Etzwilen
| Etzwilen | ||
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 Switzerland
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| Canton : |
 Thurgau (TG)
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| District : | Frauenfeld | |
| Political community : | Wagenhausen TG | |
| Postal code : | 8259 | |
| Coordinates : | 703 618 / 279480 | |
| Height : | 443 m above sea level M. | |
| Residents: | 242 (December 31, 2018) | |
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Etzwilen is a village in the canton of Thurgau in Switzerland . Etzwilen has been part of the Wagenhausen political community in the Frauenfeld district since 1995 .
Etzwilen lies at the foot of the northern slope of the Stammerberg between Wagenhausen and Schlattingen . From 1803 to 1995 Etzwilen belonged to the local community of Kaltenbach in the municipality of Wagenhausen.
history
Etzwilen was first mentioned in 888 as Zezinwilare . Etzwilen was in the rulership of Wagenhausen, which before 1798 belonged to the town of Stein am Rhein . Openings date from 1491 and 1552. Ecclesiastically Etzwilen always belonged to the parish of Burg (Stein am Rhein).
Until the end of the 19th century Etzwilen was an insignificant village with dairy farming, fruit growing and peat extraction. With the opening of the railway lines Winterthur – Etzwilen –Singen in 1875 and Schaffhausen – Kreuzlingen in 1895, Etzwilen gained modest importance as a regional transport hub, and by 1920 a station district was created as a result of this structural change. With the decline in the economic importance of the railway lines - in 1998 the staff was withdrawn from the Etzwilen station; Since then, the trains have only stopped there on demand - Etzwilen became a rural housing estate with an oversized station.
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Main road
Bahnhofstrasse
railway station
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literature
- Verena Rothenbühler: Etzwilen. 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 .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ 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.