Altstätten

Also known as Altstätten SG, Altstatten, Altstaetten

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.

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

via Wikipedia infobox

~11 min read

Encyclopedic overview

14 sections

Contents

Overview
History
Coat of arms
Geography
Demographics
Religion
Economy
Sights
Sport
Transport
Notable people
References
Notes
External links

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.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Altstätten” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.