Neckertal

Geschichte

Neckertal is a municipality in the Toggenburg district of the Canton of St. Gallen, Switzerland.It was formed on January 1, 2009, through the merger of Brunnadern, St. Peterzell, and Mogelsberg.GeographyNeckertal has an area of. As of 2012, a total of 26.17km2 or 53.4% is used for agricultural purposes, while 19.51km2 or 39.8% is forested. The rest of the municipality is 2.8km2 or 5.7% is settled (buildings or roads), 0.29km2 or 0.6% is either rivers or lakes and 0.23km2 or 0.5% is unproductive land.During the same year, housing and buildings made up 3.0% and transportation infrastructure made up 2.0%. A total of 36.9% of the total land area is heavily forested and 2.9% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 51.7% is pasturage and 1.1% is used for alpine pastures. All the water in the municipality is flowing water.It is made up of the villages of Brunnadern, St. Peterzell, and Mogelsberg as well as the hamlets of Wald-Schönengrund, Dicken, Nassen, Hoffeld, Dieselbach, Ebersol and Necker.DemographicsNeckertal has a population of., 7.9% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Between the last 2 years (2010-2012) the population changed at a rate of -2.0%. Migration accounted for -2.1%, while births and deaths accounted for 0.2%.Most of the population speaks German (95.5%) as their first language, French is the second most common (0.2%) and Italian is the third (0.9%).