Galgemad

Galgemad is a forest in Sennwald, Werdenberg Disctrict, Canton of St. Gallen. Galgemad is situated nearby to the locality Chalchofe, as well as near Bahnhof.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Salez-Sennwald railway station and Forstegg Castle.

Salez-Sennwald railway station

Railway station

Photo: Wikimedia, CC0.

Salez-Sennwald railway station is a railway station in Sennwald, in the Swiss canton of St. Gallen. It is an intermediate stop on the Chur–Rorschach line.

Forstegg Castle

Castle

Photo: Böhringer, CC BY-SA 2.5.

Forstegg Castle is a ruined castle in the municipality of Sennwald of the Canton of St Gallen in Switzerland. It was built around 1200 by the Barons of Sax/Misox, was abandoned in the 19th century and fell into ruin in 1894.

Gampriner Seele

Photo: Plutowiki, CC0.

Gampriner Seele or Gampriner Seelein is the only lake in Liechtenstein. It was created by a flood of the Rhine River with enormous erosion in 1927. The lake lies at 435 metres above sea level in the village of Bendern–Gamprin.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Eschen and Ruggell.

Eschen

Village

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Eschen is a municipality in the north of Liechtenstein. It covers an area of 10.3 km2, and is one of the five communes in the Unterland electoral district. As of 2024, it has a population of 4,629 inhabitants.

Ruggell

Village

Photo: Asurnipal, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Ruggell is a municipality of Liechtenstein. It is the northernmost and lowest elevated municipality. As of 2019, it has a population of 2,322.

Gamprin

Village

Photo: Pasztilla, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Gamprin is a municipality of Liechtenstein, on the Rhine on the border with the municipality of Sennwald, in Switzerland. It had 1,690 inhabitants in 2019.

Galgemad

Type: Forest
Location: Sennwald, Werdenberg Disctrict, Canton of St. Gallen, Switzerland, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude

47.241° or 47° 14′ 28″ north

Longitude

9.4966° or 9° 29′ 48″ east

Open location code

8FVF6FRW+9M

OpenStreetMap ID

way 29271529

OpenStreetMap feature

landuse=forest

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