Wiezikon

Wiezikon
State :	Switzerland
Canton :	Thurgau (TG)
District :	Münchwilen
Political community :	Sirnach
Postal code :	8370
former BFS no. :	4766
Coordinates :	716 803  /  256776 coordinates: 47 ° 27 '5 "  N , 8 ° 59' 15"  O ; CH1903:  716 803  /  256776
Height :	565  m above sea level M.
Area :	1.55  km²
Residents:	612 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	395 inhabitants per km²
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Wiezikon , officially Wiezikon bei Sirnach , is located southwest of Sirnach and is a town in the municipality of Sirnach in the Swiss canton of Thurgau .

Wiezikon with the hamlets of Rütibach and Weiherhof formed a local parish of the Sirnach municipality from 1812 to 1996 . Wiezikon has been part of the Sirnach municipality since 1997 .

Parish before the merger in 1997

history

The settlement was first mentioned as Wiecinchon in 1060/70 . Wiezikon was part of the Tannegg Office , which belonged to the Konstanz Monastery from the late Middle Ages until 1693 , and then to the Fischingen Monastery until 1798 . 1432 the village received an opening , in 1569 an indent letter. The majority Reformed Wiezikon ecclesiastically shared the fate of Sirnach.

A winter school was founded in 1801 and a summer school in 1812. Since 1840 there has been a comprehensive school with Horben and Hurnen. Work offered arable and fruit growing, from around 1850 also dairy farming and the Brühwiler Fensterholz AG founded in 1990. From 1882 to 1931 there were eleven embroideries . At the Mooswanger Weiher, peat was extracted during the two world wars . From 1962 to 1977 the village carried out a property improvement . In 1970, the construction of single-family houses saw strong growth.

population

Population development of Wiezikon
year	1831	1850	1900	1950	1990	2000	2010	2018
Local parish	192	189	168	208	405
Locality						548	518	713
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The village of Wiezikon near Sirnach had 713 inhabitants in 2018. 101 of them belonged to the Fischingen community south of the village center . Of the 612 residents belonging to the municipality of Sirnach, 38 or 6.2% were foreign nationals. 241 (39.4%) were Roman Catholic and 186 (30.4%) Protestant Reformed.

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• Erich Trösch: Wiezikon. 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 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. ↑ without outside courtyards

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