Homburg TG
TG is the abbreviation for the canton of Thurgau in Switzerland and is used to avoid confusion with other entries of the name Homburg . |
Homburg | |
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State : | Switzerland |
Canton : | Thurgau (TG) |
District : | Frauenfeld |
BFS no. : | 4816 |
Postal code : | 8507 Gündelhart 8507 Hörhausen 8508 Homburg 8508 Salen-Reutenen |
Coordinates : | 718 596 / 277 045 |
Height : | 591 m above sea level M. |
Height range : | 439–721 m above sea level M. |
Area : | 24.13 km² |
Residents: | 1543 (December 31, 2018) |
Population density : | 64 inhabitants per km² |
Website: | www.homburg.ch |
Location of the municipality | |
Homburg is a municipality and a town in the district of Frauenfeld of the canton of Thurgau in Switzerland. Homburg, together with Hörstetten and Klingenberg Castle , formed the unified community of Homburg from 1870 to 1998 . Since 1999 it has belonged to the political municipality of Homburg together with the former local parishes Gündelhart-Hörhausen and Salen-Reutenen .
geography
Homburg is located on the Seerücken near the Untersee and is the third largest municipality in Thurgau in terms of area . The community consists of the localities Homburg, Gündelhart , Hörhausen , Salen and Reutenen .
Localities
In addition to Homburg, the municipality consists of the following localities:
Gündelhart is located in the northwest of the municipality on a flattened hill. Characteristic is the intact village image with the church of St. Mauritius, the rectory, the «Beggestübli» building complex and the castle. Gündelhart Castle dates from the 16th century.
Hörhausen is the village in the west of the municipality and has a little over 500 inhabitants. It is on the main street Pfyn - Steckborn .
Klingenberg: settlement around the castle of the same name
Salen-Reutenen consists of the hamlets of Bulgen, Haidenhaus, Reutenen, Salen, Sassenloh, Tägermoos and Uhwilen.
Eugerswil: hamlet on the southern slope of the "Homburgerberg" 1.2 km north of Homburg.
Climate table
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Average monthly temperatures and precipitation for Homburg (Saalen-Reutenen), 1981–2010
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history
Homburg was mentioned in a document in 899 as Hohenperc and in 1243 as de Honburch . From the Middle Ages until 1798, Homburg was part of the Klingenberg domain . From 1651 to 1798 the Muri monastery was owned by the rulers and had the lower jurisdiction over Homburg exercised by a governor at Klingenberg Castle.
The parish of Homburg was closely connected to the rulership. After the Reformation of 1528, the old faith was reintroduced in 1532. After that, both denominations used the church until 1555/56 the Reformed church service in Homburg was discontinued.
In the 19th century, livestock, dairy farming and fruit growing replaced arable farming. The cheese cooperative was established in 1866–67. On January 1, 1999, the local communities of Gündelhart-Hörhausen, which were separated from the municipal community of Steckborn and which were called Gündelhart until 1953, and Salen-Reutenen with the unified community of Homburg merged to form the political community of Homburg.
Despite the settlement of businesses (Herzog Küchen AG) and the construction of several single-family houses, Homburg has remained a farming village to this day.
→ see also the history section in the Gündelhart-Hörhausen article
→ see also the history section in the Salen-Reutenen article
coat of arms
Unified municipality of Homburg
Blazon : Divided by black and white.
The coat of arms corresponds to that of the Lords of Klingenberg , whose ancestral castle was in the area of the former unified municipality.
Political community Homburg
Blazon : divided and half- split , 1: divided by black and white, 2: blue orb with black border in yellow , 3: two torn yellow willows in red .
The new municipal coat of arms was created in 1998 by combining the previous coats of arms of Homburg, Gündelhart-Hörhausen and Salen-Reutenen . Heraldists criticized the fact that the design of the coat of arms did not involve the use of specialists. The coat of arms is overloaded and shows all possible colors in heraldry with the exception of green .
population
1850 | 1900 | 1950 | 1980 | 1990 | 2000 | 2010 | 2018 | |
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Political community | 1432 | 1488 | 1542 | |||||
Unified Church | 742 | 581 | 740 | 573 | 647 |
Of the total of 1,542 inhabitants in the municipality of Homburg in 2018, 128 or 8.3% were foreign nationals. 642 (41.6%) were Protestant Reformed and 527 (34.2%) were Roman Catholic. At that time, Homburg had 856 residents.
economy
In 2016 Homburg offered 588 jobs (converted to full-time positions). Of these, 26.0% were employed in agriculture and forestry, 53.0% in industry, trade and construction and 21.0% in the service sector.
traffic
→ see section Traffic in the article Hörhausen
Attractions
→ see also the list of cultural assets in Homburg TG
- The Church of St. Peter and Paul: the previous church was demolished in 1753. The shell of the church was completed in the summer of 1754 under the master builder Franz Singer (1701–1757) and the site manager Marti Diettmann. The abbot of Muri , Fridolin II, Kopp, took over the construction of the choir. The consecration of the church was on October 10th, 1754. On July 21st, 1784 the church was badly damaged in the village fire. The ceiling painting by Franz Ludwig Hermann (1723–1791) was also lost. In 1788 Abbot Gerold II of Muri consecrated the three new altars in the renovated church. In the 19th century, the church was not restored very professionally and partly stripped of its late baroque character. This was reversed by the renovation in 1977.
- The Oberkappel chapel is dedicated to St. Nicholas.
- The village of Gündelhart is listed in the inventory of places worth protecting in Switzerland .
→ see also the Sights section in the Gündelhart article
→ see also the Sights section in the Salen-Reutenen article
Personalities
- Johann Evangelist Traber (1854–1930), cath. Theologian, founder of the Swiss Raiffeisen movement
literature
- Alfons Raimann, Peter Erni: The art monuments of the Canton of Thurgau, Thurgau VI. The Steckborn district. Edited by the Society for Swiss Art History GSK. Bern 2001 (Art Monuments of Switzerland, Volume 98). ISBN 3-906131-02-5 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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 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 )
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Climate table. (PDF) In: meteoschweiz.admin.ch. meteoschweiz, accessed on May 29, 2018 .
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↑ a b c d e f
Verena Rothenbühler: Homburg. 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 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.
- ↑ 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: Homburg. On the website of the Swiss Coats of Arms and Flags Foundation, accessed on December 20, 2019
- ↑ Alexander Werder, Alfons Raimann, Hans Peter Mathis: Klingenberg Castle, Homburg Church and Oberkappel Chapel. ( Swiss Art Guide , No. 673/674. Series 68). Ed. Society for Swiss Art History GSK. Bern 2000, ISBN 978-3-85782-673-3 .