Bichelsee-Balterswil

Worth seeing in and around Bichelsee-Balterswil

4 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

1. 01
   Further Austria

   Further Austria, Outer Austria or Anterior Austria ) was the collective name for the early possessions of the House of Habsburg in the former Swabian stem duchy of south-western Germany, including territories in the Alsace region west of the Rhine and in Vorarlberg. While the territories of Further Austria west of the Rhine and south of Lake Constance were gradually lost to France and the Swiss Confederacy, those in Swabia remained under Habsburg control until the Napoleonic Era, with Vorarlberg still forming a part of modern Austria.

   3.5 km · historical provinces of the House of Habsburg · Wikipedia
2. 02
   Schauenberg Castle

   Schauenberg is a hill and ruined castle near Turbenthal, canton of Zurich, at 892 m elevation. There were fortifications since the Iron Age, and since the early 13th century, there was a wooden structure, in the 1250s extended to a massive keep.

   4 km · medieval castle ruins and modern high watch / signal point in Hofstetten in the municipality of Elgg in the canton of Zürich, Switzerland · Wikipedia
3. 03
   Tannegg Castle

   Tannegg Castle is a castle in the municipality of Fischingen of the Canton of Thurgau in Switzerland. It is a Swiss heritage site of national significance.

   3.4 km · national heritage site in Fischingen, Switzerland · Wikipedia
4. 04
   Alt-Bichelsee Castle

   Alt-Bichelsee Castle is a ruined castle in the Swiss Canton of Thurgau in the municipality of Bichelsee-Balterswil.

   300 m · Ruins of a hill castle · Wikipedia

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Getting to Bichelsee-Balterswil

Airports

Zürich (ZRH), 28 km · Bodensee Friedrichshafen (FDH), 51 km · EuroAirport Basel–Mulhouse–Freiburg (BSL), 106 km

Stations

Eschlikon railway station, 3.4 km · Guntershausen railway station, 2.7 km

• Geneva → Bichelsee-Balterswil

  253 km · quickest by road, 4h 52m · CHF33–44
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• Friedrichshafen → Bichelsee-Balterswil

  47 km · quickest by road, 2h 16m · €12–16
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• Bâle / Mulhouse → Bichelsee-Balterswil

  123 km · quickest by road, 2h 42m · €17–23
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No local-transport research exists yet for Bichelsee-Balterswil

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Bichelsee-Balterswil. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

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