Engwilen

State :

Switzerland

Canton :

Thurgau (TG)

District :

Kreuzlingen

Political community :

Waldi

Postal code :

8564

former BFS no. :

4701

Coordinates :

724 500 / 275 350 coordinates: 47 ° 37 '1 " N , 9 ° 5' 41" O ; CH1903: seven hundred twenty-four thousand five hundred / two hundred seventy-five thousand three hundred fifty

Height :

532 m above sea level M.

Area :

3.03 km²

Residents:

210 (December 31, 2018)

Population density :

69 inhabitants per km²

Website:

www.engwilen.ch

Engwilen

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Engwilen is a former municipality of the then municipal municipality of Wäldi and a village in the canton of Thurgau in Switzerland . Engwilen has belonged to the political municipality of Wäldi since 1995 .

geography

Engwilen is located on the southern slope of the Seerücken near the Autobahn 7 Winterthur - Kreuzlingen .

history

The village was mentioned in a document between 1301 and 1307 under the name Engwille . In the Middle Ages , Engwilen was located on the southwestern edge of the former Bischofshöri and belonged to the Episcopal-Constantine Bailiwick of Gottlieben . The Lower Court of Engwilen was owned by the three free Engwiler families, Egloff, Engwiler and Meyer, as a fiefdom of the Bishop of Constance until 1798 . An opening in 1532 regulated against, among others, the obligations of the bishop's chair: When traveling the bishop, such as Rome, the villagers were required to have a mule trains to make (known Sintlehen).

Engwilen, which has been reformed by the majority since the Reformation, still belongs to the parish of Lipperswil today . The few Catholic residents attended mass in the parish of Homburg and have been integrated into the Catholic parish of Kreuzlingen - Emmishofen since 1869 .

In the 19th century, agriculture was replaced by dairy farming, cattle breeding and fruit growing. In 1955 the metal construction company Paul Zöllig AG (today Thur Metall AG) settled in Engwilen. Recently the village has turned into a rural residential community.

coat of arms

Parish before the merger in 1995

The colors red and white are those of the Bishop of Constance, the pack horse is a reminder of the Engwiler's commitment to him and the three linden leaves in the shield head represent the three free sexes.

population

Village fountain in Engwilen

Population development of Engwilen
year	1850	1900	1950	1990	2000	2010	2018
Local parish	161	163	175	170
Locality					167	165	210
source

Of the 210 inhabitants in the town of Engwilen in 2018, 60 or 28.6% were foreign nationals. 73 (34.8%) were Protestant Reformed and 61 (29.0%) were Roman Catholic.

education

The kindergarten as well as the primary school, which the children of Engwilens attend, are in Sonterswil , the secondary school in Wigoltingen .

economy

In Engwilen there are several smaller and larger businesses such as Thur Metall, in which metal operating and storage facilities have been manufactured for over fifty years. In addition, Engwilen is home to several carpenter's shops and farms that specialize in animal feed production or pig fattening.

literature

Verena Rothenbühler: Engwilen. 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 .

Web links

Private website about the town of Engwilen

Individual evidence

↑ Swiss land use statistics. Completed on July 1, 1912. Published by the Federal Statistical Bureau. ( Memento from April 12, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
↑ ^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.
↑ History & Coat of Arms. On the website of the municipality of Wäldi, accessed on February 1, 2020
↑ 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.
↑ 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.
↑ Wigoltingen primary school community. On the website of the municipality of Wäldi, accessed on February 1, 2020

Remarks

↑ with outside courtyards

[Areal-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 )

[Einwohner-2] 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] History & Coat of Arms. On the website of the municipality of Wäldi, accessed on February 1, 2020

[Statistik2005-5] 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.

[Statistik2012-6] 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.

[7] Wigoltingen primary school community. On the website of the municipality of Wäldi, accessed on February 1, 2020

[4] with outside courtyards