Gommiswald
Sign in to saveGommiswald is a municipality in the Wahlkreis (constituency) of See-Gaster in the canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland. On 1 January 2013 the former municipalities of Rieden and Ernetschwil merged into the municipality of Gommiswald.
Key facts
- Swiss town.subject_name
- Gommiswald
- Swiss town.image_photo
- 2012-06-24-See-Gaster (Foto Dietrich Michael Weidmann) 218.JPG
- Swiss town.municipality_type
- municipality
- Swiss town.imagepath_coa
- CHE Gommiswald COA.svg
- Swiss town.canton
- St. Gallen
- Swiss town.iso code region
- CH-SG
- Swiss town.district
- See-Gaster
- Swiss town.postal_code
- 8737
- Swiss town.municipality_code
- 3341
- Swiss town.area
- 11.86
- Swiss town.elevation
- 590
- Swiss town.population
- 4973
- Swiss town.populationof
- Dec 2014
- Swiss town.popofyear
- 2014
- Swiss town.website
- gommiswald.ch
- Swiss town.mayor
- Peter Göldi
- Swiss town.neighboring_municipalities
- Ebnat-Kappel, Kaltbrunn, Uznach, Wattwil
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Gommiswald is a municipality in the Wahlkreis (constituency) of See-Gaster in the canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland. On 1 January 2013 the former municipalities of Rieden and Ernetschwil merged into the municipality of Gommiswald.
==History== thumb|left|Berg Sion Monastery in Gommiswald thumb|left|Aerial view from 100 m by Walter Mittelholzer (1919) Gommiswald is first mentioned in 1178 as Göycheim though this comes from a 16th-century copy of the original. In 1440 it was mentioned as Göchams gewalt. The current village of Gommiswald was known as Gauen until the 18th century, when both Gauen and Gommiswald were used interchangeably. In 1913 the cantonal government directed that the name of Gommiswald would be the official name.