Schmerikon
Sign in to saveSchmerikon is a municipality in the Wahlkreis (constituency) of See-Gaster in the canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland. In the local Swiss German dialect it is called Schmerike.
Key facts
- Swiss town.subject_name
- Schmerikon
- Swiss town.image_photo
- Schmerikon IMG 2132.JPG
- Swiss town.image_caption
- Schmerikon waterfront
- Swiss town.municipality_type
- Gemeinde
- Swiss town.imagepath_coa
- Wappen Schmerikon.svg
- Swiss town.imagepath_flag
- CHE Schmerikon Flag.svg
- Swiss town.canton
- St. Gallen
- Swiss town.iso code region
- CH-SG
- Swiss town.district
- Wahlkreis See-Gaster
- Swiss town.postal_code
- 8716
- Swiss town.municipality_code
- 3338
- Swiss town.area
- 4.15
- Swiss town.elevation
- 408
- Swiss town.website
- www.schmerikon.ch
- Swiss town.mayor
- Félix Brunschwiler
- Swiss town.neighboring_municipalities
- Eschenbach, Jona, Tuggen (SZ), Uznach
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Schmerikon is a municipality in the Wahlkreis (constituency) of See-Gaster in the canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland. In the local Swiss German dialect it is called Schmerike.
==Geography== thumb|Schmerikon thumb|Schmerikon in 1825 thumb|Aerial view from 150 m by Walter Mittelholzer (1919) Schmerikon is located at the head of Lake Zurich, on the section of the lake known as the Obersee and where the Linth river enters the lake. Part of the municipality is a natural reserve, particularly along the lake shore.