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unusual facts about Canton of Bern


Leah Hirsig

Hirsig was born into a family of nine siblings in Trachselwald, Canton of Bern, Switzerland.


Albert Samuel Gatschet

Albert Samuel Gatschet (October 3, 1832, Beatenberg, Canton of Bern – March 16, 1907) was a Swiss-American ethnologist who trained as a linguist in the universities of Bern and Berlin, but later moved to the United States in order to study Native American languages, in which field he was a pioneer.

Gründjitobel Viaduct

The falsework, which had already been used in the construction of the Halen Bridge in Kirchlindach, Bern, originated, as with the Langwieser Viaduct, from Richard Coray of Trin.

Le Rubli

Le Rubli (or Rüeblihorn) is a 2,285 metres high mountain in the western Bernese Alps, overlooking Rougemont in the canton of Vaud, near the border with the canton of Berne.

Rauracian Republic

Administrative frontiers changed more than once in the ensuring two decades, but when the war finally came to an end, the territory of Mont-Terrible, previously if briefly the Rauracian Republic, was divided by the victorious powers at the Congress of Vienna between the cantons of Bern and Basel.

Tête de Moine

It was invented and initially produced more than eight centuries ago by the monks of the abbey of Bellelay, located in the community of Saicourt, district of Moutier, in the mountainous zone of the Bernese Jura, the French-speaking area of the Canton of Bern.

Valerius Anshelm

17. Jahrhundert, in Berner Zeitschrift für Geschichte und Heimatkunde 67/1, pp. 37–61; Historical Society of the Canton of Berne ("Historischer Verein des Kantons Bern"), 2005.

Verena Diener

Diener's seat is one of five (out of 46) not held by members of the parties represented in the Swiss Federal Council (besides fellow Green Liberal, Markus Stadler of Uri, Werner Luginbühl of Canton of Bern and the two of the Green Party, Robert Cramer of Geneva and Luc Recordon of Vaud).


see also

Johann Georg Tralles

From 1803 until 1805 these two men worked together on a topological survey of the Canton of Bern.

Münsingen

As an important gathering-place during the Peasants' War, and in the ensuing process of democratization, Münsingen played a major part in the history of the canton of Bern.

Oberthal

Oberthal, Switzerland, a municipality in the canton of Bern, Switzerland

Sugar Creek Township, Wayne County, Ohio

Like the founders of Kidron, the early settlers of Sugar Creek came from the canton of Bern in Switzerland.

Urtenen

Urtenen-Schönbühl, a municipality in the Canton of Bern, Switzerland, or a town within it.