Stettfurt

Stettfurt
State :	Switzerland
Canton :	Thurgau (TG)
District :	Frauenfeld
BFS no. :	4606
Postal code :	9507
Coordinates :	714234  /  265 065 coordinates: 47 ° 31 '35 "  N , 8 ° 57' 20"  O ; CH1903:  714234  /  two hundred and sixty-five thousand and sixty-five
Height :	475  m above sea level M.
Height range :	448–707 m above sea level M.
Area :	6.37  km²
Residents:	1204 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	189 inhabitants per km²
Website:	www.stettfurt.ch
View of Stettfurt
Location of the municipality

Stettfurt [ ˈʃtetːfʊrt ] (in the local dialect: [ ˈʃtøpfərt ]) is a village and a political municipality in the Frauenfeld district of the canton of Thurgau in Switzerland .

1803 Stettfurt was a local congregation of Munizipalgemeinde Matzingen . In 1817 it separated from Matzingen and formed the local and municipal community of Stettfurt. From 1870 to 2002 Stettfurt was a unified community .

geography

Stettfurt is located at the southern foot of the Immenberg . In addition to the districts Vorstatt and Brüel, the hamlets Hummerbärg and Chöll as well as Schloss Sonnenberg also belong to the municipality in the Lauchetal .

history

Stettfurt and Sonnenberg Castle. Aerial photo by Walter Mittelholzer from 1923

The place was first mentioned in a document in 827 as a Stetivurt . It is this name is a composition , as the front part the Old High German word stat , location, location, home, village, town 'in the genitive (Steti) appears as a rear ahd. Ford , ford river crossing', perhaps augmenting it to 'stream bed, moat'.

In the 9th century, the St. Gallen monastery in Stettfurt owned goods. Diethelm III. From Toggenburg , Stettfurt donated the Kommende Tobel in 1228 . The Lower Court of Stettfurt belonged to the Sonnenberg jurisdiction from the 13th century to 1798 and included Kalthäusern , Ruggenbühl and Stettfurt. The village was opened in 1482.

In 1746 the church was built and in 1752 Stettfurt was made a parish. The purely Reformed village had previously been part of the Wängi parish .

Up until the 19th century, arable farming was carried out using the three-row system, along with fruit growing and, until 1908, viticulture. From 1850 the cattle and dairy industry expanded, and in 1883 a cheese dairy was opened. The distillery cooperative founded in 1888 established the Stettfurt pressed yeast factory in 1902 , which was converted into a stock corporation in 1946.

coat of arms

Blazon : red and white roughened .

The coat of arms already printed for Stettfurt in Johannes Stumpf's chronicle also appears in the full coat of arms of the Sonnenberg lordship. After the unified parish of Stettfurt became a political parish in 2003, the coat of arms remained unchanged in use.

population

Population development in the municipality of Stettfurt

Population development of the unitary and political municipality

year	1831	1850	1880	1900	1950	1980	1990	2000	2010	2018
Residents	532	532	406	425	443	552	710	971	1112	1207

Of the total of 1,207 inhabitants in the municipality of Stettfurt in 2018, 97 or 8.0% were foreign nationals. 572 (47.4%) were Protestant Reformed and 309 (25.6%) were Roman Catholic.

economy

Yeast has been produced in Stettfurt since 1902 . The original press yeast factory of the Stettfurt distillery cooperative became the Press yeast factory Stettfurt AG in 1946, and in 1993 Hefe Schweiz AG was founded through a merger with the pressed yeast factory Hindelbank . Since 2000, the yeast has been produced mainly with molasses beet syrup from the Frauenfeld sugar factory . Around two thirds of yeast consumption in Switzerland is covered by 30 employees.

In 2016, Stettfurt offered work for 250 people (converted to full-time positions). Of these, 43.7% were employed in agriculture and forestry, 17.6% in industry, trade and construction and 38.8% in the service sector.

Attractions

See also : List of cultural assets in Stettfurt

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  Sonnenberg Castle

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  Wüthrich residential building

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  Parish hall

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  Former messmer house

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  Lydiaheim residential building

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  Primary school building

Personalities

• Jakob Huldreich Bachmann (born November 21, 1843 in Stettfurt; † August 26, 1915 in Stettfurt) President of the National Council and Federal Court of Justice
• Johannes Schulthess (born September 28, 1763 in Stettfurt; † November 10, 1836 in Zurich) Protestant clergyman and university professor
• Johann Georg Schulthess (born December 18, 1758 in Stettfurt, † September 20, 1802 in Zurich) reformed theologian

Web links

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

• Official website of the municipality of Stettfurt

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} Philipp Obrist, Stettfurt TG (Frauenfeld) in: Dictionnaire toponymique des communes suisses - Lexicon of Swiss community names - Dizionario toponomastico dei comuni svizzeri (DTS | LSG) , Center de dialectologie, Université de Neuchâtel, Verlag Huber, Frauenfeld / Stuttgart / Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-7193-1308-5 and Éditions Payot, Lausanne 2005, ISBN 2-601-03336-3 , p. 856
4. ↑ ^{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.
5. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Erich Trösch: Stettfurt. 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.