Stockach is a town in the district of Konstanz, in southern

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Location

It is situated in the

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region, about 5 km northwest of

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, 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 Konstanz (, , locally: ; also written as Constance in English) is a university city with approximately 83,000 inhabitants located at the western end of Lake Constance in the south of Germany. The city houses the University of Konstanz and was th ...

. Stockach includes the central city and 10 villages:

History

The Counts of Nellenburg founded Stockach in the 13th century, the town receiving

town privileges Town privileges or borough rights were important features of European towns during most of the second millennium. The city law customary in Central Europe probably dates back to Italian models, which in turn were oriented towards the tradition ...

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

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in 1465; hence Stockach was a part of Further Austria until 1805. In the

Swabian War The Swabian War of 1499 ( gsw, Schwoobechrieg (spelling depending on dialect), called or ("Swiss War") in Germany and ("War of the Engadin") in Austria) was the last major armed conflict between the Old Swiss Confederacy and the House of Hab ...

of 1499 the troops of the

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besieged the town but failed to capture it. During the

War of the Spanish Succession The War of the Spanish Succession was a European great power conflict that took place from 1701 to 1714. The death of childless Charles II of Spain in November 1700 led to a struggle for control of the Spanish Empire between his heirs, Phil ...

, Elector

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set fire to Stockach. During the

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of the

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two battles were fought here between the

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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

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Politics

Parties in the Ratshaus

Twin towns

Stockach is twinned with: *

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, 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

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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