Lengwil

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Lengwil
Coat of arms of Lengwil
State : SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
Canton : Canton of ThurgauCanton of Thurgau Thurgau (TG)
District : Kreuzlingen
BFS no. : 4683i1 f3 f4
Postal code : 8574
Coordinates : 731 161  /  275457 coordinates: 47 ° 37 '0 "  N , 9 ° 11' 0"  O ; CH1903:  731,161  /  275457
Height : 470  m above sea level M.
Height range : 468-575 m above sea level M.
Area : 8.89  km²
Residents: 1734 (December 31, 2018)
Population density : 195 inhabitants per km²
Website: www.lengwil.ch
Location of the municipality
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Lengwil is a village and since 1998 a political municipality in the Kreuzlingen district of the canton of Thurgau in Switzerland . Lengwil is located south of the city of Kreuzlingen on the Seerücken .

The community consists of the localities Lengwil, Dettighofen (Lengwil), Oberhofen bei Kreuzlingen and Illighausen . Lengwil has a train station on the Konstanz – Weinfelden railway line .

history

Since 1998, the former municipality of Illighausen, together with its former municipalities of Illighausen and Oberhofen bei Kreuzlingen, has formed the political municipality of Lengwil, while the local municipality of Schönenbaumgarten , which used to belong to the municipality of Illighausen, has been part of the political municipality of Langrickenbach and the hamlet of Ast from the former municipality of Oberhofen has been part of the political municipality Mountain belong. The Oberhof district of Lengwil gave the new community its name.

The reformed parish of Lengwil, which has existed since 1942, has two churches, one in Illighausen and one in Oberhofen. The latter is also used by the parish Catholics after Kreuzlingen- Emmishofen .

→ see also section history in article Illighausen
→ see also section history in article Oberhofen bei Kreuzlingen

coat of arms

Oberhofen
Illighausen
Lengwil

Blazon : Half split and divided by a curved, lowered tip ; 1: In red, three white diamonds butting against each other ; 2: In white a striding black swan with a red beak and red feet; 3: The white tip has four red wedges, two each from the right and left flanks of the foot, meeting at the tip.

The coat of arms of Lengwil is made up of the coats of arms of the former municipalities of Oberhofen and Illighausen. The three diamonds symbolize the localities of Oberhofen, Lengwil and Dettighofen of the former municipality of Oberhofen. The black swan comes from the extinct line of Illighauser in Constance. The tails symbolize the merging of the two former local parishes to form Lengwil.

population

Population development in the area of ​​today's municipality of Lengwil
Population development of Lengwil
year 2000 2010 2018
local community 1227 1363 1726
Lengwil locality 230 242 553
Dettighofen village 147 173 200
Source localities
Foreigners and Denominations (2018)
Total
population		 Foreigners Evangelical
Reformed		 Roman
Catholic
local community 1726 451 (26.1%) 680 (39.4%) 443 (25.7%)
Lengwil locality 553 214 (38.7%) 170 (30.7%) 146 (26.4%)
Dettighofen village 200 53 (26.5%) 95 (47.5%) 35 (17.5%)

economy

Lengwil train station and tank farm

Lengwil has a diverse agriculture. The Ekkharthof healing and educational center is the largest employer alongside industry and handicrafts (business park). In 2016, Lengwil offered work for 673 people (converted to full-time positions). 9.2% of them were employed in agriculture and forestry, 24.6% in industry, trade and construction and 66.2% in the service sector.

Attractions

Personalities

  • Hermann Weideli (1877–1964), architect, was born in the Oberhofen district.

Web links

Commons : Lengwil  - 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 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.
  4. ↑ a b Erich Trösch: Lengwil. 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. ↑ a b municipal coat of arms . On the website of the State Archives of the Canton of Thurgau, accessed on December 8, 2019
  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. ↑ 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.
  8. ↑ 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. ↑ a b with outside courtyards