Egnach
Sign in to saveEgnach is a municipality of the district of Arbon in the canton of Thurgau in Switzerland.
Key facts
- Swiss town.subject_name
- Egnach
- Swiss town.municipality_type
- municipality
- Swiss town.image_photo
- Kirche Neukirch-Egnach.jpg
- Swiss town.image_caption
- Egnach village
- Swiss town.imagepath_coa
- CHE Egnach COA.svg
- Swiss town.imagepath_flag
- CHE Egnach Flag.svg
- Swiss town.canton
- Thurgau
- Swiss town.iso code region
- CH-TG
- Swiss town.district
- Arbon
- Swiss town.postal_code
- 9322
- Swiss town.municipality_code
- 4411
- Swiss town.area
- 18.42
- Swiss town.elevation
- 408
- Swiss town.population
- 4272
- Swiss town.populationof
- December 2007
- Swiss town.popofyear
- 2007
- Swiss town.website
- www.egnach.ch
- Swiss town.neighboring_municipalities
- Amriswil, Arbon, Eriskirch (DE-BW), Friedrichshafen (DE-BW), Häggenschwil (SG), Muolen (SG), Roggwil, Salmsach
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Egnach is a municipality of the district of Arbon in the canton of Thurgau in Switzerland.
==History== Egnach is first mentioned in 1155 as Egena. By the 9th century it appears to have belonged to the Bishopric of Constance and was part of the upper Bailiwick of Arbon. The Abbey of Saint Gall acquired land in Egnach, which led to competing legal claims between abbot and bishop (which were settled in 854). During the Late Middle Ages it was a regional administrative center for lands of the Bishops of Constance. After the conquest of Thurgau by the Swiss Confederation in 1460, the new rulers replaced all the Bishop's representatives. While the low courts remained in the hands of the bishop until 1798, in 1509 he lost the rights to the high courts to the governor of Thurgau. In 1544 Egnach received a special lower court.