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Encyclopedia > Rüte
Rüte
Canton Appenzell Innerrhoden
District n.a.
Coordinates  47°19′ N 9°26′ E (http://kvaleberg.com/extensions/mapsources/index.php?params=47_19_N_9_26_E_region:CH_type:city(3033))
Postal code 9050
Population 3033   (December 2002)
Area 40.9 km²
Elevation x m
Mayor
Website [1] (http://)

Rüte is a district of the canton of Appenzell Innerrhoden in Switzerland. It has a population of 2,600 (2000, estimate). The area of Rüte is 40.82 km². The twenty-six cantons of Switzerland are the states of the federal state of Switzerland. ... In contrast to centrally organised states, in the federally constituted Switzerland each Canton is completely free to decide its own internal organisation. ... This article is about longitude and latitude; see also UTM coordinate system Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (vertically) and longitude (horizontally); large version (pdf) The geographic (earth-mapping) coordinate system expresses every horizontal position on Earth by two of the three coordinates of a spherical coordinate system which... Here are postal codes of Switzerland and Liechtenstein: Zone 1 1000s are found in Lausanne, Lavaux and parts of Morges, 1100s in parts of Morges, 1200s are in Geneva and parts of La Côte, Vaud, 1300s in La Vallée, 1500s are found in Clavaleyres, the 1700s are found... 2002 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article explains the meaning of area as a physical quantity. ... Square kilometre (US spelling: Square kilometer), symbol km², is an SI unit of surface area. ... For other uses of the word, see Elevation In geography, the elevation of a geographic location is its height above mean sea level (or possibly some other fixed point). ... The metre (American spelling: meter), symbol: m, is the basic unit of distance (or of length, in the parlance of the physical sciences) in the International System of Units. ... A mayor (from the Latin maīor, meaning larger,greater) is the politician who serves as chief executive official of some types of municipalities. ... Appenzell Innerrhoden (German; French: Appenzell Rhodes-Intérieures; in English sometimes Appenzell Inner Rhodes) is a canton of Switzerland. ... 2000 is a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... To help compare sizes of different geographic regions, we list here areas between 10 km² (1000 hectares) and 100 km² (10,000 hectares). ...

Contents
1 Coat of Arms
2 Name
3 Formation
4 External link

Coat of Arms

The coat of arms shows a golden crown on a black background. From the crown a swan's nack with a red beak emerges. This is a modified version of the coat of arms of the Schönenbühl family who were the landlords of the abbey in St. Gallen in the 13th century. The family formerly resided in a castle in Rüte. The view on the city from the nearby hills. ...


Name

The name Rüte goes back to Reuten, which refers to the German word roden (wood clearing). The name originally comes from one of the two hamlets called Rüti.


Formation

The municipality was formally established in 1872 from the rhode and did not undergo major changes since then. 1872 was a leap year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ...


External link

  • Appenzell Tourism (http://www.appenzell.ch/e/news/index.php)

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