Gams
Sign in to saveGams is a municipality in the Wahlkreis (constituency) of Werdenberg in the canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland.
Key facts
- Swiss town.subject_name
- Gams
- Swiss town.municipality_type
- municipality
- Swiss town.image_photo
- Gams dorfzentrum.jpg
- Swiss town.image_caption
- Gams village center
- Swiss town.imagepath_coa
- Gams-blazon.svg
- Swiss town.canton
- St. Gallen
- Swiss town.iso code region
- CH-SG
- Swiss town.district
- Werdenberg
- Swiss town.postal_code
- 9473
- Swiss town.municipality_code
- 3272
- Swiss town.area
- 22.28
- Swiss town.elevation
- 490
- Swiss town.website
- www.gams.ch
- Swiss town.mayor
- Werner Schöb
- Swiss town.places
- Altendorf, Buchser Berg, Burgerau, Räfis
- Swiss town.neighboring_municipalities
- Buchs, Grabs, Sennwald, Wildhaus
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Gams is a municipality in the Wahlkreis (constituency) of Werdenberg in the canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland.
==History== thumb|Aerial view (1964) Gams is first mentioned in 835 as Campesias. In 1210 it was mentioned as Chames, in 1236 as Gamps. Until the Middle Ages it was a Romansh village and was known in Romansh as Chiamp.