Gottshaus is a village and former municipality in the canton of Thurgau, Switzerland.
The canton of Thurgau is a northeast canton of Switzerland.
Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a sovereign state situated in the confluence of western, central, and southern Europe. It is a federal republic composed of 26 cantons, with federal authorities seated in Bern. Switzerland is a landlocked country bordered by Italy to the south, France to the west, Germany to the north, and Austria and Liechtenstein to the east. It is geographically divided between the Alps, the Swiss Plateau and the Jura, spanning a total area of 41,285 km2 (15,940 sq mi), and land area of 39,997 km2 (15,443 sq mi). While the Alps occupy the greater part of the territory, the Swiss population of approximately 8.5 million is concentrated mostly on the plateau, where the largest cities are located, among them the two global cities and economic centres of Zürich and Geneva.
It was first recorded somewhere between year 1250 and 1300 as Gottshaus.
The municipality also contained the village Sankt Pelagiberg as well as 40 others. It had 781 inhabitants in 1850, which went up and down over the years to 676 in 1900, 798 in 1950, 707 in 1980 and 811 in 1990.
Sankt Pelagiberg is a village in the canton of Thurgau, Switzerland.
In 1996 the municipality was merged with the neighboring municipality Hauptwil to form a new and larger municipality Hauptwil-Gottshaus.
Hauptwil is a village and former municipality in the canton of Thurgau, Switzerland.
Hauptwil-Gottshaus is a municipality in Weinfelden District in the canton of Thurgau in Switzerland.
