Sirnach

Sirnach

Country:	Switzerland Switzerland
Canton :	Thurgau (TG)
District :	Münchwilen
Postal code :	8370
BFS no. :	4761 (Political Community)
former BFS no .:	4764 (local parish )
UN / LOCODE :	CH SNH
Coordinates :	717712 / 25849247.466666666667 8.9999944444444
Height :	545 m above sea level M.
Area :	12.38 km² (Pol. Municipality) 5.75 km² (local municipality)
Residents:	7766 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	627 inhabitants per km²
Website:	www.www.sirnach.ch
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Sirnach is a municipality and a town in the district Münchwilen the Swiss canton Thurgau .

geography

Murg in Sirnach

Sirnach is located in the Murgtal in Hinterthurgau between the cities of Wil and Winterthur and is the gateway to the pine cone region . In addition to the village of the same name, the municipality also includes Busswil , Gloten, Horben , Hub, Littenheid and Wiezikon .

The neighboring communities are Münchwilen in the north, Wil in the east, Wilen in the southeast, Kirchberg in the south, Fischingen in the southwest and Eschlikon in the west.

history

In 1937 Sirnach received a reformed church.

Sirnach in 1934

Sirnach was first elected as Sirinach in 790. In the 9th century the monastery of St. Gallen owned goods in Sirnach. T. passed to the Bishop of Constance . Later other monasteries also had goods, including a. In 1253 the Kehlhof came to the Fischingen monastery . Sirnach, whose opening dates from 1409, belonged with Büfelden and Gloten to the Tannegg office , which passed to Fischingen Abbey in 1693. In 1798, when the Helvetic Republic was founded, its rule ended. The church and the associated courtyard were assigned to the Constance Cathedral monastery. The parish of Sirnach comprised the entire area of the former municipal parish in the boundaries from 1812 to 1949 and Trungen until 1645 . A folk priest is mentioned for the first time in 1216 . In 1362 the church was incorporated into Fischingen Monastery. In 1529 the parish took over the Reformation , but in 1568 the mass was reintroduced, so that a simultaneous relationship prevailed until 1934 . The Catholic right of collature went to the cathedral chapter of Constance in 1697 and fell to the canton of Thurgau in 1804; The canton of Thurgau took over the reformed collature law from Fischingen in 1806. Both rights went to the respective parish in 1831. The reformed Sirnach separated from Münchwilen - Eschlikon in 1936 and built a church in 1937.

Up until the 19th century, fields and meadows were cultivated in three tents in Sirnach . The mill, mentioned around 1300, was in operation until 1857. After the opening of the St. Gallen – Winterthur railway in 1855/56, Sirnach quickly gained in importance: In 1857 the Sirnach weaving mill was founded, which at times provided work for over 300 people and was active until 1981. Möbelfabrik Müller & Co. AG, founded in 1888 as a commercial enterprise, developed into a factory around 1900 (from 1977 Neue Möbelfabrik Müller AG), employed 70 workers in 1914 and produced until 1992. Bertschinger Textilmaschinen AG (from 1984 Rieter AG plant) settled in 1954 in Sirnach. It had 160 employees in 1959, 235 in 1977 and 200 around 1980 and produced until it moved in 1994 a. a. Combing machines . The opening of the A1 motorway in 1969 brought an increase in the population as well as new industries and trades.

→ see also: Sections history in the articles about the individual previous local churches

Incorporations

The Munizipalgemeinde Sirnach existed from 1803 to 1996 from the local churches Eschlikon , Wallenwil , Horben at Sirnach , Busswil , Littenheid (until 1812), Wiezikon , Sirnach, Hofen (until 1812) and Holzmann House (1871). The former local parishes of Münchwilen , Oberhofen and St. Margarethen were separated from the municipal parish of Sirnach in 1950 and merged to form the unified community of Münchwilen. The district of Hofen belonging to Oberhofen was separated and came to Sirnach in 1950.

The local communities of Eschlikon and Wallenwil merged together with the hamlets of Riethof, Friedtal, Hurnen, Than ,fly branch and Eichholz of the local community of Horben in 1997 to form the political community of Eschlikon. At the same time, the municipality of Sirnach merged with its local communities Busswil, Sirnach, Wiezikon and the rest of the local community of Horben to form the political municipality of Sirnach.

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coat of arms

Blazon : In yellow a red sloping bar covered with three white shells .

The coat of arms was already used in a similar form in the Fischinger Ämterbuch of 1699. The sloping beams there are white and the shells are red. In 1950 the coat of arms of the local community Sirnach was redrawn. After the formation of the political municipality Sirnach in 1997, the coat of arms was used for the new municipality.

population

Population development in the area of today's Sirnach municipality

Population development of the individual communities
	1850	1870	1880	1900	1941	1950	1990	2000	2010	2018
Political community								6359	7039	7733
Municipal parish	3018	3140	3265	4418	7362	5432	8711
Local parish	500			1220		2731	4659

Of the total of 7,733 inhabitants in the municipality of Sirnach in 2018, 1,862 or 24.1% were foreign nationals. 3,157 (40.8%) were Roman Catholic and 1633 (21.1%) were Protestant Reformed. The village of Sirnach had 6,250 residents at that time.

Transport and economy

Sirnach seen from the hamlet of Freudenberg

In terms of traffic, Sirnach connects the Hinterthurgau (region around Sirnach, Eschlikon, Balterswil-Bichelsee and Fischingen) with the larger main traffic axes. Sirnach has a connection to the A1 motorway to Zurich and St. Gallen. It also has a train station on the St. Gallen – Winterthur railway line . The S35 takes you to Sirnach station every half hour. In addition, the Wilmobil Wil -Wiezikon - Dussnang and Wil - Eschlikon - Bichelsee bus routes run through Sirnach. Another bus line connects Wil train station with Littenheid.

In 2016, Sirnach employed 2,800 people (converted to full-time positions). 4.4% of these were employed in agriculture and forestry, 33.8% in industry, trade and construction and 61.9% in the service sector. In Littenheid in a sprawling complex of buildings is the private psychiatric clinic Clienia .

Personalities

Friedrich Schaltegger (1851–1936), Protestant pastor, Thurgau canton archivist and librarian, born and died in Littenheid
Otto Raggenbass (1905–1965), district governor in Kreuzlingen
Daniel Bösch (* 1988), wrestler

Attractions

and display information about the image

View from Wiezikon towards Littenheid

Village center with a Catholic church
Pilgrim inn Engel
Linden tree from Sirnach
church Square
Half-timbered building on Schmiedgasse
Multipurpose building, old gym
Old parish hall
Upper schoolhouse
School building width
Electricity pond

Web links

Commons : Sirnach - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Official website of the municipality of Sirnach

Individual evidence

↑ ^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.

↑ Swiss land use statistics. Completed on July 1, 1912. Published by the Federal Statistical Bureau. ( Memento from April 12, 2016 in the Internet Archive )

↑ 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 .

↑ ^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.

↑ StiASG , Urk. I 96. Online at e-chartae , accessed on June 25, 2020.

↑ ^a ^b ^c Erich Trösch: Sirnach. 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).

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d 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.

↑ ^a ^b municipal coat of arms . On the website of the State Archives of the Canton of Thurgau, accessed on December 8, 2019

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[TG_in_Zahlen-1] 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.

[Areal-2] Swiss land use statistics. Completed on July 1, 1912. Published by the Federal Statistical Bureau. ( Memento from April 12, 2016 in the Internet Archive )

[3] 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 .

[Orte_TG-4] 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.

[5] StiASG , Urk. I 96. Online at e-chartae , accessed on June 25, 2020.