Gachnang
Gachnang | |
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District : | Frauenfeld |
BFS no. : | 4571 |
Postal code : | 8547 |
UN / LOCODE : | CH ISL (Islikon) |
Coordinates : | 706 272 / 265 689 |
Height : | 465 m above sea level M. |
Height range : | 380-550 m above sea level M. |
Area : | 9.74 km² |
Residents: | 4364 (December 31, 2018) |
Population density : | 448 inhabitants per km² |
Website: | www.gachnang.ch |
Gachnang Castle with a Catholic chapel |
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Location of the municipality | |
Gachnang , the Swiss-German local dialect Gochlinge , is a municipality and a parish village in the district of Frauenfeld of the Canton of Thurgau in Switzerland . The political community consists of the localities Gachnang, Islikon , Kefikon , Niederwil with the hamlets of Strass and Bethelhausen and Oberwil with Rosenhuben. It belongs to the Frauenfeld agglomeration .
The local church Gachnang made to 1997 with those of Kefikon, Islikon, Niederwil, Oberwil and Gerlikon the Munizipalgemeinde Gachnang. Gerlikon and the districts of Zelgli and Schönenhof, separated from the Oberwil community, were integrated into the Frauenfeld community in 1998 .
history
Significant prehistoric finds from the Pfyn culture come from the Egelsee north of Niederwil .
→ see section Pre-Roman times in the article Niederwil TG
The first written mention of Gachnang dates back to 889 as Kachanang . when King Arnulf gave his faithful Diethelm a farm in Gachnang with ten lordly hubs . From the 11th century Gachnang was owned by the Reichenau monastery . The Lords of Gachnang administered as Kyburger and later also Reichenauer Ministerials the Gachnang rule from their abandoned Alt-Gachnang Castle and the Meierhof Meiersberg. In 1417 the rule came to the lords of Schinen, who built the Neu-Gachnang site before 1500. In 1562 it came to Kaspar Ludwig von Heidenheim, in 1587 to Hector von Beroldingen and in 1623 to Einsiedeln Abbey . The lower jurisdiction remained with this until 1798. The oldest preserved opening dates from 1430.
The parish of Gachnang probably already existed before 1000 and included a number of villages in the Thurgau and Zurich area, including the Ellikon an der Thur and Gerlikon branches until 1651 and 1874, respectively . The church was built before the 13th century. From 1427, the sovereign border between the counties of Kyburg and Thurgau , which today forms the cantonal border between the cantons of Zurich and Thurgau, ran right through the parish . In 1528 the whole community converted to the Reformation. In 1610, a religious dispute in Gachnang, the Gachnang trade , almost led to a war between Zurich and the Catholic places co-governing in Thurgau. In the wake of the Gachnanger trade of 1610, the parish was divided and the Catholic castle chapel built in 1587 became the parish church. The collature lay with the Reichenau Monastery and the Bishop of Constance .
For a long time, the village, which is characterized by agriculture, only extended a little beyond the medieval centers around the church and castle. It was not until the middle of the 20th century that Gachnang has outgrown the Tegelbach valley as a typical residential community. From 1916 the cider factory brought the castle to a new bloom.
→ See also the history sections in the articles Islikon TG , Kefikon and Niederwil TG
coat of arms
Blazon : An upright red unicorn in white .
The then local community of Gachnang took over the coat of arms of the Reichau ministerials from Gachnang as the community coat of arms. The colors are reminiscent of belonging to the Reichenau monastery. After the political municipality was formed from the former municipality of Gachnang in 1998, the new municipality initially no longer had a coat of arms.
population
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1850 | 1870 | 1900 | 1950 | 1990 | 2000 | 2010 | 2018 | |
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Political community | 2906 | 3423 | 4347 | |||||
Municipal parish | 1456 | 1368 | 1694 | 3038 | ||||
Local parish | 343 | 280 | 350 | 694 | ||||
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Of the total of 4,347 inhabitants in the municipality of Gachnang in 2018, 639 or 14.7% were foreign nationals. 1986 (45.7%) were Protestant Reformed and 1,071 (24.6%) were Roman Catholic. The village of Gachnang had 1504 residents at that time.
economy
In 2016, Gachnang employed 1,091 people (converted to full-time positions). Of these, 5.0% worked in agriculture and forestry, 40.3% in industry, trade and construction and 54.8% in the service sector.
traffic
Gachnang is located between the two motorways A1 and A7 and therefore has excellent transport links. By the Thurbo staffed station Islikon on the railway line from Winterthur to Frauenfeld and several bus lines, the municipality is also developed well by public transport.
Attractions
The reformed village church of St. Pankratius is a listed building .
Personalities
- Johann Ludwig Sulzberger (1815–1882), reformed pastor and historian
- Huldreich Sulzberger (1819–1888), reformed pastor and historian
- Konrad Schrämmli (1865–1925), politician
- Joseph Kälin (1903–1965), Swiss zoologist, founder and first director of the institute of the Görres Society for interdisciplinary research
- Ruedi Heim (* 1967), Catholic episcopal vicar in the diocese of Basel
- Pascal Cerrone (* 1981), footballer at FC St. Gallen
literature
- Leo Bollhalder-Müller: 1100 years of Gachnang. A Thurgau village has a birthday. In: Thurgauer Jahrbuch , Vol. 66, 1991, pp. 23–43. ( e-periodica.ch )
Web links
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 )
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↑ a b c d e f Peter Giger: Gachnang. 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). - ↑ a b c population development of the municipalities. Canton Thurgau, 1850–2000 and resident population of the municipalities and change from the previous year. Canton of Thurgau, 1990–2018. On the website of the Statistical Office of the Canton of Thurgau (Excel tables; 0.1 MB each), accessed on April 28, 2020.
- ^ Peter Giger: Gachnanger trade. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- ↑ a b municipal coat of arms . On the website of the State Archives of the Canton of Thurgau, accessed on December 8, 2019
- ↑ Stefan Hilzinger: Not everyone is armed . In: St. Galler Tagblatt (online), April 4, 2012
- ↑ 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.