Rheinau

Rheinau is a municipality in the district of Andelfingen in the in . It is located at a bend of the High Rhine, which forms the Swiss-German border in this area, and includes an island with an .
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  • Type: Village with 1,300 residents
  • Description: municipality in the canton of Zürich in Switzerland
  • Also known as: “Alt-Rheinau”, “Rheinau ZH”, and “Rheinau, Switzerland”

Places of Interest

Highlights include St. Nicholas shared church, so-called mountain church and Rheinau Abbey.

Church
Photo: Charly Bernasconi, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Church
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was a Benedictine monastery in Rheinau in the , Switzerland, founded in about 778 and suppressed in 1862. It is located on an island in the Rhine.

Church
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is a church.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Dachsen and Jestetten.

Village
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is a municipality in the district of Andelfingen in the canton of Zürich in . is situated 2½ km north of Rheinau.

Village
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is a municipality in the district of in the far south of , , on the border with . It is situated between the of the , Switzerland, and the municipality of Baden-Württemberg. is situated 2½ km west of Rheinau.

Village
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is a municipality in the district of in in . is situated 3 km southwest of Rheinau.

Rheinau

Latitude
47.64393° or 47° 38′ 38″ north
Longitude
8.60176° or 8° 36′ 6″ east
Population
1,300
Elevation
388 metres (1,273 feet)
Open location code
8FVCJJV2+HP
Open­Street­Map ID
node 240052173
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
11048417
Wiki­data ID
Q67534
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Rheinau” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “رايناو”
  • Basque: “Rheinau”
  • Breton: “Rheinau”
  • Catalan: “Rheinau”
  • Cebuano: “Rheinau”
  • Chinese: “莱茵瑙”
  • Chinese: “萊茵瑙”
  • Chuvash: “Райнау”
  • Czech: “Rheinau”
  • Dutch: “Rheinau”
  • Esperanto: “Rejnaŭo ZH”
  • Esperanto: “Rheinau ZH”
  • French: “Rheinau”
  • German: “Rheinau ZH”
  • German: “Rheinau”
  • Hungarian: “Rheinau”
  • Irish: “Rheinau”
  • Italian: “Rheinau”
  • Kazakh: “Райнау”
  • Kurdish: “Rheinau, Swîsre”
  • Lombard: “Rheinau”
  • Malay: “Rheinau ZH”
  • Malay: “Rheinau, Zurich”
  • Malay: “Rheinau”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Rheinau i Sveits”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Rheinau”
  • Persian: “رنو، سوئیس”
  • Persian: “رنو”
  • Polish: “Rheinau”
  • Portuguese: “Rheinau”
  • Russian: “Райнау”
  • Swedish: “Rheinau, Schweiz”
  • Swedish: “Rheinau”
  • Swiss German: “Riinòu”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Rheinau ZH”
  • Turkish: “Rheinau”
  • Ukrainian: “Райнау”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Rheinau”
  • Uzbek: “Raynau”
  • Uzbek: “Rheinau”
  • Venetian: “Rheinau (Svisara)”
  • Venetian: “Rheinau”
  • Volapük: “Rheinau”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Rheinau, Swiza”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Rheinau”
  • Welsh: “Rheinau”

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