Bürglen TG

TG is the abbreviation for the canton of Thurgau in Switzerland and is used to avoid confusion with other entries of the name Bürglen .

Bürglen
State :	Switzerland
Canton :	Thurgau (TG)
District :	Weinfelden
BFS no. :	4911
Postal code :	8575
Coordinates :	728 817  /  267 991 coordinates: 47 ° 33 '0 "  N , 9 ° 9' 0"  O ; CH1903:  728817  /  two hundred and sixty-seven thousand nine hundred ninety-one
Height :	441  m above sea level M.
Height range :	423-517 m above sea level M.
Area :	11.71  km²
Residents:	3842 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	328 inhabitants per km²
Website:	www.buerglen-tg.ch
Reformed Church and Bürglen Castle
Location of the municipality

Bürglen is a municipality and a town in the district of Weinfelden the canton of Thurgau in Switzerland . The community has existed since 1995 and comprises the former local communities Bürglen, Leimbach and Opfershofen of the former municipal community Bürglen as well as the local community Istighofen, which formerly belonged to the municipal community Bussnang . The former local communities Donzhausen and Hessenreuti , which were previously also part of the municipality of Bürglen, and the hamlet of Uerenbohl in the local community of Opfershofen have been part of Sulgen since 1995 .

geography

Bürglen Castle

Bürglen lies on the Thur at the intersection of the Weinfelden - Romanshorn and Konstanz - Wil SG roads and on the Winterthur – Romanshorn railway line . A bridge over the Thur connects the district of Istighofen in the south with Bürglen. In addition to the village of Bürglen, the political municipality includes the former villages of Opfershofen and Leimbach in the northeast and Moos in the southwest.

The townscape includes Bürglen Castle , which houses part of the primary school, and the small old village center, which extends at the foot of the castle.

history

A delegation from the City Council of St. Gallen inspects the Bürglen jurisdiction. The councilors visit the mill canal and the mill pond, which is at the foot of Bürglen Castle.

Bürglen was first mentioned as Burgelon in 1282/84 . After 1350, the concentration of the holdings of the Barons von Bürglen, first mentioned in 1176, resulted in a rounded domain that belonged to the Lords of Klingenberg from 1408 , Marquart Brisacher from Konstanz from 1443 and the Barons von Sax-Hohensax from 1447 . These had had various rights in Bürglen since 1360 and expanded the rule to their center of power around 1500. In 1550 they sold Bürglen the Breitenlandenberg , which ceded it to the city of St. Gallen in 1579 . The rulership administered by the St. Gallen Obervogt until 1798 comprised the lower courts of Bürglen, Uerenbohl, Guntershausen , Heldswil , Mettlen and Istighofen as well as parts of Hüttenschwil and Sulgen from the late Middle Ages . In addition there were Mühlebach in 1580 , Bleiken in 1647 , Hessenreuti in 1664 and Amriswil in 1665 .

Reformed Church Bürglen

In church terms, Bürglen belonged to the parish of Sulgen. From 1274 a benefice is occupied , from 1346 the castle chapel. The St. Leonhard Chapel mentioned in 1504 is likely to be of older origin. Presumably, like the “Höll” chapel, which was occupied from 1585 and burned down in 1695, it existed until the late 17th century. After the Reformation in 1529, the judge returned to the Catholic faith, while the village remained Reformed. After St. Gallen had acquired collatures and tithes from the Canons of St. Pelagius in Bischofszell in 1585 , Bürglen was provided for by Sulgen, from 1617 by Neukirch an der Thur and finally from 1676 by a castle preacher. In 1678 Andwil was allocated, and in 1714 from Oberandwil, Eggertshusen and Guggenbüel. In 1809 the reformed parish of Bürglen-Andwil, independent of Sulgen, was formed.

Bürglen Castle around 1758

Worsted yarn factory between the railroad track and Thur in the interwar period

The fortified settlement, which was laid out around 1300, was unable to assert itself as a city due to the decline of the barons of Bürglen and competition from other places. After the village fire in 1528, the residents indebted for the reconstruction of the rule, which was awarded the rights to the common land in 1540 . Bürglen lost its autonomy under the rule of St. Gallen in the city. The city installed the Ammann and chairman of the lower court , encouraged the settlement of its citizens as a local elite and converted the inheritance into Schupflehen . The so-called Constance builders enjoyed a certain degree of independence, and in the 17th century the expansion of Bürglen Castle encouraged the settlement of new businesses. In the 18th century, however, a ruling practice that prevented the formation of sustainable village structures led to general impoverishment.

Bürglen in 1957

From 1803 to 1816 Bürglen belonged to the municipality of Birwinken , from 1816 to 1994 Bürglen was a municipality. From 1810 to 1875 the Häberlin, owners of the mill, which was replaced by a striking new building in 1903, shaped village politics. In the middle of the 19th century, Bürglen was a meeting place for progressive circles, which was reflected in the agricultural exhibition of 1846 and in the radical newspaper "Der Volksmann" by the Bion brothers from 1847 to 1850. From 1860 onwards the company switched to livestock farming, and in 1933 goods were merged and fruit growing was intensified. The opening of the worsted spinning mill in 1874, which v. a. recruiting Italian workers and running its own housing policy (Neubürglen) had far-reaching consequences. While in 1870 the proportion of foreigners and Catholics was 3% and 2% of the citizen's population, it had already increased to 40% and 45% in 1910, and that of women was 57%. The democrats , from 1930 onwards the SP, faced the free-thinking peasant majority . The political integration of Catholics began in 1945, which in 1959 led to the construction of the Catholic St. Joseph's Church as a branch of Sulgen. In addition to worsted spinning, wool dyeing (1843–1979) and embroidery, v. a. the gravel works of economic importance. Since 1980 the area of ​​the former wool dye works has housed various small businesses and associations.

A school district was built around the castle, which was already used as a school building in the 19th century. Economic and political changes meant that the Muslim population had increased significantly due to immigration from Turkey and the former Yugoslavia at the end of the 20th century.

→ See also the history sections in the articles Istighofen , Leimbach TG and Opfershofen

coat of arms

Blazon : In blue an upright striding yellow lion .

The coat of arms corresponds to that of the Bürglen jurisdiction, which goes back to the barons of Bürglen. The local community Bürglen used it from 1940, the political community Bürglen since it was founded in 1995.

population

Population development in the municipality of Bürglen

Population development of the individual communities

	1450	1634	1682	1797	1850	1900	1950	1990	2000	2010	2018
Political community									3197	3259	3835
Municipal parish					1049	1792	2428	3193
Local parish	about 250	153	435	420	442	1238	1714	2323
source

Of the total of 3835 inhabitants in the municipality of Bürglen in 2018, 1132 or 29.5% were foreign nationals. The town of Bürglen had 2847 residents at that time.

education

Bürglen secondary school

The “Thurgau Sports Day School” is integrated into the secondary school (upper level) in Bürglen. The “FCO Campus”, an elite school for football in eastern Switzerland, has also been in existence since 2012 with almost 30 students.

economy

In 2016, Bürglen offered work for 1,133 people (converted to full-time positions). Of these, 7.0% were employed in agriculture and forestry, 36.2% in industry, trade and construction and 56.8% in the service sector.

Attractions

See also : List of cultural assets in Bürglen TG

Personalities

• Wilhelm Friedrich Bion (1797–1862), Reformed theologian, politician
• Gottlieb Bion (1804–1876), landscape painter
• Fritz Gilsi (1878–1961), painter and graphic artist
• Jacques Schedler (1927–1989), painter, draftsman and graphic artist
• Elisabeth Binder (* 1951), writer

Web links

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

Wikisource: Bürglen in the Topographia Helvetiae, Rhaetiae et Valesiae (Matthäus Merian)  - sources and full texts

• Official website of the municipality of Bürglen TG

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. ↑ Numbers / facts. On the website of the municipality of Bürglen, accessed on February 15, 2020
4. ↑ ^{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.
5. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g} Gregor Spuhler : Bürglen (TG). 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).
6. ↑ ^{a b} municipal coat of arms . On the website of the State Archives of the Canton of Thurgau, accessed on December 8, 2019
7. ↑ ^{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.
8. ^ A secondary school with two sports schools , accessed February 27, 2013.