Aadorf

Aadorf
State :	Switzerland
Canton :	Thurgau (TG)
District :	Münchwilen
BFS no. :	4551
Postal code :	8355 Aadorf 8356 Ettenhausen 8357 Guntershausen 8522 Aawangen 8522 Häuslenen 9547 Wittenwil
Coordinates :	709 940  /  261380 coordinates: 47 ° 29 '38 "  N , 8 ° 53' 52"  O ; CH1903:  709 940  /  261380
Height :	521  m above sea level M.
Height range :	422–796 m above sea level M.
Area :	19.94  km²
Residents:	9037 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	453 inhabitants per km²
Website:	www.aadorf.ch
Location of the municipality

Aadorf (in the local dialect younger [ ˈaːdo (ːr) fˑ ], older Oodereff [ ˈɔːdər istfˑ ]) is a village and a political municipality in the Münchwilen district of the canton of Thurgau in Switzerland .

The political municipality of Aadorf, which has existed since 1996, largely coincides spatially with the municipal municipality of the same name , which was repealed at the end of 1995 and which included the former local communities of Aadorf, Aawangen , Ettenhausen , Guntershausen and Wittenwil . The settlements of Heiterschen and Jakobstal, which belonged to the former local community of Wittenwil , were assigned to the unitary community of Wängi in 1996 .

geography

The political community Aadorf is made up of the local communities Aadorf, Aawangen, Ettenhausen, Guntershausen, Häuslenen and Wittenwil. With over 9,000 inhabitants, it is the seventh largest municipality in Thurgau and lies on the border with the canton of Zurich. The Lützelmurg , a western tributary of the Murg, flows through Aadorf .

Aadorf borders in the north on the canton capital Frauenfeld , in the west on Hagenbuch , Elgg and Turbenthal (all four in the canton of Zurich), in the northeast on Matzingen , in the east on Wängi and in the south on Bichelsee-Balterswil .

climate

On nights of radiation in winter, the Tänikon Monastery, where MeteoSwiss operates a weather station, often measures the lowest temperature in the plains of the Swiss Plateau . The absolute low was -29.9 ° C on January 12, 1987.

The annual mean temperature is 8.7 ° C, with the coldest monthly temperatures in January at −0.3 ° C and the warmest monthly mean temperatures in July at 18.0 ° C. On average, around 103 frost days and 28 ice days are to be expected here. There are around 39 summer days on average, while there are normally 5.0 hot days . The MeteoSwiss weather station is at an altitude of 539  m above sea level. M.

Climate table

Aadorf, 1981-2010
Climate diagram
J F. M. A. M. J J A. S. O N D.     76   3 -4     73   4th -4     88   9 0     90   14th 2     124   18th 7th     124   21st 10     117   24 12     120   23 12     102   19th 9     91   14th 5     84   7th 0     96   4th -2 Temperature in ° C ,  precipitation in mm Source:

Average monthly temperatures and precipitation for Aadorf, 1981–2010 Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Max. Temperature ( ° C ) 2.6 4.3 9.2 13.5 18.4 21.4 23.9 23.2 18.8 13.6 6.9 3.6 O 13.3 Min. Temperature (° C) −3.7 −3.7 −0.3 2.3 6.8 10.4 12.3 12.0 8.6 5.2 0.4 −2.1 O 4.1 Temperature (° C) −0.3 0.4 4.5 7.9 12.7 15.9 18.0 17.4 13.5 9.2 3.7 0.9 O 8.7 Precipitation ( mm ) 76 73 88 90 124 124 117 120 102 91 84 96 Σ 1,185 Hours of sunshine ( h / d ) 1.6 2.7 3.9 5.1 5.7 6.4 7.0 6.4 4.8 3.1 1.7 1.1 O 4.1 Rainy days ( d ) 10.3 10.0 11.8 11.3 12.7 12.1 11.9 11.7 9.8 9.6 10.4 11.7 Σ 133.3 Humidity ( % ) 84 81 75 73 73 73 73 76 80 84 85 85 O 78.5 Source:

history

Aadorf in 1929

Tänikon Monastery

The drying tower in Sulzerhof , completed in 1847 , was used to dry the dyed cotton cloths.

The oldest evidence of human presence in the Aadorf area are scattered finds on stream meadows, e.g. B. Daggers from the Bronze Age . Flat graves from the Hallstatt period were discovered near Elgg and in the west of Bruggwingert. There are also isolated finds from the era of the Roman Empire . At the beginning of the 5th century, the Alemanni immigrated to the region and founded a settlement. An early medieval burial ground from the 7th and 8th centuries is located near the Sonnhalde. From around 780 the place was owned by the Counts in Linzgau . Aadorf is first documented as 886 Ahadorf (Village on the Aha , i. E. At the Lützelmurg ') on the occasion of naming the local founded around 840 church that private church was dedicated to Linz Gauer Count and St. Alexander. Around 890, Count Udalrich IV incorporated a clerical community into the church whose task was to maintain his memory and which the Count placed with their goods under the rule of the Abbot of St. Gallen in 894 . He later installed his own monks here. At the beginning of the 11th century, the clergy community was finally abolished as the provost office of the Sankt Gallen monastery, but the Aadorf church continued to exist as a parish.

Aadorf remained only a small place for the next few centuries. In 1259, Eberhard von Bichelsee and Walter von Elgg, who were both followers of Abbot Berchtold of St. Gallen, fought here. Several times, however, the Abbey of St. Gallen was forced to pledge Aadorf and then redeem it each time. In 1304 at the latest, the collature of the church in Aadorf passed to the Lords of Bernegg and then, after 1318, to Hermann von Hohenlandenberg-Greifensee. The latter transferred the church set on June 24, 1349 to the Rüti monastery . When the Landenbergers got into debt, in 1362 and 1364 they were forced to pledge or sell Aadorf to the Harzer brothers of Constance . On August 17, 1394, Abbot Kuno von Stoffeln bought again the manorial rights over Aadorf for the monastery of St. Gallen. After the first phase of the Appenzell Wars, the St. Gallen Abbey sold these rights, including the lower court, to the Tänikon Monastery in 1413 , and Aadorf remained in its possession until 1798. In June 1469 an opening for Aadorf came into effect, in which the legal relationships there were recorded for the first time.

The Reformation was initially unable to gain a foothold in Aadorf, but the theft and subsequent destruction of the crucifixes and pictures kept in the church occurred around Christmas 1524 . This act of violence went unpunished because the perpetrators were subjects of the Zurich county of Kyburg . After the secularization of the Rütli monastery in June 1525, Zurich came into possession of the collature of the church of Aadorf. In 1528–29 the Reformation was introduced throughout the village; first evangelical predicant was Gebhard founder. The abbess of Tänikon was able to re-establish a small Catholic community in Aadorf in the course of the Counter Reformation from 1608. She achieved this through the exclusive allocation of the ten fiefs there belonging to her monastery to Catholics. In August 1627, Zurich agreed that Aadorf's Catholics could hold masses again.

Aadorf was particularly hard hit by the effects of the Toggenburg War in 1712 when Zurich soldiers were billeted for longer. In the early stages of the Napoleonic Wars , the Austrians and the French fought outpost battles near Aadorf on May 14, 1799. The place also suffered from looting at that time. In the first half of the 19th century, the first industrialization developed in Aadorf, and a cotton mill, a red dye works and a paper mill were established. In 1827 a devastating fire destroyed the mill and 14 other houses along the main street. In 1842 the Zurich government ordered that the so-called Aadorfer Feld , inhabited by some families , should from now on belong to the municipality of Elgg. This measure later had the consequence that as a result of the industrialization of Lützelmurg 1861-69 there was a conflict over this area, which was decided in favor of Elggs. The connection of Aadorf to the railway network in 1855, as a result of which the place became a station on the Winterthur-Wil railway line, favored the further development of Aadorf. There was a federal post office in the municipality since 1849, a telegraph station from 1864 to 1897, a local telephone network from 1894 and electrical lighting from 1905. The bankruptcy of the Leih- und Sparkasse Aadorf in 1910 severely damaged the community. The textile industry was followed by companies in the metal and machine industries, such as the Griesser roller shutter factory in 1882 , and later also electrical engineering and electronics.

→ see also the history sections in the articles Aawangen , Ettenhausen TG , Guntershausen (Aadorf) and Wittenwil

coat of arms

Blazon : A white, sloping wave bar in blue .

The municipal coat of arms is a talking coat of arms (Aa means Lützelmurg) in the colors of the Tänikon monastery, which ruled the village from 1413 to 1798, and the city of Zurich, which owned the collature.

population

Population development in the municipality of Aadorf

Population development of the individual communities

	1831	1850	1910	1941	1960	1990	2000	2010	2018
Political community							7301	8047	9004
Municipal parish		2205	3224	3255	4106	6880
Local parish	446	736	1524		2258	3850
source

Of the total of 9004 inhabitants in the municipality of Aadorf in 2018, 1,386 or 15.4% were foreign nationals. 3,081 (34.2%) were Protestant Reformed and 2,896 (32.2%) were Roman Catholic. The village of Aadorf had 5170 residents at this time.

economy

In 2016, Aadorf offered 2836 people work (converted to full-time positions). 3.1% of these were employed in agriculture and forestry, 46.1% in industry, trade and construction and 50.8% in the service sector. One of the most important companies is Griesser AG , with around 300 employees in Aadorf.

→ see also section economy and infrastructure in the article Guntershausen (Aadorf)

traffic

Aadorf has a train station on the St. Gallen - Zurich SBB line , which is served every half hour by the S12 and S35 from the regional SBB subsidiary Thurbo . A post bus line leads from Aadorf train station to Frauenfeld and Ettenhausen. Aadorf does not have its own connection to the A1 and A7 motorways . These are in Matzingen (A1) and Attikon (A7).

Attractions

See also : List of cultural assets in Aadorf

The catholic church St. Alexander is worth seeing. It was rebuilt in the years 1863-1865 according to plans by Joachim Brenner and Johann Christoph Kunkler using the tower shaft from 1478. Inside you can see glass paintings by Ferdinand Gehr .

In the municipality of Aadorf there is also the former monastery Tänikon , today a federal agricultural research institute.

photos

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  Catholic Church

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  Protestant church

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  El Capone restaurant, old half-timbered building

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  Bridge over the Lützelmurg

literature

• Albert Knoepfli: History of Aadorf. 1987.
• Jens Lieven: Presenti diffidens instabilitati - On the early history of the Aadorf monastery from an aristocratic perspective. In: Writings of the Association for the History of Lake Constance and its Surroundings. 122. Vol. 2004, pp. 3–21 ( digitized version ).

Web links

Commons : Aadorf  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website of the municipality of Aadorf

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Permanent and non-permanent resident population by year, canton, district, municipality, population type and gender (permanent resident population). In: bfs. admin.ch . Federal Statistical Office (FSO), August 31, 2019, accessed on December 22, 2019 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b} Thurgau in figures 2019 . On the website of the Statistical Office of the Canton of Thurgau (PDF file; 1.8 MB), accessed on April 28, 2020.
3. ↑ Swiss land use statistics. Completed on July 1, 1912. Published by the Federal Statistical Bureau. ( Memento from April 12, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
4. ^ ^{A b} Philipp Obrist, Andres Kristol: Aadorf TG (Frauenfeld). In: Dictionnaire toponymique des communes suisses - Lexicon of Swiss municipality names - Dizionario toponomastico dei comuni svizzeri (DTS | LSG). Center de dialectologie, Université de Neuchâtel, Verlag Huber, Frauenfeld / Stuttgart / Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-7193-1308-5 and Éditions Payot, Lausanne 2005, ISBN 2-601-03336-3 , p. 73. The phonetic transcription given: [ ˈAːdoːrfː, ˈaːdofː ], older [ ˈɔːdərəfː ].
5. ↑ ^{a b} Localities and their resident population. Edition 2019 . On the website of the Statistical Office of the Canton of Thurgau (Excel table; 0.1 MB), accessed on April 28, 2020.
6. ↑ ^{a b c} population development of the municipalities. Canton Thurgau, 1850–2000 and resident population of the municipalities and change from the previous year. Canton of Thurgau, 1990–2018. On the website of the Statistical Office of the Canton of Thurgau (Excel tables; 0.1 MB each), accessed on April 28, 2020.
7. ↑ Ideal population structure. In: Community - Life. Quote: "With 8,843 inhabitants, Aadorf is the seventh largest municipality in the canton of Thurgau" (as of February 2019). At Aadorf.ch, accessed on February 11, 2019.
8. ↑ ZB Blick.ch: March 1, 2005 ( memento of February 18, 2006 in the Internet Archive ), Nzz.ch: November 28, 2008 , 20min.ch: January 12, 2009
9. ↑ About Aadorf. (PDF) Graphic of the low record values. In: www.meteoschweiz.admin.ch. MeteoSwiss, January 15, 2012, accessed on July 17, 2013 . 
10. ↑ Climate table. In: meteoschweiz.admin.ch. meteoschweiz, accessed on May 27, 2018 . 
11. ↑ StiASG , Urk. IV 386. Online at e-chartae , accessed on June 12, 2020.
12. ↑ ^{a b c d e} André Salathé: Aadorf. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
13. ↑ ^{a b c d} Aadorf , in: Historisch-Biographisches Lexikon der Schweiz , Vol. 1 (1921), p. 2 f.
14. ↑ ^{a b} municipal coat of arms . On the website of the State Archives of the Canton of Thurgau, accessed on December 8, 2019