Wigoltingen

Wigoltingen is a municipality in the district of Rheinfelden in the canton of Thurgau wine in Switzerland.

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Geography

Wigoltingen located in the center of the Thurgau south of the lake ridge on the north bank of the Thur between Weinfelden and Frauenfeld.

The municipality also includes the villages of Bonau, Engwang, Illhart, Wagerswil, Lamperswil and Hasli with the garbage home Wigoltingen train station.

Population

About 89 % of the population speak German. The next most common languages ​​are Italian and Portuguese with 1.77 admixed with 1.38 percent.

Economy

In Wigoltingen especially agriculture still plays a role. Approximately 75 percent of the municipal area are agricultural land.

Traffic

Wigoltingen shares with garbage home the SBB train station trash home Wigoltingen. This is in Hasli. With the S-Bahn S8 and S30 can be direction Weinfelden or Frauenfeld or Winterthur / Zurich travel. Furthermore Wigoltingen is the postal bus lines on the 80 833 Ermatingen - reachable garbage home Wigoltingen - Müllheim -Wigoltingen and 80 831 Homburg. For private transport available in the Bonau and garbage home a driveway to the A7 Motorway available.

History

For the first time Wigoltingen is mentioned in the year 889 under the name Wigoltinga. 1155 Wigoltingen is mentioned again. The village comes later in the possession of the Cathedral Chapter of constancy, which transfers the field to the barons of old blades. In 1664 it came to the so-called Wigoltingerhandel. In 1704 the first meetinghouse was built in Wigoltingen. 1803 Wigoltingen joined as part of the canton of Thurgau of the Swiss Confederation and elected the first council.

Today's municipality Wigoltignen was founded in 1995 by the merger of the former Munizipalgemeinde Wigoltingen with their local communities Bonau, Engwang, Illhart, Wagerswil, Wigoltingen and a number of hamlets and farmsteads. Through the merger, the new whole church also received a new coat of arms. It has been integrated from the previous coat of arms displays an icon in the new coat of arms.

Engwang

Bonau

Wigoltingen old coat of arms

Total community

Arts Culture

As in many villages of Switzerland, a large part of the local culture plays in clubs. There are several choirs and sports clubs. In addition, the TV Wigoltingen through 2009, the county Turnfest lake ridge. A complete list of clubs can be found here.

Train

Wigoltingen offers schools for all levels of the game group to ninth grade. For the middle school, most go to Frauenfeld, but occasionally also to Kreuzlingen.

Attractions

In the municipality, the castle is privately owned Altenklingen.

Others

The legacy of Fleig family of the Polstermöbelfabrik Fleig has been used for various projects. One of these is a local library.

In the hamlet of houses, there is a mosque of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat.

Since 19 March 2012, the U.S. politician Michele Bachmann he originates from Wigoltingen. In May 2012, she announced that she would leave the Swiss citizenship again.

Pictures

Former school house Illhart with sundial

Wagerswil