Altstätten
Sign in to saveAltstätten is a small historic rural town and a municipality in the district Rhine Valley, in the canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland. It is located with some secure distance of about west from the Alpine Rhine in the flat and wide St. Gall Rhine Valley, which also designates the border with Austria. It further gives access to the higher situated Appenzell to the west.
Key facts
- Swiss town.subject_name
- Altstätten
- Swiss town.image_photo
- Altstätten Panorama.jpg
- Swiss town.municipality_type
- town, municipality
- Swiss town.imagepath_coa
- CHE Altstätten SG COA.svg
- Swiss town.imagepath_flag
- CHE Altstätten Flag.svg
- Swiss town.canton
- St. Gallen
- Swiss town.iso code region
- CH-SG
- Swiss town.district
- Rheintal
- Swiss town.postal_code
- 9450
- Swiss town.municipality_code
- 3251
- Swiss town.area
- 39.46
- Swiss town.elevation
- 455
- Swiss town.elevation_description
- Cross of Rorschacher- and Churerstrasse)
- Swiss town.website
- www.altstaetten.ch
- Swiss town.mayor
- Ruedi Mattle
- Swiss town.mayor_asof
- March 2014
- Swiss town.mayor_party
- independent
- Swiss town.mayor_title
- Stadtpräsident
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- Notable people
- References
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Altstätten is a small historic rural town and a municipality in the district Rhine Valley, in the canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland. It is located with some secure distance of about west from the Alpine Rhine in the flat and wide St. Gall Rhine Valley, which also designates the border with Austria. It further gives access to the higher situated Appenzell to the west.
The official language of Altstätten is (the Swiss variety of Standard) German, but the main spoken language is the local variant of the Alemannic Swiss German dialect.