Weingarten TG

TG is the abbreviation for the canton of Thurgau in Switzerland and is used to avoid confusion with other entries in the name Weingarten .

Vineyard
State :	Switzerland
Canton :	Thurgau (TG)
District :	Münchwilen
Political community :	Lommis
Postal code :	9508 Weingarten- Kalthäusern
former BFS no. :	4739
Coordinates :	716 587  /  265 068 coordinates: 47 ° 31 '34 "  N , 8 ° 59' 12"  O ; CH1903:  seven hundred and sixteen thousand five hundred eighty-seven  /  265,068
Height :	487  m above sea level M.
Area :	2.21  km²
Residents:	322 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	146 inhabitants per km²
Vineyard on the southern slope of Immenberg
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Weingarten is a district of the village of Weingarten- Kalthäusern in the municipality of Lommis in the Münchwilen district of the canton of Thurgau in Switzerland and is located in the Lauchetal on the southern slope of the Immenberg . Weingarten was from 1803 to 1994 a local parish of the municipality of Lommis. On January 1, 1995 , the local parish merged to form the political municipality of Lommis.

history

Parish before the merger in 1995

The place was first mentioned in 1270 as Wingarten . In the Middle Ages, Weingarten belonged to the Spiegelberg dominion , which was a fief of the Constance Cathedral Monastery until 1639 and was owned by the Fischingen Monastery from 1629 to 1798 . In 1270, Count Friedrich von Toggenburg waived a hat in favor of the Rüti monastery . According to Lommis, Weingarten was always part of the church. Until 1798 Weingarten owned a village meier , whose office was alternately held every year by a Catholic or a Reformed.

Weingarten farming, fruit and viticulture, wine and fruit trade was well up to the amelioration 1,918 peat operated. The transition to cattle and dairy farming took place in the second half of the 19th century. By 1920 the viticulture disappeared completely because of phylloxera . From 1910 to 1929 there was a ship embroidery in Weingarten. Although single-family houses were built on Immenberg from 1970 onwards, the place retained its rural character.

population

Weingarten-Kalthäusern had 406 inhabitants in 2018. Of these, 19 or 4.7% were foreign nationals. 172 (42.4%) were Protestant Reformed and 99 (24.4%) were Roman Catholic.

Population development of Weingarten

year	1850	1850	1900	1950	1990	2000	2010	2018
Local parish	211	215	189	192	179
Locality						210	283	322
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literature

• Erich Trösch: Weingarten. 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 .

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 list of} settlements. Canton of Thurgau, edition 2019 . On the website of the Statistical Office of the Canton of Thurgau (Excel table; 0.2 MB), accessed on May 10, 2020.
3. ↑ 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. ↑ 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.
5. ↑ 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.