Uesslingen

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Uesslingen
Coat of arms of Uesslingen
State : SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
Canton : Canton of ThurgauCanton of Thurgau Thurgau (TG)
District : Frauenfeld
Political community : Uesslingen booki2
Postal code : 8524
former BFS no. : 4617
Coordinates : 704 874  /  271 031 coordinates: 47 ° 34 '54 "  N , 8 ° 49' 58"  O ; CH1903:  seven hundred and four thousand eight hundred and seventy-four  /  two hundred seventy-one thousand and thirty-one
Height : 389  m above sea level M.
Area : 7.32  km²  (local
parish ) 17.01 km² (municipality)
Residents: 745 (December 31, 2018)
Population density : 102 inhabitants per km²
Parish before the merger in 1995

Parish before the merger in 1995
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Uesslingen (Switzerland)
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Uesslingen is a former local and municipal municipality and a town in the municipality of Uesslingen-Buch in the Frauenfeld district of the canton of Thurgau in Switzerland .

From 1803 to 1994 the local parishes of Buch bei Frauenfeld , Uesslingen and Warth formed the municipal parish of Uesslingen. On January 1, 1995 , the local parishes of Uesslingen and Buch merged to form the political municipality of Uesslingen-Buch.

geography

Uesslingen with the hamlets Dietingen, Iselisberg and Wyden is located on the right bank of the Thur on the road from Frauenfeld to Schaffhausen .

history

Uesslingen in 1948

The place name with the ending "-ingen" suggests that people settled in Uesslingen as early as around 600 AD during the first phase of the Alemannic conquest . On March 14, 1094 Place name as appears Uselinga for the first time on a document on, after a certain Rupert and his nephew Erlewin and Eberhard the monastery Allerheiligen their possessions in Thurgau, located in the region of Schaffhausen Matzingen who was given, . The lords of Yselingen probably had their castle on the Iselisberg at this time. From the late Middle Ages to 1798, Uesslingen belonged to the lesser judiciary of Ittingen . 1420 it received an opening .

Duke Welf VI. donated the Uesslingen church to the Augustinian canons of Ittingen in 1152 . After the monastery was taken over by the Carthusians , they held the collation from 1461 to 1831 . After the Reformation of 1525, the church was used equally from 1549 . In 1853 the Reformed founded a parish , but remained connected to Hüttwilen . In 1872 the church was rebuilt.

Fruit and wine growing as well as cattle and dairy farming determined working life in Uesslingen. There was only one ferry connection across the Thur, which was replaced by a wooden bridge in 1808. In 1988 the new concrete bridge was built in its place.

→ see also the history section in the Iselisberg article

coat of arms

GW-TG-Uesslingen.jpg

Blazon : a white wavy bar in black .

The wavy coat of arms symbolizes the Thur. The colors black and white reveal the former belonging to the judiciary of the Ittingen Charterhouse.

population

Population development of Uesslingen
1850 1900 1950 1990 2000 2010 2018
Municipal parish 1011 746 799 918
Local parish 631 441 468 585
Locality 469 409 745
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Of the total of 745 inhabitants in the town of Uesslingen in 2018, 77 or 10.3% were foreign nationals. 396 (53.2%) were Protestant Reformed and 159 (21.3%) were Roman Catholic.

Religions

Both a Protestant and a Catholic parish exist in Uesslingen. The "Peter and Paul" church, built in 1872 in neo-Romanesque style, is used and supported by both denominations. It was renovated for the first time in 1938. The last renovation lasted from 1988 to 1990. Since then there has been a Späth organ here .

The Catholic parish includes Uesslingen-Buch, Neunforn and Uerschhausen. There is a parish community with Gachnang .

Attractions

The hamlet of Iselisberg is listed in the inventory of places worth protecting in Switzerland .

photos

  • Uesslingen

  • Parity Church

  • Farmhouse in the cemetery area

  • "Grape" Dietingen

literature

  • A. Lenz, B. Huber and H. Huber-Stürzinger: Village Chronicle of Üsslingen 1094–1994. Frauenfeld 1994.
  • Urs Elsener, Hans Peter Mathis: St. Sebastian Chapel in Buch near Frauenfeld. Swiss Art Guide GSK, Volume 534.Bern 1993, ISBN 3-85782-534-0 .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b 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 d 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. ↑ a b c d e Erich Trösch: Uesslingen. 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).
  4. ^ History. On the website of the community of Uesslingen-Buch, accessed on January 3, 2020
  5. ^ Municipal coat of arms . On the website of the State Archives of the Canton of Thurgau, accessed on December 8, 2019
  6. ↑ Locations and Settlements Directory. Canton of Thurgau, 2005 edition . On the website of the Statistical Office of the Canton of Thurgau (PDF; 1.7 MB), accessed on April 28, 2020.
  7. ↑ Locations and Settlements Directory. Canton of Thurgau, 2012 edition. On the website of the Statistical Office of the Canton of Thurgau (PDF; 3.4 MB), accessed on May 11, 2020.
  8. ↑ Church of Uesslingen on the website of the Evangelical Parishes Uesslingen and Warth-Weiningen, accessed on October 15, 2015.
  9. ↑ Uesslingen TG. Parity Church of Peter and Paul. On the Späth Orgelbau website, accessed on October 15, 2015.

Remarks

  1. ↑ with outside courtyards