APPENZELL, political capital of the Inner Rhoden half of the Swiss canton of Appenzell, in a smiling green hollow on the left bank of the Sitter, formed by union of mountain torrents from the Santis; by light railways I 2 2m. from St. Gall past Gais or 202m. past Herisau. Pop. (1920), 5,173, German-speaking Roman Catholics. It has a stately modern church (attached to a Gothic choir), a small but very ancient chapel of the abbots of St. Gall (whose summer residence was this village), and two Capuchin convents (one for men, founded in 1588, and one for women, founded in 1613) . Among the archives, kept in the sacristy of the church, are banners captured by Appenzellers, among them one taken in 2406 at Imst, near Landeck, with the inscription Hundert Teufel. In the principal square the Landsgemeinde (or cantonal democratic assembly) is held on the last Sunday in April. Pastoral occupation and embroidery work employ the people. 22m. by road and rail south-east of Appenzell is Weissbad, a goat's whey cure establishment, while I2 hours above it is the quaint little chapel of Wildkirchli, built (1648) in a rock cavern, on the way to the Santis.