Impressions from Heiden

From 1850 horse-drawn carriage connections were opened on the extended roads. Postbuses replaced horse-drawn carriages in 1906. In 1875 the Rorschach-Heiden-Bergbahn (RHB), rack railway at Lake Constance and Heiden were connected to the Swiss railway network in Rorschach.

In 1874, the district hospital, now the Cantonal Hospital of Heiden, started operations. Henry Dunant, the founder of the Red Cross, spent the last 23 years of his life here from 1887 to 1910.