St. Margarethen TG

TG is the abbreviation for the canton of Thurgau in Switzerland and is used to avoid confusion with other entries of the name St. Margarethen .

St. Margarethen

State :

Switzerland

Canton :

Thurgau (TG)

District :

Münchwilen

Political community :

Münchwilen

Postal code :

9543

Coordinates :

717.79 thousand / 261010 coordinates: 47 ° 29 '21 " N , 9 ° 0' 6" O ; CH1903: seven hundred and seventeen thousand seven hundred ninety / 261010

Height :

504 m above sea level M.

Area :

2.08 km²

Residents:

1038 (December 31, 2018)

Population density :

499 inhabitants per km²

St. Margarethen TG

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St. Margarethen is a village in the municipality of Münchwilen in the Swiss canton of Thurgau . On January 1, 1950 , the former local congregation merged to become a single community Münchwilen .

history

St. Margarethen in 1953, Bronschhofen in the background to the right

Parish before the merger in 1950

In 1275 the village was mentioned as Affoltrangen sancte Margarete . St. Margarethen was under the rule of Lommi , which belonged to Fischingen Abbey from 1599 to 1798 . The parish church, which was occupied in 1275, came to the monastery in 1316, which St. Margarethen allocated to the Sirnach parish in 1362 . In the course of the Counter-Reformation , the former parish church was demolished in 1641 and rebuilt elsewhere. This St. Margarethen chapel flourished as a pilgrimage church in the 17th and 18th centuries. From 1803 to 1950 St. Margarethen together with Sedel and Mörikon formed a local parish of the Sirnach municipality . The Reformed residents joined the newly founded parish of Münchwilen- Eschlikon in 1935 . In 1950 St. Margarethen, Münchwilen and Oberhofen bei Münchwilen were united to form the political municipality of Münchwilen.

From 1474 to approx. 1860 there was a mill in the village, and from 1475 to 1918 in Mörikon. Despite the market law that has existed since around 1711, markets were only held irregularly in St. Margarethen. In the 18th and 19th centuries, spinning , weaving and embroidery were all worthwhile. The Swiss Society for Tüllindustrie AG founded in 1913 (from 2002 Swisstulle) and the lighting manufacturer Huco AG, founded in 1916 as a metal goods factory, shape the industrial character of the village.

population

Population development of St. Margarethen
year	1850	1941	2000	2010	2018
Residents	245	513	751	870	1038
Reformed residents	4%	46%			27.6%
source

Of the total of 1,038 inhabitants in the town of St. Margarethen in 2018, 171 or 16.5% were foreign nationals. 440 (42.4%) were Roman Catholic and 286 (27.6%) Protestant Reformed.

Attractions

The picture chapel Pilgerhüsli and the late Gothic pilgrim chapel St. Margarethen are located in St. Margarethen . It was consecrated in 1642 and visited by the St. James pilgrims on the Schwabenweg , who left red chalk inscriptions on the walls of the pilgrims' room.