House of god

House of god
State :	Switzerland
Canton :	Thurgau (TG)
District :	Weinfelden
Political community :	Hauptwil-Gottshaus
Postal code :	9225
former BFS no. :	4486
Coordinates :	739 123  /  262 019 coordinates: 47 ° 29 '39 "  N , 9 ° 17' 6"  O ; CH1903:  739 123  /  262 019
Height :	561  m above sea level M.
Area :	9.93  km²
Residents:	1213 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	122 inhabitants per km²
Wilen (Gottshaus), on the right the Horber Weier, one of the five fish ponds built in 1430, and in the background the church of St. Pelagiberg
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Gottshaus is a former local parish of the municipality of Hauptwil in the district of Bischofszell in the canton of Thurgau in Switzerland . On 1 January 1996 merged Gottshaus Hauptwil and the political community Hauptwil-Gottshaus .

geography

The Gottshaus, located east of Bischofszell in a hilly landscape, includes the church village of St. Pelagiberg , the village of Wilen (Gottshaus) and around 40 farms and hamlets .

history

Wilen (House of God)

The courtyards of Gottshaus were probably part of the furnishings of the Canons' Monastery of St. Pelagius in Bischofszell, founded in the 9th century by Bishop Solomon I of Constance . Gottshaus was first mentioned in the second half of the 13th century . From the Middle Ages until 1798 God formed house as Pelagi-Gottshaus court a Lower Court of meeting, and was approved by the episcopal konstanzischen Upper Bailiwick Bischofszell managed. The St. Pelagiberg chapel, which was occupied from 1486, belonged to the parish of Bischofszell and became a pilgrimage church during the Counter-Reformation in 1535 , which was incorporated into the Canons' Monastery in 1726. In 1908, the eastern part of the community of Gottshaus dissolved from Bischofszell and has since formed the Catholic parish of St. Pelagiberg.

St. Pelagiberg

Parish before the merger in 1996

The ponds, laid out in 1430 by the monastery for fish farming, served the textile industry in Hauptwil from the 17th to the 19th centuries and have been a nature reserve since 1946. Agriculture has remained the most important branch of business to this day: At the end of the 19th century, agriculture was replaced by cattle breeding, dairy farming with numerous cheese dairies and fruit growing.

The Protestant residents have always belonged to the parish of Bischofszell-Hauptwil. The Catholics belonged completely to the parish of Bischofszell until 1908 in the upper house of God the parish in St. Pelagiberg was established.

The expansion of the infrastructure necessary to create larger building zones brought Gottshaus to the brink of financial overload, so that the merger with a neighboring community could hardly be avoided. On January 1, 1996, the districts of Stocken and Breite became part of the unified community of Bischofszell and the rest of the local community of Gottshaus merged with Hauptwil to form the political community of Hauptwil-Gottshaus.

coat of arms

Blazon : Half- length portrait of St. Pelagius in red with a black priest's hat, skirt and palm fronds, face and hand white.

Saint Pelagius with the martyr's palm refers to the former affiliation of the Gotthaus parish to the St. Pelagius Stift Bischofszell.

population

Gottshaus schoolhouse on the Hoferberg between Wilen (Gottshaus) and St. Pelagiberg

Population development of Gottshaus

year	1850	1900	1950	1980	1990	2000	2010	2018
Local parish	781	676	798	707	811
Wilen (House of God)						136	69	291
St. Pelagiberg						117	79	340
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Of the total of 291 inhabitants of the village of Wilen (Gottshaus) in 2018, 17 or 5.8% were foreign nationals. 125 (42.10%) were Roman Catholic and 84 (28.9%) were Protestant Reformed.

Of the 340 residents of St. Pelagiberg in 2018, 32 or 9.4% were foreign nationals. 158 (46.5%) were Roman Catholic and 96 (28.2%) Protestant Reformed.

traffic

Gertau ferry

Roads lead from Gotthaus to Bischofszell, Hauptwil, Waldkirch , Bernhardzell and via the Sitter to Häggenschwil . A post bus line connects Bischofszell via Wilen (Gottshaus) with St. Pelagiberg. In the Gertau, the Gertau – Degenau ferry leads over the Sitter to Degenau in the neighboring municipality of Zihlschlacht-Sitterdorf.

Personalities

• Ulrich Hugwald (1496–1571), scholar, teacher and Reformation writer

Attractions

The church of St. Pelagiberg and a former mill in Lauften are among the cultural assets of Gottshaus .

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 e} 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: Gottshaus. 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. ↑ ^{a b} Ernest Menolfi: The Story of Hauptwil-Gottshaus. On the website of the municipality of Hauptwil-Gottshaus, May 2012
5. ↑ Population development of the municipalities. Canton of Thurgau, 1850-2000. On the website of the Statistical Office of the Canton of Thurgau (Excel table; 0.1 MB), accessed on April 28, 2020.
6. ↑ ^{a b} municipal coat of arms . On the website of the State Archives of the Canton of Thurgau, accessed on December 8, 2019
7. ↑ 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.
8. ↑ 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. ↑ ^{a b} with outside courtyards