Wigoltingen

Wigoltingen

Country:	Switzerland Switzerland
Canton :	Thurgau (TG)
District :	Weinfelden
Postal code :	8556
BFS no. :	4951 (Political Community)
former BFS no .:	4954 (local parish )
Coordinates :	718670 / 27333947.599997222222 9.0166555555556
Height :	431 m above sea level M.
Area :	17.13 km² (Polish municipality) 4.58 km² (local municipality)
Residents:	2457 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	143 inhabitants per km²
Website:	www.www.wigoltingen.ch
“Zum Schäfli” in Oberdorf
map

Wigoltingen has been a political municipality and a town in the Weinfelden district of the Swiss canton of Thurgau since 1995 and includes the former municipal municipality of Wigoltingen with its former municipalities of Bonau , Engwang , Illhart and Wigoltingen.

geography

Wigoltingen is located in the center of Thurgau south of the Seerücken on the northern bank of the Thur between Weinfelden and Frauenfeld .

The localities Bonau, Engwang, Illhart, Wagerswil , Lamperswil and Müllheim-Wigoltingen with the train station of the same name also belong to the community .

history

Aerial photo by Walter Mittelholzer from 1924

Wigoltingen is first mentioned in 889 under the name Wigoltinga . In 1155 the Wigoltingen courtyard and church were part of the furnishings of the Konstanz cathedral chapter . An opening dates from 1403. In September 1445, the battle at Wigoltingen occurred as part of the Old Zurich War . Until 1798, the Lower Court of Wigoltingen with Engwang, Gillhof, Hasli, Hof, Niederhofen, Tangwang, Wagerswil and Wigoltingen belonged to the Dompropstei Konstanz in the condominium with the Altenklingen rule .

Reformed Church of St. George

Wigoltingen on an aerial photo from May 9, 2011

The parish of Wigoltingen originally comprised an area from the Thur to the Seerücken. In the High Middle Ages , Lipperswil was raised to a parish and separated from Wigoltingen, and since 1487 Märstetten has been its own parish. In 1528 Wigoltingen joined the Reformation . The few Catholic residents attended mass in Müllheim from 1585 . The Raperswilen chapel has been a branch church of Wigoltingen since the 17th century at the latest . The division into an upper and a lower parish led to tensions in the 17th and 18th centuries. Sonterswil was separated from the parish Wigoltingen in 1859 and assigned to the Reformed parish of Lipperswil. In the Wigoltinger trade there were clashes between Catholic mercenaries and Wigoltingers in 1664 . In 1805 the municipalities of Illhart and Lamperswil were assigned to the municipal municipality of Wigoltingen.

In the 19th century, cattle and dairy farming replaced arable farming and viticulture. In 1869 a cheese dairy started operations. After the opening of the Winterthur – Romanshorn railway line in 1855, which runs through the municipality, the settlement of factories began. The Brauchli shoe factory, which existed until 1923, employed 208 people in 1895. In the Haslenmühle a cement factory was operated from 1892 to 1908 and a mill from 1911, which produced food and feed and has been operating as Schweizerische Schälmühle E. Zwicky AG since 1923. Bissegger Holzbau celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2008. In the second half of the 20th century, new residential quarters were built, which today characterize the appearance of the rural residential community.

The current political community of Wigoltingen was formed in 1995 by merging the former municipal community of Wigoltingen with its local communities of Bonau, Engwang, Illhart and Wigoltingen.

→ see also the history sections in the articles Bonau TG , Engwang and Illhart

coat of arms

Local community Wigoltingen

Blazon : A blue ploughshare in yellow .

The ploughshare from the coat of arms of the local community Wigoltingen stands for the agricultural past.

Unified municipality Wigoltingen

Bonau

Engwang

Illhart

Wigoltingen

Blazon : split between yellow and black, in front above a fallen blue ploughshare three six-pointed red stars (1, 2), behind a red armored and tongued, yellow crowned white lion .

The ploughshare comes from the coat of arms of the local community Wigoltingen, the three stars refer to Bonau's membership in three jurisdictions. The lion comes from the coat of arms of the barons von Altenklingen .

Because the newly created political municipality chose the name of the largest local municipality, no new coat of arms would have been necessary after the merger. Nevertheless, in 1997 the municipal assembly decided on a new municipal coat of arms with elements from the coats of arms of the former local communities.

population

Population development in the municipality of Wigoltingen

Population development of the individual communities
	1850	1900	1950	1990	2000	2010	2018
Political community					2036	2155	2447
Municipal parish	1236	1529	1694	1868
Local parish	359	689	824	1127
source

Of the total of 2,447 inhabitants in the municipality of Wigoltingen in 2018, 379 or 15.5% were foreign nationals. 1,083 (44.3%) were Protestant Reformed and 632 (25.8%) were Roman Catholic. The village of Wigoltingen had 1474 residents at that time.

Over 89% of the population are German-speaking. The next most common languages are Italian with 1.77 percent and Portuguese with 1.38 percent.

→ see also sections on population in the articles Bonau TG , Engwang and Illhart

Müllheim-Wigoltingen

The village of Müllheim-Wigoltingen had 105 inhabitants in 2018. Of these, 26 and 24.8%, respectively, were foreign nationals. 33 (31.4%) were Roman Catholic and 30 (28.6%) Protestant Reformed.

economy

Mill and factory E. Zwicky AG in Wigoltingen-Hasli

Agriculture in particular plays a role in Wigoltingen . About 75 percent of the municipality is agricultural land. The grain-processing food producer E. Zwicky AG is based in the hamlet of Hasli. It goes back to a mill powered by the Kemmenbach until 1861. From this year, the water power of a canal that was branched off from the Thur was added. At the beginning of the 20th century, there was a cement factory there, one of four tall chimneys of which could still be seen until the 1960s. The Zwicky company, established in Amlikon in 1892, took over the area in 1911.

In 2016, Wigoltingen offered 781 people work (converted to full-time positions). Of these, 18.3% were employed in agriculture and forestry, 53.4% in industry, trade and construction and 28.3% in the service sector.

The planning of an outlet shopping center near the train station and the motorway exit , which should have opened in 2011, dragged on for years. However, the realization kept shifting. After 14 years of planning, the canton rejected the design plan in 2019, although the environmental impact assessment had been passed.

traffic

Wigoltingen shares the SBB train station Müllheim-Wigoltingen with Müllheim . This is about 1.5 km from Wigoltingen in the hamlet Hasli. The station is part of the route from Frauenfeld to Weinfelden . It has two platform tracks and is served by the two S-Bahn S30 and S8.

Wigoltingen can be reached by Postbus on the 833 Ermatingen - Müllheim-Wigoltingen and 831 Homburg - Müllheim-Wigoltingen lines. There is an entrance to the A7 autobahn in Bonau and at Müllheim for individual traffic .

Art and culture

As in many villages in Switzerland, a large part of the local culture takes place in associations . There are some choirs and sports clubs. In addition, TV Wigoltingen is organizing the Seerücken district gymnastics festival in 2009.

schools

Wigoltingen offers schools for all levels from playgroups to ninth grade. Most of them go to Frauenfeld for middle school , but occasionally also to Kreuzlingen .

Attractions

Altenklingen Castle is located in the Wigoltinger municipality. The Lords of Klingen exercised together with the Dompropstei Konstanz rule over Wigoltingen.

The privately owned Altenklingen Castle is located in the municipality and is listed in the inventory of places worthy of protection in Switzerland .

Others

The legacy of the Fleig family from the Fleig upholstered furniture factory was used for various projects. One of them is a local library. In the hamlet of houses there is a mosque of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat .

photos

→ see also sections images in the articles Engwang and Illhart

Gebharte house
Tavern Zum Schäfli
Altenklingen

literature

Gottlieb Amstein: History of Wigoltingen. Weinfelden 1892

Web links

Commons : Wigoltingen - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Official website of the municipality of Wigoltingen

Individual evidence

↑ ^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 )

↑ 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 ^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.

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d Verena Rothenbühler: Wigoltingen. 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 ^d municipal coat of arms . On the website of the State Archives of the Canton of Thurgau, accessed on December 8, 2019

^ Community merger in the canton of Thurgau: Wigoltingen. On the website of the Swiss Coats of Arms and Flags Foundation, accessed on December 20, 2019