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Frauenfeld
Coat of arms of Frauenfeld
Coat of arms
Country Switzerland
Canton Thurgau
District Frauenfeld
Area
 • Total 27.37 km2 (10.57 sq mi)
Elevation
417 m (1,368 ft)
Population
 (Dec 2015 )
 • Total 24,864
 • Density 908.44/km2 (2,352.8/sq mi)
Postal code
8500
Localities Gerlikon, Herten, Horgenbach, Huben, Kurzdorf, Langdorf, Schönenhof, Zelgli
Surrounded by Aadorf, Bertschikon bei Attikon (ZH), Ellikon an der Thur (ZH), Felben-Wellhausen, Gachnang, Hagenbuch (ZH), Matzingen, Thundorf, Uesslingen-Buch, Warth-Weiningen
Twin towns Kufstein (Austria)

Frauenfeld is the capital city of the canton of Thurgau in Switzerland. It is also the capital city of the district of Frauenfeld.

History

Early history

The city is first written about in 1246. It grew up around the Frauenfeld castle on the land of the Reichenau convent.

In 1264, it became the property of the Habsburgs. In 1374, the Habsburgs bestowed the right of judgment for all of Thurgau (which then included St. Gallen) on the Duke of Frauenfeld.

Twice in the 1700s, Frauenfeld was partly destroyed by fire, in 1771 and in 1788.

The fall of the old Old Swiss Confederacy in 1798 as a result of the French invasion brought an end to the gatherings in Frauenfeld.

Modern history

In 1919, the municipalities of Langdorf, Kurzdorf, Huben, Herten, and Horgenbach became part of Frauenfeld. In 1998, Gerlikon, Schönenhof, and Zelgli joined Frauenfeld.

Frauenfeld-Schloss
Frauenfeld Castle

Images for kids

  • Erchingen888BI

    Document signed by Arnulf of Carinthia, dated 888 but possibly from the 11th or 12th century, granting the manor farm of Erchingen to Reichenau Abbey

  • Frauenfeld stumpf

    Frauenfeld in 1548

  • Frawenfeld (Merian)

    Frauenfeld in 1654, from the Topographia Helvetiae, Rhaetiae et Valesiae

  • Frauenfeld 1771

    Frauenfeld before the fire of 1771

  • Gerlikon-01

    The village of Gerlikon joined Frauenfeld in 1998.

  • Frauenfeld-West-03

    Frauenfeld from the west

  • FrauenfldzumSchwertStr

    Haus zum Schwert in the old city of Frauenfeld

  • Frauenfeld - Switzerland

    FW-Railways at station Frauenfeld

  • Heinrich Häberlin

    Heinrich Häberlin

  • Walter Hess

    Walter Hess, 1949

  • Fabian Frei

    Fabian Frei, 2011

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