Dozwil

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Dozwil
Dozwil coat of arms
State : SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
Canton : Canton of ThurgauCanton of Thurgau Thurgau (TG)
District : Arbon
BFS no. : 4406i1 f3 f4
Postal code : 8582
UN / LOCODE : CH DOZ
Coordinates : 741 315  /  270 131 coordinates: 47 ° 34 '0 "  N , 9 ° 19' 0"  O ; CH1903:  seven hundred forty-one thousand three hundred and fifteen  /  270 131
Height : 465  m above sea level M.
Height range : 447–467 m above sea level M.
Area : 1.30  km²
Residents: 694 (December 31, 2018)
Population density : 534 inhabitants per km²
Website: www.dozwil.ch
Location of the municipality
Emerzer Weier Biesshofer Weier Schlossweier SG Bodensee Kanton St. Gallen Kanton St. Gallen Bezirk Kreuzlingen Bezirk Weinfelden Amriswil Arbon Dozwil Egnach Hefenhofen Horn TG Kesswil Roggwil TG Romanshorn Salmsach Sommeri UttwilMap of Dozwil
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Dozwil is a municipality and a town in the district of Arbon of the Swiss canton Thurgau .

Until 2002 Dozwil was a unified community .

geography

The village is located in Oberthurgau on the Seerücken. At the edge of the village you will find lookout points from which you can see the whole of Lake Constance in good weather. To the west of Dozwil are the Güttingerwald and to the east the Romanshornerwald, both of which are local recreational areas. The next large towns are Amriswil , 3 km away in the south, and Romanshorn , 4 km away, in the east. With an area of ​​130.5 hectares, Dozwil is the second smallest municipality in the canton of Thurgau. The community center is located on Kesswilerstrasse.

history

Secondary school in Dozwil
Aerial photo by Werner Friedli from 1956

Dozwil was first mentioned in 1385 as Dotzwile. In the Middle Ages , Dozwil was an episcopal-Constance fief . In 1454 the abbot of St. Gallen gave Hans von An (d) wil the power to rule. In 1560 the Blarer von Wartensee acquired the lower court ( opening ), which the abbot took over in 1671 and administered from the Romanshorneramt .

Dozwil belonged to the parish of Kesswil , which converted to the Reformation in 1529 . The few Catholics belonged to Sommeri . From 1820 to 1870 hand-weaving led to prosperity, after which the secondary school was relocated from Uttwil to the up-and-coming Dozwil in 1854 . At the end of the 19th century the economy stagnated. In the 20th century, agriculture (fruit growing), trade, a linen factory and later a shoe factory, as well as Lista Kunststofftechnik AG, which was founded in 1960, offered earnings. Lista Kunststofftechnik has been operating as EJOT Kunststofftechnik AG since 1996 and in 1999 employed 120 people. In 2000, a good half of those employed in Dozwil worked in the second sector . The extra- church St. Michaelsvereinigung founded by Paul Kuhn found a large influx after 1970 and shaped the village with its buildings.

From 1816, Dozwil formed a municipal municipality that coincided territorially with the local municipality , which is why the two municipalities were united in 1870 to form a so-called unitary municipality . In order to maintain its political autonomy in the long term, the municipality has been trying for some time to attract new residents and to expand the infrastructure. In 1996 a new school complex was inaugurated.

coat of arms

Dozwil-blazon.svg

Blazon : a standing yellow stag in black .

The deer is the heraldic animal of the Lords of Andwil , the colors yellow and black come from the St. Gallen monastery .

population

Population development in the municipality of Dozwil

The population has increased steadily since 1980. Before 1960, the village was threatened with extinction when the population decreased dramatically.

Population development of the local and unitary municipality
year 1649 1850 1900 1950 1980 2000 2010 2018
Residents 113 299 343 344 366 492 640 695

Of the total of 695 inhabitants in the municipality of Dozwil in 2018, 106 or 15.3% were foreign nationals.

schools

Dozwil has its own primary school and kindergarten. In 1995 the Dozwil-Kesswil-Uttwil secondary school center was inaugurated. Around 110 pupils from Dozwil, Kesswil and Uttwil go to school here from secondary school age. There are two classes per year, and there are a total of six classes over the three school years.

economy

In 2016, Dozwil employed 188 people (converted to full-time positions). 8.4% of them worked in agriculture and forestry, 54.8% in industry, trade and construction and 36.8% in the service sector.

Attractions

Personalities

Web links

Commons : Dozwil  - 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 municipal coat of arms . On the website of the State Archives of the Canton of Thurgau, accessed on December 8, 2019
  5. ↑ a b Gregor Spuhler : Dozwil. 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 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.