and the Catholic parishes joined in March 2009 staffing reasons with the parish Ruthi -Lienz to Seelsorgeeinheit Blattenberg together.

Archaeological Sites

The municipal area of Upper Riet there are two important archaeological sites.

• Although the prehistoric hillfort on the Montlinger mountain can be visited, but there is not much to see since the excavation sites are under agricultural land. Only a glance of the spectator platform at the former embankment can imagine the extent of the system.
• The site of the 2011 discovered Abri Under Kobel is located on the grounds of a private landfill and can not be visited. The non- salvaged part of the site was now covered again.

Attractions

• Ruin " Castle Blatten »
• Ruins of castle cave weighting stone
• Crystal Cave Kobelwald
• Municipal Museum " Rothus »

Economy

Oberriet is characterized by a large area for agriculture and forestry. Thanks to the regulation of the Rhine in the early 20th century and the contemporaneous melioration the Agricultural land could be better used in the plane. There arose the so-called settlements in the Riet.

In addition to various small and medium business enterprises, there are three major industrial sites in the field of the political community; north of Mont Lingen ( Letzau ), north of Oak Meadow and east of the village of Upper Riet. These three areas are each dominated by a larger company. In Upper East Riet it is the steel and plastic pipe producer Jansen AG, which with about 700 jobs also clear is the largest employer in the community Oberriet. In the oak Wieser industry the company Rino Neither AG stands out which windows, doors and facades made ​​, partly from products of the aforementioned Jansen AG. The industrial area Letzau in Montlingen is dominated by buildings Bezema AG, which is a supplier for textile producers. Among others, the plant produces textile colors.

Traffic

The municipality lies between Buchs SG and Altstaetten is connected in Upper Riet and in Kriessern with the A13 motorway. In addition, it has in the community three border crossings to Austria, namely one each in the upper Riet, Mont Lingen and Kriessern. In addition, it has a direct shuttle to Appenzell or Eggerstanden, the forest road in Upper Riet. However, this is mainly traveled by locals because it is not as well known and Appenzeller floor is only a relatively narrow gravel road.

Public transportation

Although Oberriet has a railway station, but for lack of Regios held since after the turn of the century until the end of 2013 almost no train in the station. Therefore, it is connected by a bus service between Altstaetten and Buchs SG. In December 2013, a development of public transport in the canton of St. Gallen took place, which mainly included a ring S -Bahn to the whole canton. The top reed station was reactivated as part of this offer improvement and today holds per hour a train in each direction at the station. The bus line over the Eichberg has been set, but those on Montlingen / Kriessern extended by Kobelwald. In the area of the upper reed station a bus station for 4 buses came, Upper Riet was a transfer point / departure. In addition, to clarify whether you want to create Oberriet from a bus line to Feldkirch / Rank Weil. Some key points of the station expansion: It was built on the other side of the tracks an underpass, and thereby also the sports facilities in Bildstöckli reached faster. In addition, a canopy of the two platforms and the bus edges took place. The goods shed was demolished and it created numerous bike and car parking facilities ( A plan of the then planned expansions in the link provided).

Others

In the years 2005 and 2006 the main street of Upper Riet, which leads through the village in the middle, has been completely renovated. Various works to refresh the townscape were miterledigt in the course of this measure. So all large forecourts are designed with setting stones, modern bus shelters and new street lamps were installed.

In older editions of Switzerland's school atlas Oberriet was shown as an example of a typical street village. The farms and restaurants were on the main road with the associated lands on the back. By 1975 Oberriet had also an enclosed and representative space, the so-called post- course with its neoclassical buildings as the inn " Rössli " ​​, the Concordia, post office and a few other houses. This place played an important role in the loadout of goods, at nights and on occasions the population at the street lines of earlier (including Arlberg Switzerland ). Directly behind the post office place, there was the old municipal office in today's " Rothus ". The importance of the former postal square is expressed that the new station was not created in the vicinity of the church, but near the post space in the 19th century.

In the community Oberriet there were lots of clubs with active club members. So it has been in the community for example, two NLA wrestler clubs, a football club, a Pontonierfahrverein or youth clubs (eg Jungwacht and blue ring). A special feature is that there are five gymnastics clubs in the community. One of them in Montlingen and 2 each in Oberriet and Kriessern. In the latter, there 's ever a KTV and a STV. These go from the factions before the Federal establishment back, on the one hand, the Conservatives, the Liberals, on the other. The KTV was the gymnastics club of Catholic conservatives and the STF ( or earlier ETV ), the association of the Liberals. Today, the clubs are but open to all.

Personalities

• Josef Jansen ( * January 27, 1894; † 2 May 1984), entrepreneur
• Guido piston (1928-2007), catholic pastor and author
• René Savary ( b. 1949 ), cyclist