Mammern

Mammern is a municipality in the district of Frauenfeld in the canton of Thurgau in Switzerland and is located on the south shore of the lower lake. By Mammern leads the sea line.

History

Mammern was inhabited in the Neolithic period, there were found prehistoric lake dwellings in Won " Longhorn ", at the mouth of the Rhine in the submarine. The site is since 2011 part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site Prehistoric Pile Dwellings around the Alps. Furthermore, traces of settlement of the Celts find.

First mentioned as Manburon in 909. 1319 were the lords of the castle at Taegerwilen the rule Mammern from the monastery of St. Gall as a fief. They were also the owners of Neuburg, above the village. In the twenties of the 17th century, the former suzerain, the brothers Johann Peter built ( Landammann in Uri) and Charles Emmanuel of Roll ( bailiff in Thurgau ) the New Castle, which passed in 1687 in the possession of the monastery Rheinau ( ZH). After the abbey was abolished in 1799, followed by a period of the change of ownership. Finally, in 1866 Dr. Freuler bought the palace and established it as a private clinic, the successor institution still exists today.

Attractions

• In 1750, inaugurated baroque castle chapel, by the Vorarlberg architect Johann Michael Beer ( 1696-1780 ) was designed. The interior was designed mainly by the Kempten painter Franz Ludwig Herrmann ( 1723-1791 ).
• The pilgrimage chapel Seven Sorrows of Mary in Klingenzell.
• The ruins of Neuburg, the once largest castle on the submarine.