Winkeln
District of Sankt Gallen
in Wahlkreis St. Gallen of Canton of St. Gallen, Switzerland
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St Gallen Altenrhein Airport (10 mi) -
Hohenems-Dornbirn Airport (15 mi) -
Friedrichshafen Airport (18 mi) - Zürich Airport (39 mi)
- Buochs Airport (55 mi)
- Donaueschingen-Villingen Airport (55 mi)
- Memmingen Allgau Airport (56 mi)
- Samedan Airport (66 mi)
- Stuttgart Airport (88 mi)
- Karlsruhe Baden-Baden Airport (111 mi)
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Bergamo / Orio Al Serio Airport (122 mi) - Malpensa International Airport (128 mi)
- Abbey of St Gall (Unesco heritage, 0 mi)
- Monastic Island of Reichenau (Unesco heritage, 24 mi)
- Swiss Tectonic Arena Sardona (Unesco heritage, 36 mi)
- Prehistoric Pile dwellings around the Alps (Unesco heritage, 56 mi)
- Rhaetian Railway in the Albula / Bernina Landscapes (Unesco heritage, 68 mi)
- Benedictine Convent of St John at Müstair (Unesco heritage, 75 mi)
- Three Castles, Defensive Wall and Ramparts of the Market-Town of Bellinzona (Unesco heritage, 87 mi)
- Swiss Alps Jungfrau-Aletsch (Unesco heritage, 90 mi)
- Sacri Monti of Piedmont and Lombardy (Unesco heritage, 101 mi)
- Monte San Giorgio (Unesco heritage, 108 mi)
- Greifvogelpark Buchs (zoo, (19 mi)
- Erlebniszoo Rheintal (zoo, (9 mi)
- Abenteuerland Walterzoo (zoo, (4 mi)
- Tierpark Seeburg (zoo, (18 mi)
- Wildpark Peter und Paul (zoo, (2 mi)
- Decimal Coordinates (Latitude, Longitude):
- 47.424 and 9.375 (Lat./Lng.)
- Coordinates by Time:
- N 47° 25' 26" and E 9° 22' 29"
- Currency and Currency Code:
- Franc - CHF
- Spoken languages:
- German, French, Italian, Romansh
- Local electricity:
- Mobile phone / cellular frequencies (MHz):
- Local Time: 12:33 PM (Thursday)
- Timezone: Europe/Zurich
- UTC/GMT offset: 1 hours
- Sunrise and Sunset:
- 6:26 am and 8:16 pm
- Antipode Coordinates:
- -44.033 and -176.367 (Lat./Lng.)
- Closest place to antipode coordinates:
Ouwenga - References
- This place on Geonames.org
Safety Score: 4,0 of 5.0 based on data from 9 authorites. Meaning please reconsider your need to travel to Switzerland.
Travel warnings are updated daily. Source: Travel Warning Switzerland. Last Update: 2024-04-18 08:12:24
Discover Winkeln
The district Winkeln of Sankt Gallen in Wahlkreis St. Gallen (Canton of St. Gallen) is a district in Switzerland about 93 mi east of Bern, the country's capital city.
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Local weather forecast
Todays Local Weather Conditions & Forecast: 1°C / 34 °F
| Morning Temperature | 0°C / 32 °F |
| Evening Temperature | 2°C / 36 °F |
| Night Temperature | 0°C / 33 °F |
| Chance of rainfall | 0% |
| Air Humidity | 100% |
| Air Pressure | 1017 hPa |
| Wind Speed | Light breeze with 4 km/h (2 mph) from North-East |
| Cloud Conditions | Overcast clouds, covering 100% of sky |
| General Conditions | Rain and snow |
Friday, 19th of April 2024
4°C (40 °F)
3°C (37 °F)
Moderate rain, moderate breeze, overcast clouds.
Saturday, 20th of April 2024
4°C (38 °F)
-1°C (30 °F)
Rain and snow, gentle breeze, overcast clouds.
Sunday, 21st of April 2024
4°C (39 °F)
0°C (32 °F)
Rain and snow, gentle breeze, overcast clouds.
Hotels and Places to Stay
Walhalla
Säntispark
St. Gallen Radisson Blu Hotel
Einstein
B&B Gästehaus Rössli Schwellbrunn
Hotel one66
Gallo
Hotel Bären Gonten
Dom
Metropol
Videos from this area
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Attractions and noteworthy things
Distances are based on the centre of the city/town and sightseeing location. This list contains brief abstracts about monuments, holiday activities, national parcs, museums, organisations and more from the area as well as interesting facts about the region itself. Where available, you'll find the corresponding homepage. Otherwise the related wikipedia article.
Abbey of Saint Gall
The Abbey of Saint Gall (German: Fürstabtei St. Gallen) is a religious complex in the city of St. Gallen in present-day Switzerland. The Carolingian-era Abbey has existed since 719 and became an independent principality during the 13th century, and was for many centuries one of the chief Benedictine abbeys in Europe. It was founded by Saint Othmar on the spot where Saint Gall had erected his hermitage. The library at the Abbey is one of the richest medieval libraries in the world.
University of St. Gallen
The University of St. Gallen is a research university located in St. Gallen, Switzerland. Established in 1898, it is specialized in the fields of business administration, economics, law, and international affairs. The University of St. Gallen is also known as HSG, which is an abbreviation of its former German name Handels-Hochschule St. Gallen. Despite being one of the smallest universities in Switzerland, the University of St.
Espenmoos
Espenmoos Stadium, is a football stadium in St. Gallen, Switzerland. It was the home ground of the FC St. Gallen until their current stadium AFG Arena opened in 2008. The stadium has since been demolished except for the main seated stand.
Kreuzbleichhalle
Kreuzbleichhalle (Sporthalle Kreuzbleiche) is an indoor sporting arena located in St. Gallen, Switzerland. The capacity of the arena is 4,000 people. It hosted some matches at the 2006 European Men's Handball Championship and is the home arena of the TSV St. Otmar team handball club.
Bischofszell District
Bischofszell District is a former district of the canton of Thurgau in Switzerland. It had a population of 31,773 (as of 2009). Its capital was the town of Bischofszell. The district contained the following municipalities:
AFG Arena
The AFG Arena is a multi-use stadium in St. Gallen, Switzerland, completed in 2008. It is used mostly for football matches and hosts the home matches of FC St. Gallen of the Swiss Challenge League. It replaces the Espenmoos stadium. The stadium has a capacity of 20,000 people. The name comes from the sponsor, the Arbonia-Forster-Gruppe AFG. When it was completed, FC St. Gallen was just relegated to the Challenge League.
Federal Administrative Court of Switzerland
The Federal Administrative Court of Switzerland is the judicial authority to which decisions of the federal authorities of Switzerland can be appealed. The FAC's decisions can generally be appealed, in turn, to the Federal Supreme Court of Switzerland.
Eastern Switzerland
Eastern Switzerland is the common name of the region situated to the north of Glarus Alps, with the cantons of Schaffhausen, Thurgau, St. Gallen, Appenzell Ausserrhoden, Appenzell Innerrhoden and Glarus. The north of canton Graubünden (with the city of Chur) is sometime considered to be part of Eastern Switzerland. Eastern Switzerland is also defined as one of the NUTS-2 regions of Switzerland.
Gübsensee
Gübsensee is a reservoir near the city of St. Gallen, Switzerland. Its dams were built between 1898 and 1900, the first hydroelectric reservoir in Switzerland. Kraftwerk Kubel has generated electrical power there since 1900. Gübsensee Ost is a gravity dam with a height of 24 m, Gübsensee West an earthfill dam. The lake's surface area is 0.17 km². Its volume is 1.5 mio m³.
Sarganserland
The Sarganserland is a constituency (Wahlkreis) of the canton of St. Gallen, Switzerland, with a population of 36,892. The constituency corresponds to the historical county of Sargans (13th to 15th century) and the later Landvogtei Sargans in the Old Swiss Confederacy (15th to 18th century). Part of the Canton of Linth in the Helvetic Republic, the Sarganserland together with Pfäfers was joined to the canton of St. Gallen at its formation in 1803.
Hauptwil
Hauptwil is a village and former municipality in the canton of Thurgau, Switzerland. It was first recorded in year 1413 as Hoptwill. The municipality had 50 inhabitants in 1649, which increased to 598 in 1850, 741 in 1900, 819 in 1950 and 910 in 1990. In 1996 the municipality was merged with the neighboring municipality Gottshaus to form a new and larger municipality Hauptwil-Gottshaus.
Gottshaus
Gottshaus is a village and former municipality in the canton of Thurgau, Switzerland. It was first recorded somewhere between year 1250 and 1300 as Gottshaus. The municipality also contained the village Sankt Pelagiberg as well as 40 others. It had 781 inhabitants in 1850, which went up and down over the years to 676 in 1900, 798 in 1950, 707 in 1980 and 811 in 1990.
Sankt Pelagiberg
Sankt Pelagiberg is a village in the canton of Thurgau, Switzerland. Sankt Pelagiberg is located in the former municipality Gottshaus. In 1996 Gottshaus municipality merged with its neighbor to form a new and larger municipality Hauptwil-Gottshaus.
Abbey library of Saint Gall
The Abbey Library of Saint Gall was founded by Saint Othmar, the founder of the Abbey of St. Gall. The library collection is the oldest in Switzerland, and is one of earliest and most important monastic libraries in the world. It holds 2,100 manuscripts dating back to the 8th through the 15th centuries, 1,650 incunabula (printed before 1500), and old printed books. The library holds almost 160,000 volumes. The manuscript B of the Nibelungenlied is kept here.
Theater St. Gallen
The Theater St. Gallen is a performing arts center for opera, musical, ballet, and theatre in St. Gallen, Switzerland, and considered to be the oldest professional theatre in Switzerland. Although the monks Tutilo and Notker already inspired briefly lay theatre in St. Gallen during the Middle Ages, theatre did not flourish for a long time because of moral concerns. In the early 19th century interest in theatre was reawakened.
St. Gallen (Wahlkreis)
St. Gallen (Wahlkreis) is a constituency in the canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland. The Wahlkreis has been established on June 10, 2001 with an area of 157.54 km . The Wahlkreis has its name by the city of St. Gallen.
Meistersrüte
Meistersrüte is part of the district Appenzell Innerrhoden, c.a. 900 metres above sea level. It is a small village consisting of roughly 700 Inhabitants and has its own primary school, bakery, two carpenters, two builders,a furniture carpenter, a small 'bits and bobs' shop, a painter, several restaurants, a train stop (for the Appenzeller Bahnen- Sammelplatz) and an electrician.
Appenzell Castle
Appenzell Castle or Clanx Castle (German: Ruine Clanx or Burg zu Appenzell) is a ruined castle in the Appenzell District of the canton of Appenzell Innerrhoden in Switzerland. It is part of the Swiss heritage site of national significance. The castle is first mentioned in 1219 as in arce Clanx. It was built by the Abbot of St. Gall Ulrich von Sax (1204–20) and his brother, the Abbey-Vogt Heinrich. It was named after the Sax family holding in the Calanca valley.
Hagenwil Castle
Hagenwil Castle is a castle in the municipality of Amriswil of the Canton of Thurgau in Switzerland. It is a Swiss heritage site of national significance.
Hauptwil Castle
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Mammertshofen Castle
Mammertshofen Castle is a castle in the municipality of Roggwil of the Canton of Thurgau in Switzerland. It is a Swiss heritage site of national significance.
Bildegg Castle
Bildegg Castle is a castle in the municipality of Zihlschlacht-Sitterdorf of the Canton of Thurgau in Switzerland. It is a Swiss heritage site of national significance.
Wegelin & Co
Wegelin & Co. is the oldest bank in Switzerland (and the 13th oldest in the world), but since January 2012 it no longer has any significant assets or operations and announced its intention to close in early 2013. The bank is located in St. Gallen in the Canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland, and specialized in private banking and asset management. Between 2002 and 2010, Wegelin & Co. assisted citizens of the United States in evading taxes on assets totalling over $1.2 billion.
Notenstein Privatbank
Notenstein Privatbank AG is a Swiss bank, active in the private banking and asset management segments, with ca. 700 employees. The bank was formed in 1968 as a subsidiary company of Wegelin & Co. named Notenstein AG. It was renamed Nettobank AG in 2010, then into Notenstein Privatbank AG in early 2012. At the same time, Wegelin & Co. transferred all its non-US clients and assets and most of its employees to Notenstein Privatbank.
Kantonsspital St. Gallen
The Kantonsspital St. Gallen is the main hospital of the Canton of St. Gallen and the sixth largest of Switzerland. It lies in the center of St. Gallen, the capital of the canton.
These districts also belong to Sankt Gallen.
Other districtsThese are districts that are close by, but belong to a different city than Sankt Gallen.
- Hintere Wartegg
- Mittlere Wartegg
- Unterer Grossgarten
- Oberhegi
- Oberergrossgarten
- Unterhirzen
- Unterrutinecker
- Muehlebach
- Oberer Mesmer
- Unterer Mesmer
- Oberstigen
- Unterloch
- Unterstigen
- Bogarten
- Schlattboden
- Rheintaler Samtis
- Unterletz
These are some bigger and more relevant cities in the wider vivinity of Sankt Gallen.
Herisau: mit Säntis, Herisau (source)
Gossau SG: Ballonteam S. Zeberli, Gossau SG (source)
Lustmühle: Satellitenstation Wilen in St.Gallen, Lustmühle (source)
Lustmühle: Blick von Menzlen (Stadt St. Gallen) gegen Stein (AR) und Säntis, Lustmühle (source)
Lustmühle: Blick von der Menzlen (Satellit − Station) zur AFG − Arena, Lustmühle (source)
Lustmühle: Event Channel from Satellit − Station, Lustmühle (source)
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This place is known by different names. Here the ones we know:
Winkeln bei Sankt Gallen, Winkeln
