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Wängi
Wängi is a municipality in the district of Münchwilen in the canton of Thurgau in Switzerland. Geography Wängi has an area, , of . Of this area, or 71.1% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 16.3% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 12.3% is settled (buildings or roads), or 0.4% is either rivers or lakes and or 0.1% is unproductive land.Swiss Federal Statistical Office-Land Use Statistics 2009 data accessed 25 March 2010 Of the built up area, industrial buildings made up 5.7% of the total area while housing and buildings made up 0.7% and transportation infrastructure made up 0.4%. while parks, green belts and sports fields made up 4.9%. Out of the forested land, 15.0% of the total land area is heavily forested and 1.3% is covere ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stettfurt
Stettfurt is a municipality in the district of Frauenfeld in the canton of Thurgau in Switzerland. History Stettfurt is first mentioned in 827 as ''Stetivurt''. Until 1817, it was part of the municipality of Matzingen. In the 9th Century, the Abbey of St. Gall owned property in Stettfurt. In 1228 Diethelm III. von Toggenburg gave Stettfurt to the Commandry of Tobel. The low court of Sonnenberg included Kalthäusern, Ruggenbühl and Stettfurt between the 13th Century until 1798. The village converted completely to the Reformed faith during the Protestant Reformation. It was part of the parish of Wängi until the church was built in 1746 and in 1752 the Stettfurt parish was created. Until the 19th Century agriculture in village operated on the Three-field system, along with fruit orchards and (until 1908) vineyards. Starting in 1850 livestock and dairy farming expanded into the village. A cheese factory opened in 1883. The distillery was founded in 1888. A cooperative, the Pre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matzingen
Matzingen (Swiss German: Matzinge) is a municipality in the district of Frauenfeld in the canton of Thurgau in Switzerland. History Matzingen is first mentioned in 779 as ''Mazcingas''. During the High Middle Ages, the Freiherr of Matzingen had the low court rights. Sonnenberg began to rule over the village in 1402 and remained over the village until 1798. In 894 Matzingen had a church, which belonged to Wängi. The right to appoint the priest was first held by the Abbey of St. Gall, until 1401, when the Commandry of Tobel took over this right. Matzingen became a separate parish in 1508 and converted to the new Reformed faith in 1529. For centuries farming, fruit production and viticulture (the latter operated until 1908) dominated the local economy. After 1850, livestock production and dairy farming were added to traditional agriculture. Between 1150 and 1996, Matzingen owned a mill. In 1863 a pottery plant opened. Followed, in 1866, by a spinning mill, which transf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bettwiesen
Bettwiesen is a municipality in the district of Münchwilen in the canton of Thurgau in Switzerland. History Bettwiesen is first mentioned in 868 as ''Petterwison''. During the Middle Ages it belonged to the Prince-Bishop of Constance's Tannegg district. In 1693 the entire district went to the monastery of Fischingen. The monastery had, since the Late Middle Ages, owned land in Bettwiesen and had built a castle in 1627. St. Mary's Chapel in Bettwiesen was first mentioned in 1275 and was part of the parish of Wil under the monastery. The village converted to the new faith during the Protestant Reformation in 1530, but converted back to the Catholic faith during the Counter-Reformation in 1542. The Reformed population became part of the parish of Sirnach, and later (probably in the 18th century) the Affeltrangen parish. In 1646, the village split from the Wil parish to form a new, catholic parish. Farmland and vineyards were replaced in 1900 by the livestock industry ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bichelsee-Balterswil
Bichelsee-Balterswil is a municipality in the district of Münchwilen in the canton of Thurgau in Switzerland. It was formed from the union on January 1, 1996 of Bichelsee and Balterswil. History It was created in 1996 when the former municipalities of Balterswil and Bichelsee merged.Amtliches Gemeindeverzeichnis der Schweiz published by the Swiss Federal Statistical Office accessed 14 January 2010 Bichelsee is first mentioned in 894 as ''Pichelense'' and Balterswil is mentioned in 885 as ''Baldherreswilare''. Bichelsee [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eschlikon
Eschlikon is a Municipalities of Switzerland, municipality in the district of Münchwilen (district), Münchwilen in the Cantons of Switzerland, canton of Thurgau in Switzerland. History Eschlikon is first mentioned in 1280 as ''Aeslikon''. During the Middle Ages, most of Eschlikon (except for the farms of a few free peasants) belonged to the monastery of Magdenau and ''Heiliggeistspital'' in St. Gallen. Eschlikon was part of the High, middle and low justice, high courts of Tuttwilerberg. From the Late Middle Ages until 1798 it was the home of the Old Swiss Confederacy, Swiss Confederation Governor in Thurgau or his appointed Vogt. The village Church (building), church was originally part of the Sirnach parish. In 1529, the majority of the population converted to the new religion during the Protestant Reformation. The Reformed majority separated from Sirnach parish in 1936, and formed a new parish with Münchwilen, Oberhofen, St. Margaret and Wallenwil. The Catholicism, cath ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lommis
Lommis is a municipality in the district of Münchwilen in the canton of Thurgau in Switzerland. History Lommis is first mentioned in 824 as ''Loubmeissa'' and Kalthäusern is first mentioned in 1296 as ''Kalthusiren''. In 854 St. Gallen received property in the region around Lommis. Around 1200, the ''Herrschaft'' of Lommis was a fief of Reichenau Abbey of Reichenau and the Counts of Toggenburg, in the possession of the Ministerialis (unfree knights in the service of a feudal overlord) family of Lommis. In 1443 Petermann of Raron bought the village. After a further changing hands, it came to Fischingen Abbey in 1599. It remained under the Abbey until 1798. The village church was probably built in the High Middle Ages and was part of the parish of Affeltrangen. A priest is first mentioned in the church in 1214. In 1529, the village converted to the new faith during the Protestant Reformation. However, the local lord was able to re-institute the Mass in 1532. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Münchwilen, Thurgau
Münchwilen is a municipality and district capital of the district of Münchwilen in the canton of Thurgau in Switzerland. History Münchwilen is first mentioned in 1160 as ''Munchiwillar''. Oberhofen bei Münchwilen is first mentioned in 1160-70 as ''Obirhovin''. Sankt Margarethen is first mentioned in 1275 as ''Affoltrangen sancte Margarete''. Hofen-Holzmannshaus is first mentioned in 1244 as ''Hovin'' and in 1448 as ''Holtzmans guot bei Eschlikon''. Between 1803 and 1950 Münchwilen was an ''Ortsgemeinde'' in the municipality of Sirnach. In a process that lasted from 1812 until 1824, Münchwilen absorbed the municipality of Mezikon. Then, in 1950, the ''Ortsgemeinden'' of Münchwilen, Oberhofen and St. Margarethen, against opposition from the rest of the villages in Sirnach, merged to form the independent municipality of Münchwilen. Münchwilen Münchwilen was first mentioned in 1160 and 1170 as part of the estates of the Abbey of St. Gallen. From the late 15th Centu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aadorf
Aadorf is a municipality in the district of Münchwilen in the canton of Thurgau in Switzerland. In 1996 Ettenhausen, Guntershausen bei Aadorf, and Wittenwil merged into Aadorf.Amtliches Gemeindeverzeichnis der Schweiz published by the Swiss Federal Statistical Office accessed 14 January 2010 History Aadorf is first mentioned in 886 as ''Ahadorf''. The oldest record of Tänikon, now part of Ettenhausen, dates to 789 as ''Tanninchova''. Tänikon is also the site of the Tänikon monastery, founded in the 13th century. Aawangen is first mentioned in ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Münchwilen (district) , a district within the Swiss canton of Thurgau
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Münchwilen may refer to: * Münchwilen, Aargau, a municipality in the district of Laufenburg in the canton of Aargau, Switzerland *Münchwilen, Thurgau, a municipality in the canton of Thurgau, Switzerland, capital of Münchwilen district * Münchwilen District Münchwilen District is one of the five districts of the canton of Thurgau, Switzerland. It has a population of (as of ). Its capital is the town of Münchwilen, Thurgau, Münchwilen. The district contains the following municipalities: Refer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Primary Sector Of The Economy
The primary sector of the economy includes any industry involved in the extraction and production of raw materials, such as farming, logging, fishing, forestry and mining. The primary sector tends to make up a larger portion of the economy in developing countries than it does in developed countries. For example, in 2018, agriculture, forestry, and fishing comprised more than 15% of GDP in sub-Saharan Africa but less than 1% of GDP in North America. In developed countries the primary sector has become more technologically advanced, enabling for example the mechanization of farming, as compared with lower-tech methods in poorer countries. More developed economies may invest additional capital in primary means of production: for example, in the United States corn belt, combine harvesters pick the corn, and sprayers spray large amounts of insecticides, herbicides and fungicides, producing a higher yield than is possible using less capital-intensive techniques. These technologic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Free Democratic Party Of Switzerland
french: Parti radical-démocratique it, Partito Liberale Radicale rm, Partida liberaldemocrata svizra , logo = Free Democratic Party of Switzerland logo French.png , logo_size = 200px , foundation = , dissolution = , merged = FDP.The Liberals , headquarters = Neuengasse 20 Postfach 6136CH-3001 Bern , ideology = , position = Centre-right , international = Liberal International , european = European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party , europarl = , colours = Azure , country = Switzerland The Free Democratic Party or Radical Democratic Party (german: Freisinnig-Demokratische Partei, FDP; french: Parti radical-démocratique, PRD; it, Partito liberale-radicale svizzero, PLR; rm, Partida liberaldemocrata svizra, PLD) was a liberal political party in Switzerland. Formerly one of the major parties in Switzerland, on 1 January 2009 it merged with the Liberal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Voter Turnout
In political science, voter turnout is the participation rate (often defined as those who cast a ballot) of a given election. This can be the percentage of registered voters, eligible voters, or all voting-age people. According to Stanford University political scientists Adam Bonica and Michael McFaul, there is a consensus among political scientists that "democracies perform better when more people vote." Institutional factors drive the vast majority of differences in turnout rates.Michael McDonald and Samuel Popkin"The Myth of the Vanishing Voter"in American Political Science Review. December 2001. p. 970. For example, simpler parliamentary democracies where voters get shorter ballots, fewer elections, and a multi-party system that makes accountability easier see much higher turnout than the systems of the United States, Japan, and Switzerland. Significance Some parts of society are more likely to vote than others. As turnout approaches 90%, significant differences between vot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
