Appenzell (District)

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Appenzell
Appenzell coat of arms
State : SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
Canton : Canton of Appenzell InnerrhodenCanton of Appenzell Innerrhoden Appenzell Innerrhoden (AI)
BFS no. : 3101i1 f3 f4
Postal code : 9050
UN / LOCODE : CH APP
Coordinates : 749 492  /  244 381 coordinates: 47 ° 20 '0 "  N , 9 ° 25' 0"  O ; CH1903:  seven hundred forty-nine thousand four hundred and ninety-two  /  two hundred and forty-four thousand three hundred eighty-one
Height : 780  m above sea level M.
Height range : 740–1341 m above sea level M.
Area : 16.88  km²
Residents: 5795 (December 31, 2018)
Population density : 343 inhabitants per km²
Proportion of foreigners :
(residents without
citizenship )
18.3% (December 31, 2018)
Website: www.appenzell.org
Location of the municipality
Bodensee Fälensee Seealpsee (Appenzeller Alpen) Sämtisersee Liechtenstein Österreich Kanton Appenzell Ausserrhoden Kanton St. Gallen Kanton Thurgau Appenzell (Bezirk) Gonten Oberegg AI Oberegg AI Rüte Schlatt-Haslen Schwende AIMap of Appenzell
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Appenzell is a district and the capital of the Swiss canton of Appenzell Innerrhoden .

Settlement structure

Part of the village of Appenzell and the localities of Rinkenbach, Kau and Meistersrüte with the hamlet of Brenden are in the district .

Localities

Appenzell

The core of the village of Appenzell belongs to the Appenzell district.

Brenden

The at around 1000  m above sea level. M. located hamlet Brenden is between Appenzell and Gais and belongs to Meistersrüte. This settlement can be reached from the assembly point via an approximately 2.5 km long corridor road (corporation Oberlehn-Weesen) .

history

The Appenzell district was created in 1872 from the Rhode Lehn and parts of the Rhode Rinkenbach .

Individual farms near Appenzell
Shops in the Appenzeller Hauptgasse

Attractions

In Mettlen, a covered wooden bridge leads over the Sitter. This was probably built around 1766 by a member of the master builder family Grubenmann.

The castle hill with the Clanx ruins is located north of Appenzell . The castle was built in 1219 under Abbot Ulrich VI. built by St. Gallen. Their destruction by the rebellious peasants triggered the Appenzell Wars of Independence in 1401 . The castle, which was destroyed in 1402, was excavated in 1949.

Web links

Commons : Appenzell  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Permanent and non-permanent resident population by year, canton, district, municipality, population type and gender (permanent resident population). In: bfs. admin.ch . Federal Statistical Office (FSO), August 31, 2019, accessed on December 22, 2019 .
  2. Our Inner Rhodes in numbers. (PDF; 1.61 MB) Cantonal Administration of Appenzell Innerrhoden, p. 2 , accessed on December 22, 2019 (population data according to the residents' registration of the canton of Appenzell Innerrhoden).
  3. Fischer, 1984, 375, 376.
  4. Fischer, 1984, 480-483.