Alter Rhein
The Alter Rhein is the old river bed of the Alpine Rhine in St. Gallen and Vorarlberg in the Alpine Rhine Valley, which was cut off when the Rhine was straightened during the 20th century.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Stream
- Description: river in Switzerland
- Also known as: “Alter Rhein River”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Saint Gallen-Altenrhein Airport and Rheinholz.
Saint Gallen-Altenrhein Airport
Aerodrome
Photo: Carsten Steger, CC BY-SA 4.0.
St. Gallen–Altenrhein Airport, German: Flughafen St. Gallen-Altenrhein, is a small airport in Altenrhein in the Canton of St. Gallen, Switzerland, near Lake Constance. It is the home base for People's.
Risegg Château
Castle
Photo: Beat Ruest, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Risegg Château is a castle, which is situated 3 km southwest of Alter Rhein.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Altenrhein and Thal.
Thal
Village
Thal is a village and municipality in the Wahlkreis of Rorschach in the canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland. Besides the village of Thal itself, the municipality also includes the villages of Altenrhein, Buechen, Buriet and Staad. Thal is situated 3½ km south of Alter Rhein.
Rheineck
Village
Photo: Paebi, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Rheineck is a municipality in the Wahlkreis of Rheintal in the canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland. Rheineck is situated 3½ km southeast of Alter Rhein.
Alter Rhein
- Categories: river and body of water
- Location: Switzerland, Central Europe, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Venetian—“Alter Rhein” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Ríu Alter Rhein”
- Catalan: “Alter Rhein”
- Cebuano: “Alter Rheinlauf”
- Dutch: “Alter Rhein”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نهر التير رين”
- Esperanto: “Malnova Rejno”
- Finnish: “Alter Rhein”
- French: “Alter Rhein”
- German: “Alter Rhein (Fussacher Durchstich)”
- German: “Alter Rhein”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Alter Rhein”
- Persian: “آلتر راین”
- Swedish: “Alter Rheinlauf”
- Swiss German: “Alte Rhy (Fuessacher Durchstich)”
- Swiss German: “Alte Rhy”
- Tosk Albanian: “Alter Rhein”
- Uzbek: “Alter Reyn”
- Venetian: “Fiume Alter Rhein”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Rheinholz Gaißau and Staad.
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