Aadorf

Aadorf is a municipality of roughly 9,200 inhabitants in the district of Münchwilen in the canton of Thurgau, Switzerland. Its present extent dates from 1996, when the neighbouring communities of Ettenhausen, Guntershausen bei Aadorf and Wittenwil, together with Aawangen, were absorbed into it, which made it the seventh largest municipality of the canton by 2008. The place is first recorded in 886 as Ahadorf, and the surrounding land holds far older traces: Hallstatt-period graves near Elgg, scattered Bronze Age and Roman finds at the Bachwiesen archaeological site, and a cemetery at Sonnhalde from the 7th and 8th centuries. The parish church is said to have been founded in 840. The Tänikon monastery, founded in the 13th century, was dissolved by the canton in 1848, and since 2006 its premises have housed the Agrotechnorama Tänikon. The municipality covers about 19.9 square kilometres, just over half of it farmland.