Wallenwil

Wallenwil
State :	Switzerland
Canton :	Thurgau (TG)
District :	Münchwilen
Political community :	Eschlikon
Postal code :	8360
former BFS no. :	4765
Coordinates :	714 549  /  257488 coordinates: 47 ° 27 '30 "  N , 8 ° 57' 28"  O ; CH1903:  714 549  /  257488
Height :	584  m above sea level M.
Area :	1.83  km²
Residents:	1253 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	685 inhabitants per km²
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Wallenwil is a village in the municipality of Eschlikon , Münchwilen district , in the Swiss canton of Thurgau . Wallenwil is located 2 kilometers southwest of Eschlikon on the Winterthur – St. Gallen .

Parish before the merger in 1997

history

Wallenwil was first mentioned in 827 as Wolahwilare . As early as 827, the St. Gallen monastery in Wallenwil had basic rights, which Abbot Konrad von Bussnang pledged to the barons of Bussnang in the 13th century . In 1422 they were owned by the citizens of Wil . In 1512, the St. Gallen Monastery awarded Wallenwil to the Heiliggeistspital Wil, which had it administered by a bailiff or the hospital master until 1798 and exercised lower jurisdiction . Wallenwil took to the field with the Wiler city ​​banner . According to Sirnach, the local congregation was ecclesiastical. In 1775 the chapel of St. Elisabetha Bona was built.

In Wallenwil, arable and fruit growing, forestry, until 1946 peat extraction and from the second half of the 19th century cattle and dairy farming (cheese dairy in the 20th century) were operated. In 1920 71% of the workforce worked in the second economic sector , u. a. In the Schiffli embroidery , which was active from 1919 to 1932, and the silk weaving mill operated from 1919 to 1936 . Single-family home quarters have shaped the townscape since around 1970.

From 1803 to 1996 Wallenwil was a local parish of the Sirnach municipality . On January 1, 1997 , the local parishes of Eschlikon and Wallenwil and part of Horben merged to form the political municipality of Eschlikon.

population

Of the total of 1,253 inhabitants of the village of Wallenwil in 2018, 149 or 11.9% were foreign nationals. 475 (37.9%) were Roman Catholic and 453 (36.2%) Protestant Reformed.

Population development
year	1850	1900	1950	1990	2000	2010	2018
Local parish	151	206	273	650
Locality					824	980	1253
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Attractions

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  Chapel of St. Elisabetha Bona

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  Old cider factory

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  Wallenwil from the west

literature

• Erich Trösch: Wallenwil. 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 : Wallenwil  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 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. ↑ 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.
4. ↑ 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.

Remarks

1. ↑ with outside courtyards