Bichelsee-Balterswil

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Bichelsee-Balterswil
Coat of arms of Bichelsee-Balterswil
State : SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
Canton : Canton of ThurgauCanton of Thurgau Thurgau (TG)
District : Münchwilen
BFS no. : 4721i1 f3 f4
Postal code : 8362
UN / LOCODE : CH BWI (Balterswil)
Coordinates : 711 465  /  256517 coordinates: 47 ° 27 '0 "  N , 8 ° 55' 0"  O ; CH1903:  711,465  /  256517
Height : 601  m above sea level M.
Height range : 555–853 m above sea level M.
Area : 12.26  km²
Residents: 2864 (December 31, 2018)
Population density : 234 inhabitants per km²
Website: www.bichelsee-balterswil.ch
Bichelsee village

Bichelsee village
Location of the municipality
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Bichelsee-Balterswil is a municipality in the Münchwilen district of the Swiss canton of Thurgau . The predecessor of the political community founded in 1996 was the municipal community of Bichelsee with the local communities of Balterswil and Bichelsee since 1803 .

geography

The double community is located in Hinterthurgau , also called Tannzapfenland , the south-western and mountainous part of the canton. Bichelsee-Balterswil borders the communities of Aadorf , Wängi , Eschlikon , Fischingen and Turbenthal ZH . The two villages of Balterswil at 575  m above sea level. M. and Bichelsee at 601  m above sea level. M. are on the street Wil SG - Turbenthal.

history

Coat of arms of the Lords of Bichelsee

Balterswil is mentioned for the first time on March 25, 885 as Baldherreswilare in a document of the abbot of St. Gallen , Bichelsee on January 10, 894 in a deed of gift as Pichelense . The monastery of St. Gallen then received in Bichelsee servants etc. paid, houses, draft animals, meadows. Which belongs to Balterswil Ifwil is already in a deed of Emperor Louis the Pious of 4 June 817 at the monastery of St. Gallen as Ifinwilare to find. On November 6th 912 Ittenasana (Itaslen, Bichelsee) appears for the first time in a document. No further documentary entries are known until 1209.

The Lords of Bichelsee are first mentioned in a document in 1209. It is believed that the origin of the two brothers Walter I and Eberhard I is related to the origin of the Lords of Elgg. These noble gentlemen were servants of the St. Gallen monastery and belonged to the lower nobility. The area that the Lords of Bichelsee ruled was much larger than the size of today's political community. In 1250 Eberhard I. von Bichelsee founded the Tänikon monastery. During these years the Neu-Bichelsee Castle was built, but it was plundered by Rudolf von Habsburg in 1273 . Neu-Bichelsee Castle was never rebuilt.

Most of the village of Balterswil burned down in 1884. The first Raiffeisenkasse in Switzerland was established in Bichelsee in 1899 . This was initiated by the pastor Johann Traber . The decision of the Raiffeisenbank in 2012 to close the Bichelsee branch where it was founded met with opposition.

In 1972 the joint school center Bichelsee-Balterswil was built for the Real and Secondary School . On January 1, 1996, as part of the Thurgau community reorganization, the community Bichelsee-Balterswil was created from the merger of the former municipal community Bichelsee with the local communities Balterswil and Bichelsee.

→ see also: Sections history in the articles Balterswil and Bichelsee

coat of arms

BichelseeBalterswil-blazon.svg

Blazon : a white band in red .

The coat of arms of the former municipality of Bichelsee and the political municipality of Bichelsee-Balterswil was adopted by the Lords of Bichelsee . and has nothing to do with the binding shield .

population

Population development in the area of ​​today's municipality of Bichelsee-Balterswil
Population development of the municipal and political community
1850 1870 1900 1205 1941 1960 1980 2000 2010 2018
Political community 2277 2618 2863
Municipal community Bichelsee 1071 953 1205 1407 1275 1467 1810

Of the total of 2,863 inhabitants in the municipality of Bichelsee-Balterswil in 2018, 313 or 10.9% were foreign nationals. 1,096 (38.3%) were Roman Catholic and 884 (30.9%) were Protestant Reformed. At that time, the town of Balterswil had 1872 residents.

economy

In 2016, Bichelsee-Balterswil offered 788 jobs (converted to full-time positions). 8.4% of them were employed in agriculture and forestry, 53.1% in industry, trade and construction and 38.5% in the service sector.

Attractions

→ see section Sights in the article Bichelsee-Balterswil
→ see article List of cultural assets in Bichelsee-Balterswil

politics

The SVP has been the strongest party in Bichelsee-Balterswil since the National Council elections in 2011. In the 2019 National Council elections, the SVP made 1,837 party votes, followed by the CVP with 857.

photos

  • Entrance to Balterswil

  • Half-timbered house in Balterswil

  • Balterswil post office

  • Catholic Church of Bichelsee

  • Interior view of the Bichelsee Catholic Church

  • Schoolhouse in Bichelsee

  • Country inn Bichelsee

  • Niederhofen

Personalities

See also

Web links

Commons : Bichelsee-Balterswil  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

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 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.
  4. ↑ a b c story. On the website of the municipality of Bichelsee-Balterswil, accessed on November 1, 2019
  5. ^ Charles Knapp, Maurice Borel, Victor Attinger, Heinrich Brunner, Société neuchâteloise de geographie (editor): Geographical Lexicon of Switzerland . Volume 1: Aa - Emmengruppe . Verlag Gebrüder Attinger, Neuenburg 1902, p. 133, keyword Balterswil   ( scan of the lexicon page ).
  6. ↑ Resistance to the closure of the first Raiffeisen bank. Broadcast by SRF TV show Switzerland currently on March 2, 2020
  7. ↑ Bichelsee-Balterswil. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
  8. ^ Municipal coat of arms . On the website of the State Archives of the Canton of Thurgau, accessed on December 8, 2019
  9. ↑ 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.
  10. ↑ Voting and election results. On the website of the municipality of Bichelsee-Balterswil, accessed on November 1, 2019