Heiden, Switzerland

Infobox Swiss town
subject_name = Heiden
municipality_name = Heiden
municipality_type = municipality
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image_photo = Heiden AR 1900.jpg
image_caption = Heiden, 1900.


languages = German
canton = Appenzell Ausserrhoden
iso-code-region = CH-AR
district = n.a.
lat_d=47|lat_m=26|lat_NS=N|long_d=9|long_m=32|long_EW=E
postal_code = 9410
municipality_code = 3032
area = 7.50
elevation = 794|elevation_description=
population = 4020|populationof = January 2004 | popofyear = 2004
website = www.heiden.ch
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neighboring_municipalities= Eggersriet (SG), Grub, Lutzenberg, Oberegg (AI), Rehetobel, Reute, Thal (SG), Wald, Wolfhalden
twintowns = Bezau (Austria)|

Heiden is a municipality in the canton of Appenzell Ausserrhoden in Switzerland. Its Biedermeier village around the church square is listed as a heritage site of national significance. [Swiss inventory of cultural property of national and regional significance (1995), p. 54.]

Around 1650 Wolfhalden and Heiden could not agree about the control over the church. This led to the creation of a church in each village in 1652, making them independent. The founder of the Red Cross, Henry Dunant spent his last years in Heiden.

A rack railway, the Rorschach-Heiden-Bahn, leads from Rorschach, 400 meters below, to Heiden.

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