Murkart
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 Thurgau (TG)
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| District : | Frauenfeld | |
| Political community : | Frauenfeld | |
| Postal code : | 9548 Matzingen | |
| Coordinates : | 711 197 / 266 247 | |
| Height : | 431 m above sea level M. | |
| Residents: | 32 (December 31, 2018) | |
 Stop of the Frauenfeld-Wil-Bahn, in the background the Murkart area |
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Murkart is a settlement , a former castle and a former monastery in the political municipality of Frauenfeld in the canton of Thurgau in Switzerland .
geography
Murkart is located on the Murg, southeast of Frauenfeld and was part of the former local community of Huben from 1809 to 1919 . The castle and monastery stood on a spur to the north of it .
Murkart is on the Frauenfeld– Matzingen road and has a stop on the Frauenfeld-Wil-Bahn .
history
The settlement was first mentioned in 1244 as Murcharth . Murkart probably belonged to the barons of Murkart and came to the barons of Regensberg in the 12th century . In 1244 the Kreuzlingen monastery bought Murkart.
A chapel is mentioned around 1360, in 1437 there was a brother house and after 1467 a sister house. In 1462 the Kreuzlingen Monastery leased Murkart to the city of Frauenfeld, which it was able to acquire in 1592. The Provincial Chapter of the Franciscan Observants accepted the Murkart Sisterhood into their order in 1522. In 1529 the nuns left the convent .
In the 18th and 19th centuries, there was a search for coal in Murkart, but without success. There was a spinning mill from 1862 to 1931, and a dye works from 1939 to 1972.
economy
The Salzmann-Däniker twisting mill was located on the factory premises in Murkart from 1900 to 1931 and the Dr. Emil Schlumpf active. One of the last and highest tall industrial chimneys in the canton of Thurgau is located on the site . It has not been in operation for a long time.
literature
- Erich Trösch: Murkart. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
This article is largely based on the entry in the Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz (HLS), which, according to the HLS's usage information, is licensed under the Creative Commons - Attribution - Distribution under the same conditions 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0) license .
Individual evidence
- ↑ List of settlements. Canton of Thurgau, edition 2019 . On the website of the Statistical Office of the Canton of Thurgau (Excel table; 0.2 MB), accessed on May 10, 2020.
- ^ Pupikofer, Johann Adam The canton of Thurgau historically, geographically, statistically portrayed , Huber and Compagnie, 1837, p. 95 [1]
- ↑ Dudzik, Peter Innovation and Investment: Technical Development and Entrepreneurial Decisions in the Swiss Cotton Spinning Mill, 1800 to 1916 , Chronos-Verlag, 1987, p. 514 [2]