Quarten
Sign in to savethumb|upright|Quinten and Lake Walen thumb|upright|Murg and Quinten villages on opposite sides of the lake thumb|upright|Aerial view from by Walter Mittelholzer (1923) Quarten is a municipality in the Wahlkreis (constituency) of Sarganserland, in the canton of St. Gallen, Switzerland, on Lake Walen. Besides the village of Quarten, the municipality also includes the settlements of Oberterzen, Unterterzen, Quinten, Mols, Murg, and parts of Tannenbodenalp.
Key facts
- Swiss town.subject_name
- Quarten
- Swiss town.image_photo
- Walensee Unterterzen-2.jpg
- Swiss town.image_caption
- Unterterzen, Quarten
- Swiss town.municipality_type
- municipality
- Swiss town.imagepath_flag
- CHE Quarten Flag.svg
- Swiss town.imagepath_coa
- Quarten-blazon.svg
- Swiss town.canton
- St. Gallen
- Swiss town.iso code region
- CH-SG
- Swiss town.district
- Sarganserland
- Swiss town.postal_code
- 8883
- Swiss town.municipality_code
- 3295
- Swiss town.area
- 61.90
- Swiss town.elevation
- 548
- Swiss town.mayor
- Erich Zoller
- Swiss town.mayor_party
- Die Mitte
- Swiss town.places
- Quarten, Oberterzen, Unterterzen, Quinten, Mols SG, Murg SG, Tannenbodenalp, Flums-Grossberg
- Swiss town.neighboring_municipalities
- Alt Sankt Johann, Amden, Engi (GL), Flums, Mühlehorn (GL), Obstalden (GL), Sool (GL), Walenstadt
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thumb|upright|Quinten and Lake Walen thumb|upright|Murg and Quinten villages on opposite sides of the lake thumb|upright|Aerial view from by Walter Mittelholzer (1923) Quarten is a municipality in the Wahlkreis (constituency) of Sarganserland, in the canton of St. Gallen, Switzerland, on Lake Walen. Besides the village of Quarten, the municipality also includes the settlements of Oberterzen, Unterterzen, Quinten, Mols, Murg, and parts of Tannenbodenalp.
==History and name== Between 801 and 850 AD, the village is mentioned as Quarto, which means "fourth". Like Brüntsch (Primsch in Romansh or first in English; ), Guns (Seguns in Romansh or second in English; ), Terzen (third) and Quinten (fifth), Quarten got its name because it was the fourth courtyard of the diocese of Chur. In 1220, the village was known as Quartin.