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Swiss wood
Coat of arms of Schweizersholz
State : SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
Canton : Canton of ThurgauCanton of Thurgau Thurgau (TG)
District : Weinfelden
Political community : Bischofszelli2
Postal code : 9220
former BFS no. : 4756
Coordinates : 732 863  /  262 842 coordinates: 47 ° 30 '10 "  N , 9 ° 12' 8"  O ; CH1903:  seven hundred and thirty-two thousand eight hundred sixty-three  /  two hundred and sixty-two thousand eight hundred and forty-two
Height : 560  m above sea level M.
Area : 5.21  km²
Residents: 292 (December 31, 2018)
Population density : 56 inhabitants per km²
Swiss wood

Swiss wood

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Schweizersholz (Switzerland)
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Schweizersholz is a former municipality and a village in the municipality of Bischofszell in the Weinfelden district of the canton of Thurgau in Switzerland .

From 1803 to 1995, Schweizersholz was a local community of the municipal community of Neukirch an der Thur with over twenty hamlets, including Kenzenau (mentioned as Chinzinnowe in 1260 ). On January 1, 1996 , the local community of Schweizersholz merged as part of the Thurgau community reform to form the political community of Bischofszell, with the hamlets of Last, Hose, Rohren, Störenhaus and Alt Weingarten remaining in the political community of Kradolf-Schönenberg .

history

In 1505 Schwytzers Holtz was first mentioned in a document. Until 1798, the lower jurisdiction belonged to the Bishop of Konstanz , who, as part of the Schönenberg office, submitted the Swiss wood to his Obervogt in Bischofszell. Some farms were subordinate to the Bischofszell city court and the local Pelagiusstift . In terms of church, Schweizersholz shared the fate of the Reformed parishes of Bischofszell- Hauptwil , Neukirch and Sulgen as well as the Catholic parishes of Bischofszell, Heiligkreuz and Sulgen.

Grain cultivation prevailed until the 19th century, along with fruit and flax cultivation as well as cotton and linen weaving, around 1900 embroidery. Founded in 1906 as a trading company for textile machine accessories, Kundert AG started producing gear wheels in the 1960s. In 2001 Kundert AG sold the production of metal gears in Schweizersholz. Until 1970 the first economic sector always provided over half of the jobs in Schweizersholz.

Population development of the local community
year 1850 1900 1950 1990
Residents 511 454 433 290

Of the total of 292 inhabitants in the village of Schweizersholz in 2018, 20 or 6.8% were foreign nationals. 123 (42.1%) were Protestant Reformed and 89 (30.5%) were Roman Catholic.

Attractions

The castle ruins Last and Heuberg were in the area of ​​the local community Schweizersholz. They came to the municipality of Kradolf-Schönenberg in 1996 together with the neighboring hamlets of Rohren and Alt Weingarten. The two ruins are listed in the list of cultural assets in Kradolf-Schönenberg and the farmhouse in Gwand is listed in the list of cultural assets in Bischofszell .

Last ruin around 1900
Heuberg ruins
Farmhouse in the hamlet of Gwand
Parish before the merger in 1996

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 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. ↑ 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.
  4. ↑ The Kundert company history. On the Kundert AG website, accessed on March 26, 2020
  5. ↑ Excerpt from the national map of Switzerland 1: 25,000. Sheet 1074 Bischofszell, 1990