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11 unusual facts about Lucerne


Ames Hydroelectric Generating Plant

The oldest hydroelectric power plant supplying a commercial transmission system for alternative current is the power plant Thorenberg near Lucerne in Switzerland.

Bi-articulated bus

Swiss manufacturer Hess produces a bi-articulated trolleybus called LighTram that is in use in several Swiss cities, including Zürich, Geneva and Lucerne.

Cleveland Orchestra

The orchestra also has long-term performing relationships in Lucerne, Vienna, New York City, a residency in Miami, and has conducted multi-concert tours on the West Coast off and on since the 1960s.

De Virga world map

In literature, there are hints that the map was retracted from the auction (piece no. 56, 14/15.June 1932) by the auction-house Gilhofer and Ranschburg (Alpenstrasse nr.6) in Lucerne.

Fredy Barth

Frédéric Nicolas "Fredy" Barth (born 5 December 1979 in Lucerne) is an auto racing driver from Switzerland.

Giovanni Andrea Tria

When Monsignor Firrao, for reasons of health, was reassigned to Switzerland, Tria traveled with him to Lucerne.

León, Nicaragua

Navas also sculpted the statues of the Twelve Apostles inside, along with the columns of the central nave, and the lion at the tomb of Dario, which resembles the Lion of Lucerne, Switzerland.

Lockheed Model 9 Orion

Some time in the 1960s it was purchased by Swiss Air and rebuilt to flying status by the famous "Fokker" restoration team and is on display at the Swiss Transport Museum in Lucerne, Switzerland in the livery of the original Swiss Air Orion.

Rudi Fischer

Rudolf "Rudi" Fischer (born 19 April 1912 in Stuttgart, Germany – 30 December 1976 in Lucerne) was a racing driver from Switzerland.

Tobias Blättler

Tobias Blättler, born 11 October 1981, in Lucerne, Switzerland, is a professional race car driver.

UPC Cablecom

Cablecom operates in Switzerland, including the cities of Zurich, Geneva, Basel, Berne, Lausanne, Lucerne and Winterthur, and Vorarlberg (Austria) serving 1.56 million cable television customers, as well as approximately 250 smaller broadband cable operators.


Adrian Naef

After his three years ongoing illness he began a training as photograph editor at the media education centre MAZ in Lucerne.

Alex Partridge

Having won a silver medal in the four at the World U23 Championships with Christopher Martin, Henry Adams and Dan Ouseley, the crew met the standard to gain selection for the coxed four at the senior World Championships in Lucerne.

Anne Sharp

In March 1947 she became a founder member of Benjamin Britten's English Opera Group, singing Britten roles at Glyndebourne, Sadler's Wells, Lucerne, Scheveningen, Oslo and Copenhagen as well as the company's home base at Aldeburgh.

Arthur Meeker, Jr.

Meeker spent part of each year in Europe, became fluent in French, and purchased a chalet in Switzerland on the Bürgenstock above Lucerne.

Brünig

The Brünig railway line, a railway line in Switzerland linking Interlaken and Lucerne

Charles Dutoit

He also worked with Herbert von Karajan at Lucerne as a member of the festival youth orchestra and studied with Charles Munch at Tanglewood.

Christoph Beat Graber

He teaches in the fields of international trade law, communications and art law, European and global media law and the sociology of law at the University of Lucerne, lectures on audiovisual services in the MILE program of the World Trade Institute, and is a recognized expert in the field of audio-visual services.

Chronicle of the Swiss Confederation

The Chronicle of the Swiss Confederation was written by Petermann Etterlin’s from Lucerne.

Conservative Democratic Party of Switzerland

Eleven other cantonal branches have been founded, predominantly in German-speaking Switzerland: Aargau, Basel-Landschaft, Fribourg, Glarus, Lucerne, Schwyz, Solothurn, St. Gallen, Thurgau, Valais, and Zürich.

Curt Truninger

After a brief excursion directing music videos, Truninger made a leap to feature films in 1996 with Waiting for Michelangelo, a crtitically-acclaimed romantic comedy, featuring Canadian star Roy Dupuis, shot in Toronto and Lucerne.

Estermann

Yvette Estermann born as Gavlasova (born 1967), Swiss politician, member of the National Council from the Canton of Lucerne

Frances Houghton

Houghton won gold medals in the 2004 World Rowing Cups at both Lake Malta Poznań, Poland and Rotsee Lucerne, Switzerland, partnered by Alison Mowbray, Debbie Flood and Rebecca Romero - the first British women's quad to beat the Germans in this event.

Franz Anatol Wyss

Wyss trained in the School of Art and Design (Kunstgewerbeschule) in Lucerne between 1960 and 1961 and then the Art School of Zurich from 1965-66 with Bruno Stamm.

Ingrid Schmeck

One of the main subjects in her work remains the forms of appearance of European Fastnacht and Carnival, particularly traditions in Basel and Lucerne and the Alemannic range.

La Lucerne Abbey

La Lucerne was the mother-house of four other Premonstratensian monasteries: Ardenne Abbey, Mondaye Abbey and Belle-Étoile Abbey (at Cerisy-Belle-Étoile) in Normandy, and Beauport Abbey in Brittany.

Larchmont, Los Angeles

The 1983 film WarGames utilized a home at Lucerne and Second Street as a major backdrop and set.

Lasker versus Bauer, Amsterdam, 1889

The same sacrificial pattern was echoed in a number of later games, notably NimzowitschTarrasch, St Petersburg 1914; MilesBrowne, Lucerne 1982; and PolgarKarpov, Seventh Essent 2003.

Laurenz Forer

He was born at Lucerne, entered the Society of Jesus at the age of twenty, in Landshut, and made part of his studies under Paul Laymann and Adam Tanner.

Mahler Chamber Orchestra

The MCO has stable residencies in Ferrara (Ferrara Musica, honorary president: Claudio Abbado), Aix-en-Provence (Festival international d'art lyrique d'Aix-en-Provence), Toblach (Gustav Mahler Musikwochen), Lucerne (Lucerne Festival), Salzburg (Mozartwochen) and Landshut.

Pfäffikon

Pfeffikon (Pfeffikon LU), a municipality in the canton of Lucerne, Switzerland

Regula Mühlemann

Mühlemann was born in Adligenswil, and studied voice with Barbara Locher at the Academy of Music in Lucerne in 2010 where she graduated with honors with a Master of Arts.

Richenthal

Richenthal, Reiden, a former municipality in the canton of Lucerne, Switzerland, now part of the municipality of Reiden

Sadie Jemmett

In 2003, Sadie co-wrote with Robin Walden (aka Deepcutt) the score for a musical theatrical version of Bertolt Brecht's Good Woman Of Szechuan at Théâtre Vidy, Lucerne & Théâtre de Chaillot, starring Irina Brook and Romane Bohringer.

Schifffahrtsgesellschaft des Vierwaldstättersees

The landing stages at Lucerne and Flüelen provide 'cross-quay' interchange with the main line railways at Lucerne station and Flüelen station respectively.

Sebastian Peregrin Zwyer

During the Swiss peasant war of 1653, Zwyer commanded the joint troops of the city of Lucerne and Uri, putting down the revolt in the Entlebuch valley in the canton of Lucerne.

Sempach Bird Observatory

The Sempach Bird Observatory (Vogelwarte Sempach in German) is a bird observatory and ornithological research centre, also known as the Swiss Ornithological Institute, which is based at the town of Sempach in the district of Sursee in the canton of Lucerne in Switzerland.

Siegrist

Nico Siegrist (born 1991), football striker playing for FC Lucerne in the Swiss Super League

Socialist Workers' Sport International

Discussions lingered on within the Lucerne International, but after communist sportsmen had made a public protest at a German Workers Sports Festival in Karlsbad in 1924, it was decided that the Sportintern would be barred from the Workers Olympiad.

Stefan Marinković

During his tenure in the various youth ranks at Lucerne, Stefan Marinković had several trial periods with both Juventus and Arsenal, before the young Left back opted to sign with Ajax instead.

Subgroups of Amish

Swartzentruber is a Mennonite and Amish surname of Swiss origin, coming from the Trub river valley, located approximately midway between Bern and Lucerne.

Swissair Flight 330

A bomb detonated in the aft cargo compartment of the aircraft about nine minutes after take-off climb-out on southerly course approximately at 12:15 UTC in the area of Lucerne north of the St. Gotthard Pass.

Thibaud Chapelle

2001, Lucerne, Switzerland- Chapelle won a bronze medal in lightweight double sculls with Fabrice Moreau.

Tošo Dabac

In 1952, his works were shown at an international exhibition in Lucerne, along with others such as Richard Avedon, Cecil Beaton, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Frank and André Kertész.

VBL

Verkehrsbetriebe Luzern, the public transport operator for the Swiss city of Lucerne

Walter Henneberger

He shared 9th at Bern 1932 (Alexander Alekhine won), took 10th at Zürich 1934 (Alekhine won), took 11th at Bad Liebwerda 1934 (Salo Flohr won), and tied for 5-8th at Lucerne 1950 (SUI-ch, Hans Johner won).

Zurich–Lucerne railway line

IR trains operate over the whole length of the line between Zurich and Lucerne every 30 minutes, stopping at Thalwil and Zug, with some stopping at Baar and Rotkreuz as well.