Bussnang

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Bussnang
State :	Switzerland
Canton :	Thurgau (TG)
District :	Weinfelden
BFS no. :	4921
Postal code :	9503 Lanterswil 9503 Stehrenberg 9504 Friltschen 9517 Mettlen 9565 Bussnang 9565 Oberbussnang 9565 Oppikon 9565 Rothenhausen 9565 Schmidshof
Coordinates :	723 842  /  268 842 coordinates: 47 ° 33 '31 "  N , 9 ° 5' 3"  O ; CH1903:  seven hundred and twenty-three thousand eight hundred and forty-two  /  268842
Height :	445  m above sea level M.
Height range :	416–723 m above sea level M.
Area :	18.88  km²
Residents:	2343 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	124 inhabitants per km²
Website:	www.bussnang.ch
Bussnang
Location of the municipality

Bussnang (locally called Busslig ) is a municipality and a village in the district of Weinfelden in the canton of Thurgau in Switzerland . The community was formed in 1996 from the municipal community Bussnang and its former local communities Bussnang, Friltschen , Lanterswil , Mettlen , Oberbussnang , Oppikon , Reuti and Rothenhausen , while Istighofen had already changed to the new political community Bürglen in 1995 .

geography

Bussnang is located on the south bank of the Thur approx. Two km southwest of Weinfelden. Bussnang includes the villages and hamlets of Friltschen, Lanterswil, Mettlen, Neuberg, Niederhof, Oberbussnang, Oberoppikon, Oppikon, Puppikon, Reuti, Rothenhausen, Schmidshof , Stehrenberg , Unteroppikon, Weingarten and Wertbühl .

Bussnang borders in the north-west on Amlikon-Bissegg , in the north on Weinfelden , in the north-east on Bürglen, in the south-east on Schönholzerswilen , in the south on Wuppenau , in the south-east on Braunau and in the east on Affeltrangen .

history

In place of the previous church, today's Protestant church was built in 1423 .

The first written mention of Bussnang probably dates from the year 822 as Pussinwanc . In the early Middle Ages , the largest landowner in Bussnang was the St. Gallen monastery . In the High Middle Ages , the barons of Bussnang received the rights to the area. However, they had to sell their property after the Appenzell Wars, so the rights were transferred to Weinfelden in 1442 . From 1443 it shared the fate of the Weinfelden rule with the lower court of Bussnang- Rothenhausen . In 1803 Bussnang became a municipality. In 1862 the hamlets of Schmidshof and parts of Oberoppikon were separated from the then local community of Zezikon and assigned to the local community of Oppikon in the municipal community of Bussnang in the Weinfelden district.

Aerial photo from 1954

The collature of the Gallus Church, founded in 885 and consecrated to John the Baptist from 1123 , was transferred from the Barons of Bussnang to the Tobel Commandery in 1464 , to the Canton of Thurgau in 1809 and to the Bussnang community in 1830. The parish originally also included the area of ​​the later parishes Wertbühl (occupied since 1155) and Weinfelden (occupied since 1275). In the late Middle Ages it still extended to nine lower courts. As a branch , the Schönholzerswilen chapel was subordinate to it, while Wuppenau, contrary to older belief, was never a branch of Bussnang. After the parish had converted to the Reformation in 1529 under the influence of Johannes Zwick , the mass was reintroduced in 1596. In 1935 the parity was lifted due to the construction of a new Catholic round church. The confessional disputes were more mitigated than resolved with the so-called Rosenbach Treaty of 1639. In 1935 the Catholic Church of St. Joseph was consecrated.

In 1978, after the Thur floods, the remains of a Roman wooden bridge were found above the «Ganggelisteg», a narrow suspension bridge to Bussnang built in 1882, which had crossed the Thur since 124 AD . Later, a ferry was maintained until 1453 at Thurrain in the former municipality of Rothenhausen a bridge was built again, which pushed Bussnang to the side in terms of traffic. A viaduct of the Mittelthurgau Railway has spanned the Furtbachtal since 1912/13 .

Originally, grain was cultivated in three tents and viticulture. In the 19th century the transition to cattle and dairy farming as well as fruit growing took place. Trades were linen and later cotton weaving and little handicraft. Stadler Rail has been producing electric rail vehicles with great success since 1963 .

→ see also the history sections in the articles Friltschen , Lanterswil , Oberbussnang , Oppikon , Reuti TG , Rothenhausen TG and Wertbühl

coat of arms

Blazon : yellow and blue three times rafter as divided .

The Bussnang community has had the coat of arms of the Barons von Bussnang in a new design since 1948. The political community founded in 1996 took over the coat of arms of the previous local community Bussnang.

population

Population development in the municipality of Bussnang

Population development of the individual communities

	1850	1900	1920	1950	1990	2000	2010	2018
Political community	1862	1872	1767	1981	1810	2085	2109	2342
Municipal parish	2062	2058	1950	2220	2259
Local parish	267	270		428	453
source

Of the total of 2,342 inhabitants in Bussnang (political municipality) in 2018, 335 or 14.3% were foreign nationals. 1,018 (43.5%) were Protestant Reformed and 624 (26.6%) were Roman Catholic.

Economy and Transport

Stadler Rail plant

The railway manufacturer Stadler Rail is based in Bussnang. In the district Mettlen are Bamix - hand blender produces. In 2016 Bussnang offered work for 2,384 people (converted to full-time positions). 7.8% of them were employed in agriculture and forestry, 76.2% in industry, trade and construction and 16.0% in the service sector.

Bussnang is on the Weinfelden - Wil railway line .

Culture and events

A single-axle race takes place once a year in Lanterswil .

Attractions

See also : List of cultural assets in Bussnang

The old Evangelical Church of Bussnang (15th century, formerly used as a parity church) and the Catholic Church of St. Joseph , a round building with the floor plan of a four-leaf clover, built in 1935 according to plans by the expressionist architect Otto Linder , stand next to each other in the town center .

The most important monument for the community is the pedestrian suspension bridge over the Thur, built in 1882 and renovated in 2011, which is known as the "Ganggelisteg" because of its fluctuations. The 300 meter long railway bridge south of the town center is also characteristic of the village.

After the last vineyards in the community disappeared into the 1930s, since 2012 below the cath. Church a new vineyard, about 600 vines in size. A viticulture association founded for this purpose maintains the vineyard on the Nikolauswiese, which was named after the second patron of the church, Saint Nicholas of Myra.

Wertbühl is listed in the inventory of places worth protecting in Switzerland .

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  Wertbühl , Bussnang municipality

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  Catholic St. Joseph Church

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  Restaurant zur Traube, Reformed Church and behind the Catholic Church

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  Railway bridge at Bussnang

Personalities

• Kilian Kesselring (1583–1650), sergeant general and court clerk
• Ernst Stadler (1908–1981), engineer, entrepreneur, founder of Stadler Vehicles AG (today's Stadler Rail ).

Web links

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

• Official website of the Bussnang municipality

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} 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} André Salathé: Bussnang. 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. ↑ Bussnang Church. On the website of the Evangelical Parish Bussnang-Leutmerken, 2019
7. ↑ StiASG , Urk. II 48. Online at e-chartae , accessed on June 19, 2020.
8. ↑ ^{a b} story. On the website of the municipality of Bussnang, accessed on November 24, 2019
9. ↑ ^{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.
10. ↑ ^{a b} municipal coat of arms . On the website of the State Archives of the Canton of Thurgau, accessed on December 8, 2019
11. ↑ Cornelia Stäheli, Erich Trösch: The Catholic Church of St. Josef in Bussnang. (Swiss Art Guide, No. 830, Series 83). Ed.  Society for Swiss Art History GSK. Bern 2008, ISBN 978-3-85782-830-0 .
12. ↑ Angelus Hux and Alexander Troehler: KlangRäume. Churches and organs in Thurgau. P. 128.