Salenstein

Sale stone, in the local dialect Saleschte [ saləʃtə ], is a municipality in the district of Kreuzlingen in the canton of Thurgau in Switzerland.

Geography

Sale stone lies on the south shore of the lower lake, opposite the island of Reichenau and comprises the villages of Sale Stone, Bach and Fruthwilen.

History and name

In Sale, there are three stone grave mounds from the early Iron Age. The first mention of the name "Sale stone " is from 1092. Ever since belonged to the most important basic rights and rule of the monastery of Reichenau. It was not until 1798 that reichenauische Lower Court was abolished and replaced by a district court Helvetic unit order. 1816 was the merger of three local churches Sale Stone, Bach and Fruthwilen for Sale Munizipalgemeinde stone. In 1979, from the united community Salenstein.

The name "Sale stone " is salo with the Old High German words, dirty, cloudy, dark ' and stone, stone, rock, castle ' and meant, the dark-colored stone ' or, in the dark-colored castle '. It should relate to the gray sandstone on which the upper castle was built.

Attractions

Castles

In the municipality there are five locks today. The sixth, castle Sandegg, burned down in 1833. The other locks are arenas Mountain, Eugensberg Sale and stone, and Louis Castle Mountain in the district of Bach and lock Hubberg in the district Fruthwilen.

Personalities

  • Eugène de Beauharnais (1781-1824), son of Napoleon Bonaparte, let the Eugensberg palace built
  • Hortense de Beauharnais (1783-1837), Queen of Holland and mother of Emperor Napoleon III.
  • Napoléon III. (1808-1873), President of France from 1848 to 1852 and Emperor of the French from 1852 to 1870
  • Eugénie de Montijo (1826-1920), wife of Napoleon III. and from 1853 to 1870 Empress of the French
  • Alexander von Herder (1826 - ...), Saxony- weimarischer Chamberlain, grandson of Johann Gottfried Herder and the owner of the castle Sale stone from 1869
  • Paul Ilg (1875-1957), Swiss writer
  • Hardekopf Ferdinand (1876-1954), German writer, who lived around 1912 in Bach and Sale Stone
  • René Schickele (1883-1940), German - French writer who lived from 1911 to 1916 in Stone Sale
  • Anneliese Rothenberger (1926-2010), lived in Stone Sale
  • Ruth Maria Kubitschek (* 1931), German actress (who lives in Sale stone)
  • Pierre Kaffer (born 1976 ), German race car driver
  • Mattias Ekström (born 1978 ), Swedish racing driver ( DTM )
Untersee (Lake Constance) Arenenberg Kreuzlingen District Altnau Bottighofen Ermatingen Gottlieben Langrickenbach Lengwil Alterswilen Dippishausen-Oftershausen Hugelshofen Triboltingen Municipalities of the canton of Thurgau
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