Arbon

Arbon
Coat of arms of Arbon
Location of Arbon
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Arbon is located in Switzerland
Arbon
Arbon
Arbon is located in Canton of Thurgau
Arbon
Arbon
Coordinates: 47°31′N 9°26′E / 47.517°N 9.433°E / 47.517; 9.433
CountrySwitzerland
CantonThurgau
DistrictArbon
Government
 • ExecutiveStadtrat
with 5 members
 • MayorStadtammann/Stadtpräsident (list)
Andreas Balg FDP/PRD
(as of March 2015)
 • ParliamentStadtparlament
with 30 members
Area
 • Total
5.9 km2 (2.3 sq mi)
Elevation
(Galluskapelle)
399 m (1,309 ft)
Population
 (31 December 2018)[2]
 • Total
14,631
 • Density2,500/km2 (6,400/sq mi)
DemonymGerman: Arboner(in)
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (Central European Time)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (Central European Summer Time)
Postal code(s)
9320 Arbon, 9320 Frasnacht, 9320 Stachen
SFOS number4401
ISO 3166 codeCH-TG
LocalitiesArbon, Frasnacht, Stachen, Schloss, Bergli, Neusätz, Chratzere, Speiserslehn, Scheidweg, Steineloh
Surrounded byEgnach, Roggwil TG, Berg SG, Steinach, Horn
Twin townsLangenargen (Germany), Binn (Switzerland)
Websitewww.arbon.ch
SFSO statistics

Arbon is a historic town and a municipality and district capital of the district of Arbon in the canton of Thurgau in Switzerland.

Arbon is located on the southern shore of Lake Constance, on a railway line between Konstanz/Romanshorn and Rorschach/Chur, or St. Gallen, respectively.

It is the site of prehistoric settlements reaching back 6500 years. Elements of the castle on the peninsula were part of a Late Roman defensive fortification that developed into a medieval town in the first half of the thirteenth century.[3]

The official language of Arbon is (the Swiss variety of Standard) German, but the main spoken language is the local variant of the Alemannic Swiss German dialect.

  1. ^ a b "Arealstatistik Standard - Gemeinden nach 4 Hauptbereichen". Federal Statistical Office. Retrieved 13 January 2019.
  2. ^ "Ständige Wohnbevölkerung nach Staatsangehörigkeitskategorie Geschlecht und Gemeinde; Provisorische Jahresergebnisse; 2018". Federal Statistical Office. 9 April 2019. Retrieved 11 April 2019.
  3. ^ Albin Hasenfratz, Hansjörg Brem, Kurt Buenzli: Arbon in German, French and Italian in the online Historical Dictionary of Switzerland, 20 October 2010.