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unusual facts about Olten


Prince Adrian of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha

He married secondly, also morganatically, in Bern on 11 July 1997 to Gertrud Krieg (born Olten, Solothurn, 18 March 1958), without issue.


Gruppe Olten

Prominent writers like Max Frisch, Adolf Muschg, Peter Bichsel and Friedrich Dürrenmatt had left the SSV (which they considered to be unprogressive) and became members of the Gruppe Olten.

Palézieux

Palézieux-Village station is on the Swiss Federal Railways' Broye valley line which then connects with their Olten-Lausanne mainline, at a junction just to the north of Palézieux-Gare.

Swiss Central Railway

From Olten the midland line connected to Bern and Thun, the Olten–Brugg line connected with the Swiss Northeastern Railway's (German: Schweizerische Nordostbahn, NOB) line to Zürich, the Jura foot line connected to Biel and the Olten–Lucerne railway line connected to Lucerne.

Vevey railway station

The station is also the western terminus of the standard gauge Chemin de fer Vevey-Chexbres to Puidoux-Chexbres on the Olten–Lausanne railway line, and a metre gauge line from Vevey to Blonay and Les Pléiades.


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