Heldswil

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Heldswil
Coat of arms of Heldswil
State : SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
Canton : Canton of ThurgauCanton of Thurgau Thurgau (TG)
District : Weinfelden
Political community : Hohentanneni2
Postal code : 9216
former BFS no. : 4491
Coordinates : 734 157  /  265919 coordinates: 47 ° 31 '49 "  N , 9 ° 13' 13"  O ; CH1903:  seven hundred and thirty-four thousand one hundred fifty-seven  /  265919
Height : 525  m above sea level M.
Area : 3.31  km²
Residents: 268 (December 31, 2018)
Population density : 81 inhabitants per km²
Heldswil

Heldswil

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Heldswil , in Swiss German Heltschwiil , a former municipality and is a village in the municipality of Hohentannen in the Weinfelden district of the canton of Thurgau in Switzerland .

Heldswil was from 1816 to 1998 a local parish of the Hohentannen municipal community . On 1 January 1999 merged the local church Heldswil with the local and the Munizipalgemeinde Hohentannen the political community Hohentannen.

geography

Heldswil is located off the traffic routes on a hill between the Thur and Aachtal valleys . Heldswil with the hamlets of Hüttenswil and Bernhausen belonged to the local community .

history

Heldswil in a recording by Walter Mittelholzer from 1924
Parish before the merger in 1999

The place was first mentioned in 759 as Heidolviswilare . Before 1798, Heldswil formed the lower court of Heldswil in the Bürglen rule with the greater part of Buchackern and part of Götighofen , while the lower court of Hüttenswil belonged partly to the abbot of St. Gallen ( mountain court ) and partly to the Bürglen rule.

Ecclesiastically, Heldswil shared the fate of the Sulgen parish . The St. Katharina Chapel, consecrated in Heldswil in 1489, belonged to the Canons' Monastery of St. Pelagius in Bischofszell, which held the collature . In 1566 the monastery took back the benefice .

Up until the 19th century, viticulture and arable farming as well as peat production were predominant, then cattle, dairy and fruit growing. Around 1900, embroidery offered additional income. 1940-1947 took place the amelioration of the reed. Although some businesses have recently settled, Heldswil has remained a farming village.

population

Population development of Heldswil
year 1850 1900 1950 1980 1990 2000 2010 2018
Local parish 290 250 264 220 235
Locality 107 163 268
source

Of the total of 268 inhabitants of the village of Heldswil in 2018, 32 or 11.9% were foreign nationals. 106 (39.6%) were Protestant Reformed and 79 (29.5%) were Roman Catholic.

Attractions

The chapel of St. Catherine was built shortly before 1489. Today it is in the neo-Gothic style from 1850. The interior is adorned by the two altar statues St. Agatha and St. Barbara. The chapel is included in the list of cultural assets in Hohentannen .

photos

  • Chapel of St. Catherine

  • Interior of the chapel

  • Heldswil from the north

  • Sonnenbergstrasse

literature

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 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. ↑ Heldswil on ortsnamen.ch (online database), accessed on February 15, 2020
  4. ↑ 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.
  5. ↑ 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.
  6. ↑ St. Katharina's Chapel in Heldswil. On the website of the municipality of Hohentannen, accessed on February 20, 2020

Remarks

  1. ↑ with outside courtyards