Uttwil

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Uttwil
Coat of arms of Uttwil
State : SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
Canton : Canton of ThurgauCanton of Thurgau Thurgau (TG)
District : Arbon
BFS no. : 4451i1 f3 f4
Postal code : 8592
Coordinates : 743 778  /  272 044 coordinates: 47 ° 35 '0 "  N , 9 ° 21' 0"  O ; CH1903:  seven hundred forty-three thousand seven hundred seventy-eight  /  272 044
Height : 419  m above sea level M.
Height range : 395–461 m above sea level M.
Area : 4.36  km²
Residents: 1857 (December 31, 2018)
Population density : 426 inhabitants per km²
Website: www.uttwil.ch
View of Uttwil with the Seeburg house, in the background the tower of the Protestant church

View of Uttwil with the Seeburg house, in the background the tower of the Protestant church
Location of the municipality
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Uttwil is a municipality and a town in the district of Arbon of the canton of Thurgau in Switzerland . Uttwil was a unified municipality from 1870 to 2002 .

geography

Uttwil is located on Lake Constance , between Romanshorn and Constance . The neighboring communities are Romanshorn, Hefenhofen , Kesswil and Dozwil .

The municipality has 1857 inhabitants and around 870 households and is located on an area of ​​437 hectares, of which 48 hectares are building areas, 236 hectares of meadows and arable land, 120 hectares of forest, 8.5 hectares of water and 24.5 hectares of transport infrastructure.

history

On June 4, 817, Uttwil was first mentioned as Huttinwillare in a document from Emperor Ludwig the Pious together with Kesswil, Landschlacht , Zihlschlacht and Hefenhofen . In the 9th century, the St. Gallen monastery owned numerous goods in Uttwil. An aristocratic family called "von Uttwil" settled in the village and disappeared again around 1413. In the 13th to 14th centuries, the Bishop of Constance and the Heiliggeistspital there were landlords . In 1267 the Münsterlingen Monastery of St. Gallen acquired real estate, from 1280 it set up bailiffs and from 1413 to 1798 it was owned by the Lower Court . The oldest known opening dates from 1425.

Gasthaus Frohsinn, built as Kehlhof in 1722

Ecclesiastically Uttwil belonged to Romanshorn. The Adelheid Chapel, which was expanded in 1276, was owned by the Münsterlingen Monastery in 1303. Their parish rights were transferred to the Anna Chapel in the 15th century, which was enlarged into a church in 1450. Uttwil secured the collature . The Reformation was introduced in 1524 . After Uttwil was temporarily connected to Kesswil in church from 1588, it has been a branch of Kesswil since 1618 . In the so-called Uttwil trade from 1644 to 1651, the monastery and the Catholic towns of the Old Confederation quarreled with Uttwil and Zurich over the demolition of the Adelheid chapel. Zurich donated twelve hundred guilders to the people of Uttwil for the payment of the fine subsequently imposed by the five Catholic towns. In 1699 Landvogt Jakob Schindler elevated Uttwil to a grain market place .

In the 18th century, the Dölli and Uhler families in Uttwil created the most important transhipment point for grain and salt on the western shore of Lake Constance at the expense of Konstanz and Rorschach . Their ships and wagons brought the goods by sea and land to Zurich and Geneva . In this way, when they got rich, the Dölli built stately houses, u. a. the Kehlhof built in 1722 and later the Gasthaus Frohsinn, a Gredhaus and possibly the castle. With the construction of the port in Romanshorn and the Thurtallinie in 1855 , Uttwil lost its importance as a trading center.

Aerial photograph by Walter Mittelholzer (1924)

In the 19th century, grain and fruit were grown in Uttwil, cattle and dairy farming and a cheese dairy was set up. At the same time, the village developed into a spa, artist and literary town, where Carl Sternheim , Henry van de Velde , René Schickele and Annette Kolb worked during the First World War and the years after . Famous emigrated musicians lived in Uttwil in the 1940s, such as B. Pau Casals , Clara Haskil or Rudolf Serkin and also Swiss painters and writers such as Ernst Schlatter , Paul Ilg and Emanuel Stickelberger .

There were embroidery factories from 1878 to 1922, and a wood vinegar factory from 1882 to 1999. The Schubert & Schramm furniture factory existed from 1907 to 1996. Since 2008, the cultural past has been the reason to revive the cultural tradition of Uttwil with the annual “Uttwiler Master Classes”.

coat of arms

Uttwil-blazon.svg

Blazon : In blue, a white boatman's mark developed from the shape of an anchor .

The coat of arms refers to the Uttwils lake location and the activities of the previous residents. The skipper's mark has been handed down several times in the community.

population

Population development in the community of Uttwil
Population development of the local and unitary municipality
year 1831 1850 1900 1950 1980 1990 2000 2010 2018
Residents 540 606 553 842 876 1102 1439 1751 1856
View of the Uttwil dam

Of the total of 1,856 inhabitants in the municipality of Uttwil in 2018, 343 or 18.5% were foreign nationals.

economy

In 2016 Uttwil offered 288 jobs (converted to full-time positions). Of these, 14.4% were employed in agriculture and forestry, 13.2% in industry, trade and construction and 72.3% in the service sector.

Attractions

Former headquarters of Hanseatic Lloyd in Uttwil
Lake Constance in Uttwil

Personalities

literature

  • Nicolaus Schubert: Uttwil, the village of poets and painters. Uttwil 1988, ISBN 3-906155-00-5
  • Ralph Brühwiler: Sketches and notes from Uttwil - A walk through the history of important houses. Edition Frohsinn, Uttwil 2017, ISBN 978-3-906155-20-3

Web links

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

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 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.
  4. ↑ Numbers / facts. On the website of the municipality of Uttwil, accessed on November 14, 2019
  5. ↑ a b c d e Happy at home in Uttwil. On the website of the municipality of Uttwil, accessed on November 14, 2019
  6. ↑ a b c d e f g h Erich Trösch: Uttwil. 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).
  7. ^ Walter Helg: Artists and world stars in Uttwil. Thurgauer Jahrbuch 1990, accessed on April 5, 2020 .
  8. ↑ a b municipal coat of arms . On the website of the State Archives of the Canton of Thurgau, accessed on December 8, 2019
  9. ↑ 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.