Rebstein

Rebstein is a municipality in the Wahlkreis (constituency) of Rheintal in the canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland.

Of the rest of the land, 30.6% is settled (buildings or roads) and the remainder (1.2%) is non-productive (rivers or lakes).

It stretches from the Rheintaler Binnenkanal (a flood control canal on the Rhine) to the Appenzell foothills.

The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Argent a Vine issuant from a Stone proper.

Of the foreign population, (as of 2000[update]), 106 are from Germany, 48 are from Italy, 523 are from ex-Yugoslavia, 108 are from Austria, 85 are from Turkey, and 210 are from another country.

[8] The age distribution, as of 2000[update], in Rebstein is; 524 children or 12.9% of the population are between 0 and 9 years old and 589 teenagers or 14.5% are between 10 and 19.

[11] From the 2000 census[update], 1,937 or 47.8% are Roman Catholic, while 1,065 or 26.3% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church.

Aerial view by Walter Mittelholzer (1927)