Kesswil

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Kesswil
Coat of arms of Kesswil
State : SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
Canton : Canton of ThurgauCanton of Thurgau Thurgau (TG)
District : Arbon
BFS no. : 4426i1 f3 f4
Postal code : 8593
Coordinates : 741 249  /  272.91 thousand coordinates: 47 ° 35 '30 "  N , 9 ° 19' 0"  O ; CH1903:  741,249  /  272.91 thousand
Height : 412  m above sea level M.
Height range : 395–476 m above sea level M.
Area : 4.46  km²
Residents: 992 (December 31, 2018)
Population density : 222 inhabitants per km²
Website: www.kesswil.ch
Parish hall and central roundabout

Parish hall and central roundabout
Location of the municipality
Emerzer Weier Biesshofer Weier Schlossweier SG Bodensee Kanton St. Gallen Kanton St. Gallen Bezirk Kreuzlingen Bezirk Weinfelden Amriswil Arbon Dozwil Egnach Hefenhofen Horn TG Kesswil Roggwil TG Romanshorn Salmsach Sommeri UttwilMap of Kesswil
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Kesswil is a municipality and a town in the district of Arbon of the Swiss canton Thurgau . It lies between Romanshorn and Kreuzlingen on Lake Constance .

Until 2002 Kesswil was a unified municipality .

history

Kesswil in 1957

Kesswil was first mentioned in 817 as Chezzinwillare . In the 9th century, the St. Gallen monastery in Kesswil owned land. In the 13th century, the Münsterlingen monastery also acquired basic and sovereign rights in the town. From the late Middle Ages until 1798 Kesswil was a äbtisch-santa-Gallic Malefizgericht that the Romanshorner office was administered from.

In 1429 the Münsterlingen monastery allowed the building of a chapel. In 1451 a test benefice is attested. In 1529 the parish, which also included Dozwil, went over to the Reformation . From 1588 the pastor also looked after Uttwil , which from 1618 had the status of a branch church . From 1816 to Kesswil formed a territorial themselves with the local community nationwide Munizipalgemeinde why the two communities in 1870 the so-called unified community were pooled.

In the 19th century, agriculture, viticulture and fishing was practiced in Kesswil, alongside a weaving mill, trade and small businesses. With the transition to cattle and dairy farming - a cheese company was founded in 1859 - field fruit growing was intensified. The lake line , which opened in 1871, initially did not bring the village an economic boom. Around 1900 there were a few embroidery shops in Kesswil. At the beginning of the 21st century, Nussbaum Matzingen (before 2003 the Pressta tube factory) offered 85 jobs in 2005. Further job opportunities can be found in agriculture with fruit and berry growing and in the Roth Pflanzen nursery . With the single-family houses and residential buildings built after 1980, Kesswil developed into a rural residential community.

coat of arms

Kesswil-blazon.svg

Blazon : Divided by white with a striding red lion and green.

The coat of arms of the municipality of Kesswil goes back to the Lords of Kesswil.

population

Population development in the municipality of Kesswil
Population development of the local and unitary municipality
year 1850 1888 1900 1910 1941 1950 1980 2000 2010 2018
Residents 522 572 529 576 454 494 596 850 985 989

Of the total of 989 inhabitants in the municipality of Kesswil in 2018, 184 or 18.6% were foreign nationals.

economy

In 2016, Kesswil offered 372 people work (converted to full-time positions). Of these, 29.7% were employed in agriculture and forestry, 41.5% in industry, trade and construction and 28.8% in the service sector.

Attractions

Half-timbered houses (timber frame houses) from the 17th century have been preserved in the village center.

  • Parish hall Kesswil, formerly "Bären" and roundabout

  • Old Mill

  • Gasthof Traube & Ev. church

  • Kesswil Church

  • Interior of the church

  • Bathhouse on the lakefront

Personalities

  • Paul Häberlin (1878–1960), philosopher, psychologist and educator, was born on February 17, 1878 in Kesswil.
  • Carl Gustav Jung (1875–1961), psychiatrist and founder of analytical psychology, was born on July 26, 1875 in Kesswil as the pastor's son.
  • August Künzler (1901–1983), Farmer in Africa, was born on November 20, 1901 in Kesswil.

Web links

Commons : Kesswil  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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 .
  2. ↑ 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.
  3. ↑ 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.
  4. ↑ a b c municipal coat of arms . On the website of the State Archives of the Canton of Thurgau, accessed on December 8, 2019
  5. ↑ a b c Verena Rothenbühler: Kesswil. 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).
  6. ↑ 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.
  7. ↑ Verena Rothenbühler: Künzler, August. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .