Wilen at Neunforn

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Wilen at Neunforn
Coat of arms of Wilen near Neunforn
Country: SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
Cantons : Thurgau (TG)
Zurich (ZH)
Districts : TG: Frauenfeld
ZH: Andelfingen
Political communities : TG: Neunforn
ZH: Stammheim
Postal code : 8525
former BFS no. : TG: 4598
Coordinates : 702174  /  273306
Height : 506 m above sea level M.
Area : TG: 1.13 km²
Residents: TG: 41 (December 31, 2018)
Population density : TG: 36 inhabitants per km²
Wilen at Neunforn

Wilen at Neunforn
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Wilen near Neunforn (Switzerland)
Wilen at Neunforn
Wilen at Neunforn

Wilen bei Neunforn , Swiss-German Wiile bi Nüüfere , is a settlement on the border between the cantons of Thurgau and Zurich in Switzerland .

Wilen bei Neunforn TG belonged until 1995 as a local church to Thurgau Munizipalgemeinde Neunforn and since January 1, 1996 Part of the political community Neunforn. Wilen bei Neunforn ZH belonged to the municipality of Oberstammheim from 1798 to 2018 and to Stammheim since 2019 .

geography

Wilen is nestled at the end of a small high valley between the Stammerberg and the Thurtal . The Dorfstrasse is also the canton border and divides the settlement into a Thurgau and Zurich part. The small Wilenersee southeast of the village is the retreat of the glacier of Würm emerged.

history

Wilen and Wilemer See on an aerial photo by Walter Mittelholzer from 1927

Wilen was first mentioned in a document as Wilare in 909 . The St. Gallen monastery acquired two hubs in Wilen in an exchange and the surrounding monasteries of St. Katharinental and Kalchrain also owned farms there. Wilen was divided into the three lower courts of Niederneunforn , Oberneunforn and Stammheim, all of which were under Zurich rule from 1694 to 1798 . Wilen was attacked and looted by the French revolutionary armies in connection with the Second Coalition War in 1800 .

Wilen is divided by the canton border: The Zurich part belonged to Oberstammheim from 1798 to 2018 and to Stammheim since 2019. Wilen in Thurgau was from 1803 to 1853 part of the local community of Niederneunforn of the then municipal community of Neunforn . From 1853 to 1886 the whole village formed a civil parish on the basis of a Thurgau-Zurich treaty , but remained divided between Oberstammheim and Neunforn. The church, school and poor system for the whole village was transferred to the parish of Neunforn. In 1862, Hof Hub was separated from the local community of Uerschhausen and assigned to the local community of Wilen bei Neunforn.

From 1887 to 1995 the Thurgau part was a separate local parish of the municipality of Neunforn.

Ecclesiastically all of Wilen always belonged to Neunforn.

coat of arms

Wilen at Neunforn TG

Wilenn.jpg
Wilen municipality near Neunforn TG before the merger in 1996

Blazon : Divided by blue and white, each with a rose in exchanged colors.

The coat of arms is a new creation of the Thurgau community coat of arms commission from 1958.

population

Population development of the local community Wilen bei Neunforn TG
year 1850 1900 1950 1990
Residents 78 78 62 53

The Zurich part of the village has around 55 inhabitants, the Thurgau part had 45 in 2000, 33 in 2010 and 41 in 2018.

education

The parents of the pupils from Wilen ZH can choose whether they want to send their children to primary school in Stammheim or in Oberneunforn.

economy

In economic terms, agriculture, livestock and dairy farming predominate. Today ten farmers, some of them part-time, are still working in Wilen.

societies

The gymnastics club TV Wilen-Neunforn, which was founded in Wilen, is of considerable importance. The Wilen-Neunforn ice hockey club plays in the Frauenfeld ice rink .

photos

  • Junction of Uerschhauser- from Dorfstrasse

  • Glögglihaus

  • Wilen from the east

  • Wilenersee

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 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. ^ Linguistic Atlas of German-speaking Switzerland , Volume V 1b.
  4. ↑ a b c d e f Hillmar Höber: A gem as a political curiosity. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung (online) from August 8, 2014
  5. ↑ a b c d e f Erich Trösch: Wilen bei Neunforn. 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).
  6. ^ History . On the website of the municipality of Neunforn, accessed on December 31, 2019
  7. ↑ Population development of the municipalities. Canton of Thurgau, 1850-2000. On the website of the Statistical Office of the Canton of Thurgau (Excel table; 0.1 MB), accessed on April 28, 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. ↑ 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.
  10. ↑ 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.
  11. ↑ Welcome. On the website of the ice hockey club Wilen-Neunforn, accessed on March 26, 2020