Switzerland
Canton of Aargau
Muri District

Boswil

Boswil is a municipality in the district of Muri in the canton of in . The village lies in the Bünztal valley at the foot of the mountain. The hamlet Wissenbach and Sentenhof belong to the municipality.
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  • Type: Village with 2,500 residents
  • Description: municipality in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland
  • Also known as: “Boswil AG” and “CH4228”
  • Postal code: 5623

Places of Interest

Highlights include Boswil-Bünzen railway station and Lourdes grotto.

Railway station
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is a railway station in the municipality of Boswil, in the canton of Aargau. It is an intermediate stop on the standard gauge Rupperswil–Immensee line of Swiss Federal Railways.

Church
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A is a replica of the grotto where the Lourdes apparitions occurred in 1858, in the town of in , now part of the .

Church
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was a Benedictine monastery dedicated to Saint Martin of Tours. It flourished for over eight centuries at , in the Canton of Aargau, near Zürich, Switzerland.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Muri and Waltenschwil.

Village
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, formerly known as , is a municipality in southeastern Swiss Canton and is the capital of same district. The present municipality of was created in 1816 from the merging of the four municipalities , , Hasli and Wey.

Village
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is a municipality in the district of Muri in the canton of in . is situated 4 km north of Boswil.

Village
Photo: DidiWeidmann, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a municipality in the district of Muri in the canton of in .

Boswil

Latitude
47.3004° or 47° 18′ 2″ north
Longitude
8.3138° or 8° 18′ 50″ east
Population
2,500
Elevation
475 metres (1,558 feet)
Open location code
8FVC8827+5G
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2333071475
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
7285301
Wiki­data ID
Q65222
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Welsh—“Boswil” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Boswil”
  • Basque: “Boswil”
  • Breton: “Boswil”
  • Catalan: “Boswil”
  • Cebuano: “Boswil”
  • Chinese: “Boswil”
  • Chinese: “博斯維爾”
  • Chinese: “博斯维尔”
  • Dutch: “Boswil”
  • Esperanto: “Boswil”
  • French: “Boswil”
  • German: “Boswil AG”
  • German: “Boswil”
  • Hebrew: “בוסוויל”
  • Hungarian: “Boswil”
  • Irish: “Boswil”
  • Italian: “Boswil”
  • Lombard: “Boswil”
  • Luxembourgish: “Boswil”
  • Malay: “Boswil”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Boswil”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Boswil”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Boswil”
  • Norwegian: “Boswil”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Boswil”
  • Piemontese: “Boswil”
  • Polish: “Boswil”
  • Portuguese: “Boswil”
  • Romansh: “Boswil”
  • Russian: “Босвиль”
  • Spanish: “Boswil”
  • Swedish: “Boswil”
  • Swiss German: “Bosmel”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Boswil”
  • Turkish: “Boswil”
  • Ukrainian: “Босвіль”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Boswil”
  • Uzbek: “Bosvil”
  • Uzbek: “Boswil”
  • Venetian: “Boswil”
  • Vietnamese: “Boswil”
  • Volapük: “Boswil”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Boswil”
  • Welsh: “Boswil”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Boswil”. Photo: DidiWeidmann, CC BY-SA 3.0.