Muolen

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Muolen
Coat of arms of Muolen
State : SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
Canton : Canton of St. GallenCanton of St. Gallen Canton of St. Gallen (SG)
Constituency : St. Gallenw
BFS no. : 3202i1 f3 f4
Postal code : 9313
Coordinates : 741 448  /  264 573 coordinates: 47 ° 31 '0 "  N , 9 ° 19' 0"  O ; CH1903:  seven hundred forty-one thousand four hundred and forty-eight  /  264,573
Height : 490  m above sea level M.
Height range : 450-546 m above sea level M.
Area : 10.33  km²
Residents: 1200 (December 31, 2018)
Population density : 116 inhabitants per km²
Website: www.muolen.ch
Muolen

Muolen

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Muolen is a village and a municipality in the canton of St. Gallen ( Switzerland ). It is located in the constituency of St. Gallen .

geography

Muolen is located about 4 km southeast of Amriswil on the main road Amriswil - St. Gallen . It is the northernmost municipality in the canton of St. Gallen, around 85% of the municipality border also forms the canton border with the canton of Thurgau. The only neighboring municipality in the canton of St. Gallen is Häggenschwil . In addition, Muolen borders the communities Zihlschlacht-Sitterdorf , Amriswil, Egnach and Hauptwil-Gottshaus .

history

Aerial photo from a height of 300 m by Walter Mittelholzer from 1923

Muolen was an Alemannic settlement area. In 1155 Muolen was called Mola and became an imperial bailiwick around 1200 . The derivation from the Old High German mula for mill, which was previously represented, is hardly tenable due to the lack of a stream. Hof and Meieramt Muolen formed part of the rule of Hagenwil and were handed over to St. Gallen Monastery by Rudolf von Hagenwil in 1264 . The administration of this rule was subsequently held by various noble families from the region, including von Breitenlandenberg , von Castell and von Bernhausen . The Reichsvogtei Muolen was pledged by Emperor Ludwig in 1331 to Eberhard von Bürglen and after several changes of ownership it came to the St. Gallen Monastery in 1464. In 1467, Abbot Ulrich Rösch gave Muolen an opening . Until 1798, Muolen formed its own court of the Landshofmeisteramt , which is now separate from Hagenwil .

In 1910 Muolen received a station on the Bodensee-Toggenburg Railway.

In terms of the church, Muolen largely belonged to Hagenwil. In 1784, the Prince Abbot Beda Angehrn from St. Gallen approved the construction of St. Joseph's Chapel, the establishment of a chaplaincy and a school, the realization of which was delayed. In 1814 Muolen received its own parish . In 1803 Muolen was united with Häggenschwil to form a political municipality , but was then raised to an independent political municipality in the same year. It belonged to the Rorschach district from 1803–1831 , the Tablat district from 1831–1918 and the St. Gallen district from 1918–2002 .

Even in the late 20th century, the economy was still strongly characterized by agriculture. By the end of the 18th century, agriculture, operated under the three-part order , had prevailed; after that, livestock and dairy farming and fruit growing became increasingly important. In Hudelmoos peat was mined. Soil consolidation in the 1920s and drainage made more intensive agricultural use possible. The industrialization emanating from the St. Gallen textile industry only marginally affected Muolen. In 1890 48 hand embroidery machines were counted. In 1910 Muolen was connected to the network of the Bodensee-Toggenburg Railway .

population

Population development
year 1850 1900 1950 1980 2000 2010 2018
Residents 983 1015 1027 847 1074 1160 1200
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Education and church

Parish church in the center of Muolen. Some of the Catholic community residents belong to the parishes of Hagenwil or Sitterdorf and thus to the diocese of Basel .

Muolen belongs to three different school groups. Only some of the children attend primary school in Muolen and then the upper school in Wittenbach . The farms around Hagenwil belong to the primary school community Amriswil- Sommeri - Hefenhofen TG and the Rotzenwil, Oberegg and Unteregg settlements are part of the primary school community Bischofszell TG with a primary school in Sitterdorf and the upper level in Bischofszell.

Church membership is just as complicated. The Catholic Church of Muolen is located in the center of the village. The hamlets belonging to the Amriswil school district are part of the Catholic parish of Hagenwil and the Protestant parish of Amriswil. Rotzenwil, Oberegg and Unteregg belong to the Catholic and Protestant parishes of Sitterdorf. The southernmost courtyard, Grünenstein, belongs to the Catholic parish of Häggenschwil and the Evangelical parish of Egnach.

traffic

Muolen is located on the main road St. Gallen – Amriswil– Konstanz and has a train station on the St. Gallen – Romanshorn line of the Südostbahn . The Muoler Bahnhof is the starting point for a bus route from Oberthurgau to Amriswil.

economy

Over the past few decades, Muolen has developed from a farming village to a residential community in the agglomeration of St. Gallen. Around 30 businesses and around 55 agricultural businesses offer around 400 jobs.

Web links

Commons : Muolen  - 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. ↑ The place and field name Muolen. On the website of the municipality of Muolen, accessed on August 24, 2020.
  3. ↑ a b c d Marcel Mayer: Muolen. 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 - Distribution under the same conditions 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0).
  4. ↑ Permanent and non-permanent resident population by institutional structure, place of birth and nationality. On the website of the Federal Statistical Office, accessed on August 26, 2020
  5. ↑ Schools. On the website of the municipality of Muolen, accessed on August 24, 2020
  6. ^ Churches in Muolen. On the website of the municipality of Muolen, accessed on August 24, 2020
  7. ↑ Overview. On the website of the municipality of Muolen, accessed on August 24, 2020

photos

  • Stained glass window in the church

  • Entrance

  • Gasthaus Rössli

  • Half-timbered house in the village center