Wängi

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Wängi
Wängi coat of arms
Country: SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
Canton : Thurgau (TG)
District : Münchwilen
Postal code : 9545
BFS no. : 4781 (Political Community)
former BFS no .: 4784 (local parish )
UN / LOCODE : CH WGI
Coordinates : 713872  /  262124
Height : 470 m above sea level M.
Area : 16.43 km² (Polish municipality)
4.89 km² (local municipality)
Residents: 4720 (December 31, 2018)
Population density : 287 inhabitants per km²
Website: www.www.waengi.ch
Reformed church and cemetery chapel
map
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Wängi is a municipality and a town in the district Münchwilen the canton of Thurgau in Switzerland . It was created in 1969 through the union of the local communities Anetswil , Krillberg , Tuttwil and Wängi to form the unitary community of Wängi. In 1996 the two districts of Heiterschen and Jakobstal were separated from the local community of Wittenwil and assigned to the community of Wängi.

The community is located in the Murgtal , about 10 km from both Wil and Frauenfeld . It is not to be confused with the Bernese wengi .

history

At that time parity and now Reformed church Wängi before the renovation in 1865

The first written mention as Wengiu dates from the year 818. In the 9th century, Wängi was a frequently used court. Around 1200 it belonged to the Counts of Toggenburg . In the 13th century, the ministerials from Wängi were bailiffs . Wängi was set on fire in the Appenzell Wars from 1403 to 1407 and in the Old Zurich War in 1444. An opening dates from 1475. From 1493 the Gielen von Glattburg owned the fief , from 1591 Maria von Hirschhorn and her heirs. In 1642 Wängi was bought back by the Prince Abbey of St. Gallen , where it remained until 1798. In the 19th century, the remains of a Roman villa were discovered in Bommershüsli.

Aerial photo from 200 m by Walter Mittelholzer (1920)

The church of St. Georg, since 1402 the church of St. Johann Baptist , is mentioned for the first time in 887. The parish of Wängi included Anetswil, Kalthäusern , Krillberg until 1807 , Matzingen until 1518 , Stettfurt and Tuttwil until 1752 . In 1401 the Counts of Toggenburg sold the collature to the Tobel Commandery , to which the Pfrund Wängi was incorporated in 1402 . In 1528 Wängi accepted the Reformation , but in 1536 the Kollator hired a Catholic priest again. From then on, the Reformed service took place on a substitute basis, until the pastor of Aadorf Wängi took over as a branch in 1602 . The reformed parish was established in 1853 and received its own pastor in 1858. The Simultaneum in the Wängi Church was lifted in 1956. In 1958 the new Catholic Church of St. John the Baptist was built.

In Wängi, grain was grown in three tents , meadow and fruit growing, forestry and, from the 19th century, dairy farming. In 1869 a cheese factory was built. In 1823 Georg Michael Stierlin and Johann Caspar Bachmann acquired the Wängi mill mentioned in 1362 and established the Mechanism Society there. Spinnerey a. Their operation was stopped in 1916. In 1837 a weaving mill was added, which operated as Wängi AG weaving mill from 1919 to 2006 and as Wängi Mesh AG from 2002 to 2012. From 1878 to 1932 embroidery was an important branch of business. From 1896 to 1997, the machine factory Wängi AG produced in the municipality, in which the metal processing company De Martin has been located since 1947 and the twisting mill Rosental since 1924. In 1887 the Frauenfeld-Wil railway was put into operation. Since the opening of the A1 motorway in 1969, the population has increased significantly.

→ see also sections history in the articles Anetswil , Heiterschen , Krillberg and Tuttwil

coat of arms

Coat of arms Waengi.svg

Blazon : embedding red and yellow.

The coat of arms corresponds to that of the former st. Gallic rule of Wängi, which goes back to the Lords of Wängi, servants of the St. Gallen monastery.

population

Population development in the area of ​​today's municipality of Wängi
Population development of the individual communities
1831 1850 1900 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010 2018
Political community 2730 2909 3387 3969 4160 4697
Municipal parish 1510 1566 1696 2381 2588
Local parish 636 887 1466 1681
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Of the total of 4697 inhabitants in the municipality of Wängi in 2018, 706 or 15.0% were foreign nationals. 1827 (38.9%) were Roman Catholic and 1582 (33.7%) were Protestant Reformed. The village of Wängi had 4156 residents at that time.

economy

In 2016, Wängi offered work for 1,367 people (converted to full-time positions). 7.2% of them worked in agriculture and forestry, 42.7% in industry, trade and construction and 50.1% in the service sector.

traffic

Wängi is well connected to public and private transport. The village is on the route of the Frauenfeld-Wil railway and on the main road between Frauenfeld and Wil . The motorway connection to the A1 in the direction of Zurich and St. Gallen is located about two kilometers northwest of Wängi .

school

The Wängi school is divided into five large facilities: the village school building, the Steinl school building, the Imbach I and II school buildings and the triple hall with the multi-purpose hall. Their rooms are also used for various occasions (music association “Alpenrösli”, evening entertainment performances, etc.).

Attractions

Personalities

Web links

Commons : Wängi  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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.
  2. ↑ Swiss land use statistics. Completed on July 1, 1912. Published by the Federal Statistical Bureau. ( Memento from April 12, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ 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 .
  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 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.
  6. ↑ a b Erich Trösch: Wängi. 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. ↑ a b municipal coat of arms . On the website of the State Archives of the Canton of Thurgau, accessed on December 8, 2019

Remarks

  1. ↑ consisting of the local communities Anetswil , Krillberg , Tuttwil and Wängi