Elgg

Worth seeing in and around Elgg

3 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
   Bichelsee

   Bichelsee is a lake located on the border of the cantons of Thurgau and Zurich, Switzerland. The village of Bichelsee in the municipality Bichelsee-Balterswil is named after the lake.

   3.8 km · lake in the canton of Thurgau, Switzerland · 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.

   2.6 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
   Castle with Outbuildings

   Elgg Castle is a castle in the municipality of Elgg in the Swiss canton of Zurich. It is a Swiss heritage site of national significance.

   100 m · castle in Elgg in the canton of Zürich, Switzerland · Wikipedia

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Getting to Elgg

Airports

Zürich (ZRH), 24 km · Bodensee Friedrichshafen (FDH), 53 km · EuroAirport Basel–Mulhouse–Freiburg (BSL), 102 km

Stations

Elgg railway station, 1.7 km · Aadorf railway station, 2.8 km · Guntershausen railway station, 3.9 km

• Geneva → Elgg

  252 km · quickest by road, 4h 37m · CHF32–43
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• Friedrichshafen → Elgg

  49 km · quickest by road, 2h 15m · €12–17
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• Bâle / Mulhouse → Elgg

  101 km · quickest by road, 2h 28m · €13–18
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No local-transport research exists yet for Elgg

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 Elgg. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

If you know how people move in Elgg – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.