Bettwiesen
Sign in to saveBettwiesen is a municipality in the district of Münchwilen in the canton of Thurgau in Switzerland.
Key facts
- Swiss town.subject_name
- Bettwiesen
- Swiss town.municipality_type
- municipality
- Swiss town.image_photo
- Kirche Bettwiesen1.jpg
- Swiss town.imagepath_coa
- Bettwiesen-blazon.svg
- Swiss town.canton
- Thurgau
- Swiss town.iso code region
- CH-TG
- Swiss town.district
- Münchwilen
- Swiss town.postal_code
- 9553
- Swiss town.municipality_code
- 4716
- Swiss town.area
- 3.85
- Swiss town.elevation
- 550
- Swiss town.population
- 1046
- Swiss town.populationof
- December 2007
- Swiss town.popofyear
- 2007
- Swiss town.website
- www.bettwiesen.ch
- Swiss town.neighboring_municipalities
- Bronschhofen (SG), Lommis, Münchwilen, Tobel-Tägerschen, Wängi
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Bettwiesen is a municipality in the district of Münchwilen in the canton of Thurgau in Switzerland.
==History== thumb|left|Aerial view from 400 m by Walter Mittelholzer (1923) Bettwiesen is first mentioned in 868 as Petterwison. During the Middle Ages it belonged to the Prince-Bishop of Constance's Tannegg district. In 1693 the entire district went to the monastery of Fischingen. The monastery had, since the Late Middle Ages, owned land in Bettwiesen and had built a castle in 1627.