Oberbussnang

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Oberbussnang
Coat of arms of Oberbussnang
State : SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
Canton : Canton of ThurgauCanton of Thurgau Thurgau (TG)
District : Weinfelden
Political community : Bussnangi2
Postal code : 9565
former BFS no. : 4926
Coordinates : 724 165  /  267 936 coordinates: 47 ° 33 '1 "  N , 9 ° 5' 18"  O ; CH1903:  seven hundred twenty-four thousand one hundred and sixty-five  /  two hundred sixty-seven thousand nine hundred thirty-six
Height : 441  m above sea level M.
Area : 1.89  km²
Residents: 105 (December 31, 2018)
Population density : 56 inhabitants per km²
Oberbussnang

Oberbussnang

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Oberbussnang , in Swiss German Oberboslig , is a former municipality and a town in the municipality of Bussnang in the Weinfelden district of the canton of Thurgau in Switzerland .

The local community Oberbussnang belonged from 1803 to 1995 to the former municipal community Bussnang. On January 1, 1996 , the local community of Oberbussnang merged as part of the Thurgau community reform to form the political community of Bussnang.

geography

The community included the farming village of Oberbussnang, located on the Furtbach and on the Weinfelden - Wil (SG) road , as well as the hamlets of Margenmühle and Neuberg.

history

Parish before the merger in 1996

Oberbussnang was first mentioned in a document in 857 as duobus Bussenanc . In the early Middle Ages , the St. Gallen monastery in Oberbussnang was wealthy. The tithe rights passed from St. Gallen in 1293 to the monastery Feldbach and Konrad von Öhningen and partly in 1339 and completely in 1677 to the Tobel Commandery . Oberbussnang was always part of the Bürglen lordship and the Mettlen lower court . Ecclesiastically, it has shared the fate of Bussnang since the early Middle Ages.

Residents operated cultivation of corn in three Zelgen and viticulture and possessed no Allmend . From 1620 the draft letter regulated the settlement, from 1622 the opening of the inner-village coexistence. In 1915 the inn was given up in the Margenmühle, in 1920 the mill and in 1928 the sawmill.

coat of arms

Oberbussnang-blazon.svg

Blazon : Spared three times from white and black.

The shape of the coat of arms goes back to the barons of Bussnang , the colors come from the city ​​of St. Gallen , the owner of the Bürglen estate.

population

Population development of Oberbussnang
year 1850 1900 1950 1990 2000 2010 2018
Local parish 366 390 359 264
Locality 91 102 105
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Of the total of 105 inhabitants in Oberbussnang in 2018, 7 or 6.7% were foreign nationals. 55 (52.4%) were Protestant Reformed and 20 (19.0%) were Roman Catholic.

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literature

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. Oberbussnang on ortsnamen.ch (online database), accessed on February 15, 2020
  4. a b Bussnang - the municipality with train On the website of the municipality Bussnang, 2009, p. 15 (PDF; 5.0 MB)
  5. ^ Gregor Spuhler : Bürglen (TG). In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
  6. 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.
  7. 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. with outside courtyards