Switzerland
Canton of St. Gallen
See-Gaster

Weesen

Weesen is a village in See-Gaster in the canton of St. Gallen, Switzerland, located on Lake Walen near the outflow of the .
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  • Type: Village with 1,580 residents
  • Description: municipality in the canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland
  • Also known as: “CH3316”, “Weesen SG”, and “Weesen, Switzerland”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Ziegelbrücke railway station and Biberlichopf (Hill).

Railway station
Photo: Alexey M., CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a junction station in the village of in . Whilst the village is shared between the , in the , and the , in the , the station is located in the Gemarkung of Schänis, where it is the larger of two railway stations.

Peak
Photo: Parpan05, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a peak.

Railway station
Photo: Wikimedia, CC0.
is a railway station in the in the . It is an intermediate stop on the Ziegelbrücke–Linthal line of Swiss Federal Railways, and serves the twin villages of and .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Niederurnen and Amden.

Village
Photo: U.S. Department of State, Public domain.
is a former municipality in the canton of Glarus in . Effective from 1 January 2011, is part of the municipality of . is situated 3½ km west of Weesen.

Village
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is a municipality in the Wahlkreis of See-Gaster, in the canton of St. Gallen in . is situated 3½ km northeast of Weesen.

Village
Photo: DidiWeidmann, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a former municipality in the in . Effective from 1 January 2011, is part of the municipality of . is situated 3½ km southwest of Weesen.

Weesen

Latitude
47.1347° or 47° 8′ 5″ north
Longitude
9.0974° or 9° 5′ 51″ east
Population
1,580
Elevation
700 metres (2,297 feet)
Open location code
8FVF43MW+VW
Open­Street­Map ID
node 31952988
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
7287551
Wiki­data ID
Q69644
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In Other Languages

From Basque to Western Panjabi—“Weesen” goes by many names.
  • Basque: “Weesen”
  • Breton: “Weesen”
  • Catalan: “Weesen”
  • Cebuano: “Weesen (munisipyo)”
  • Cebuano: “Weesen”
  • Chinese: “韋森”
  • Chinese: “韦森”
  • Czech: “Weesen”
  • Danish: “Weesen”
  • Dutch: “Weesen”
  • Esperanto: “Weesen”
  • Finnish: “Weesen”
  • French: “Weesen”
  • German: “Chapfenberg”
  • German: “Weesen SG”
  • German: “Weesen”
  • Hungarian: “Weesen”
  • Irish: “Weesen”
  • Italian: “Weesen”
  • Kazakh: “Везен”
  • Lombard: “Weesen”
  • Macedonian: “Везен”
  • Malay: “Weesen”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Weesen”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Weesen”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Weesen”
  • Piemontese: “Weesen”
  • Polish: “Weesen”
  • Portuguese: “Weesen”
  • Russian: “Везен”
  • Spanish: “Weesen”
  • Swedish: “Weesen”
  • Swiss German: “Weese”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Weesen”
  • Turkish: “Weesen”
  • Ukrainian: “Веезен”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Weesen”
  • Uzbek: “Vezen”
  • Uzbek: “Weesen”
  • Uzbek: “Везен”
  • Venetian: “Weesen”
  • Volapük: “Weesen”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Weesen”
  • Welsh: “Weesen”
  • Western Panjabi: “ویسن”

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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 “Weesen”. Photo: Böhringer, CC BY-SA 2.5.