Bottighofen

Bottighofen is a municipality in the district of Kreuzlingen in the canton of Thurgau in Switzerland.

[3] The main landlord for the village, was the monastery of Münsterlingen, from the High Middle Ages until the 19th century.

Bottighofen was part of the parish of Münsterlingen, which was restored after the resumption of monastic life in 1549/51.

In the 19th century, the main businesses were in milling, farming and viticulture as well as some timber trade.

[3] Bottighofen has an area, as of 2009[update], of 2.39 square kilometers (0.92 sq mi).

Of the rest of the land, 0.61 km2 (0.24 sq mi) or 25.5% is settled (buildings or roads), 0.01 km2 (2.5 acres) or 0.4% is either rivers or lakes.

Most of the population (as of 2000[update]) speaks German (92.8%), with Italian being second most common ( 1.5%) and Albanian being third ( 1.1%).

[6] The age distribution, as of 2009[update], in Bottighofen is; 198 children or 9.5% of the population are between 0 and 9 years old and 164 teenagers or 7.9% are between 10 and 19.

[12] In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the SVP which received 37.35% of the vote.

In the federal election, a total of 652 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 50.3%.

[13] The historical population is given in the following table:[3][14] As of  2007[update], Bottighofen had an unemployment rate of 1.76%.

[7] From the 2000 census[update], 535 or 31.8% were Roman Catholic, while 865 or 51.4% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church.

Of the children in kindergarten, 21 or 47.7% were female, 12 or 27.3% were not Swiss citizens and 3 or 6.8% did not speak German natively.

At the lower primary level, there were 23 children or 51.1% of the total population who were female, 12 or 26.7% were not Swiss citizens .

In the upper primary level, there were 20 or 41.7% who were female, 10 or 20.8% were not Swiss citizens and 1 or 2.1% did not speak German natively.

Baeren Inn Bottighofen
Aerial view from 300 m by Walter Mittelholzer (1924)
Lake Constance in Bottighofen