Hauptwil

State :

Switzerland

Canton :

Thurgau (TG)

District :

Weinfelden

Political community :

Hauptwil-Gottshaus

Postal code :

9213

former BFS no. :

4487

Coordinates :

736 708 / 260 494 coordinates: 47 ° 28 '52 " N , 9 ° 15' 9" O ; CH1903: seven hundred and thirty-six thousand seven hundred and eight / 260,494

Height :

540 m above sea level M.

Area :

3.11 km² (local
parish ) 12.49 km² (municipality)

Residents:

1213 (December 31, 2018)

Population density :

390 inhabitants per km²

Gate tower with contemporary clockwork

map

Hauptwil is a village and a former local and municipal municipality in the canton of Thurgau in Switzerland . The local community of Hauptwil, located southeast of Bischofszell , and the local community of Gottshaus formed the municipal community of Hauptwil from 1812 to 1995 and has been part of the political community of Hauptwil-Gottshaus since January 1, 1996 .

history

Hauptwiler pond

Hauptwil was first mentioned in 1413 as Hoptwill . In the late Middle Ages Hauptwil was part of the small jurisdiction of Blidegg , to which Zihlschlacht and Degenau also belonged. From 1377 at the latest, Blidegg belonged as a fief to the bishop of Constance and the prince abbey of St. Gallen the noble Ryff, known as Welter von Blidegg, and from 1561 to the barons of Hallwyl . A special place was the hamlet of free shepherd who own a small low-judicial district belonged to the lords of Andwil and Blarer of Wartensee was and in 1654 came through purchase to the family Gonzenbach. As a former feudal territory of the Prince Abbey of St. Gallen Freihirten had a predominantly Catholic population.

Hauptwil around 1792

Pointing the way for the later development of Hauptwil was that the Canon Monastery of St. Pelagius in Bischofszell had five carp ponds built in the valley between Hauptwil and Wilen around 1430 , thus creating the prerequisites for the later use of hydropower and thus the industrialization of Hauptwil.

Hauptwil Castle

The long building is considered to be the oldest workers' house in Switzerland

Parish before the merger in 1996

Formative for the further development of the village in the 17th and 18th centuries was the Clothier family Gonzenbach that the patrician belonged to upper class and because of the innovation sfeindlichen structure of St. Gall moved linen industry to Hauptwil. The family, which owned several properties in Hauptwil before 1600, held the Hauptwil Lower Court from 1664 to 1798 . After the arrival of the Gonzenbach, the farming village developed into a manufacturing settlement characterized by linen production . In addition to lower wages, hydropower and economic freedom were conducive to industrialization. In 1664 Hauptwil received market rights . The castle was built in 1664/1665 and served as a retirement home from 1952 onwards and in 2020 it came into private ownership. 1661-71 in were Stampflehmverfahren around forty new manufacturing and Arbeiterwohnbauten built, which was a unique event in eastern Switzerland's industrial history. In January 1801 Friedrich Hölderlin joined the Gonzenbach family as a private tutor.

At the end of the 18th century, the brothers Enoch and Johann Joachim Brunschweiler from Erlen settled in Hauptwil. After the stagnation in linen production, they built up the dyeing industry in the village. Together with Hans Jacob Gonzenbach (1754–1815), they drove the liberation of Thurgau from federal subjects .

Aerial photo by Walter Mittelholzer from 1929

In the course of industrialization , embroidery and weaving also gained a foothold, as well as the Staub & Honegger cotton spinning mill in the nearby Sorntal in the municipality of Waldkirch SG in 1923 . The opening of the Sulgen – Gossau railway line in 1876 ensured continued economic prosperity. In addition to the textile industry , agriculture has always remained an important branch of the economy in Hauptwil. Towards the end of the 19th century the transition from viticulture and agriculture to cattle and dairy farming took place. The dairy was established in 1909. Since the Brunschweiler family's dye works ceased operations in 1984, only Zetag AG with the former spinning mill in Sorntal still bears witness to the former textile production. With the construction of single-family houses, the migration that occurred in the 1970s after 1980 was stopped. The well-preserved old buildings and the now converted industrial cultural landscape from the 17th to 19th centuries still characterize the townscape. Hauptwil was awarded the Wakker Prize in 1999 .

The Catholic part of the population has always belonged to the Bischofszell parish. From 1667 church services for the Reformed population took place in the Gonzenbach castle chapel, and in 1861 the Reformed parish became a branch of Bischofszell. In 1886 a reformed church was built, and in 1967/68 the Catholic Church of St. Antonius . Starting with the industrial family Brunschweiler, a community of Protestant baptismal people was formed in Hauptwil in the early 19th century , to which 10% of the population belonged in 1880. The Free Evangelical Congregation is still represented in Hauptwil today .

1996 merged the local churches Hauptwil and Gottshaus - the latter without the districts halt and width for unified community Bischofszell came - the political community Hauptwil-Gottshaus.

coat of arms

Blazon : In red a three-part white gate tower with black roofs

The gate tower is one of the characteristic architectural monuments of Hauptwil.

population

Population development of Hauptwil
	1649	1850	1900	1950	1990	2000	2010	2018
Municipal parish		1379	1417	1617	1721
Local parish	approx. 50	598	741	819	910
Locality						522	457	1213
source

Of the total of 1213 inhabitants of the village of Hauptwil in 2018, 122 or 10.1% were foreign nationals. 433 (35.7%) were Roman Catholic and 406 (33.5%) Protestant Reformed.

traffic

Hauptwil is accessed by the main road Gossau SG –Bischofzell and has a train station on the Gossau – Sulgen line .

Personalities

Stefan «Steve» Blaser (* 1972), musician, singer, DJ and producer
Arthur Dürst (1926–2000), geographer and map historian
Fritz Honegger (1917–1999), politician
Albert Schoop (1919–1998), art and literary historian
Lukas Speissegger (* 1969), musician, producer, sound engineer

Attractions

In Hauptwil, residential and commercial buildings from the middle of the 17th century, when the Gonzenbach merchant family transformed the village into a center for canvas production with the associated infrastructure such as bleaching plants, ponds and warehouses, could be preserved and given new uses. Hauptwil is listed in the inventory of places worthy of protection in Switzerland .

Hauptwiler pond
«To the grape»
Spittel
Department store
Schlössli
Red House
Yellow construction

More pictures

reformed Church
Catholic Church
school
Syringe house
railway station

Web links

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

Individual evidence

↑ Swiss land use statistics. Completed on July 1, 1912. Published by the Federal Statistical Bureau. ( Memento from April 12, 2016 in the Internet Archive )

↑ 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.

↑ ^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 ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ Verena Rothenbühler: Hauptwil. 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 ^e ^f ^g Ernest Menolfi: The story of Hauptwil-Gottshaus, on the website of the municipality of Hauptwil-Gottshaus, May 2012

↑ Georg Stelzner: A German count buys Hauptwil Castle - no chance for the local cooperative. St. Galler Tagblatt , March 27, 2020.

^ Antonius Church Hauptwil. On the website of the pastoral area Bischofsberg, accessed on November 22, 2019.

↑ 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.

↑ ^a ^b municipal coat of arms . On the website of the State Archives of the Canton of Thurgau, accessed on December 8, 2019

↑ 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.

↑ 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.

↑ The previous Wakker prices. From the Swiss Homeland Security website , accessed on April 18, 2020

Remarks

↑ with outside courtyards

[Areal-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 )

[TG_in_Zahlen-2] 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.

[Einwohner-3] 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.

[10] with outside courtyards