X-Nico

4 unusual facts about Kappel


Christian Orlainsky

In 1981 he won his only world cup giant slalom in Ebnat-Kappel and finished sixth in the giant slalom world cup.

Lenzkirch

The municipality is made up of the town of Lenzkirch (3341 inhabitants, including about 50 in the adjacent village of Grünwald) and the villages of Saig (812 inhabitants), Kappel (785), and Raitenbuch (152).

M. H. Landauer

H. Landauer (1808 – February 3, 1841) was a writer on Jewish mysticism, born at Kappel, near Buchau, Württemberg in Germany.

Rudolf Gwalther

He attended schools in Kappel, Basel, Strasbourg, Lausanne and Marburg and studied mathematics and poetry in addition to theology.


First War of Kappel

The first war of Kappel (Erster Kappelerkrieg) was an armed conflict in 1529 between the Protestant and the Catholic cantons of the Old Swiss Confederacy during the reformation in Switzerland.

Schwarzen

The following places are nearby (with distances in kilometres): Würrich (2), Ober Kostenz (2), Nieder Kostenz (4), Kappel (6), Kludenbach (6), Todenroth (8), Metzenhausen (10).

Wars of Kappel

The wars of Kappel (Kappelerkriege) is a collective term for two armed conflicts fought near Kappel am Albis between the Protestant and the Roman Catholic cantons of the Old Swiss Confederacy during the Reformation in Switzerland.


see also