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Encyclopedia Britannica

ROMANSHORN

This article appears in Volume V23, Page 583 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: RHY-RON

ROMANSHORN , an important commercial town in the Swiss

canton

of

Thurgau

THURGAU (Fr. Thurgovie)

. It is situated on the west shore of the lake of Constance, and by rail is 511 M. N.E. of Zurich, 121 M. S.E. of Constance, and 10 m. N.W. of Rorschach. In 1900 its

population

POPULATION (Lat. populus,
people
- PEOPLE
; populare, to populate)

was 4577, mostly German-speaking, while there were 3093 Protestants to 1478 Romanists. Originally a small fishing

village

VILLAGE

, it belonged to the abbot of St

Gall

from 1432 to 1798, when it became

part

PART

of the

canton

of

Thurgau

THURGAU (Fr. Thurgovie)

. In 1856 the railway from Romanshorn to Zurich was opened, and this vastly increased the commercial importance of Romanshorn. Nowadays it is the centre of a

great

GREAT

transit

trade

, as it communicates, by means of the lake, with the

principal

PRINCIPAL

towns on its shores. The corn

trade

and that in timber are among 'the most important, while there are many industrial establishments. It is essentially a modern commercial centre.

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