Eschikofen

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Eschikofen
Coat of arms of Eschikofen
State : SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
Canton : Canton of ThurgauCanton of Thurgau Thurgau (TG)
District : Frauenfeldw
Political community : Huettlingeni2
Postal code : 8553
former BFS no. : 4581
Coordinates : 717 949  /  271 156 coordinates: 47 ° 34 '50 "  N , 9 ° 0' 23"  O ; CH1903:  717 949  /  two hundred seventy-one thousand one hundred and fifty-six
Height : 410  m above sea level M.
Area : 1.70  km²
Residents: 186 (December 31, 2018)
Population density : 109 inhabitants per km²
Wooden houses in Eschikofen

Wooden houses in Eschikofen
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Eschikofen is a village in the Swiss canton of Thurgau and part of the political municipality of Hüttlingen . Until 1998 it formed its own local parish within the then municipal parish of Hüttlingen alongside Harenwilen , Hüttlingen and Mettendorf .

geography

Bridge on the Winterthur – Romanshorn railway over the Thur

Eschikofen is located at the foot of the northern slope of the Wellenberg on the main road Frauenfeld - Weinfelden .

history

Eschikofen in 1954. On the right edge of the picture you can see part of the SBB bridge over the Thur.
Parish before the merger in 1999

The place is mentioned for the first time in 878 using the phrase Hassinchovarromarcha . In the 19th century the village was called Heschikofen .

Eschikofen initially belonged to the St. Gallen monastery . In the 12th century the Reichenau Abbey appeared as the landlady; since this was incorporated into the diocese of Constance in 1540 , half of the lower court Eschikofen fell to the bishopric of Constance and half to the rule of Griesenberg . Openings date from 1430 and 1479. From the end of the Helvetic Republic in 1803 until the end of 1998, Eschikofen was a local parish within the Hüttlingen municipality.

Eschikofen was originally located in the Pfyn parish . Eschikofen is mostly Reformed and has belonged to the parish of Hüttlingen since 1531, previously to the parish of Pfyn; for Catholics exists since 1869, the opportunity to show in Müllheim to visit.

In 1837 the ferry across the Thur was replaced by a covered wooden bridge, and in 1954 the concrete bridge was built. Before the Thur correction (1907-1913) the village was often affected by floods. In the course of the 19th century, dairy farming and cattle breeding replaced arable farming. Despite a recently built single-family home quarter, Eschikofen has retained its rural character.

population

Population development of Eschikofen since 1850:

year 1850 1900 1950 1960 1980 1990 2000 2010 2018
Local parish 147 157 169 173 109 130
Locality 188 191 186
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Of the total of 186 inhabitants in the village of Eschikofen in 2018, 95 (51.1%) were Protestant Reformed and 25 (13.4%) were Roman Catholic.

  • Thurtal with the Seerücken , below the village of Eschikofen and in the center of the picture Müllheim

literature

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. ^ Verena Rothenbühler: Eschikofen. 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).
  4. ↑ 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.
  5. ↑ 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.