Hoher Kasten
The Hoher Kasten is a mountain in the Appenzell Alps in Eastern Switzerland, overlooking the Alpine Rhine Valley, which forms the Austria–Switzerland and Liechtenstein–Switzerland borders.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Peak with an elevation of 1,794 metres
- Description: mountain in the Appenzell Alps
- Also known as: “Hoch-Kasta” and “Kasta”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Kamor and Sämtisersee.
Kamor
Peak
Photo: Caumasee, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Kamor is a mountain in the Appenzell Alps and has an elevation of 1,751 m above the sea. It is part of a mountain belt of the Alpstein massif which forms the western boundary of the Alpine Rhine Valley and is located on the border of the Swiss cantons Appenzell Innerrhoden and Canton of St. Gallen.
Sämtisersee
Lake
Photo: TonnyB, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Sämtisersee is a lake in the Alpstein range of the canton of Appenzell Innerrhoden, Switzerland. At an elevation of 1209 m, the surface area is 13 ha. It is located below Hoher Kasten not far from Fälensee.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Brülisau and Sennwald.
Sennwald
Village
Photo: Böhringer, CC BY-SA 2.5.
Sennwald is a municipality in the Wahlkreis of Werdenberg in the canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland.
Rüte
Village
Photo: Roland Zumbuehl, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Rüte District was a district in the canton of Appenzell Innerrhoden in Switzerland.
Hoher Kasten
- Categories: mountain and landform
- Location: Altstätten, Wahlkreis Rheintal, Canton of St. Gallen, Switzerland, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
47.28362° or 47° 17′ 1″ northLongitude
9.48525° or 9° 29′ 7″ eastElevation
1,794 metres (5,886 feet)Open location code
8FVF7FMP+C4OpenStreetMap ID
node 414188986OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Venetian—“Hoher Kasten” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “هوهير كاستين”
- Catalan: “Hoher Kasten”
- Cebuano: “Hoher Kasten”
- Chinese: “上卡斯唐山”
- Chinese: “上卡斯滕山”
- Dutch: “Hoher Kasten”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبل هوهير كاستين”
- French: “Hoher Kasten”
- Georgian: “ჰოერ-კასტენი”
- German: “Hoher Kasten”
- Italian: “Hoher Kasten”
- Ladin: “Hoher Kasten”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Hoher Kasten”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Hoher Kasten”
- Norwegian: “Hoher Kasten”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Hoher Kasten”
- Persian: “هوهر کاستن”
- Russian: “Хоэр-Кастен”
- Spanish: “Hoher Kasten”
- Swedish: “Hoher Kasten”
- Venetian: “Hoher Kasten”
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