Raperswilen

Raperswilen
State :	Switzerland
Canton :	Thurgau (TG)
District :	Kreuzlingen
BFS no. :	4846
Postal code :	8558
Coordinates :	720 569  /  276 992 coordinates: 47 ° 37 '57 "  N , 9 ° 2' 34"  O ; CH1903:  720 569  /  276992
Height :	582  m above sea level M.
Height range :	479–722 m above sea level M.
Area :	7.69  km²
Residents:	415 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	54 inhabitants per km²
Website:	www.raperswilen.ch
Location of the municipality

Raperswilen is a municipality and a town in the canton of Thurgau in Switzerland . It belongs to the Kreuzlingen district . Until 2002 Raperswilen was a unified municipality .

geography

Raperswilen is located on the Seerücken near the Untersee . In addition to the village of Raperswilen, the political community includes the hamlets of Müllberg, Fischbach, Büren and Helsighausen. In Helsighausen there is a mica sand pit of the same name , an artificial geotope of national importance as it provides information about the geology and history of the region.

Raperswilen has an area of ​​7.67 km². 5.18 km² or 67.5% of this is used for agriculture, another 2.1 km² or 27.4% is forest area. The remaining 5.1% are built over.

history

In 1766 the small Raperswilen church was built in place of the old chapel.

The prehistoric fortifications Risi from the Bronze Age and Schanz, probably from the Iron Age, are located in the area of ​​the municipality . The first documentary mention of Raperswilen dates from 1213 as Ratbrechtswilare .

Büren and Müllberg belonged to the Klingenberg court , part of Fischbach, Helsighausen and Raperswilen to the Fruthwilen court , four houses in Fischbach to the Hattenhausen court and a further six houses were directly subordinate to the federal bailiff in Thurgau . The joint opening of Raperswilen and Helsighausen dates from 1616. From 1803 to 2010 Raperswilen belonged to the Steckborn district .

Around 1560 the Reformed received the Raperswilen chapel belonging to Homburg and profaned in 1529 , in which the pastor of Wigoltingen preached from 1562 , alternating with the pastor of Lipperswil from 1661 to 1798 . The Raperswilen church, built in 1766, is still part of Wigoltingen today.

The English nobleman George Treherne built the Müllberg Castle from 1854 to 1866, which housed a climatic spa from 1905 and which burned down in 1914. The community was characterized by fruit and arable farming, and later by cattle, dairy and forestry. Raperswilen owns wood processing companies, a little car trade and a mica sand pit. A good half of those in employment in 2000 worked abroad. The first economic sector in 2005 provided around 43% of jobs in the municipality.

coat of arms

Blazon : A white mark in red that represents the outline of a fir tree.

The coat of arms shows a carved mark on the pews of the Raperswilen church. The colors come from the old lady of the court, the Reichenau Abbey .

population

Population development in the municipality of Raperswilen

Population development of the municipality

year	1850	1900	1950	2000	2010	2012	2014	2016	2018
Residents	446	430	402	426	396	406	411	391	414

Of the total of 414 inhabitants in the municipality of Raperswilen in 2018, 43 or 10.4% were foreign nationals. 233 (56.3%) were Protestant Reformed and 66 (15.9%) were Roman Catholic.

economy

In 2016 Raperswilen employed 118 people (converted to full-time positions). Of these, 40.0% were employed in agriculture and forestry, 33.1% in industry, trade and construction and 26.9% in the service sector.

education

The village belongs to the Wigoltingen elementary school community . In the village itself there is a primary school, which is attended by students from the community and the Wigoltingen hamlet of Illhart. Up until a few years ago, children from Raperswil attended the kindergarten in Illhart, now it is located in the schoolhouse in Sonterswil , which is also part of the elementary school community. The upper level is in Wigoltingen. There are also further educational offers in Frauenfeld , Weinfelden , Kreuzlingen etc.

Attractions

See also : List of cultural assets in Raperswilen

photos

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  Raperswilen from the south

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  Helsighausen

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  Half-timbered house in the hamlet of Fischbach

literature

• Alfons Raimann, Peter Erni: The art monuments of the Canton of Thurgau, Thurgau VI. The Steckborn district. Edited by the Society for Swiss Art History GSK. Bern 2001 (Art Monuments of Switzerland, Volume 98). ISBN 3-906131-02-5 .

Web links

Commons : Raperswilen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website of the municipality of Raperswilen
• Official website of the Wigoltingen primary school community

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Permanent and non-permanent resident population by year, canton, district, municipality, population type and gender (permanent resident population). In: bfs. admin.ch . Federal Statistical Office (FSO), August 31, 2019, accessed on December 22, 2019 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b} Thurgau in figures 2019 . On the website of the Statistical Office of the Canton of Thurgau (PDF file; 1.8 MB), accessed on April 28, 2020.
3. ↑ ^{a b} 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.
4. ↑ Swiss Federal Statistical Office-Land Use Statistics 2009 data, accessed 25 March 2010
5. ↑ ^{a b c d} Erich Trösch: Raperswilen. 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).
6. ↑ ^{a b} municipal coat of arms . On the website of the State Archives of the Canton of Thurgau, accessed on December 8, 2019
7. ↑ ^{a b} Population development of the municipalities. Canton Thurgau, 1850–2000 and resident population of the municipalities and change from the previous year. Canton of Thurgau, 1990–2018. On the website of the Statistical Office of the Canton of Thurgau (Excel tables; 0.1 MB each), accessed on April 28, 2020.