Oberaach

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Oberaach
Coat of arms of Oberaach
Country: SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
Cantons : Thurgau (TG)
Districts : Arbon
Political community : Amriswil
Postal code : 8580
former BFS no .: 4463
Coordinates : 737549  /  269400
Height : 441 m above sea level M.
Area : 1.79 km² (without Niederaach)
Residents: 925 (December 31, 2018)
Oberaach

Oberaach
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Oberaach (Switzerland)
Oberaach
Oberaach

Oberaach is a village in the municipality of Amriswil in the Arbon district of the canton of Thurgau in Switzerland .

From 1803 to 1978, Oberaach , located on the Aach , formed a local community to which Niederaach also belonged from 1936 . On January 1, 1979 , the local community Oberaach merged to form the unitary community Amriswil.

history

Oberaach in 1950
Parish before the 1979 merger

Oberaach was first mentioned in 883 as Aha . The Bailiwick of Oberaach, an episcopal-Constance fiefdom , came in 1351 from the Lords of Rorschach to the von Helmsdorf , around 1600 to the von Bernhausen and from 1646 to 1798 belonged to the von Salis-Soglio . The court administrators appointed by Salis, for example the local Häberli from 1714 to 1798. In the church, Oberaach always shared the fate of Sommeri . In 1964 Oberaach received its own church, but remained part of the Amriswil-Sommeri parish .

The residents cultivated fields, fruit and meadows. The Rutishauser tannery was founded in 1823, from which the Arnold Löw & Cie. originated, which was liquidated in 1985. There was also embroidery and a pottery in the village. From founded in 1908 Mosterei Oberaach 1994, a fruit processing operation of Pomdor Suisse was. Today the cider factory belongs to the Ramseier company . It is the largest and most modern cider factory in Switzerland.

population

Population development of Oberaach
year 1831 1850 1870 1900 1950 1970 2000 2010 2018
Local parish 223 266 230 311 639 736
Locality 847 582 925
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Of the total of 925 inhabitants in Oberaach in 2018, 226 or 24.4% were foreign nationals. 324 (35.0%) were Protestant Reformed and 238 (25.7%) were Roman Catholic.

Attractions

The Gasthof National in Niederaach is included in the list of cultural assets in Amriswil .

literature

  • HK: 80th years of Oberaach leather industry. In: Thurgauer Jahrbuch , Vol. 8, 1932, pp. 64–71 ( e-periodica )

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 c d 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.
  3. ↑ a b c d Erich Trösch: Oberaach. 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. ↑ Ramseier Aachtal AG - Landi Aachtal. Retrieved May 17, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Locations and Settlements Directory. Canton of Thurgau, 2005 edition . On the website of the Statistical Office of the Canton of Thurgau (PDF; 1.7 MB), accessed on April 28, 2020.
  6. ↑ 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.

Remarks

  1. ↑ without outside courtyards