Oberwangen TG

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TG is the abbreviation for the canton of Thurgau in Switzerland and is used to avoid confusion with other entries of the name Oberwangenf .
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Coat of arms of Oberwangen
State : SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
Canton : Canton of ThurgauCanton of Thurgau Thurgau (TG)
District : Münchwilen
Political community : Fischingeni2
Postal code : 8376
former BFS no. : 4729
Coordinates : 715 544  /  254 449 coordinates: 47 ° 25 '51 "  N , 8 ° 58' 13"  O ; CH1903:  seven hundred and fifteen thousand five hundred and forty-four  /  254449
Height : 587  m above sea level M.
Area : 5.35  km²
Residents: 801 (December 31, 2018)
Population density : 150 inhabitants per km²
Oberwangen TG

Oberwangen TG

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Oberwangen TG (Switzerland)
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Parish before the merger in 1972

Oberwangen in Murg valley is a former municipality and a town of the political community Fischingen in District Münchwilen the canton of Thurgau in Switzerland .

Until then to Munizipalgemeinde belonging Fischingen local church merged on 1 January 1972 for the unified community Fischingen.

history

754 Oberwangen was first mentioned as Wangas . The monastery of St. Gall were 754, the Konstanz Petershausen to 996 goods from upper beam transmitted. The Fronhof Dussnang- Obberwangen belonged to the Counts of Toggenburg . Constance Bishop Heinrich von Tanne (in office from 1233 to 1248) acquired these goods and thus formed the office of Tannegg , which belonged to Fischingen Monastery from 1693 to 1798 . Oberwangen was always part of the parish of Dussnang. The Martinsberg chapel, which was expanded for the first time in 1494, was profaned during the Reformation , but was used again as a place of worship from 1540. The Gothic choir and the baroque dome from the years 1727 to 1730 characterize today's chapel.

Forestry, cattle and dairy farming were carried out in Oberwangen, there was a cheese dairy, saws and a brickworks. The Au-Mühle, operated from the 17th century, ceased operations in 1932. Schiffli embroidery flourished from 1885 to 1930 .

population

Population development of Oberwangen
year 1831 1850 1920 1970 2000 2018
Local parish 408 496 519 487
Locality 577 801
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Of the total of 801 inhabitants in Oberwangen in 2018, 63 or 7.9% were foreign nationals. 369 (46.1%) were Roman Catholic and 259 (32.3%) Protestant Reformed.

Attractions

The St. Martin chapel on a hill in Oberwangen was built in the 10th century and enlarged by a dome structure in 1693 and 1727 by Johann and Jakob Grubenmann . She owns a Hund organ (after the organ builder Joseph Hund) from 1811.

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literature

  • Benno Schildknecht: The churches of Dussnang and Oberwangen TG. (Swiss Art Guide, No. 417). Ed. Society for Swiss Art History GSK. Bern 1987, ISBN 3-85782-417-4 .

Web links

Commons : Oberwangen TG  - collection of images, videos and audio files

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 Erich Trösch: Oberwangen. 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. 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.
  5. ^ Benno Schildknecht: The churches of Dussnang and Oberwangen TG (= Swiss art guide. No. 417). Ed. Society for Swiss Art History GSK. Bern 1987, ISBN 3-85782-417-4 .

Remarks

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