Tägerschen is a village and former municipality in the

canton of Thurgau Thurgau (; ; ; ), anglicized as Thurgovia, and formally as the Canton of Thurgau, is one of the 26 cantons forming the Swiss Confederation. It is composed of five districts. Its capital is Frauenfeld. Thurgau is part of Eastern Switzerland. I ...

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. The municipality also contained the villages Karlishub and Thürn. In 1999 the municipality was merged with the neighboring municipality Tobel to form a new and larger municipality

Tobel-Tägerschen Tobel-Tägerschen is a Municipalities of Switzerland, municipality in the district of Münchwilen (district), Münchwilen in the Cantons of Switzerland, canton of Thurgau in Switzerland. The municipality was created in 1999 by a merger of Tägers ...

.Amtliches Gemeindeverzeichnis der Schweiz
published by the Swiss Federal Statistical Office accessed 14 January 2010

History

The village was first recorded in year 762 as ''Tegarascha''. In the 8th and 9th century much of the village was acquired by the

Abbey of St. Gall The Abbey of Saint Gall () is a dissolved abbey (747–1805) in a Catholic religious complex in the city of St. Gallen in Switzerland. The Carolingian-era monastery existed from 719, founded by Saint Othmar on the spot where Saint Gall had er ...

en. The

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rights were originally held by the

Counts of Toggenburg The counts of Toggenburg (''Grafen von Toggenburg'') ruled the Toggenburg region of today's canton of St. Gallen, Switzerland, and adjacent areas during the 13th to 15th centuries. A baronial family of Toggenburg is mentioned in the 11th and 1 ...

through their servants, the Heitnau family. These rights transferred in 1258 to the

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Commandry In the Middle Ages, a commandery (rarely commandry) was the smallest administrative division of the European landed properties of a military order. It was also the name of the house where the knights of the commandery lived.Anthony Luttrell and G ...

of Tobel. These rights gradually expanded until 1500, by which time they had complete manor and court rights. The only exceptions was a house that had been granted freedom from local lords in 1547. The ownership of this house changed often in the following centuries. Between 1798 and 1871 this house served as the headquarters of the district governor of Tobel. Later, it housed an embroidery, and then a dairy that is still in existence. Catholics and Protestants were divided into the

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es of Tobel and Affeltrangen. The first village laws were documented in 1490 and regulated the daily life. Grain was cultivated in the

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with some

viticulture Viticulture (, "vine-growing"), viniculture (, "wine-growing"), or winegrowing is the cultivation and harvesting of grapes. It is a branch of the science of horticulture. While the native territory of ''Vitis vinifera'', the common grape vine ...

. In the 19th century the economy transitioned to produce

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, with some fruit production starting in 1911. Between 1870 and 1914 the village shared in the embroidery boom and in 1910 there were 26 embroidery workers in the village. In 1924, a needle factory opened followed in 1978 by a tank farm for petroleum products with rail access to the Thurgau-Bahn rail-line.

Historic population

The historical population is given in the following table:

References

Former municipalities of Thurgau Villages in Switzerland {{Thurgau-geo-stub es:Tobel-Tägerschen eo:Tobel-Tägerschen fr:Tobel-Tägerschen it:Tobel-Tägerschen nl:Tobel-Tägerschen pt:Tobel-Tägerschen ru:Тобель-Тегершен simple:Tobel-Tägerschen vec:Tobel-Tägerschen vo:Tobel-Tägerschen