Islikon TG

TG is the abbreviation for the canton of Thurgau in Switzerland and is used to avoid confusion with other entries of the name Islikon .

Islikon

State :

Switzerland

Canton :

Thurgau (TG)

District :

Frauenfeld

Political community :

Gachnang

Postal code :

8547

former BFS no. :

4573

Coordinates :

705.71 thousand / 267187 coordinates: 47 ° 32 '49 " N , 8 ° 50' 34" O ; CH1903: 705.71 thousand / 267187

Height :

422 m above sea level M.

Area :

1.47 km²

Residents:

1412 (December 31, 2018)

Population density :

961 inhabitants per km²

Website:

www.islikon.ch

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Islikon is a former municipality and a village in the municipality of Gachnang in the Frauenfeld district of the Swiss canton of Thurgau .

From 1803 to 1997 the local community Islikon with Gachnang , Gerlikon , Kefikon , Niederwil and Oberwil was part of the then municipal community Gachnang. It merged as part of the Thurgau community reform on January 1, 1998 to form the political community of Gachnang.

geography

The industrial village is located on the Tegelbach on the road from Frauenfeld to Winterthur .

history

Aerial photo by Walter Mittelholzer from 1923

The first written mention of Islikon dates from 1267 as Islincon . It belonged to the property of the Reichenau monastery even before 1267 . At the end of the 13th century, its ministerial family von Gerlikon sold individual goods to the Töss monastery and later to the Paradies monastery . From the end of the 15th century, Islikon belonged to the Kefikon judiciary . There is an opening from 1493 .

Gasthof ox with cavalry music of the Swiss army in 1937 Islikon

Parish before the merger in 1998

Islikon has always belonged to Gachnang as a church and was a purely Reformed village until the end of the 18th century.

With the establishment of the Bernhard Greuter calico printing company and the connection to the Winterthur – Frauenfeld – Konstanz road in 1777, an economic upswing began. Islikon became a regional textile center. In Islikon alone, 300 workers were working in the village-like factory around 1830. With the connection to the Winterthur – Romanshorn railway in 1855, new industrial companies came along . Since the middle of the 20th century, Islikon has been growing again thanks to the construction of residential areas and the settlement of businesses such as B. Jossi AG, which was founded in 1957 and specializes in precision mechanics. The former Greuterhof has belonged to the Bernhard Greuter Foundation for career information since 1981.

coat of arms

Islikon has had three red flames in a white ribbon on a red background in the coat of arms since 1951. It is based on the custom of the Laetare Sunday with the flooding of lights, which was carried out for the first time in 1810.

population

Population development of Islikon
year	1710	1850	1900	1950	1990	2000	2010	2018
Local parish	92	279	325	474	901
Locality						800	874	1412
source

railway station

Of the total of 1,412 inhabitants in Islikon in 2018, 317 or 22.5% were foreign nationals. 585 (41.4%) were Protestant Reformed and 379 (26.8%) were Roman Catholic.

traffic

Islikon is located between the two motorways A1 and A7 and is connected to the Islikon train station on the railway line from Winterthur to Frauenfeld and various bus routes for public transport, which is served by Thurbo .

The station has been privately run as a station operator station and SBB agency since summer 2000 . It would have been closed according to SBB plans and without any private initiative. In July 2011 it became known that the future of the station was again uncertain, as the SBB canceled the current contracts and wanted to renegotiate.

Attractions

Greuterhof

Old parish hall

The Greuterhof indigo dye works , built in 1777, was one of the first factories in Switzerland. The printed quality fabrics had international buyers. The founder, Bernhard Greuter, was a successful entrepreneur and implemented pioneering social models for the workforce for his time. The building, industrial, cultural and socio-historical Greuter area with factory, barn, stables and water systems was restored thanks to the non-profit foundation Greuterhof Islikon and with the help of Pro Patria . Today there is a restaurant area, exhibition and event rooms as well as the Telephonica telephone museum.

So that building stones could be extracted all year round during the construction of the Greuterhof from 1796 to 1825, an underground tunnel was built next to the factory site for the extraction of sandstone. From the cellar and tunnel system in molasses sandstone (mica-containing sandstones of the Hörnlischüttung, with knuckles) there is still a building with sandstone blocks, the so-called barn of the Greuter systems. The tunnel entrance in the village and the foremost rooms were converted into a festival cellar for the Islikon village association.

The Greuterhof is included in the list of cultural assets in Gachnang .

Personalities

Bernhard Greuter (1745–1822), industrialist, social reformer, politician
Ludwig Forrer (1845–1921), Federal Councilor, grandson of a colourist at the Greuter factory
Alfred Huggenberger (1867–1960), writer, dialect poet, son of a factory worker from Greuterhof

Web links

Commons : Islikon TG - collection of images, videos and audio files

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 )

↑ ^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.

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d Peter Giger: Islikon. 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).

↑ 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.

↑ 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.

↑ http://www.bahnhof-islikon.ch/

Remarks

↑ with outside courtyards

[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] 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] with outside courtyards