Horgenbach

State :

Switzerland

Canton :

Thurgau (TG)

District :

Frauenfeld

Political community :

Frauenfeld

Postal code :

8500

Coordinates :

705 753 / 269 835 coordinates: 47 ° 34 '15 " N , 8 ° 50' 39" O ; CH1903: seven hundred and five thousand seven hundred fifty-three / 269835

Height :

381 m above sea level M.

Area :

3.20 km²

Residents:

479 (December 31, 2000)

Population density :

150 inhabitants per km²

Website:

www.erzenholz.ch

Ore wood

map

Parish before the merger in 1919

Horgenbach is a former local community and today as Erzenholz-Horgenbach-Osterhalden a district of the community Frauenfeld in the district of Frauenfeld in the canton of Thurgau in Switzerland . On January 1, 1919 , the local community of Horgenbach merged to form the unified community of Frauenfeld.

geography

Horgenbach, Erzenholz and Osterhalden are today on the western outskirts of Frauenfeld on the Frauenfeld – Schaffhausen road and until 1919 formed a local community of the Frauenfeld municipal community . The hamlet of Oberfeld, east of Erzenholz, belongs to the municipality of Gachnang .

The Tägelbach (also Tegelbach ), which comes from Gachnang and flows through Osterhalden, flows north and flows into the Thur side ditch after about 2 km from the left .

Names

The name Erzenholz [ ɛrtsənˈhɔlts ] (in the local dialect : [ (fɔm) eːʀtsəˈholts ]) appears for the first time in documents from 1389 (Ůli Ertzenholzer ) and 1465 (all by Ertzenholtz ) and is based on a form * (ze demo) Erinzenholze ‚near the forest des Erinzo '. Erinzo, on the other hand, is a shortened two-part personal name with the preceding term ahd. * Irmin- 'large'.

Horgenbach [ ˈhɔrgənbax ] (in the local dialect: [ (fɔm) ˈhɔʀg̥əb̥ax ]) is mentioned for the first time in a document from 1305 (uf dem gůte ze Horgenbach , daz man haisset Ottenhof) and goes to the locative dat. so called of a water body name back: mhd. * (bi dem) horwegen bache 'at the muddy brook' or as a composition * (bi dem) horwenbach (to ahd. horo 'dirt, mud, swamp').

Osterhalden [ oːstərˈhaldən ] (in the local dialect: [ (fɔ) oːʃtəʀˈhaːld̥ə ]), occupied since 1271 (apud Osterhalde ) , leads back to mhd. * (On the) ôsterhalden , which means 'on the eastern slope'.

history

Before 1798, Horgenbach was part of the Langdorf Lower Court , which after the incorporation of Reichenau Abbey into the Konstanz Monastery in 1540 belonged to the Bishop of Konstanz (Frauenfeld office). While the Reformed residents of Horgenbach have always belonged to the Frauenfeld parish , the Catholic residents have been attending mass in Uesslingen since 1869 .

Population development of the local community
year	1850	1900	1910
Residents	266	262	242

At the end of the 19th century, cattle and dairy farming replaced arable farming. There was a brick factory from 1893 to 1911.

Web links

Website of the neighborhood association

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 )
↑ 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.
↑ Eugen Nyffenegger / Oskar Bandle & al., Thurgau Name Book 1.1: The settlement names of the Canton of Thurgau (A – I) , Huber, Frauenfeld 2003, ISBN 978-3-7193-1309-8 , p. 458, ore wood .
↑ ibid. p. 675, Horgenbach .
↑ Eugen Nyffenegger / Oskar Bandle & al., Thurgauer Namenbuch 1.2: The settlement names of the canton Thurgau (K – Z) , Huber, Frauenfeld 2003, ISBN 978-3-7193-1309-8 , p. p. 1006, Osterhalde .
↑ ^a ^b ^c Verena Rothenbühler: Horgenbach. 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).

[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] 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.

[3] Eugen Nyffenegger / Oskar Bandle & al., Thurgau Name Book 1.1: The settlement names of the Canton of Thurgau (A – I) , Huber, Frauenfeld 2003, ISBN 978-3-7193-1309-8 , p. 458, ore wood .

[4] . p. 675, Horgenbach .

[5] Eugen Nyffenegger / Oskar Bandle & al., Thurgauer Namenbuch 1.2: The settlement names of the canton Thurgau (K – Z) , Huber, Frauenfeld 2003, ISBN 978-3-7193-1309-8 , p. p. 1006, Osterhalde .

[HLS-6] Verena Rothenbühler: Horgenbach. 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).