Altnau

This article describes the municipality in Switzerland. For the place in Brandenburg, see Altnau (Calau) .

Altnau
State :	Switzerland
Canton :	Thurgau (TG)
District :	Kreuzlingen
BFS no. :	4641
Postal code :	8595
Coordinates :	736 172  /  275 571 coordinates: 47 ° 37 '0 "  N , 9 ° 15' 0"  O ; CH1903:  736172  /  275 571
Height :	471  m above sea level M.
Height range :	395-519 m above sea level M.
Area :	6.73  km²
Residents:	2244 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	333 inhabitants per km²
Website:	www.altnau.ch
Oberdorf Altnau
Location of the municipality

Altnau (in local dialect [ ˈɑ̞ltnɑʊ̯ ]) is a village and a political municipality in the Kreuzlingen district of the canton of Thurgau in Switzerland . Until 2002 Altnau was a unified municipality .

geography

The church village, consisting of the upper and lower village and other settlements, is located on the old Romanshorn - Kreuzlingen road near the southern shore of Lake Constance on the moraine of the former Rhine glacier. The actual center of Altnau is about 2 kilometers from the shore of Lake Constance, at 471 m. ü. M. It borders on the communities of Güttingen , Langrickenbach and Münsterlingen . Altnau has a train station on the Kreuzlingen – Romanshorn railway line .

history

Altnau in 1924

A station of the Horgen culture is likely in front of the hamlet of Ruderbaum, but the classical Pfyn culture can only be assumed. In 787 the village was first mentioned as Althinouva . The place name is made up of either the Old High German personal name Alto / Aldo or the adjective old and the hind link ouwa 'Land am Wasser, Au'. In the 8th century the monastery of St. Gallen was wealthy here. In 1155, Emperor Friedrich Barbarossa confirmed the ownership rights to the Altnau court and church to the cathedral chapter of Constance . The bailiff's rights over the high estates dinghouses , which belonged to the barons of Altenklingen around 1300 , passed to various families of Constance in the late Middle Ages (1378 Schwarz, 1430 Tettikofen , 1468 Mangolt). From 1471 to 1798 she held the city ​​of Constance . In 1454 the people of Altnau were included in the Appenzell land law, but had to give it up again following an action by the cathedral chapter.

The parish rights were transferred from the cathedral provost to the cathedral dean in 1347 . After the Reformation in 1528, the few Catholics were looked after from Constance, with the church being used simultaneously . In 1810 the parity was dissolved and two churches were built.

The rights of the village are first handed down in the court opening of 1468. From growing grain in three tents , farmers switched to cattle and dairy farming in the 19th century. In 1880 a dairy company was established. Viticulture, which began in the Middle Ages , ceased in 1912. In the foreground came the already for the 18./19. Field fruit growing was documented in the 19th century: after 1945 the high trunks were replaced by extensive low-trunk cultures. Like the built in 1840 Seestrasse brought the 1870 opened sea line the village little upswing since the station was too far away. The village was dominated by agriculture until the middle of the 20th century. Nevertheless, the industry found its way. From 1870 to 1910 numerous people from Altnau worked as hand embroiderers, in 1882 and 1910 the Altwegg and Walser embroidery factories were established, and from 1883 to 1967 the Sallmann knitwear factory provided numerous jobs and employed 17 people in 1883, 60 in 1895 and 41 in 1923. The Setafil silk weaving mill, which opened in 1948, ceased production in 1974. In 1977, a mechanical engineering company was established in the boatyard built in 1964. In 1990, with 53% commuting and 35% commuting, 35% of the jobs belonged to the second and 47% to the third economic sector .

coat of arms

Blazon : In white a red and black stand cross .

The affiliation of Altnau to the cathedral monastery of Konstanz (red cross) has been documented since the 12th century, and since 1471 the bailiwick was in the hands of the city ​​of Konstanz (black cross). Altnau has had its coat of arms since 1950.

population

Population development in the municipality of Altnau

Population development of the local and unitary municipality

year	1850	1900	1910	1920	1970	1980	1990	2000	2010	2018
Residents	385	412	558	739	957	1036	1439	1804	1980	2236

Evangelical Church of Altnau

Of the total of 2236 inhabitants of the Altnau municipality in 2018, 451 or 20.2% were foreign nationals. 920 (41.1%) were Protestant Reformed and 645 (28.8%) were Roman Catholic.

economy

In 2016 Altnau offered 577 jobs (converted to full-time positions). Of these, 12.9% were employed in agriculture and forestry, 27.1% in industry, trade and construction and 59.9% in the service sector.

Culture and sights

Altnau jetty

The village of Altnau is listed in the inventory of places worth protecting in Switzerland . Worth mentioning are:

• the reformed church
• the Catholic Church
• the first fruit nature trail in Switzerland. The nine-kilometer circular route leads through the local orchards and explains the path taken by apples from blossom to fruit on 16 boards.
• the jetty, which has existed since 2010, is 270 meters long due to the wide shallow water zone - and is therefore the longest jetty on Lake Constance. The people of Altnau also call this footbridge the Eiffel Tower from Lake Constance because of its length .

See also : List of cultural assets in Altnau

partnership

The "way" to Hagnau

Altnau has friendly contacts with Hagnau am Bodensee in Germany, which is directly opposite on the north shore of Lake Constance, which stem from the sea ​​frosts of Lake Constance in 1830, 1880 and 1963. The groups from Hagnau, who explored the passability of the frozen lake at the beginning of the frozen lake, were always warmly welcomed in Altnau (and Güttingen). The students from Hagnau and von Altnau then visit each other.

Personalities

• Hans Baumgartner (* 1911 in Altnau, † 1996), photographer
• Mike Rockenfeller (* 1983), German motor sportsman (lives in Altnau)

Web links

Commons : Altnau  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website of the Altnau community

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. ↑ ^{a b} Eugen Nyffenegger / Oskar Bandle & al .: Thurgau Name Book 1.1: The settlement names of the Canton of Thurgau (A – I). Huber, Frauenfeld 2003, ISBN 978-3-7193-1309-8 , p. 195 f. Local phonetic transcription : á͈ltnąu̯ .
4. ↑ ^{a b} Andres Kristol: Altnau TG (Kreuzlingen) in: Dictionnaire toponymique des communes suisses - Lexicon of Swiss community 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. 86. The phonetic transcription used : [ ˈɑltnɑʊ ].
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 d e} André Salathé: Altnau. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
   These sections are largely based on the entry in the Historical Lexicon of Switzerland (HLS), which, according to the HLS's usage information, is under the Creative Commons license - Attribution - Share under the same conditions 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0).
7. ↑ StiASG , Urk. I 97. Online at e-chartae , accessed on June 12, 2020.
8. ↑ ^{a b} municipal coat of arms . On the website of the State Archives of the Canton of Thurgau, accessed on December 8, 2019
9. ↑ ^{a b} 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.
10. ↑ Annina De Carli-Lanfranconi, Peter Erni, Regine Abegg: The churches of Altnau. (Swiss Art Guide, No. 906, Series 91). Ed.  Society for Swiss Art History GSK. Bern 2012, ISBN 978-3-03797-061-4 .
11. ↑ Holiday ideas for everything to do with apples. Educational trail, museums and festivals . In: Bodensee Ferienzeitung. Edition 2/2009. Südkurier GmbH Medienhaus, Konstanz 2009, p. 6.
12. ↑ Altnau jetty
13. ^ Friedrich Meichle: Seegfrörne and ice procession in the past and present . In: Writings of the Association for the History of Lake Constance and its Surroundings . No. 81 . Thorbecke, Lindau / Konstanz 1963, p. 155, 159, 161, 162 .