St. Pelagiberg

State :

Switzerland

Canton :

Thurgau (TG)

District :

Weinfelden

Political community :

Hauptwil-Gottshaus

Postal code :

9225

Coordinates :

740 231 / 261 349 coordinates: 47 ° 29 '17 " N , 9 ° 17' 58" O ; CH1903: seven hundred and forty thousand two hundred thirty-one / two hundred sixty-one thousand three hundred forty-nine

Height :

601 m above sea level M.

Residents:

340 (December 31, 2018)

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St. Pelagiberg is a village , place of pilgrimage and a parish in Gottshaus in the municipality of Hauptwil-Gottshaus in the Swiss canton of Thurgau .

history

Pilgrimage Church of St. Pelagiberg

Aerial photo by Walter Mittelholzer from 1927

The place was first mentioned in 1486 as Pelayenberg . A chapel has stood on a prominent hill in Gottshaus since the late Middle Ages . After an extension, the auxiliary bishop of Konstanz, Daniel Zehnder, consecrated an altar of Mary in 1487. After the Reformation, the chapel was owned by the Evangelicals, who taught children there until 1630. The Canons of Bischofszell initiated recatholicization in 1663, created the place of pilgrimage and in 1726 incorporated the chapel into their monastery.

After the abbey was dissolved, the chapel became a branch of Bischofszell in 1849 . From 1852 a beneficiary held the services. The church, built in 1888, has served as the parish church of the new parish of St. Pelagiberg since 1908 . At the beginning of the 21st century, sisters run a spa and retreat house on St. Pelagiberg .

population

In 2000 St. Pelagiberg had 117 inhabitants, the parish 353.

Of the total of 340 inhabitants of the village of St. Pelagiberg in 2018, 32 or 9.4% were foreign nationals. 158 (46.5%) were Roman Catholic and 96 (28.2%) Protestant Reformed.

literature

Erich Trösch: St. Pelagiberg. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
This article is largely based on the entry in the Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz (HLS), which, according to the HLS's usage information, is licensed under the Creative Commons - Attribution - Distribution under the same conditions 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0) license .

Web links

Commons : St. Pelagiberg - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ ^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.
^ Erich Trösch: St. Pelagiberg. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .

Remarks

↑ without outside courtyards
↑ with outside courtyards

[Einwohner-1] 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.

[HLS-3] Erich Trösch: St. Pelagiberg. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .

[2] without outside courtyards

[4] with outside courtyards