Unterwasser

Unterwasser is a village in the Toggenburg region of the canton of St. Gallen, Switzerland, situated at the confluence of the two streams forming the upper Thur.

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Type: Village with 685 residents
Description: village in Switzerland
Postal code: 9657

Places of Interest

Highlights include Thur waterfalls and Zwingli’s birth house.

Thur waterfalls

Waterfall

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The Thur waterfalls are two cascades located on the upper part of the river Thur, approximately ten minutes walking distance from the village square of Unterwasser in the Toggenburg region of the canton of St. Gallen, Switzerland.

Zwingli’s birth house

Museum

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Zwingli’s birth house is a museum.

Gräppelensee

Lake

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Gräppelensee is a lake.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Alt St. Johann and Wildhaus.

Alt St. Johann

Village

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Alt St. Johann is a village in the Toggenburg region, since 2010 part of the municipality Wildhaus-Alt St.Johann in the canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland.

Wildhaus

Village

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Wildhaus is a village and former municipality in the Toggenburg region of the canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland, since 2010 by merger with Alt St. Johann part of the municipality of Wildhaus-Alt St. Johann. Wildhaus is situated 3 km east of Unterwasser.

Stein

Village

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Stein is a former municipality in the Wahlkreis of Toggenburg in the canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland. The municipalities of Nesslau-Krummenau and Stein merged on 1 January 2013 into the new municipality of Nesslau. Stein is situated 6 km west of Unterwasser.

Unterwasser

Category: locality
Location: Wildhaus-Alt St. Johann, Toggenburg, Canton of St. Gallen, Switzerland, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude

47.19778° or 47° 11′ 52″ north

Longitude

9.30899° or 9° 18′ 32″ east

Population

685

Elevation

907 metres (2,976 feet)

Open location code

8FVF58X5+4H

OpenStreetMap ID

node 32515044

OpenStreetMap feature

place=village

GeoNames ID

2658231

Wikidata ID

Q678056

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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Swiss German—“Unterwasser” goes by many names.

Cebuano: “Unterwasser”
Dutch: “Unterwasser”
French: “Unterwasser”
German: “Unterwasser SG”
German: “Unterwasser”
Russian: “Унтервассер”
Spanish: “Unterwasser SG”
Swedish: “Unterwasser”
Swiss German: “Underwasser”
Swiss German: “Unterwasser SG”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Unterwasser”. Photo: Parpan05, CC BY 2.5.