Romanshorn

Romanshorn is a municipality in the district of Arbon in the canton of Thurgau, Switzerland, on the southern shore of Lake Constance. It was probably settled in the seventh century and is first mentioned in 779 as Rumanishorn in a land grant to the Abbey of St. Gall. The local economy once rested on grain, horticulture, fruit growing, forestry and fishing, and the village only began to grow in 1844 when the canton of Thurgau built a port and the postal route to Swabia ran through it; steamboats had moved there in 1832 and the railway from Zurich arrived in 1855. The harbour is listed as a Swiss heritage site of national significance. It covers about 8.75 square kilometres and had 11,327 people in December 2020.