Engishofen

Engishofen
State :	Switzerland
Canton :	Thurgau (TG)
District :	Weinfelden
Political community :	Alder TG
Postal code :	8586
former BFS no. :	4478
Coordinates :	736 447  /  268 970 coordinates: 47 ° 33 '26 "  N , 9 ° 15' 6"  O ; CH1903:  736,447  /  268970
Height :	441  m above sea level M.
Area :	2.13  km²
Residents:	167 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	78 inhabitants per km²
Engishofen
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Engishofen is a village in the municipality of Erlen in the canton of Thurgau in Switzerland . Engishofen formed from 1816 to 1994 a local community of the former municipality of Erlen.

geography

The off-road connection Sulgen - Amriswil lying Street Village has an architecture historic settlement pattern with half-timbered buildings in the 18th and 19th centuries.

history

Parish before the merger in 1995

The place is first mentioned between 770 and 774 as Ongiseshoua (?). The bailiwick of Engishofen is documented in 1346 as a fiefdom of the St. Gallic abbot and from the 15th century to 1798 as a fiefdom of the bishop of Constance . In 1492 Engishofen belonged to the Eppishausen jurisdiction , later it came to the Oberaach Lower Court , which was owned by the von Salis-Soglio family as an episcopal-Constance fief from 1646 to 1798 , but was administered by the Häberli family based in Oberaach. In church terms, the predominantly Reformed Engishofen always belonged to the parish of Sommeri .

In the 19th century arable and fruit growing, linen trade and cotton weaving were carried out. Machine embroidery was added around 1900, followed by a cheese dairy in 1906. Despite recent new buildings, Engishofen has retained its rural character. In 1990 61% of jobs were in the first economic sector .

Population development of Engishofen

year	1850	1900	1950	1990	2000	2010	2018
Local parish	255	186	220	209
Locality					193	178	167
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Of the total of 167 inhabitants in Engishofen in 2018, 14 or 8.4% were foreign nationals. 106 (63.5%) were Protestant Reformed and 28 (16.8%) were Roman Catholic.

Attractions

The house at Hauptstrasse 19 is included in the list of cultural assets in Erlen .

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  Half-timbered houses

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  Main road

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  Village square

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  House Hauptstrasse 19

literature

• Verena Rothenbühler: Engishofen. 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