Kefikon

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Kefikon
Coat of arms of Kefikon
Country: SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
Cantons : Thurgau (TG)
Zurich (ZH)
Districts : TG: Frauenfeld
ZH: Winterthur
Political communities : TG: Gachnang
ZH: Wiesendangen
Postcodes : TG: 8546
ZH: 8543
former BFS no. : TG: 4574
Coordinates : 704956  /  267388
Height : 415 m above sea level M.
Area : TG: 0.85 km²
Residents: 711 (December 31, 2018)
Population density : TG: 554 inhabitants per km²
Website: dorfverein-kefikon.ch
Kefikon

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Kefikon is a village and a castle on the border between the cantons of Thurgau and Zurich in Switzerland.

Until 1997, Kefikon TG belonged as a local community to the Thurgau municipal community of Gachnang and has been part of the political community of Gachnang since 1998.

Kefikon ZH was a separate civil parish until 1926 and has been part of the political community of Wiesendangen ever since .

history

Kefikon Castle on an etching from 1741
Kefikon in 1966
Parish before the merger in 1998

Kefikon was owned by the Reichenau Monastery and formed its own jurisdiction , shared with Islikon from the end of the 15th century , which was exercised by the gentlemen residing in Kefikon Castle. The owners of the rule were initially the lords of Kefikon with Burchardus de Kevincon, first attested in 1241 . They were followed by the Lords of Gachnang , who were attested from 1346, those of Boswil from 1391 to 1453, and Ryff, also known as Welter von Blidegg , from 1453 to 1529 . From 1529 to 1566 the Junker Hans von Grüt and from 1566 to 1650 the Frauenfeld family called Joner, from 1650 to 1740 the Hirzel von Zurich and from 1740 the Escher vom Glas ruled.

From 1427 the border between the counties Grafschaft Kyburg and Thurgau ran right through the rule and the castle, which has been Thurgau since 1970. A first opening dates from 1493.

The Kefikon, which was always church-owned after Gachnang, was purely reformed until the end of the 18th century.

Bernhard Greuter set up a textile dye works in Kefikon in 1766, which was expanded after he moved to Islikon and existed until the middle of the 19th century. Some houses in the village and the factory pond, which is now used as a swimming pool, remind of this. In the agricultural village, new residential quarters were built from the middle of the 20th century.

population

Population development of Kefikon
year 1640 1850 1900 1950 2000 2010 2018
Local community Kefikon TG 40 164 138 248 449
Kefikon village 453 471
Kefikon ZH 19th 93 240
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Of the total of 471 inhabitants of the Thurgau part of the village of Kefikon in 2018, 76 or 16.1% were foreign nationals. 190 (40.3%) were Protestant Reformed and 86 (18.3%) were Roman Catholic.

Attractions

The Kefikon Castle is one of the most striking buildings in the village . Of the complex originally designed as a moated castle, only the residential tower has been preserved; the moat was filled in in the 15th century. In 1906 August Bach set up a country education home in the castle, which is now run as a private school. After the fire of 1929, the castle got its current appearance.

The buildings shown below are included in the list of cultural assets in Gachnang :

  • Kefikon Castle

  • Former factory owner building "Zur Blume" / "Zum Frieden"

  • Former Tröckneturm

photos

  • The (former) Freihof restaurant in Kefikon

  • Window of an old village house

  • New building in Kefikon

  • The lock

Web links

Commons : Kefikon  - collection of images, videos and audio files

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. ↑ a b Kefikon - our village. On the website of the Dorvverein Kefikon, accessed on May 6, 2020
  4. ↑ a b c d e f g Peter Giger: Kefikon. 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).
  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.

Remarks

  1. ↑ Thurgau part