Lommis

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Lommis
Lommis coat of arms
State : SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
Canton : Canton of ThurgauCanton of Thurgau Thurgau (TG)
District : Münchwilen
BFS no. : 4741i1 f3 f4
Postal code : 9506
Coordinates : 716 346  /  264 025 coordinates: 47 ° 31 '0 "  N , 8 ° 59' 0"  O ; CH1903:  716 346  /  264 025
Height : 475  m above sea level M.
Height range : 456–696 m above sea level M.
Area : 8.61  km²
Residents: 1215 (December 31, 2018)
Population density : 141 inhabitants per km²
Website: www.lommis.ch
Lommis, Hauptstrasse, view towards the Catholic Church

Lommis, Hauptstrasse, view towards the Catholic Church
Location of the municipality
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Lommis is a municipality in the Münchwilen district of the Swiss canton of Thurgau . The community consists of the villages of Lommis and Weingarten - Kalthäusern and is located in the Lauchetal near Matzingen .

1995 of the Munizipalgemeinde the Lommis local churches Bettwiesen and Wetzikon separated. Bettwiesen was converted into the Political Municipality of Bettwiesen, Wetzikon became part of the Political Municipality of Thundorf . At the same time, the remaining local parishes of Kalthäusern , Lommis and Weingarten united to form the Political Community of Lommis.

history

The 800 year old church of St. Jakobus von Lommis is one of the oldest in the canton.
Lommis in 1950

Lommis was first mentioned as Loubmeissa in 824 . In 854 the St. Gallen monastery received goods from the Lommis Mark . Around 1200, the Lommis rule, a fief of the Reichenau Abbey and the Counts of Toggenburg , was owned by the Lommis ministerials . 1443 pulled Petermann von Raron Lommis to himself. After further changes, Lommis came to the Fischingen Abbey in 1599 , where it remained until 1798. In church terms, Lommis probably belonged to Affeltrangen in the High Middle Ages ; A priest is mentioned in 1214. In 1529 the community joined the Reformation , but the judge succeeded in re-introducing the mass in 1532. The reformed Lommis was a branch of Matzingen until 1961 and the church was used equally from 1648 to 1966 .

The agricultural and viticulture was until in 1900 of importance of peat mining until 1918. In Lommis a mill dating back to 1625 and sawmill was operated, cotton spinning took place in homework . The industry was the Lauchetal cotton mill from 1810 to 1839, an embroidery factory from 1900 and a shoe factory from 1933. The melioration in 1918 strengthened the dairy industry (cheese dairy). At the beginning of the 21st century, construction companies, the trade (including wood construction, aircraft electronics) and the airfield, which was built in 1962, offered work. From 1970 the community population grew rapidly.

→ see also the history section in the Kalthäusern article
→ see also the history section in the Weingarten TG article

coat of arms

Lommis-blazon.svg

Blazon : Two yellow diagonal strips in blue , the upper one covered with yellow glaze .

The coat of arms was taken over from the judiciary of Lommis and goes back to the Toggenburg servants of Lommis.

population

Population development in the area of ​​today's municipality of Lommis
Population development of the individual communities
1850 1900 1950 1990 2000 2010 2018
Political community 962 1101 1211
Municipal parish 1131 1061 1128 1789
Local parish 356 341 350 487
source

Of the total 1211 inhabitants of the municipality of Lommis in 2018, 137 or 11.3% were foreign nationals. 418 (34.5%) were Roman Catholic and 403 (33.3%) Protestant Reformed. The village of Lommis had 805 residents at that time.

economy

In 2016, Lommis offered 356 jobs (converted to full-time positions). Of these, 9.7% were employed in agriculture and forestry, 56.2% in industry, trade and construction and 34.1% in the service sector.

Airfield

There is a small airfield in Lommis ( ICAO code LSZT ). This was built in 1962 and today has a 615 m long grass runway. The airfield is operated by the Thurgau motor flight group.

Attractions

The ruins of the former Spiegelberg Castle, northeast of Weingarten, are already in the municipality of Thundorf.

photos

  • reformed Church

  • Interior of the reformed church

  • Interior of the catholic church

  • Half-timbered house

  • Parish hall

  • Vineyard

  • Kaabach

  • View of the village from the east

  • Aerial photo from May 9, 2011

Web links

Commons : Lommis  - 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. ↑ Swiss land use statistics. Completed on July 1, 1912. Published by the Federal Statistical Bureau. ( Memento from April 12, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ 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.
  5. ↑ a b c 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.
  6. ↑ Lommis, St. James the Elder. On the website of the pastoral area Nollen-Lauchetal-Thur, accessed on November 1, 2019
  7. ↑ StiASG , Urk. II 59. Online at e-chartae , accessed on June 25, 2020.
  8. ↑ a b c Erich Trösch: Lommis. 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).
  9. ↑ a b municipal coat of arms . On the website of the State Archives of the Canton of Thurgau, accessed on December 8, 2019
  10. ^ National map of Switzerland 1: 25,000, sheet 1073 Wil, 2014.