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Bottigh furnace
Bottighofen coat of arms
State : SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
Canton : Canton of ThurgauCanton of Thurgau Thurgau (TG)
District : Kreuzlingenw
BFS no. : 4643i1 f3 f4
Postal code : 8598
Coordinates : 732 947  /  278065 coordinates: 47 ° 38 '23 "  N , 9 ° 12' 28"  O ; CH1903:  seven hundred and thirty-two thousand nine hundred and forty-seven  /  278065
Height : 411  m above sea level M.
Height range : 395–488 m above sea level M.
Area : 2.41  km²
Residents: 2226 (December 31, 2018)
Population density : 924 inhabitants per km²
Website: www.bottighofen.ch
Bottighofen harbor

Bottighofen harbor
Location of the municipality
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Bottighofen is a municipality and a village in the Kreuzlingen district of the canton of Thurgau in Switzerland . Was Bottighofen 1803-1993 a local church of the former Munizipalgemeinde Scherzingen and since 1994 its own municipality .

geography

Bottighofen is located on the south-west bank of the part of Lake Constance called Obersee . The neighboring communities of Bottighofen are Kreuzlingen , Münsterlingen and Lengwil . The lowest point of the municipality is the lake shore in the north and lies at approx. 396 m above sea level. M., the highest is on the small Rigi on the western border of the municipality at 453 m above sea level. M.

geology

The geology of Bottighofen and the surrounding area is shaped by the deposits and the landscape-forming processes of the last Ice Age . The whole area is covered by a ground moraine a few to many meters thick , the composition of which is very diverse, both in terms of grain size (clay to boulder) and of the rock material. This is why fertile soils with a favorable water balance formed on this moraine cover, which are ideal for agriculture.

history

Lake Constance near Bottighofen

The oldest finds that were found in Bottighofen date from the Neolithic Age . From this one concludes that there were stilt houses on the then densely wooded shore of the lake . Isolated finds from the Bronze Age reached Frauenfeld and Zurich. A bronze ax found in Bottighofen is now kept in the Rosgarten Museum in Konstanz .

In the late Bronze and Early Iron Ages , Bottighofen was in the Helvetii area . Due to the defeat of the Helvetii against the Romans at the Battle of Bibracte , the area around Bottighofen also came under the rule of Rome during 500 and was thus Romanized. The Romans built roads in the Lake Constance region. Castles, manors and cities. But in the course of the first centuries the Romans had to withdraw and the Alemanni took possession of this land. In the early Middle Ages , events in power politics led to upheavals and shifts. It formed districts , so that up to the Thurgau from Lake Zurich handed.

The name von Bottighofen contains the Germanic personal name Botto or Potto. The oldest evidence is Pottinichovum and means in the courts of the Pottinge, the descendants of a Botto or Potto. The name Bottighofen was first mentioned in a document in 830 in a parchment manuscript from the St. Gallen Monastery from April 4, 830, in which a real estate (personal name) transferred all its properties to the St. Gallen Monastery. The next document dates from the year 837. Abbot Bernwig lends Nidhart and Engilsind the property they had transferred to St. Gallen at Bottighofen against interest. In 1083, Waceli de botinhoven was named as a witness in a document relating to an exchange of two goods between the Allerheiligen monastery in Schaffhausen and a Manno Tuto from Wagenhausen .

Bottighofen in 1924. In front the Lower Mill, behind the then not yet electrified sea line of the SBB , in the background Bottighoferwald

From the High Middle Ages until the 19th century, the landlord was Münsterlingen Monastery . Until 1798, Bottighofen was legally part of the Eggen bailiwick . Bottighofen was in the parish of Münsterlingen , which was restored after the resumption of monastic life in 1549/51. In 1594 the majority of the Reformed inhabitants were allocated to the parish of Scherzingen.

Lower mill in the interwar period

The historical settlement centers, some of which have been preserved, were built around four mills on the Stichbach. On January 10, 1800, eleven armed sloops appeared in front of Bottighofen and the commander of the Austrian fleet opened fire. Up until the First World War, these were the only warlike events on the lake. In the 19th century, milling, agriculture and viticulture as well as wine and timber trade (Schifflände) were operated.

In the 20th century some small businesses settled in Bottighofen. In 1990 35% of the workforce were employed in the second and 57% in the third economic sector. The municipality, which is oriented towards Kreuzlingen and Konstanz, achieved its political independence thanks to the strong growth since 1960, which among other things led to the construction of a port, village center and new residential areas.

coat of arms

Bottighofen-blazon.svg

Blazon : A continuous red cross with paws in white , which includes a black, silver-coated orb at the top right .

The paw cross in the inverted colors of the monastery reminds of the close relationships between Bottighofen and the Münsterlingen monastery. The Reichsapfel refers to the fact that the community belongs to the Eggen bailiwick.

population

Population development in the community of Bottighofen
Population development of the local and political municipality
1850 1900 1950 1990 2000 2010 2018
Political community 1684 2096 2219
Local parish 483 488 572 1156

Of the total of 2219 inhabitants in the municipality of Bottighofen in 2018, 736 or 33.2% were foreign nationals. 823 (37.1%) were Protestant Reformed and 633 (28.5%) were Roman Catholic.

economy

In 2016 Bottighofen offered 661 jobs (converted to full-time positions). Of these, 0.7% worked in agriculture and forestry, 11.4% in industry, trade and construction and 87.9% in the service sector.

Stichbach

The Stichbach is a brook that runs through the Bottighoferwald and Bottighofen. On June 14, 1999, the Stichbach overflowed its banks. Heavy local rainfall in the catchment area of ​​the Stichbach led to a rapid rise in the stream. Much wood was swept away by the masses of water and blocked the passages under the bridges. The water shut down the power supply for the entire village and flooded several properties in the Rüti, Obere Mühle, Brunnenstrasse and Hauptstrasse area. This event of the century led to more detailed investigations of the entire stream. On August 24, 1999, the community assembly granted a loan of 2.5 million Swiss francs for the rehabilitation of the stream and its renaturation.

Attractions

Bottighofen harbor with the Schlössli in the background

There were four mills in Bottighofen. Three of these were at the upper reaches of the Stichbach, the fourth (lower mill) was at the end of the Stichsbach at the outlet to Lake Constance. Since everyone was dependent on the same body of water, there were often arguments among the millers.

The Schlössli, a former restaurant and hotel, is now a residential building. The economy at the Schlössli is run in the former harbor master building.

photos

  • Gasthof Bären and roundabout at the entrance to the village

  • Boat harbor

  • «Longhouse» Lower Mill

  • Multi-family houses "Mühlenpark"

sons and daughters of the town

  • Hans Munz (1916–2013), politician (FDP) and lawyer

Personalities

literature

  • Magdalena Munz-Schaufelberger: Bottighofen. Another contribution from his past: All about the opening of the Bailiwick Eggen and Bottighofer, collection letters and the farming in our village. Bottighofen 2003.
  • Magdalena Munz-Schaufelberger: 1150 years of Bottighofen (830–1980). 1980
  • Regine Abegg, Peter Erni, Alfons Raimann: The art monuments of the canton of Thurgau, Volume VIII: Around Kreuzlingen. (= Art Monuments of Switzerland. Volume 125). Edited by the Society for Swiss Art History GSK. Bern 2014, ISBN 978-3-03797-116-1 , pp. 34–65.
  • Carl Ruch, Heinrich Näf, Martin Nigg, Urs Fröhlich: The Stichbach. Edited by the community of Bottighofen. Bottighofen 2002

Web links

Commons : Bottighofen  - 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 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.
  4. ↑ a b c Carl Ruch, Heinrich Näf, Martin Nigg, Urs Fröhlich: Der Stichbach . Ed .: Municipality of Bottighofen. Bottighofen 2002, p. 83 .
  5. ^ A b Magdalena Munz-Schaufelberger: 1150 years of Bottighofen (830–1980) . Ed .: Municipality of Bottighofen. Bottighofen 1980, p. 64 .
  6. ↑ Bottighofen through the ages. On the website of the municipality of Bottighofen, accessed on December 1, 2019
  7. ↑ a b c Gregor Spuhler : Bottighofen. 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).
  8. ↑ E. Rieben: The lower mill to Bottighofen. Thurgauer Jahrbuch, 1927, accessed on March 5, 2020 .
  9. ↑ a b municipal coat of arms . On the website of the State Archives of the Canton of Thurgau, accessed on December 8, 2019
  10. ↑ 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.
  11. ↑ The Stichbach. On the website of the municipality of Bottighofen, accessed on December 1, 2019
  12. ↑ Ines Rusca, Magdalena Munz-Schaufelberger: The Bottighofer mills and the Schlössli am See . Ed .: Municipality of Bottighofen. Bottighofen 1994, p. 145 .
  13. ↑ The mill village. On the website of the municipality of Bottighofen, accessed on December 1, 2019