Winches TG
| TG is the abbreviation for the canton of Thurgau in Switzerland and is used to avoid confusion with other entries of the name Winden . |
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 Thurgau (TG)
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| District : | Arbon | |
| Political community : | Egnach | |
| Postal code : | 9315 | |
| Coordinates : | 744 486 / 263 462 | |
| Height : | 498 m above sea level M. | |
| Residents: | 335 (December 31, 2018) | |
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Winden , formerly Kügelis winds , is a village in the political municipality Egnach in the district of Arbon in the canton of Thurgau in Switzerland .
geography
Winden is located on the slope against Lömmenschwil on the main road St. Gallen - Neukirch (Egnach) - Romanshorn . The Häggenschwil -Winden station on the St. Gallen-Romanshorn line of the Südostbahn is located in Winden .
The hamlets of Ballen, Bündt, Hegi, Klösterli, Lengwil, Schübshub, Siebeneichen, Staubishub and Winen belong to winches. The farm Raach is 10.5 hectares large enclave belongs to the municipality Häggenschwil in the canton of St. Gallen . Ballen and Lengwil were separated from the municipality of Roggwil (TG) in 1860 and assigned to the municipality of Egnach.
history
Winden was mentioned in a document in 1302 as the Ober- and Niderzüge . From around 1575 to 1910 it was called Kügelis winds to distinguish it from the hamlet of Pralis winds , which is also located in the municipality of Egnach .
The Doppelhof Winden was mentioned in 1302 in the Episcopal Urbar and was awarded to the von Helmsdorf and from 1545 to 1632 to the Kügelin. Until 1798 he was part of the Bailiwick of Arbon . Raach came to the Heilig-Geist-Spital St. Gallen in 1309 . In church terms, Winden always shared the fate of Egnach.
In Winden arable and fruit growing and from 1850 cattle and dairy farming (1887 cheese dairy, from 1953 dairy) was operated; Among other things, a construction company and a carpentry shop settled there. At the Häggenschwil-Winden station of the Lake Constance-Toggenburg railway , which opened in 1910, a heating oil and petrol warehouse with a capacity of 300 million liters was built from 1963 to 1975, largely in the Häggenschwiler municipality.
population
| year | 1880 | 1910 | 1941 | 2000 |
| Residents | 59 | 126 | 113 | 93 |
education
The Hegi-Winden school with a basic level and primary school is located in Hegi .
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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.
- ^ Official phone book of Switzerland. On: local.ch, accessed on February 1, 2020
- ↑ a b David Grob: Hof Raach is the only exclave in the canton of St. Gallen - a search for the reasons in the Middle Ages. In: St. Galler Tagblatt (online), April 17, 2019
- ↑ 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.
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↑ a b c d e Erich Trösch: Winden. 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 . - ^ Primary school Hegi-Winden. On the website of the Egnach primary school community, accessed on February 1, 2020