Munsterlingen

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Munsterlingen
Munsterlingen coat of arms
State : SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
Canton : Canton of ThurgauCanton of Thurgau Thurgau (TG)
District : Kreuzlingen
BFS no. : 4691i1 f3 f4
Postal code : 8596, 8597
UN / LOCODE : CH SCG (Scherzingen)
Coordinates : 734 877  /  277395 coordinates: 47 ° 38 '0 "  N , 9 ° 14' 0"  O ; CH1903:  734,877  /  277395
Height : 405  m above sea level M.
Height range : 395–507 m above sea level M.
Area : 5.46  km²
Residents: 3476 (December 31, 2018)
Population density : 637 inhabitants per km²
Website: www.muensterlingen.ch
Münsterlingen from the «Zeppelin perspective»

Münsterlingen from the «Zeppelin perspective»
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Münsterlingen is a village and since 1994 a political municipality in the Kreuzlingen district of the canton of Thurgau in Switzerland . The Münsterlingen Cantonal Hospital and the Münsterlingen Psychiatric Clinic are located in Münsterlingen.

geography

Münsterlingen is located on Lake Constance between Bottighofen and Altnau, southeast of Kreuzlingen and has 3476 inhabitants. The center of the village is located on the southern shore of Lake Constance , the grounds of the Münsterlingen monastery adjoin it to the east.

history

The new Münsterlingen monastery in the middle of the 19th century. The remains of the old monastery can be seen on the left.

Legend has it that the Münsterlingen monastery was founded around 986 by a sister of Abbot Gregor von Einsiedeln and consecrated to St. Walburga . Münsterlingen was first mentioned in a document as Munsterlin in 1125 . Pope Innocent IV confirmed the Augustinian rule in 1254 .

In 1288, the women's monastery was able to buy itself out of the bailiwick of the Lords of Klingen . It expanded immunity for the monastery district and began to establish judicial rule over their courts. In 1460 Münsterlingen came under the castvogtei of the seven federal places ruling in Thurgau and from then on was subject to their high jurisdiction . In 1524 the Reformation arrived. In 1549 monastery life with Benedictine nuns from Engelberg monastery was restored. In 1617/18 the monastery built a reformed church in Scherzingen as the patron saint . From 1709 to 1716 the monastery had a new convent building and a new monastery church built further inland .

Münsterlingen and Scherzingen, 1954

From 1486 to 1621 Münsterlingen acquired the jurisdiction of Landschlacht . Through the jurisdiction of the court in 1509, Münsterlingen was contractually seated in the Thurgau court . The monastery kept the lower jurisdiction among others in Münsterlingen, Landschlacht, Uttwil , part of Schönenbaumgarten and Belzstadel until 1798. With the secularization of the property on the other side of Lake Constance and several bad harvests from 1805 to 1817, the monastic economy got into trouble.

In 1839, the canton of Thurgau took over a wing of the building and opened the cantonal hospital in it in 1840 . In 1848 he closed the monastery. In 1849 he entrusted the doctor Ludwig Binswanger with the treatment of the mentally ill. In 1893/94 this department got its own building on the lake. In 1972 the new building of the Münsterlingen Cantonal Hospital, which cost around 70 million francs, was ready for occupancy after long arguments.

On January 1, 1994, the political community of Münsterlingen was formed as part of the Thurgau community reorganization. It consists of the two formerly independent local communities Landschlacht and Scherzingen of the former municipal community Scherzingen. The community received its name and coat of arms from the old Münsterlingen monastery complex.

In 1999, the Cantonal Hospital and the Münsterlingen Psychiatric Clinic were integrated into Spital Thurgau AG. In 2005, the third economic sector provided 97% of jobs, the clinic and hospital alone employed 877 people.

→ see also article Kloster Münsterlingen
→ see also section history in article Landschlacht TG
→ see also section history in article Scherzingen TG
→ see also article Naval War on Lake Constance 1632–1648

coat of arms

GW-TG-Muensterlingen.svg

Blazon : a white paw cross in red .

After the political municipality of Münsterlingen was formed in 1994, the municipal assembly in 1996 designated the coat of arms of the former Münsterlingen monastery as the municipal coat of arms.

population

Population development in the area of ​​today's municipality of Münsterlingen
Population development
1850 1900 1950 1990 2000 2010 2018
Political community of Münsterlingen 2599 2867 3476
Landschlacht parish 1260 1666 2385 3652
Local community Scherzingen 285 705 1228 1470

Of the total of 3,476 inhabitants of the municipality of Münsterlingen in 2018, 1,294 or 37.2% were foreign nationals. 1096 (31.5%) were Protestant Reformed and 1006 (28.9%) were Roman Catholic. At that time, Münsterlingen had 139 residents.

economy

In earlier times wine was cultivated on the surrounding slopes , today mainly arable and pasture farming is practiced. The Rutishauser winery, founded in 1886, achieved sales of almost 40 million Swiss francs in 2010 and filled around three million bottles of wine. In 2016, Münsterlingen offered work for 2,290 people (converted to full-time positions). Of these, 1.2% worked in agriculture and forestry, 1.8% in industry, trade and construction and 97.0% in the service sector. The most important employers are the Cantonal Hospital and the Psychiatric Clinic.

traffic

The main road Schaffhausen – Rorschach runs through Münsterlingen . In terms of rail traffic, Münsterlingen has three train stations on the lake line : Münsterlingen-Scherzingen, Münsterlingen Spital and Landschlacht. A bus line connects Münsterlingen to the city bus networks of the nearby cities of Kreuzlingen and Konstanz.

Attractions

Interior of the Saint Remigius Church in Münsterlingen with the bust of Johannes (2011)

Munsterlingen Monastery

The Münsterlingen monastery (taken over from the canton of Thurgau) has a baroque church . With Hagnau on Lake Constance on the other side of the lake, there is a custom of carrying the bust of Saint John across the frozen lake to the respective partner community during the so-called Seegfrörne . Since 1963 it has been back in the former St. Remigius monastery church in Münsterlingen.

The Münsterlingen monastery is listed in the inventory of places worthy of protection in Switzerland .

Leonhard's Chapel

Leonhard's Chapel
Frescoes in the interior

The St. Leonhard Chapel is next to the Sylvester Chapel in the Überlingen district of Goldbach one of the oldest Romanesque chapels in the Lake Constance area. The oldest parts were made before the year 1000 and they have been painted with frescoes since the 11th century , the Passion cycle (2nd half of the 15th century) and the Leonhard cycle dated from 1432 are particularly well preserved. The western half of the chapel with the entrance is Romanesque and built from rough field stones. The other half of the chapel is Gothic and was added at the end of the 14th century. The chapel is equipped with Gothic tracery windows.

More buildings

Scherzingen village church
  • The Kreuzlingen – Romanshorn railway line runs between the village and the lake . Below the railway line in a park by the lake are the buildings of the privatized psychiatric clinic founded in 1839 , the former psychiatric cantonal hospital and the Mansio Foundation (emerged from the former cantonal IV companies , temporarily acting as the Kompass Foundation ); Above the monastery is the former general medical cantonal hospital Münsterlingen , today Spital Thurgau AG . "Münsterlingen Seeseite" is a euphemism for the psychiatric clinic in the local vernacular .
    The psychiatric institution in Münsterlingen has come under public criticism since 2013 because children from the Catholic children's home in Fischingen were exposed to illegitimate drug     trials there in the early 1970s.

Personalities

literature

  • Jürg Ganz: Münsterlingen. (Swiss Art Guide, No. 206). Ed. Society for Swiss Art History GSK. Bern 1977, ISBN 978-3-85782-206-3 .

Web links

Commons : Münsterlingen  - 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 d e f g Erich Trösch: Münsterlingen. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
    These sections are based in part on the entry in the Historical Lexicon of Switzerland (HLS), which, according to the HLS's usage instructions, is under the Creative Commons license     - Attribution - Share under the same conditions 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0).
  5. ↑ a b c Erich Trösch: Scherzingen. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
  6. ↑ a b municipal coat of arms . On the website of the State Archives of the Canton of Thurgau, accessed on December 8, 2019
  7. ↑ 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.
  8. ↑ Erich Trösch: Land battle. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
  9. ^ Friedrich Meichle: Seegfrörne and ice procession in the past and present . In: Writings of the Association for the History of Lake Constance and its Surroundings . No. 81 . Thorbecke, Lindau / Konstanz 1963, p. 145-170 .
  10. ↑ Human experiments - How many scruples does research need? , SWR2 report of May 30, 2015, accessed June 10, 2015