Wattwil
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Wattwil is a municipality in the Wahlkreis (constituency) of Toggenburg in the canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland, located along the Thur river. On 1 January 2013 the municipality of Krinau merged into Wattwil.
Key facts
- Swiss town.subject_name
- Wattwil
- Swiss town.image_photo
- Thurbruecke Wattwil 01 11.jpg
- Swiss town.municipality_type
- municipality
- Swiss town.imagepath_coa
- CHE Wattwil COA.svg
- Swiss town.canton
- St. Gallen
- Swiss town.iso code region
- CH-SG
- Swiss town.district
- Toggenburg
- Swiss town.postal_code
- 9630
- Swiss town.municipality_code
- 3379
- Swiss town.area
- 43.93
- Swiss town.elevation
- 610
- Swiss town.population
- 8536
- Swiss town.populationof
- Dec 2014
- Swiss town.popofyear
- 2014
- Swiss town.website
- www.wattwil.ch
- Swiss town.mayor
- Alois Gunzenreiner
- Swiss town.neighboring_municipalities
- Brunnadern, Bütschwil, Ebnat-Kappel, Ernetschwil, Goldingen, Gommiswald, Hemberg, Krinau, Lichtensteig, Mosnang, Oberhelfenschwil, Sankt Gallenkappel
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- Municipality of Switzerland
- Official name
- Wattwil
- Country
- Switzerland
- Located in
- Toggenburg Constituency
- Official language
- Swiss High German
- Population
- 8736
- Area
- 51.18
- Elevation
- 610
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
- Body of water
- Thur
- Shares border with
- Hemberg
- Official website
- www.wattwil.ch
- Image
- Thurbruecke Wattwil 01 11.jpg
- Dialing code
- 071
- Licence plate code
- SG
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- Commons category
- Wattwil
- postal code
- 9630
- topic's main category
- Category:Wattwil
- category for people born here
- Category:Births in Wattwil, Switzerland
- replaces
- Krinau
- external data available at URL
- geo.ld.admin.ch/boundaries/municipality/3379
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Encyclopedic overview
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Wattwil is a municipality in the Wahlkreis (constituency) of Toggenburg in the canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland, located along the Thur river. On 1 January 2013 the municipality of Krinau merged into Wattwil.
==Geography== left|thumb|View over Wattwil and Churfirsten from castle Iberg thumb|Aerial view from 200 m by Walter Mittelholzer (1919) Since the merger, the new municipality has an area of .
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Wattwil” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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