Municipalities of the canton of Appenzell Ausserrhoden

Municipalities of the canton of Appenzell Ausserrhoden (hinterland left, foreland right)

The canton of Appenzell Outer Rhodes covers 20 political municipalities , the official in Appenzell Outer Rhodes residents communities are called (in January 2018).

List of municipalities

Municipalities in the canton of Appenzell Ausserrhoden
Parish name	Resident December 31, 2018	Area in km²	Inhabitant per km²	Former district
Buhler	1799	5.60	321	Mittelland
Gais	3091	21.21	146	Mittelland
Grub (AR)	1008	4.21	239	Foreland
Heathens	4162	7.48	556	Foreland
Herisau ¹	15,745	25.20	625	Backland
Hundwil	941	24.08	39	Backland
Lutzenberg	1279	2.25	568	Foreland
Rehetobel	1747	6.72	260	Foreland
Reute (AR)	688	4.99	138	Foreland
Schönengrund	532	5.19	103	Backland
Schwellbrunn	1573	17.42	90	Backland
Storage	4382	8.18	536	Mittelland
Stone (AR)	1429	9.36	153	Backland
Teufen (AR)	6265	15.25	411	Mittelland
Trogen ¹	1735	10.03	173	Mittelland
Urnaesch	2303	48.16	48	Backland
Forest (AR)	877	6.83	128	Foreland
Waldstatt	1870	6.75	277	Backland
Walzenhausen	1971	7.00	282	Foreland
Wolf heaps	1837	6.93	265	Foreland
Canton AR (20)	55'234	242.84	227	-

¹Herisau is where the government, parliament and, since the end of November 2012, the cantonal police are located. However, the seat of the higher court is still in Trogen. Appenzell Ausserrhoden therefore does not have a clearly defined main town, since in all other cantons all the authorities mentioned are in the main town.

history

The current division of the canton into 20 municipalities emerged from the six original municipalities within around 150 years after the land was divided in 1597:

Urnaesch
- 1720 Schönengrund split off
Herisau
- 1649 Schwellbrunn split off
- 1720 Waldstatt split off
Gais
Hundwil
- 1749 Stone split off
Depth
- 1723 Buhler split off
Trogen
- 1614 memory split off
- 1638 Walzenhausen split off
- 1669 Rehetobel split off
- In 1688 forest split off
- Grub
- Tail
- Kurzenberg (dissolved in 1666 after separation from Heiden and Wolfhalden)
  - 1658 Heiden split off (church building 1652, border adjustment until 1667)
  - 1658 Wolfhalden split off (church building 1652, border adjustment until 1667)
  - 1666 Lutzenberg after the dissolution of Kurzenberg independent municipality (still after Thal ecclesiastical)

Web links

Commons : Municipalities of the canton of Appenzell Ausserrhoden - collection of images, videos and audio files

Canton of Appenzell Ausserrhoden: The canton in numbers

Individual evidence

↑ 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 .
↑ Federal Statistical Office Generalized Limits 2020.
↑ Cantonal police move to Herisau. In: appenzell24.ch. Druckerei Appenzeller Volksfreund, November 26, 2012, archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; Retrieved April 10, 2016 .

[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 .

[Generalisierte_Grenzen_2020-2] Federal Statistical Office Generalized Limits 2020.

[3] Cantonal police move to Herisau. In: appenzell24.ch. Druckerei Appenzeller Volksfreund, November 26, 2012, archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; Retrieved April 10, 2016 .