Widnau

Widnau is a municipality in the Wahlkreis, or constituency, of Rheintal in the canton of St. Gallen, Switzerland. It was created as a municipality in 1883 when it separated from Diepoldsau. It covers about 4.2 square kilometres, of which 34.2 percent is used for agriculture, 2.4 percent is forested and 59.4 percent is settled land of buildings and roads, with the remaining 4 percent non-productive land such as rivers or lakes. Widnau lies on the Austrian border and has a border crossing via the Wiesenrainbrucke, a bridge over the Rhine. The road bridge also carries a track of the International Rhine Regulation railway. The municipality had 9,932 residents at the end of 2020.