Uzwil

Uzwil is a municipality in the Wahlkreis of Wil in the canton of St. Gallen, Switzerland, located in the northern Toggenburg between the towns of Wil and Gossau. It was first mentioned in 819 as Uzzinwilare, while the village of Henau appears in 754 as Villa Aninauva in a document of the Monastery of St. Gallen. The municipality consists of the villages of Niederuzwil, Uzwil, Henau, Algetshausen, Niederstetten, Oberstetten and Stolzenberg and covers about 14.5 square kilometres, over half of it farmland. Its coat of arms shows a lower half of a mill wheel above ears of wheat. A quarter of residents held foreign nationality in 2007, and German is spoken by most.