RAGATZ  , a famous watering-

place in the Swiss canton of St Gall, situated on the left bank of the Rhine, and by rail 132 M . N. of Coire or 611 m . S.E. of Zurich . It stands at a height of 1696 ft., at the entrance to the magnificent gorge of the Tamina, about 3 M . Up which by carriage road are the extraordinarily placed Baths of Pfafers (2247 ft.) . Since 184o the hot mineral 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 population was 1866, mainly German-speaking, while there were 1472 Romanists to 392 Protestants . The annual number of visitors is reckoned at 30,000 . In the church-yard is the grave of the philosopher Schelling (d. here in 1854) . About 2 M. by road above Ragatz are the 17th-century buildings (now the cantonal lunatic asylum) of the great Benedictine 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 castle of Wartenstein, now accessible from Ragatz by means of a funicular railway . (W .

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