Hemmerswil

State :

Switzerland

Canton :

Thurgau (TG)

District :

Arbon

Political community :

Amriswil

Postal code :

8580

Coordinates :

740 683 / 267 728 coordinates: 47 ° 32 '43 " N , 9 ° 18' 27" O ; CH1903: 740683 / two hundred sixty-seven thousand seven hundred twenty-eight

Height :

441 m above sea level M.

Area :

3.98 km²

Residents:

981 (December 31, 2018)

Population density :

246 inhabitants per km²

Hemmerswil

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Hemmerswil is a former unified municipality and is now part of the municipality of Amriswil in the Arbon district of the canton of Thurgau in Switzerland .

From 1816 to 1831, Hemmerswil formed a local community of the municipal community of Salmsach and from 1832 to 1924 the unified community of Hemmerswil. On January 1, 1925, the unified community of Hemmerswil was incorporated into the local community of Amriswil.

geography

Hemmerswil is on the Amriswil – Arbon road and is now on the south-eastern edge of Amriswil. The hamlets Almensberg , Hölzli and Rüti belonged to the municipality of Hemmerswil .

history

Parish before the merger in 1925

From the Middle Ages to 1798, Hemmerswil was part of the prince-abbot-Sankt-Gallic maleficent court Sommeri . Almensberg and Rüti belonged to the Heiliggeistspital St. Gallen (hospital court), Hölzli was part of the lower court of Amriswil.

The Hemmerswilers were always in church after Amriswil.

Although Hemmerswil was still a farming village around 1900, many residents were already working in Amriswil's industries.

→ see also article Almensberg

Population development of the municipality
year	1850	1900	1950
Residents	504	643	1159

photos

Main street Amriswil – Arbon in Hemmerswil
"Linde" restaurant

literature

Verena Rothenbühler: Hemmerswil. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
This article is largely based on the entry in the Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz (HLS), which, according to the HLS's usage information, is licensed under the Creative Commons - Attribution - Distribution under the same conditions 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0) license .

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 )
↑ List of settlements. Canton of Thurgau, edition 2019 . On the website of the Statistical Office of the Canton of Thurgau (Excel table; 0.2 MB), accessed on May 10, 2020.

[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 )

[Einwohner-2] List of settlements. Canton of Thurgau, edition 2019 . On the website of the Statistical Office of the Canton of Thurgau (Excel table; 0.2 MB), accessed on May 10, 2020.