What is Frauenfeld?
{{Infobox Swiss town | subject_name = Frauenfeld | municipality_name = Frauenfeld | municipality_type = city | imagepath_coa = Frauenfeld-blazon.svg|pixel_coa= | map = Karte Gemeinde Frauenfeld.png | languages = German | canton = Thurgau | iso-code-region = CH-TG | district = [[Frauenfeld (district)|Frauenfeld]] |coordinates={{coord|47|33|N|8|54|E|display=inline,title}} | postal_code = 8500 | municipality_code = 4566 | area = 27.4 | elevation = 417|elevation_description= | population = 21,965|populationof = December 2004 | website = www.frauenfeld.ch | mayor = Carlo Parolari (FDP)|mayor_asof=|mayor_party= | mayor_title = |list_of_mayors = | places = Gerlikon, Herten, Horgenbach, Huben, Kurzdorf, Langdorf, Schönenhof, Zelgli | demonym = | neighboring_municipalities= [[Aadorf]], [[Bertschikon bei Attikon]] (ZH), [[Ellikon an der Thur]] (ZH), [[Felben-Wellhausen]], [[Gachnang]], [[Hagenbuch]] (ZH), [[Matzingen]], [[Thundorf, Switzerland|Thundorf]], [[Uesslingen-Buch]], [[Warth-Weiningen]] | twintowns = [[Kufstein]] (Austria) |}} [[File:Frauenfeld rathaus.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Frauenfeld Rathaus]] '''Frauenfeld''' is the [[capital city]] of the [[Cantons of Switzerland|canton]] of [[Thurgau]] in [[Switzerland]]. It is also the [[Capital (city)|capital]] city of the [[district]] of [[Frauenfeld (district)|Frauenfeld]]. == History == === Early history === The city is first written about in 1246. It grew up around the Frauenfeld castle on the land of the [[Reichenau]] convent. In 1264, it became the property of the [[Habsburg]]s. In 1374, the Habsburgs bestowed the right of judgment for all of Thurgau (which then included [[St. Gallen]]) on the Duke of Frauenfeld. Twice in the 1700s, Frauenfeld was partly destroyed by fire, in 1771 and in 1788. The fall of the old [[Old Swiss Confederacy]] in 1798 as a result of the French invasion brought an end to the gatherings in Frauenfeld. === Modern history === In 1919, the [[municipality|municipalities]] of [[Langdorf]], [[Kurzdorf]