Frasnacht

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Frasnacht
Frasnacht coat of arms
Country: SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
Cantons : Thurgau (TG)
Districts : Arbon
Political community : Arbon
Postal code : 9320
former BFS no. : 4402
Coordinates : 748130  /  265930
Height : 414 m above sea level M.
Area : 2.04 km²
Residents: 1264 (December 31, 2018)
Frasnacht

Fountain from 1997 in Frasnacht, built by
the local community at the time
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Frasnacht (Switzerland)
Frasnacht
Frasnacht

Frasnacht is a village in the municipality of Arbon in the Arbon district of the Swiss canton of Thurgau . Frasnacht, a formerly independent local community in what was then the municipality of Arbon, was incorporated into Arbon in 1998. Due to the spatial separation of Arbon, there is still a separate village center today.

geography

The place is located northwest of Arbon and southeast of Egnach about half a kilometer from Lake Constance . Frasnacht included two spatially separated areas, one of which consisted of the small villages of Frasnacht, Kratzern and Steineloh, which are located near Lake Constance. The other was a little further south and formed an exclave with the settlements of Stachen , Speiserslehn and Feilen .

The Promenaden- or Seeweg , a popular foot and cycle path between Arbon and Romanshorn , leads past parts of the industry and individual farmsteads in Frasnacht.

history

Parish before the merger in 1998
Fruit trees in Frasnacht, view towards Lake Constance.

In 1302 the place was first mentioned under the name Fraschnet . The name goes back to the name Fraschnet .

Until 1798 Frasnacht shared the fate of Egnach and belonged to the Konstanz Bishopric. A small part of Frasnacht and Steineloh belonged to the lower court of Roggwil in St. Gallen . The mostly Reformed Frasnacht always remained a church after Arbon. Therefore, Frasnacht (Inner-Egnach) separated from the unified municipality of Egnach in 1857 and formed the local municipality of Frasnacht in the municipality of Arbon until 1997 .

In the 19th century , dairy farming and fruit growing replaced traditional agriculture. The canvas trade and embroidery now offered opportunities for additional income . It was not until the middle of the 20th century that the machine industry was established in Frasnacht. In 1969, the Bruderer AG machine factory set up shop in Frasnacht. Other industries such as Arbonia (formerly AFG) followed suit and new residential buildings were built. Today Frasnacht has almost grown together with Arbon and in 1996 had over 1,400 jobs in the dominant second economic sector .

As of January 1, 1998, the Arbon municipality merged with the local parishes of Arbon and Frasnacht to form the political municipality of Arbon.

population

Population development of Frasnacht
year 1870 1900 1960 1990 2000 2010 2018
Local parish 523 654 679 1372
Locality 818 385 1264
source

Of the total of 1264 inhabitants in the village of Frasnacht in 2018, 102 (including a part of Steineloh) belonged to the municipality of Roggwil . 257 or 20.3% were foreign citizens, 467 (36.9%) Roman Catholic and 361 (28.6%) Protestant Reformed.

politics

Until it was abolished in 1998, Frasnacht was an independent municipality in the canton of Thurgau and is now part of the political municipality of Arbon. The Frasnacht school community continues to be independent of Arbon.

Arbon and Frasnacht have the same postcode .

Traffic situation

Frasnacht has been fighting for traffic calming for years. The center of the village is located on a busy thoroughfare that connects the towns of Arbon and Romanshorn. Since 1993 Frasnacht has had a connection to the feeder road to the A1 motorway near St. Gallen . The opening resulted in even more through traffic. In addition to noise and pollutant emissions, the high frequency of vehicles, especially at night, also harbors dangers due to excessive speed.

Web links

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

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. ↑ a b c d e Verena Rothenbühler: Frasnacht. 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. ↑ Mutation 42a to the official register of municipalities in Switzerland, 1986
  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.
  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.

Remarks

  1. ↑ without outside courtyards