Walenstadt
Sign in to saveWalenstadt is a municipality in the Wahlkreis (constituency) of Sarganserland in the canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland. It is located on Lake Walen (also known as "Lake Walenstadt").
Key facts
- Swiss town.subject_name
- Walenstadt
- Swiss town.image_photo
- WalenstadtKirche.jpg
- Swiss town.image_caption
- Reformed Church of Walenstadt
- Swiss town.municipality_type
- municipality
- Swiss town.imagepath_coa
- CHE Walenstadt COA.svg
- Swiss town.imagepath_flag
- CHE Walenstadt Flag.svg
- Swiss town.canton
- St. Gallen
- Swiss town.iso code region
- CH-SG
- Swiss town.district
- Wahlkreis Sarganserland
- Swiss town.postal_code
- 8880
- Swiss town.municipality_code
- 3298
- Swiss town.area
- 45.75
- Swiss town.elevation
- 425
- Swiss town.website
- www.walenstadt.ch
- Swiss town.mayor
- Werner Schnider
- Swiss town.mayor_asof
- 2008
- Swiss town.mayor_title
- Gemeindepräsident
- Swiss town.places
- Walenstadt, Walenstadtberg, Knoblisbühl, Berschis, Tscherlach
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Walenstadt is a municipality in the Wahlkreis (constituency) of Sarganserland in the canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland. It is located on Lake Walen (also known as "Lake Walenstadt").
==Geography== left|thumb|Walenstadt from above thumb|Aerial view from 400 m by Walter Mittelholzer (1934) Walenstadt has an area of . Of this area, 35.1% is used for agricultural purposes, while 40.4% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 5.3% is settled (buildings or roads) and the remainder (19.2%) is non-productive (rivers or lakes). Until 1952, Walenstadt was known as Wallenstadt.