Oberriet
Sign in to saveOberriet is a municipality in the Wahlkreis (constituency) of Rheintal in the canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland.
Key facts
- Swiss town.subject_name
- Oberriet
- Swiss town.municipality_type
- municipality
- Swiss town.image_photo
- Oberriet.jpg
- Swiss town.imagepath_coa
- Oberriet-blazon.svg
- Swiss town.canton
- St. Gallen
- Swiss town.iso code region
- CH-SG
- Swiss town.district
- Rheintal
- Swiss town.postal_code
- 9463
- Swiss town.municipality_code
- 3254
- Swiss town.area
- 34.51
- Swiss town.elevation
- 420
- Swiss town.website
- oberriet.ch
- Swiss town.mayor
- Walter Hess
- Swiss town.neighboring_municipalities
- Altach (AT-8), Altstätten, Balgach, Diepoldsau, Eichberg, Koblach (AT-8), Mäder (AT-8), Marbach, Meiningen (AT-8), Rebstein, Rüte (AI), Rüthi
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- Heritage sites of national significance
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Oberriet is a municipality in the Wahlkreis (constituency) of Rheintal in the canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland.
==History== Oberriet is first mentioned in 891 as Cobolo. About 1290 it was mentioned as Chobilwalt and in 1417 it was first mentioned as Oberriet.