Hauptwil-Gottshaus

Hauptwil-Gottshaus
State :	Switzerland
Canton :	Thurgau (TG)
District :	Weinfelden
BFS no. :	4486
Postal code :	9213
Coordinates :	738 196  /  261208 coordinates: 47 ° 29 '14 "  N , 9 ° 16' 21"  O ; CH1903:  seven hundred and thirty-eight thousand one hundred ninety-six  /  261208
Height :	550  m above sea level M.
Height range :	471–623 m above sea level M.
Area :	12.49  km²
Residents:	1953 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	156 inhabitants per km²
Website:	www.hauptwil.ch
St. Pelagiberg Church in the Gottshaus district
Location of the municipality

Hauptwil-Gottshaus is a municipality in the district of Weinfelden in the canton of Thurgau in Switzerland . It consists of the localities Hauptwil , Wilen (Gottshaus) and St. Pelagiberg and a group of hamlets in between.

The community, which has existed since 1996, emerged as part of the Thurgau community organization from the union of the municipal community Hauptwil with their local communities Hauptwil and Gottshaus .

geography

Hauptwil on an aerial photo by Walter Mittelholzer from 1923

The municipality of Hauptwil-Gottshaus borders the municipalities of Bischofszell and Zihlschlacht-Sitterdorf in the canton of Thurgau and the St. Gallen municipalities of Waldkirch , Muolen and Häggenschwil .

Between the village of Hauptwil and the hamlet of Wilen there are five ponds that were created in the 15th century ( see below ).

history

Hauptwil around 1792 as a center for canvas production. The village has hardly changed since then.

The five ponds of Hauptwil were artificially created around 1430 for fish farming. Later these were useful in the textile industry. The German poet Friedrich Hölderlin worked as a private tutor in Hauptwil from January to April 1801.

During the revolution at the end of the 18th century, a deep rift was drawn between the two parts of the community. While Hauptwil was a driving force behind the introduction of the Swiss standard constitution , the Gottshauser peasantry fought vehemently against these innovations. Nevertheless, in 1803 the two local parishes of Hauptwil and Gottshaus were merged to form the municipal parish of Hauptwil.

Hauptwil received the Thurgau Home Protection Prize in 1992 and the Wakker Prize in 1999 , in which they ensured through careful building regulations that many residential and commercial buildings from the last three centuries were preserved and gently adapted to today's conditions.

→ see also the history section in the Hauptwil article
→ see also the history section in the Gottshaus article

coat of arms

Hauptwil

House of god

Hauptwil-Gottshaus

Blazon : Above a corrugated white shield base with five blue corrugated strips in red heraldic right three-part white gate tower with black roofs, left | Half-length portrait of St. Pelagius with a black priest's hat, skirt and palm fronds, face and hand white.

With the merger of Gottshaus and Hauptwil in 1996 - the Stocken / Breite settlement of the former community of Gottshaus was assigned to the unified community of Bischofszell - a new coat of arms was also introduced. In addition to the two unchanged symbols taken from the former municipality coats of arms, the water was also included in the new coat of arms as a symbol for the well-known reservoirs of Hauptwil.

population

Population development in the community of Hauptwil-Gottshaus

Population development of the municipal and political community

	1850	1900	1950	1980	1990	2000	2010	2018
Political community						1914	1824	1941
Municipality of Hauptwil	1379	1417	1617	1514	1721

Of the total of 1941 inhabitants in the village of Hauptwil-Gottshaus in 2018, 179 or 9.2% were foreign nationals. 732 (37.7%) were Roman Catholic and 637 (32.8%) Protestant Reformed.

economy

63 industrial and commercial companies and 36 service companies are located in the municipality. The number of farms is 44. In 2016 Hauptwil-Gottshaus offered 492 jobs (converted to full-time positions). Of these, 20.4% worked in agriculture and forestry, 38.5% in industry, trade and construction and 41.2% in the service sector.

The Migros golf course in Waldkirch is partly located in the municipality.

traffic

Hauptwil train station

Hauptwil is connected by the main road Gossau SG –Bischofzell. The S5 of the St. Gallen S-Bahn runs on the same route on the tracks of the former Bischofszellerbahn with a stop at Hauptwil station.

In the Gertau, the Gertau – Degenau ferry leads over the Sitter to Degenau in the neighboring municipality of Zihlschlacht-Sitterdorf.

Attractions

Hauptwil is listed in the inventory of places worthy of protection in Switzerland .

See also : List of cultural assets in Hauptwil-Gottshaus

photos

→ see section Sights in the article Hauptwil

Personalities

→ see section personalities in the article Hauptwil
→ see section personalities in the article Gottshaus

literature

• Ernest Menolfi: Hauptwil-Gottshaus. History of a village . Huber, Frauenfeld 2011, ISBN 978-3-7193-1552-8 .

Web links

Commons : Hauptwil-Gottshaus  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website of the community of Hauptwil-Gottshaus

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 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 . 
2. ↑ ^{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.
3. ↑ ^{a b} 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.
4. ↑ Verena Rothenbühler: Hauptwil-Gottshaus. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
   This sentence is based on the entry in the Historical Lexicon of Switzerland (HLS), which, according to the HLS's usage information, is under the license Creative Commons - Attribution - Share under the same conditions 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0).
5. ^ Verena Rothenbühler: Hauptwil. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
6. ↑ Ernest Menolfi: The story of Hauptwil-Gottshaus. On the website of the municipality of Hauptwil-Gottshaus, May 2012
7. ↑ ^{a b} municipal coat of arms . On the website of the State Archives of the Canton of Thurgau, accessed on December 8, 2019
8. ↑ Mutation No. 32f of the Official Register of Swiss Municipalities, 1986
9. ↑ ^{a b} 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.
10. ↑ I found exciting contrasts. Conversation with the author. In: St. Galler Tagblatt of August 27, 2011, accessed on August 29, 2011.