Markdorf

Markdorf is a small metropolis in Lake Constance in Baden Wurttemberg. The first written point out of the metropolis dates from the year 817, while Emperor Louis the Pious made a donation to the monastery of St. Gallen. The awarding of metropolis rights befell round 1250. The town therefore celebrated its 750^th anniversary in 2000. The development of the city changed into pushed from the 12^th to the 14^th century with the aid of the Lords of Mark village, earlier than it flourished under the guideline of the Bishops of Constance, especially way to the cultivation of wine. St. Nicholas Church after protection of the tower roof in July 2006.

Especially the 30 Years' War and the Napoleonic Wars took their toll. Only a few a long times later, at the night time of July 10 to 11, 1842, accompanied the super hearth of Markdorf, which left 349 inhabitants, especially of the eastern part of the town, homeless. In addition to the upper city, the roof of the church tower of the Catholic parish church of St. Nicholas also burned down, inflicting the 9 bells to plunge into the depths.