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FRAUENFELD

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FRAUENFELD , the See also:

capital of the Swiss See also:canton of See also:Thurgau, 27 M. by See also:rail N.E. of See also:Zurich or 144 m. W. of See also:Romanshorn. It is built on the Murg stream a little above its junction with the Thur. It is a prosperous commercial See also:town, being situated at the See also:meeting point of several routes, while it possesses several See also:industrial establishments, chiefly concerned with different branches of the See also:iron See also:trade. In 1900 its See also:population (including the neighbouring villages) was 7761, mainly See also:German-speaking, while there were 5563 Protestants to 2188 Romanists. Frauenfeld is the See also:artillery See also:depot for See also:North-See also:East See also:Switzerland. The upper town is the older See also:part, and centres See also:round the See also:castle, of which the See also:tower See also:dates from the loth See also:century, though the See also:rest is of a later See also:period. Both stood on See also:land belonging to the See also:abbot of See also:Reichenau, who, with the See also:count of Kyburg, founded the town, which is first mentioned in 1255. The abbot retained all manorial rights till 1803, while the See also:political See also:powers of the Kyburgers (who were the " protectors" of Reichenau) passed to the Habsburgs in 1273, and were seized by the Swiss in 1460 with the rest of the Thurgau. In 1712 the town succeeded See also:Baden in See also:Aargau as the meeting-See also:place of the Federal See also:Diet, and continued to be the capital of the See also:Confederation till its transformation in 1798. In 1799 it was successively occupied by the Austrians and the See also:French. The old Capuchin See also:convent (1591—1848) is now occupied as a vicarage by the Romanist See also:priest.

(W. A. B.

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