Amlikon-Bissegg

Amlikon-Bissegg is a municipality in the district of Weinfelden in the canton of Thurgau in Switzerland.

The municipality was created on 1 January 1995 by a merger of Amlikon, Bissegg, Griesenberg and Strohwilen.

From the mid-13th century until 1798, it was part of the court of Griesenberg, which came from a side line of the Bussnang family.

Until the 19th century the main economic activities were grain cultivation in a three-field system and hemp production.

The local economy was based on grain cultivation, and some vineyards until the 19th century when it transitioned to cattle and dairy farming.

At the beginning of the 13th century, the west half of the Bussnang lands came under a limited self-rule.

Then, in 1397, Adelaide's daughter from her first marriage, Clementia, sold the village to Konrad von Hoff of Constance.

In the 15th and early 16th centuries it became the property of various families until it was acquired in 1529 by Henry of Ulm, who was also a citizen of Constance.

Karl Anton Kraft, Austrian bailiff of Stockach, sold it in 1795 to the Schulthess Family of Zurich.

The church of Griesenberg was part of the parish of Leutmerken, and converted to the new faith during the Protestant Reformation in 1529.

When Marx von Ulm converted back to the old religion in 1607, the Counter-Reformation came into the village.

The Holzhof, which has been in the possession of the Wartmann family since 1858, is one of the cradles of Swiss Tilsit cheese.

[5] Amlikon-Bissegg has an area, as of 2009[update], of 14.43 square kilometers (5.57 sq mi).

[7] The municipality is located on the left bank of the Thur River on the Konstanz-Wil road.

It consists of the villages of Amlikon, Griesenberg and Strohwilen and the hamlets of Bissegg, Holzhäusern, Hünikon, Junkholz, Altenburg, Bänikon, Fimmelsberg, Holzhof, Leutmerken and Tümpfel as well as other settlements.

Most of the population (as of 2000[update]) speaks German (97.4%), with French being second most common ( 0.5%) and Polish being third ( 0.3%).

[9] The age distribution, as of 2009[update], in Amlikon-Bissegg is; 126 children or 9.7% of the population are between 0 and 9 years old and 218 teenagers or 16.8% are between 10 and 19.

[14] In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the SVP which received 57.87% of the vote.

[15] The historical population is given in the following table: The entire hamlet of Leutmerken and the Griesenberg are designated as part of the Inventory of Swiss Heritage Sites.

[10] From the 2000 census[update], 349 or 29.1% were Roman Catholic, while 654 or 54.5% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church.

Of the children in kindergarten, 5 or 50.0% were female, 1 or 10.0% were not Swiss citizens and 1 or 10.0% did not speak German natively.

At the lower primary level, there were 21 children or 67.7% of the total population who were female, 3 or 9.7% were not Swiss citizens and 2 or 6.5% did not speak German natively.

Aerial view (1954)
Historic watermill in Amlikon
Restaurant Ochsen in Amlikon