Altenrhein SG

SG is the abbreviation for the canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland and is used to avoid confusion with other entries in the name Altenrhein .

Altenrhein

State :

Switzerland

Canton :

Canton of St. Gallen (SG)

Constituency :

Constituency of Rorschach

Political community :

Thal SG

Postal code :

9423

Coordinates :

759566 / 262140 coordinates: 47 ° 29 '26 " N , 9 ° 33' 22" O ; CH1903: 759566 / 262140

Height :

397 m above sea level M.

Altenrhein village and airport

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Altenrhein is a village, a local and a parish in the political municipality of Thal in the canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland . Altenrhein lies at the end of a headland between the fossilized arms of the Rhine Delta and is known for the St. Gallen-Altenrhein airport . Altenrhein is a water sports, tourism and recreation area.

Aerial photo from 300 m by Walter Mittelholzer (1920)

history

Altenrhein was probably still an island in 890. In 983 it was mentioned as Rinisgemünde , in 1402 as the rightful Rhin . The village has been known as Altenrhein since the 17th century.

Airship Dornier Do X in 1930 in front of the hangar in Altenrhein

In 983 the Bishop of Constance gave Altenrhein to the Petershausen Monastery as an endowment. In 1163 Rudolf von Pfullendorf received cattle pastures near Altenrhein as a fief. From the mid-14th century, income and possessions were ze Rine at the St. Galler ministerials of Rorschach. In the late Middle Ages gradually a settlement was formed. This was a main team in the abbot's court in Rorschach from 1469 to 1797 and received court rights and collection rules in 1542 and an abbot community code in 1639. For centuries, local bourgeois families were only Noger and Dudler. The chapel, built before 1556, was elevated to a branch church in 1842. Belonged to the parish of Rorschach until 1914, it was then an independent parish church and replaced by a new church in 1958.

In addition to cultivating fields and pastures, the population mainly lived on the Rhine and Lake Constance. They operated fishing and shipping and extracted deadwood , gravel and sand. The floods of 1739, 1770 and 1817 forced the evacuation of the village population. Wuhre are documented as early as 1639, dam structures in 1783. Since the Fussacher breakthrough in 1900, the course of the Rhine near Altenrhein has only been fed and deserted by the Rhine Valley inland canal . The bank and reed landscape in 1973 was placed under protection.

In 1803 Altenrhein became part of the political community of Thal, but retained its independence. Between 1926 and 27 the airfield and the Dornier-Flugzeugwerke Altenrhein were established , which were converted into Flug- und Fahrzeugwerke Altenrhein (FFA) in 1949 . In 1967, eleven municipalities merged to form the Altenrhein wastewater association, which built the sewage treatment plant from 1967 to 1975 .

population

In 1783 Altenrhein consisted of 32 households.

Population development Altenrhein
year	1834	1902	1991
Residents	150	307	648

economy

P-16 in front of the FFA hangar

On December 19, 1927, construction of the Dornier Do X began in the Dornier-Werke branch opened in 1924. On July 12, 1929, the seaplane took off from Lake Constance for the first time. On the 70th test flight on October 21, 1929, 169 people were on board and experienced a 40-minute flight over Lake Constance. In addition to the Do X, 30 Dornier Do 24s destined for the Netherlands were also built here. The plant also built all Bücker 131 and 133 vehicles under license for the Swiss air force .

The Flug- und Fahrzeugwerke Altenrhein (FFA) developed from the Dornier works . These gained some notoriety in the 1950s, in particular with the development of a jet-powered ground attack aircraft, the P-16 . The AS-202 Bravo was later developed for basic aviation training. The good flight characteristics even allow limited acrobatic flight.

The FFA was gradually sold from 1987 and split into: FFA-Gautschi AG (aircraft construction supplier and owner of the brand rights), Pilatus Aircraft (Altenrhein) (aircraft maintenance), Stadler Rail (Altenrhein) (wagon construction), BWB Oberflächentechnik ( Altenrhein) and Schindler Technik AG.

traffic

The St. Gallen-Altenrhein airfield (ACH) developed from the former works airfield of the aircraft factory . This was opened for scheduled air traffic in 1988 with a connection to Vienna and has since been expanded. Since 2003 it has been called St. Gallen-Altenrhein Airport . In 1998 the International Bodensee Airshow took place in Altenrhein . In the Aviation Museum at the airfield, aircraft from the 1940s to 1980s have been preserved in an airworthy condition.

A post bus line and scheduled boats connect Altenrhein with Rheineck and Rorschach.