Reute

History

Reute was created due to the division of Appenzell in the wake of the Reformation. Some communities were left in the old faith, others turned themselves to the new faith. When the canton of Appenzell was divided in 1597 into a Catholic and a Protestant part of the canton, the Catholic majority of Hirschberg wanted to stay with Innerrhoden, while the Protestant minority wanted to go to Ausserrhoden. In the division of Appenzell (known as the Landteilungsbrief, literally Land division letter or treaty), the land owned by the Protestants was separated from Hirschberg and given to the Protestant Ausserrhoden, where it became the municipality of Reute. Catholic Hirschberg became part of the Innerrhoden municipality of Oberegg.

Geography

Reute has an area, (as of the 2004/09 survey) of . Of this area, about 40.2% is used for agricultural purposes, while 53.5% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 6.3% is settled (buildings or roads). In the 2004/09 survey a total of or about 3.2% of the total area was covered with buildings, an increase of over the 1983/84 amount. Of the agricultural land, is used for orchards and vineyards and is fields and grasslands. Since 1983/84 the amount of agricultural land has decreased by . Rivers and lakes cover in the municipality. Reute is divided into three districts which are individual hamlets: Mohren (110 people), Reute (190 people) and Schachen (390 people). The church is more than 300 years old.

Most-observed species

• Zoropsid spider

  Zoropsis spinimana (Dufour, 1820) · Arachnida
  4,540
• Eurasian Blackbird

  Turdus merula Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  3,728
• Great Tit

  Parus major Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  3,193
• Carrion Crow

  Corvus corone Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  3,001
• House Sparrow

  Passer domesticus (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  2,770
• Eurasian Blue Tit

  Cyanistes caeruleus (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  2,548
• Common Chaffinch

  Fringilla coelebs Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  2,509
• Common Buzzard

  Buteo buteo (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  2,345

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