Thundorf, Switzerland
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| Population | 1,273 (December 2007) | |||||||||
| - Density | 82 /km² (211 /sq.mi.) | |||||||||
| Area | 15.6 km² (6 sq mi) | |||||||||
| Elevation | 546 m (1,791 ft) | |||||||||
| Postal code | 8512 | |||||||||
| SFOS number | 4611 | |||||||||
| Mayor | Stefan Blatter | |||||||||
| Localities | Thundorf, Kirchberg, Lustdorf, Wetzikon | |||||||||
| Surrounded by | Affeltrangen, Amlikon-Bissegg, Felben-Wellhausen, Frauenfeld, Hüttlingen, Lommis, Matzingen, Stettfurt | |||||||||
| Website | www.thundorf.ch | |||||||||
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Thundorf (pronounced [ˈtuːndɔrf], in the local dialect [ˈtuəndɔrfː] or [ˈtuəndərəfː])[1] is a municipality in the district of district of Frauenfeld in the canton of Thurgau in Switzerland.
The village of Thundorf lies on a plateau above Frauenfeld. In 1995, the communal territory was enlarged to the east, when Wetzikon and Lustdorf, the latter of which until then was autonomous, were joined to it.
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[edit] Coat of arms
Blazon: Gules, a fess argent between three mullets of six points argent (2, 1).
[edit] Etymology
The earliest quotation of Thundorf dates back to the year 888 (Tuomsdorof<*tuomesdorf). This place name is composed by the OHG anthroponym Duomo/*Tuomo and the noun substantive dorf ‚hamlet, farm, village, estate, quarter of a town‘.[1]
[edit] Sources
- ^ a b Philipp Obrist/Andres Kristol, Thundorf TG (Frauenfeld) in: Dictionnaire toponymique des communes suisses – Lexikon der schweizerischen Gemeindenamen – Dizionario toponomastico dei comuni svizzeri (DTS|LSG), Centre de dialectologie, Université de Neuchâtel, Verlag Huber, Frauenfeld/Stuttgart/Wien 2005, ISBN 3-7193-1308-5 and Éditions Payot, Lausanne 2005, ISBN 2-601-03336-3, p. 873f.
[edit] External links
- Thundorf (German) Official website
- Lustdorf in German, French and Italian in the online Historical Dictionary of Switzerland.
- Kirchberg (TG) in German, French and Italian in the online Historical Dictionary of Switzerland.
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