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unusual facts about Schwanden, Glarus


Burkat Shudi

He was born in Schwanden in the Canton of Glarus, and arrived in England in 1718, where he started work as a joiner.


Aegidius Tschudi

Aegidius (or Giles) Tschudi (5 February 1505 – 28 February 1572) was an eminent member of the Tschudi family, of Glarus, Switzerland.

André Caetano Gonçalves

Gonçalves began his playing career with lower league clubs FC Glarus and FC Rapperswil-Jona before moving on to Swiss Super League club FC Zürich in 2006.

Beresinalied

The context is that Oberleutnant Thomas Legler, (1782-1835, born in Glarus) who served in the II corps of Marshal Nicolas Oudinot in Napoleon Bonaparte's invasion army in Russia in his memoirs Denkwürdigkeiten aus dem russischen Feldzug tells how his commander during the Battle on 28 November 1812 reminded him of the song and asked him to sing it.

Birnbrot

They exist throughout Switzerland and popular variations include "Bündener Birnbrot" (from the Kanton Graubünden), "Glarner Birnbrot" (from the Kanton Glarus), "Toggenburger Birnbrot" (from Toggenburg (district) and "Luzerner Birnweggen" (from Luzern).

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.

Daniel Silver

Recent solo exhibitions include Museo Carlo Zauli, Faenza, Italy (2012); Acne Studios, London (2011); Coming Together, Kunsthaus Glarus, Switzerland (2011); The Smoking Silver Father Figures, Frieze Art Fair Sculpture Park, London (2010).

Emil Brunner

He studied at the universities of Zurich and Berlin, receiving his doctorate in theology from Zurich in 1913, with a dissertation on The Symbolic Element in Religious Knowledge. Brunner served as pastor from 1916 to 1924 in the mountain village of Obstalden in the Swiss Canton of Glarus.

Engi

Engi, Switzerland, a former municipality in the canton of Glarus in Switzerland

Fridolin of Säckingen

On his death Urso left his enormous lands, now the Canton of Glarus, to Fridolin, who founded numerous churches dedicated to Saint Hilarius (the origin of the name "Glarus").

Johann Gottfried Ebel

Ebel also published a work (2 vols, Leipzig, 1798 1802) entitled Schilderungen der Gebirgsvölker der Schweiz, which deals mainly with the pastoral cantons of Glarus and Appenzell.

Johannes Heer

Johannes Heer of Glarus (1489-1553) was a song composer and copyist, and later minister in the Reformed Church.

Leica Geosystems

Heinrich Wild (1877–1951) of Glarus, Switzerland, a leading designer of geodetic and astronomical instruments, began his career as an apprentice surveyor.

Linthal

Linthal, Glarus, a settlement in the upper valley of the Linth river, in the canton of Glarus in Switzerland

Peter Britt

When Peter Britt was born in Obstalden in the Swiss canton of Glarus, his family farmed land that had been in the family for centuries.

René Botteron

René "Bobo" Botteron (born 17 October 1954 in Glarus) is a Swiss former football midfielder who played for various clubs in Switzerland, Germany and Belgium throughout the 1970s and 1980s.

Säckingen Abbey

This estate covered land in the Rhine and Frick valleys, the southern Hotzenwald, land in Zurich, along Lake Walen and the valley of Glarus.

Schwändi

Schwändi, Glarus, a former municipality in the Swiss canton of Glarus

Urs Sonderegger

Urs "Ursinho" Sonderegger (born 28 April 1964 in Glarus) is a Swiss entrepreneur and racing driver.

Von Glarus

The Tschudi family origins of the line from Johannes “von Glarus” (1280-1350) and Anna “von Landenberg“.

Wisconsin v. Yoder

Three Amish students from three different families stopped attending New Glarus High School in the New Glarus, Wisconsin school district at the end of the eighth grade, all due to their parents' religious beliefs.


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