Murg am Walensee, Quarten, Switzerland - campside, VW Beetles - real photo ppc

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• Picture / Image:  Campingplatz und Strandbad - Murg am Walensee [this is in Quarten in St. Gallen Canton] - shows a campsite by the lake with 2 VW Beetles, one with sheets draped over it - real photo postcard c.1950s or 1960s
• Publisher:  Fotohaus A. Steinemann, Flums
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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information (internal links may not  work) :

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Quarten is a municipality in the Wahlkreis (constituency) of Sarganserland, in the canton of St. Gallen, Switzerland, above Lake Walensee. Besides Quarten itself, the municipality includes the settlements of Oberterzen, Unterterzen, Quinten, Mols, Murg, and parts of Tannenbodenalp.

Quarten is first mentioned about 840 as in Quarto.^[3]

The municipality of Quarten stretches for some 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) along the southern shore of the Walensee, and some 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) from the shore inland to the Murgseen lakes and the foot of the Gufelstock mountain. On the opposite shore of the lake, a detached section of the municipality takes in 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) of the lake shore, and stretches some 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) up the slopes of the Leistchamm mountain.^[4]

The settlements of Murg, Unterterzen and Mols lie along the southern shoreline of the Walensee, overlooked by Quarten and Unterterzen at a slightly higher altitude. The hamlet of Quinten lies on the north shore of the Walensee, and is only accessible by boat or on foot. Tannenbodenalp lies some 1,100 metres (3,600 ft) above Unterterzen, forming part of the Flumserberg ski resort, and is split between the municipalities of Quarten and Flums.^[4]

Quarten is located in the Sarganserland district. It has an area, as of 2006^[update], of 61.7 km² (23.8 sq mi). Of this area, 33.5% is used for agricultural purposes, while 45.7% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 3.5% is settled (buildings or roads) and the remainder (17.2%) is non-productive (rivers or lakes).^[5]

The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Per pale Gules a Crosier Argent and Argent a Roman Numeral IV Gules. Quarten (or a fourth), like Brüntsch (Primsch in Romansh or first in English), Gunz (Seguns in Romansh or second in English), Terzen (third) and Quinten (fifth), was the fourth courtyard of the bishop of Chur.^[6]

type=real photographic (rp)

city/ region=st galen

period=post-war (1945 - present)

postage condition=unposted

number of items=single

size=continental/ modern (150x100mm)