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St. Margrethen

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St. Margrethen
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The place

St. Margrethen is a municipality in the Wahlkreis (constituency) of Rheintal in the canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland. It is located on the Swiss–Austrian border.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around St. Margrethen

6 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.

  1. 01
    Reichshofstadion

    Reichshofstadion, commonly known as Sun Minimeal Arena for sponsorship reasons, is a multi-use stadium in Lustenau, Austria, built in 1951. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home ground of SC Austria Lustenau.

    3.5 km · football stadium · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Grimmenstein monastery

    Grimmenstein Monastery is a monastery of Sisters of the Third Order of Saint Francis in Walzenhausen in the canton of Appenzell Ausserrhoden in Switzerland. While it is located in Appenzell Ausserrhoden, the buildings and grounds are a small exclave of the canton of Appenzell Innerrhoden.

    1.7 km · monastery building in Walzenhausen in the canton of Appenzell Ausserrhoden, Switzerland · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Fort Heldsberg

    Fort Heldsberg was built 1938–1940 near St. Margrethen in Switzerland, overlooking the Rhine, which forms the Swiss-Austrian border at that location, just south of Lake Constance.

    1.1 km · historical museum in St. Margrethen (Switzerland) · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Castle ruin Rosenberg Berneck SG

    Rosenberg Castle, formerly Bernang Castle, was the seat of the chief bailiffs for the Prince-Abbots of St. Gallen in Berneck, Switzerland.

    3.4 km · The tower on the fudament of the castle ruin Rosenberg in Berneck SG. The building was once stood elsewhere, it was the gardener's house. It was equipped with clockwork and bell. · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Princely House

    The Fürstenhaus Berneck is a former tithe barn on the grounds of the Rosenberg Castle ruins in Berneck, Switzerland.

    3.4 km · manor house in Berneck in the canton of St. Gallen, Switzerland · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Schlössli Buechholz

    Schlössli Buchholz, also known as Herrensitz Buchholz, is a castle in Berneck, Switzerland.

    3.9 km · manor house in Berneck in the canton of St. Gallen, Switzerland · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to St. Margrethen

Airports
Bodensee Friedrichshafen (FDH), 26 km · Memmingen Allgau (FMM), 75 km · Zürich (ZRH), 82 km
Stations
St. Margrethen railway station, 500 m · Rheineck railway station, 3.7 km · Au SG railway station, 1.7 km · Walzenhausen railway station, 2.4 km · Ruderbach railway station, 3.1 km
  • Memmingen → St. Margrethen
    71 km · quickest by road, 1h 36m · €9–12
  • Stuttgart → St. Margrethen
    152 km · quickest by road, 3h 15m · €24–33
  • Rheinmünster → St. Margrethen
    187 km · quickest by road, 4h 25m · €25–36
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for St. Margrethen

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 St. Margrethen. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inEuregio train tickets are available for unlimited travel in the region (including discounts on certain ferries).
  • Get inBSB runs seasonal ferries between April and October.

From Wikivoyage: Lindau, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    ZermattCH

    8 ways of moving, 26 sources

    214 km
  2. 02
    Cinque TerreIT

    7 ways of moving, 22 sources

    370 km
  3. 03
    HvarHR

    8 ways of moving, 27 sources

    718 km
  4. 04
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    727 km
  5. 05
    KorčulaHR

    9 ways of moving, 33 sources

    770 km

If you know how people move in St. Margrethen – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to St. Margrethen

  • Lustenaumunicipality in Dornbirn District, Vorarlberg, Austria3.8 km
  • Fußachmunicipality in Bregenz District, Vorarlberg, Austria3.9 km
  • Höchstmunicipality in Bregenz District, Vorarlberg, Austria1.1 km
  • Gaißaumunicipality in Bregenz District, Vorarlberg, Austria3.2 km
  • Walzenhausenmunicipality in the canton of Appenzell Ausserrhoden in Switzerland2.4 km
  • Lutzenbergmunicipality in the canton of Appenzell Ausserrhoden, Switzerland3.8 km