Altstätten
Altstätten is a historic rural town and a municipality in the Rhine Valley district, in the canton of St.
Altstätten is a historic rural town and a municipality in the Rhine Valley district, in the canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland. It is about 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) west of the Alpine Rhine in the flat and wide St. Gall Rhine Valley, which also designates the border with Austria.
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Worth seeing in and around Altstätten
2 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Ruppen Pass
Ruppen Pass is a high mountain pass between the cantons of St. Gallen and Appenzell Ausserrhoden in Switzerland.
3.3 km · mountain pass · Wikipedia - 02
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Getting to Altstätten
- Airports
- Bodensee Friedrichshafen (FDH), 32 km · Zürich (ZRH), 76 km · Memmingen Allgau (FMM), 85 km
- Stations
- Altstätten SG railway station, 1.1 km · Rebstein-Marbach railway station, 3 km · Altstätten Stadt station, 1.2 km · Alter Zoll station, 2.7 km · Warmesberg station, 3.4 km
- Zurich → Altstätten75 km · quickest by road, 2h 11m · CHF11–15
- Geneva → Altstätten290 km · quickest by road, 5h 43m · CHF40–55
- Memmingen → Altstätten82 km · quickest by road, 1h 40m · €10–14
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Altstätten
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Altstätten. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Go nextSäntis and the Alpstein range are an easy and spectacular day trip from St.
From Wikivoyage: Saint Gallen, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-08.
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