Fahrkopf (Canton of Thurgau)

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The driving head is a shoal in the Upper Rhine before Rheinklingen . It is marked with the shipping sign No. 52.

location

The driving head, one of six erratics in this section of the Rhine made of tuff rock , lies between Bibermühle and Hemishofen on the driving line between the canton of Thurgau and the canton of Schaffhausen about 230 m below the shoal called Wucherstein, a granite rock that has already been blown up and 650 meters below Mouth of the Hemishoferbach.

Events

The French General Lecourbe crossed his army at Fahrkopf on May 1st, 1800. He was on the chase of the Austrians. According to tradition, during this action a heavy war chest slipped from a horse-drawn cart and disappeared into the Rhine.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Mitteilungen , Vienna (Austria), Research Institute for the Fermentation Industry, published in 1963, page 54
  2. ↑ Thurgau news archive
  3. ↑ http://www.rhyfruende.ch/index.php?id=65
  4. ↑ History and Tradition . In: MS Kreuzlingen website. Retrieved May 22, 2013

Coordinates: 47 ° 40 '37.6 "  N , 8 ° 49' 12.8"  E ; CH1903:  seven hundred and three thousand seven hundred and forty-nine  /  281635