Stockach is a town in the district of Konstanz, in southern Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

Location

It is situated in the Hegau region, about 5 km northwest of

Lake Constance Lake Constance (german: Bodensee, ) refers to three Body of water, bodies of water on the Rhine at the northern foot of the Alps: Upper Lake Constance (''Obersee''), Lower Lake Constance (''Untersee''), and a connecting stretch of the Rhine, ca ...

, 13 km north of

Radolfzell Radolfzell am Bodensee is a town in Germany at the western end of Lake Constance approximately 18 km northwest of Konstanz. It is the third largest town, after Constance and Singen, in the district of Konstanz, in Baden-Württemberg. Rado ...

and 25 km northwest of Konstanz. Stockach includes the central city and 10 villages:

History

The Counts of Nellenburg founded Stockach in the 13th century, the town receiving town privileges in 1283. In 1401 to the Landgraviate of Nellenburg owned the towns of Engen, Tengen,

, Stockach, 125 villages, 9 abbeys and 4 mailing stations. The Counts of Nellenburg became extinct in 1422 and their estates were acquired by the House of Habsburg in 1465; hence Stockach was a part of Further Austria until 1805. In the Swabian War of 1499 the troops of the Three Leagues besieged the town but failed to capture it. During the War of the Spanish Succession, Elector Maximilian II Emanuel of Bavaria set fire to Stockach. During the French Revolutionary Wars of the

Second Coalition The War of the Second Coalition (1798/9 – 1801/2, depending on periodisation) was the second war on revolutionary France by most of the European monarchies, led by Britain, Austria and Russia, and including the Ottoman Empire, Portugal, N ...

two battles were fought here between the

French First Republic In the history of France, the First Republic (french: Première République), sometimes referred to in historiography as Revolutionary France, and officially the French Republic (french: République française), was founded on 21 September 1792 ...

and the

Habsburg monarchy The Habsburg monarchy (german: Habsburgermonarchie, ), also known as the Danubian monarchy (german: Donaumonarchie, ), or Habsburg Empire (german: Habsburgerreich, ), was the collection of empires, kingdoms, duchies, counties and other polities ...

1799 Events January–June * January 9 – British Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger introduces an income tax of two shillings to the pound, to raise funds for Great Britain's war effort in the French Revolutionary Wars. * January ...

and

1800 As of March 1 ( O.S. February 18), when the Julian calendar acknowledged a leap day and the Gregorian calendar did not, the Julian calendar fell one day further behind, bringing the difference to 12 days until February 28 ( O.S. February 16), ...

. In 1810 Stockach finally fell to the

Grand Duchy of Baden The Grand Duchy of Baden (german: Großherzogtum Baden) was a state in the southwest German Empire on the east bank of the Rhine. It existed between 1806 and 1918. It came into existence in the 12th century as the Margraviate of Baden and subs ...

Politics

Parties in the Ratshaus

Twin towns

Stockach is

twinned Twinning (making a twin of) may refer to: * In biology and agriculture, producing two offspring (i.e., twins) at a time, or having a tendency to do so; * Twin towns and sister cities, towns and cities involved in town twinning * Twinning inst ...

with: * La Roche-sur-Foron, France, since 1972

Personality

Freeman

* 1993 Franz Ziwey (born 1932), 24 years mayor of Stockach

Sons and daughters of the town

* Max Cramer (1859–1933), teacher and genealogist * Albert Gockel (1860–1927), physicist * Karl Friedrich Gegauf (1860–1926), born in Wahlwies, invented and built the first hemstitch sewing machine in the world and laid the foundation for the

Bernina International Bernina International AG is a privately owned international manufacturer of sewing and embroidery systems. The company was founded in Steckborn, Switzerland, by a Swiss people, Swiss inventor Fritz Gegauf. The company develops, manufactures, and se ...

company * Andreas Renner (born 1959), politician (CDU) and former Minister of Social Affairs of Baden-Württemberg

Personalities who have worked locally

* Anton Sohn (1769–1841), creator of the Zizenhausener terracottas lived and worked from 1799 until his death in the district Zizenhausen * Gustav Holtzrock (1869–1938), painter, lived and worked from 1919 until his death in Stockach *

Marc Dumitru Marc Dumitru (born 5 April 1986) is a German actor and singer of Romanian descent. He has one sister and he has made his Abitur in Stockach. The self-styled gateway to Lake Constance, He's school days he found quite casually, especially the time ...

(born 1986), actor and performer in House of Anubis''Marc Dumitru''
Website der AnubisPedia. Retrieved 13 March 2010.

References

External links

* {{Authority control Konstanz (district) Hegau