Eschlikon

Eschlikon

State :	Switzerland Switzerland
Canton :	Canton of Thurgau Thurgau (TG)
District :	Münchwilenw
BFS no. :	4724i1 f3 f4
Postal code :	8360
UN / LOCODE :	CH EHK
Coordinates :	714 634 / 257801 coordinates: 47 ° 27 '40 " N , 8 ° 57' 32" O ; CH1903: 714 634 / 25780147,461 8,959 570
Height :	570 m above sea level M.
Height range :	534–708 m above sea level M.
Area :	6.22 km²
Residents:	4372 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	703 inhabitants per km²
Website:	www.eschlikon.ch
Aerial photo from December 15, 2015
Location of the municipality
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Eschlikon is a political municipality and a town in the Münchwilen district of the Swiss canton of Thurgau , about six kilometers west of Wil SG . The political municipality Eschlikon was created on January 1, 1997 from the local communities Eschlikon and Wallenwil and from Hurnen.

history

Eschlikon in 1927

Eschlikon is first mentioned in 1280. The name is derived from a man named Askilo , whose descendants were called the Askilinge . They built their first farms, the Askilinghöfe , in the region of today's Eschlikon . Older forms of the locality's name are Askilinghofen, Aschilinghofen, Äschlingkofen, Äschlingkon, Äschlikon .

In the Middle Ages , Eschlikon belonged to the monastery of Magdenau and the Heiliggeistspital St. Gallen , apart from the goods of some free farmers . Eschlikon was part of the so-called high courts on Tuttwilerberg and was under the jurisdiction of the federal bailiff in Thurgau from the late Middle Ages until 1798, or the bailiff at court appointed by him , who held both the high and lower courts . Only Hurnen belonged to the Tannegg rule . Eschlikon originally belonged to Sirnach in terms of church . Eschlikon, which had been reformed by the majority since 1529, separated from Sirnach in 1936 and since then has formed the reformed parish of Münchwilen-Eschlikon together with Münchwilen , Oberhofen , St. Margarethen and Wallenwil ; the Catholic population belongs to the parish of Sirnach.

In addition to arable and viticulture and peat extraction , livestock farming emerged in the second half of the 19th century. From the 18th to the 20th century, the various branches of the textile industry shaped the village economy: after linen weaving , cotton weaving emerged in the 19th century , from 1870 to 1930 embroidery and knitwear production were important. The Weibel brickworks existed from 1898 to 1962. In 1875 the community of Eschlikon opened a lending, cattle lending and savings bank, the bankruptcy of which in 1912 seriously damaged the community. From 1864 to 1973 Eschlikon was the place of publication of the regional newspaper “Volksblatt vom Hörnli”. Since the middle of the 20th century, new industrial and commercial operations such as the Spring metal goods factory with around 200 employees have settled in the village, which had been dominated by small farmers, and initiated a structural change.

Eschlikon was a local church and belonged to the municipality of Sirnach. In 1997, the local parishes of Eschlikon and Wallenwil and the hamlets of Hurnen and Than, which belonged to the local parish of Horben , became the political municipality of Eschlikon.

coat of arms

Local parish

Blazon : in red a hanging yellow linden branch with leaves (2) and flowers (2).

Before 1798, Eschlikon belonged to the so-called High Court of Tuttwilerberg, which was subordinate to the governor. In the Middle Ages, the Thurgau regional court often met under a linden tree in Eschlikon, which the linden branch symbolizes. The colors red and yellow go back to the colors of the Landgraviate of Thurgau.

Political community

After the local communities of Eschlikon and Wallenwil had merged to form the political municipality of Eschlikon, the new municipality used a logo and left the question of the coat of arms unresolved.

population

Population development in the area of today's municipality of Eschlikon

Population development of the individual communities
	1850	1900	1950	1990	2000	2010	2018
Political community					3133	3844	4357
Local parish	422	640	1026	1814
source

Of the total of 4,357 inhabitants in the municipality of Eschlikon in 2018, 611 or 14.0% were foreign nationals. 1548 (35.5%) were Protestant Reformed and 1519 (34.9%) were Roman Catholic. The village of Eschlikon had 3193 inhabitants at that time. 89 of them (including in Holzmannshaus ) belonged to the Münchwilen community .

Economy and Transport

In 2016, Eschlikon offered work for 1,367 people (converted to full-time positions). 1.8% of these were employed in agriculture and forestry, 50.3% in industry, trade and construction and 47.9% in the service sector.

Brickworks and peat extraction

For a long time, many farmers from the area, in a depression south of the village, mined deposited clay and burned it into clay bricks in hand-made brickworks . Later Johann Weibel built a mechanical brickworks , which remained one of the most important industrial companies in Eschlikon from around 1898 to the 1960s.

A second, not insignificant branch of industry was peat cutting . In the so-called Riet , a peat bog that has now disappeared, peat was cut by the village population every spring that began, which could be used for private and industrial heating. Towards the end of the First World War , the Swiss Peat Cooperative (STG) was founded , which industrialized peat extraction with the help of machines. Due to exhausted capacity, peat extraction was finally stopped on August 15, 1946.

Today over 200 industrial and commercial enterprises are based in the area of the municipality. The community encourages growth.

traffic

Eschlikon is on the Zurich - St. Gallen railway line . After the place used to be reached every half hour with the S35 (Winterthur - Wil), since 2019 it has alternated with the S12 (Brugg - Wil) every hour. In 2019, the first large-scale 30 km / h zone was set up for road traffic.

Education and culture

The catchment area of the elementary school community Eschlikon (public corporation) in Hinterthurgau (South Thurgau) is located in the municipality .

For 30 years (establishment of the Eschlikon elementary school community in 1982), the school in the Eschlikon community has been organized in a public corporation from kindergarten to year 9.

The Eschlikon elementary school community consists of three units:

Kindergarten and primary school Eschlikon
Kindergarten and primary school in Wallenwil
Secondary school Eschlikon

The municipality of Eschlikon has two kindergartens and two primary schools , each in the villages of Eschlikon and Wallenwil. A secondary school is located in the village of Eschlikon. There is also a library and various sports clubs, such as the local football club FC Eschlikon .

Attractions

The 1963 Catholic Church of Brother Klaus has two concrete glass windows by Yoki Emile Aebischer (1964).

As a tourist attraction, Eschlikon has a snake zoo.

Personalities

Sons and Daughters of the Church:

Ferdinand Büchler (1853–1935) Cantonal and Government Councilor
Markus Werner (1944–2016), writer
Töbi Tobler (* 1953), musician
Daniel Hubmann (* 1983), orienteer

photos

Catholic Church Brother Klaus
Interior of the catholic church
reformed Church
Methodist Church
St. Elisabetha Bona Chapel , Wallenwil, built in 1775
Parish hall
Main road
Half-timbered house in Eschlikon
Pasture
Railway Station (1965)

Web links

Commons : Eschlikon - collection of images, videos and audio files

Official website of the municipality of Eschlikon

Individual evidence

↑ 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 .

↑ ^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.

↑ 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 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.

↑ ^a ^b ^c Various authors: History of Eschlikon. 3rd, revised edition from March 1986, ed. from the school community Eschlikon

↑ ^a ^b Verena Rothenbühler: Eschlikon (TG). In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
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