Wartau

Also known as Wartau SG

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.

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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Wikidata facts

Official name: Wartau
Population: 5595
Area: 41.75
Elevation: 472
Official website: www.wartau.ch
Image: Burg Wartau.jpg
Dialing code: 081
Licence plate code: SG

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Commons category: Wartau
postal code: 9478
P8168: Charles Goldsborough
external data available at URL: geo.ld.admin.ch/boundaries/municipality/3276

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==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.