Lower summer

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Lower summer
Coat of arms of Niedersommeri
State : SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
Canton : Canton of ThurgauCanton of Thurgau Thurgau (TG)
District : Arbon
Political community : Sommerii2
Postal code : 8580
former BFS no. : 4446
Coordinates : 739 388  /  270255 coordinates: 47 ° 34 '6 "  N , 9 ° 17' 28"  O ; CH1903:  739 388  /  270255
Height : 463  m above sea level M.
Area : 2.08  km²
Residents: 328 (December 31, 2018)
Population density : 158 inhabitants per km²
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Lower Summeri (Switzerland)
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Niedersommeri is a former local municipality and a settlement of the municipality of Sommeri in the Arbon district of the canton of Thurgau in Switzerland . The parish formed from 1798 with the former local community Obersommeri the municipal community Sommeri. On January 1, 1967 , Niedersommeri merged to form the unified municipality of Sommeri.

history

Lower summer with the Church of St. Mauritius

The Payer von Hagenwil owned the sovereignty of Niedersommeri in the 14th century, and in 1451 they sold it to local farmers. From them the prince abbey of St. Gallen acquired the rule in 1474 and subordinated Lower Summeri to the Maleficent Court of Sommeri until 1798 . The church was incorporated into the Konstanz cathedral chapter around 1400 . After the Reformation there was an ecclesiastical simultaneous relationship from 1534 . The collature was exchanged for the prince abbey in 1749.

The residents were farming, later fruit growing, cattle and dairy farming, a cheese dairy is mentioned in 1900. Around 1860 there were some trading companies in Lower Summeri, including a. a mill product trade, and embroidery and ship embroidery, which employed 80 workers in 1911. From 1956 to 1994 there was an upholstered furniture factory.

coat of arms

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Parish before the merger in 1967

Blazon : Yellow falcon soaring in black .

The black hawk serves as a symbol for rulership, which refers to the various rulers who had the say in Lower Summeri over the centuries.

population

Population development of Lower Summeri
year 1831 1850 1900 1950 1960 2010 2018
Local parish 205 212 237 310 305
settlement 283 328
source

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Swiss land use statistics. Completed on July 1, 1912. Published by the Federal Statistical Bureau. ( Memento from April 12, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ a b 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.
  3. ↑ a b c Erich Trösch: Lower Summer. 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).
  4. ↑ a b municipal coat of arms . On the website of the State Archives of the Canton of Thurgau, accessed on December 8, 2019
  5. ↑ 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.