Wartau
Sign in to saveWartau is a municipality in the Werdenberg constituency of the Swiss canton of St. Gallen. The municipality consists of a number of villages on the eastern flank of the Alvier group, along the left shore of the Alpine Rhine.
Key facts
- Swiss town.subject_name
- Wartau
- Swiss town.image_photo
- Burg Wartau.jpg
- Swiss town.image_caption
- View of the ruined Wartau castle, looking south-east across the Rhine Valley towards Mittagspitz
- Swiss town.municipality_type
- municipality
- Swiss town.imagepath_coa
- CHE Wartau COA.svg
- Swiss town.canton
- St. Gallen
- Swiss town.iso code region
- CH-SG
- Swiss town.district
- Werdenberg
- Swiss town.postal_code
- 9476-9479
- Swiss town.municipality_code
- 3276
- Swiss town.area
- 41.74
- Swiss town.elevation
- 468
- Swiss town.website
- www.wartau.ch
- Swiss town.mayor
- Andreas Bernold
- Swiss town.neighboring_municipalities
- Balzers (LI), Flums, Mels, Sargans, Sevelen, Triesen (LI), Walenstadt
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Wartau is a municipality in the Werdenberg constituency of the Swiss canton of St. Gallen. The municipality consists of a number of villages on the eastern flank of the Alvier group, along the left shore of the Alpine Rhine.
==Geography== thumb|View from Chamm, the ridge between Palfris and Tschggen alpine pasture|alps (), looking west-northwest towards [[Walensee.]] Wartau municipality consists of the villages of Azmoos (), Trübbach (), Weite () along the Rhine, Oberschan (), Malans (), Gretschins () and Fontnas () in the foothills of the Alvier chain, the hamlets of Plattis () and Murris (), and Matug () and environs, historically a Walser Streusiedlung.