Bischofszell
Bischofszell is a village and a municipality in Weinfelden District in the canton of Thurgau in Switzerland.
Bischofszell is a village and a municipality in Weinfelden District in the canton of Thurgau in Switzerland. It is the seat of the district. In 1987, the city was awarded the Wakker Prize for the preservation of its architectural heritage. So was its neighboring city Hauptwil-Gottshaus in 1999.
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Worth seeing in and around Bischofszell
One place 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.
- 01Hauptwil Castle
Hauptwil Castle is a castle in the municipality of Hauptwil-Gottshaus of the Canton of Thurgau in Switzerland. It is a Swiss heritage site of national significance.
2.6 km · castle and Heritage site in Thurgau, Switzerland · Wikipedia
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Getting to Bischofszell
- Airports
- Bodensee Friedrichshafen (FDH), 28 km · Zürich (ZRH), 52 km · Memmingen Allgau (FMM), 93 km
- Stations
- Kradolf railway station, 3.6 km · Sitterdorf railway station, 1.3 km · Bischofszell Stadt railway station, 1.1 km · Hauptwil railway station, 2.9 km · Bischofszell Nord railway station, 100 m
- Memmingen → Bischofszell88 km · quickest by road, 2h 26m · €13–18
- Stuttgart → Bischofszell143 km · quickest by road, 3h 4m · €20–28
- Rheinmünster → Bischofszell166 km · quickest by road, 3h 54m · €23–32
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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No local-transport research exists yet for Bischofszell
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 Bischofszell. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inBoth the ferry terminal and the passenger boat jetty are just outside the railway station.
- Get inA ferry links Friedrichshafen in Germany to Romanshorn (41 min, Fr.
- Get inThe ferry has between 8 and 16 connections a day depending on the time of the year and the weekday.
From Wikivoyage: Romanshorn, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Next door to Bischofszell
Bischofszell is 53 km from Zürich, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Zihlschlacht-Sitterdorfmunicipality in the canton of Thurgau in Switzerland3.1 km
- Hohentannenmunicipality in the canton of Thurgau in Switzerland1.3 km