Thundorf, Switzerland

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Thundorf

Canton	Thurgau
District	Frauenfeld
Coordinates	47°33′N 8°58′E
Population	1260 (December 2005)
Area	15.6 km²
Elevation	546 m
Postal code	8512
SFOS number	4611
Website	www.thundorf.ch
Thundorf

Thundorf [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.

1 Coat of arms
2 Politics
3 Etymology
4 Sources
5 External links

[edit] Coat of arms

Blazon: Gules, a fess argent between three mullets of six points argent (2, 1).

[edit] Politics

Chairman of the commune is Erich Germann (SVP).

[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.