Thundorf

Geschichte

Thundorf<ref name="po/ks">Philipp Obrist/Andres Kristol, Thundorf TG in: Dictionnaire toponymique des communes suisses – Lexikon der schweizerischen Gemeindenamen – Dizionario toponomastico dei comuni svizzeri , Centre de dialectologie, Université de Neuchâtel, Verlag Huber, Frauenfeld/Stuttgart/Wien 2005, and Éditions Payot, Lausanne 2005, p. 873f. 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.Coat of armsBlazon: Gules, a fess argent between three mullets of six points argent (2, 1).EtymologyThe earliest mention of Thundorf dates back to the year 888 . This place name is composed by the OHG anthroponym Duomo/*Tuomo and the noun substantive dorf ‚hamlet, farm, village, estate, quarter of a town‘.Thundorf TodayThe village is mainly residential and has a large school with over 500 pupils. Despite having a population of over a thousand, Thundorf only has a single shop named "Volg" on the main street which serves the local population selling groceries and farming supplies. Transport to the village is provided by a daily bus service that operates between Frauenfeld and Weinfeld. The town is famous locally for its annual "Banae Tanz" festival which has been celebrated since shortly after the 1798 French Invasion and establishment of the helvetischen Republic of Loskauf and is held annually on September 9.