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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 815 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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RAGATZ , a famous watering-See also:

place in the Swiss See also:canton of St See also:Gall, situated on the See also:left See also:bank of the See also:Rhine, and by See also:rail 132 M. N. of See also:Coire or 611 m. S.E. of See also:Zurich. It stands at a height of 1696 ft., at the entrance to the magnificent See also:gorge of the Tamina, about 3 M. Up which by See also:carriage road are the extraordinarily placed See also:Baths of Pfafers (2247 ft.). Since 184o the hot See also:mineral See also:waters of Pfafers are conducted in pipes to Ragatz, which is in a more pleasant position. Consequently Ragatz has much increased in importance since that date. In 1900 its native See also:population was 1866, mainly See also:German-speaking, while there were 1472 Romanists to 392 Protestants. The See also:annual number of visitors is reckoned at 30,000. In the See also:church-yard is the See also:grave of the philosopher See also:Schelling (d. here in 1854). About 2 M. by road above Ragatz are the 17th-See also:century buildings (now the cantonal lunatic See also:asylum) of the See also:great See also:Benedictine See also:abbey of Pfafers (720-1838), to which all this region belonged till 1798; while midway between them and Ragatz are the ruins of the 14th-century See also:castle of Wartenstein, now accessible from Ragatz by means of a funicular railway. (W.

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