Donzhausen

Donzhausen
State :	Switzerland
Canton :	Thurgau (TG)
District :	Weinfelden
Political community :	Sulgen
Postal code :	8583
former BFS no. :	4912
Coordinates :	732 370  /  268 681 coordinates: 47 ° 33 '20 "  N , 9 ° 11' 51"  O ; CH1903:  seven hundred and thirty-two thousand three hundred and seventy  /  two hundred and sixty-eight thousand six hundred eighty-one
Height :	465  m above sea level M.
Area :	1.26  km²
Residents:	314 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	249 inhabitants per km²
Donzhausen
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Donzhausen is a former municipality and a village in the municipality of Sulgen in the Weinfelden district of the canton of Thurgau in Switzerland . The clustered settlement is northeast of Sulgen.

The local community Donzhausen belonged from 1803 to 1816 to the municipality of Birwinken , from 1816 to 1994 to the municipality of Bürglen and 1995 to the municipality of Sulgen. On January 1, 1996 , the local community of Donzhausen merged as part of the Thurgau community reform to form the political community of Sulgen.

history

Parish before the merger in 1996

The place was first mentioned in 1282 as Tunzishusen . From 1282 and 1442 until after 1800, the landlord was the canons of St. Pelagius in Bischofszell. Court belonged Donzhausen from the late Middle Ages until 1798 to rule Berg . Ecclesiastically, the village shared the fate of the Sulgen parish .

In the 19th century arable and fruit growing, grass farming and the home industry were all worthwhile. Until 1900, the mechanical embroidery Krapf was an important employer. A cheese cooperative was founded in 1910. After the decline of embroidery, the residents of Donzhausen found work mainly in the industrialized neighboring villages. Numerous new residential buildings have been built since 1980.

population

Population development of Donzhausen

year	1850	1870	1900	1950	1990	2000	2010	2018
Local parish	223	185	224	211	200
Locality						271	264	314
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Of the total of 314 inhabitants in Donzhausen in 2018, 19 or 6.1% were foreign nationals. 148 (47.1%) were Protestant Reformed and 98 (31.2%) were Roman Catholic.

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literature

• Gregor Spuhler : Donzhausen. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
  This article is largely based on the entry in the Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz (HLS), which, according to the HLS's usage information, is licensed under the Creative Commons - Attribution - Distribution under the same conditions 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0) license .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Swiss land use statistics. Completed on July 1, 1912. Published by the Federal Statistical Bureau. ( Memento from April 12, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ ^{a b c d} 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.
3. ↑ Locations and Settlements Directory. Canton of Thurgau, 2005 edition . On the website of the Statistical Office of the Canton of Thurgau (PDF; 1.7 MB), accessed on April 28, 2020.
4. ↑ Locations and Settlements Directory. Canton of Thurgau, 2012 edition. On the website of the Statistical Office of the Canton of Thurgau (PDF; 3.4 MB), accessed on May 11, 2020.

Remarks

1. ↑ with outside courtyards