Matzingen

Also known as Matzingen TG

Matzingen (Swiss German: Matzinge) is a municipality in the district of Frauenfeld in the canton of Thurgau in Switzerland.

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Swiss town.subject_name: Matzingen
Swiss town.municipality_type: municipality
Swiss town.image_photo: Matzingen Ochsen.jpg
Swiss town.image_caption: Gasthof Ochsen in Matzingen village
Swiss town.imagepath_coa: CHE Matzingen COA.svg
Swiss town.canton: Thurgau
Swiss town.iso code region: CH-TG
Swiss town.district: Frauenfeld
Swiss town.postal_code: 9548
Swiss town.municipality_code: 4591
Swiss town.area: 7.7
Swiss town.elevation: 450
Swiss town.population: 2433
Swiss town.populationof: December 2007
Swiss town.popofyear: 2007
Swiss town.website: www.matzingen.ch
Swiss town.neighboring_municipalities: Aadorf, Frauenfeld, Stettfurt, Thundorf, Wängi

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Official name: Matzingen
Population: 2433
Area: 7.68
Elevation: 480
Official website: www.matzingen.ch
Image: Matzingen Ochsen.jpg
Dialing code: 052
Licence plate code: TG

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Commons category: Matzingen
postal code: 9548
native label: Matzingen
P8168: Q492943
external data available at URL: geo.ld.admin.ch/boundaries/municipality/4591

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Matzingen (Swiss German: Matzinge) is a municipality in the district of Frauenfeld in the canton of Thurgau in Switzerland.

==History== thumb|left|Matzingen Mill thumb|left|Aerial view from 200 m by Walter Mittelholzer (1920) Matzingen is first mentioned in 779 as Mazcingas. During the High Middle Ages, the Freiherr of Matzingen had the low court rights. Sonnenberg began to rule over the village in 1402 and remained over the village until 1798.