Altstätten
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| Coordinates: 47°23′N 9°33′E / 47.383°N 9.550°ECoordinates: 47°23′N 9°33′E / 47.383°N 9.550°E | ||
| Country | Switzerland | |
| Canton | St. Gallen | |
| District | Rheintal | |
| Government | ||
| • Executive |
Stadtrat with 7 members |
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| • Mayor |
Stadtpräsident (list) Ruedi Mattle Ind. (as of March 2014) |
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| • Parliament | none (Bürgerversammlung) | |
| Area | ||
| • Total | 39.49 km2 (15.25 sq mi) | |
| Elevation (Cross of Rorschacher- and Churerstrasse)) | 455 m (1,493 ft) | |
| Population (Dec 2015) | ||
| • Total | 11,358 | |
| • Density | 290/km2 (740/sq mi) | |
| Demonym(s) | German: Altstätter(in) | |
| Postal code | 9450 | |
| SFOS number | 3251 | |
| Localities | Lüchingen, Hueb, Unter-Kobelwies, Kornberg, Gätziberg, Warmesberg, Hinterforst Lienz, Plona | |
| Surrounded by | Eichberg, Feldkirch (AT-8), Gais (AR), Marbach, Oberegg (AI), Oberriet, Ruggell (LI), Rüte (AI), Rüthi, Sennwald, Trogen (AR) | |
| Website |
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Altstätten is a small historic rural town and a municipality in the district Rhine Valley, in the canton of St. Gall in Switzerland. It is located with some secure distance of about 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) west from the Alpine Rhine in the flat and wide St. Gall Rhine Valley, which also designates the border with Austria. It further gives access to the higher situated Appenzell to the west.
The official language of Solothurn is (the Swiss variety of Standard) German, but the main spoken language is the local variant of the Alemannic Swiss German dialect.
The town consists of the following tracts: Alter Zoll, Altstätten, Bächis, Baumert, Bieser, Büeberg, Bühl, Bühl (Gätziberg), Bühl bei Hinterforst, Burgfeld, Bürglen, Burst, Domishäuser, Fidern, Gätziberg, Gfell, Hoher Kasten, Hub, Kornberg, Krans, Kreuzstrasse, Lithen, Lienz (exclave), Lüchingen, Mariahilf (monastery), Oberbüchel, Plona, Riet, Rosenhaus, Ruppen, Strick, Unterlitten, Warmesberg, Weidest und Ziel.
Altstätten is situated between the town of St. Margrethen and the town of Buchs/SG, near to the border of Austria, at the foot of the Alpstein-Mountains. In Altstätten has the start of the rack-and-pinion railway line of the Appenzeller Trams to Gais.
An electric tramway served the town from 1897 until 1973, operated by the Rheintaler Vekehrsbetriebe, which also operated trolleybuses from 1940 to 1977, on a route to Berneck. Altstätten now operates a bus transport network, RTB.
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