DEUTSCHLAND	GERMANY
Bundesland: Baden-Württemberg
Regierungsbezirk: Freiburg
Landkreis: Konstanz

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Stockach is situated at an elevation of 491 m in the Hegau region, about 5 km northwest of Lake Constance, about 13 km north of Radolfzell and about 25 km northwest of Konstanz. The municipality has a population of about 17,100 (2018).

Stockach was founded by the counts of Nellenburg in the mid-13th century and received the privileges of a town probably in 1275 (certainly by 1283). The Counts of Nellenburg became extinct in 1422 and their estates were acquired by the House of Habsburg in 1465; hence Stockach was a part of Further Austria until 1805. In 1810 Stockach finally fell to the Grand Duchy of Baden. During the German Revolution, for the first time a German republic was proclaimed here, unsuccessfully, on 25 March 1848. The industrialisation began in the mid-19th century. The railroad Radolfzell–Stockach opened in 1867. The district Stockach was created in 1936 out of the former Ämter (˜districts) Meßkirch, Stockach and Überlingen; on 1 January 1973 the district was merged into the district Konstanz, except 4 municipalities which were placed in the district Tuttlingen and another 2 that were placed in the Zollernalbkreis (district town Balingen).

The Catholic church of Sankt Oswald [centre, barely visible] goes back to a Gothic church that had been consecrated in 1402. That church was almost completely destroyed by a large fire in 1704. The church was then rebuilt in Baroque style between 1707 and 1728. The tower with it s characteristic onion roof was completed in 1733. Already towards the end of the 19th century the church was thougt to have become too small, but plans to enlarge the church could not be carried out due to the outbreak of World War  and then because of the German Hyperinflation of 1922/1923. Finally, a new, modern church was built in 1932–1933 by the architect Otto Linder in the style of New Objectivity. Only the tower of the old, Baroque church was preserved.

[https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockach, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockach; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Leagues, https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landkreis_Stockach; https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Oswald_(Stockach)]