Gossau

Gossau is a municipality inside the Wahlkreis of St. Gallen in the canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland. Gossau is first mentioned in 824 as Cozesaua. The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Or a Cross bottony Gules issuant from jaws of a Wyvern passant Vert and in sinister chief a Bear rampant Sable langued and in his virility of the second one. The Former Rubberband Factory at Stadtbuhlstrasse 12 is listed as a Swiss heritage website online of country wide importance. Both the village of Gossau and the Kulturlandschaft Matten/Wilen/Zinggenhueb, that's shared between Gossau and Andwil, are exact as part of the Inventory of Swiss Heritage Sites.

The Catholic parish church of St. Andreas changed into constructed in 1732 through Jakob Grubenmann. It was lengthened to the west and renovated in 1925. It is a unmarried-nave church with a transept and an oval dome over the crossing. The Reformed church of Gossau was constructed in 1899-1900. Castle Oberberg is positioned east of Gossau. It became built inside the thirteenth Century. During the Appenzell Wars it turned into destroyed and rebuilt in the fifteenth Century. It is a past due gothic castle, with a high medieval south west wall and a modern-day chapel.