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6 unusual facts about Schwyz


Kentaro Minagawa

His first international successes were at the 1996 Junior World Championships in Schwyz, with a 5th rank in Slalom, and a 9th rank in Giant Slalom.

Leo Jud

Not long after though, forces from Schwyz set up outside Zurich, leading men such as Jud and Oswald Myconius to prepare for the worst.

In 1519 he became Zwingli’s associate at Einsiedeln (in Schwyz), where his reform-minded tendencies showed through clearly.

Peter Marvey

In 2009, Marvey opened a 99-seat theater in Feusisberg (near Pfäffikon, Schwyz), Switzerland.

Pfäffikon

Pfäffikon, Schwyz (Pfäffikon SZ), a town within the municipality of Freienbach, Canton of Schwyz, Switzerland

Raoul Weil

After leaving UBS, Weil was hired as a consultant in 2010 by Reuss Private Group (Pfäffikon, Schwyz, Switzerland), eventually becoming a managing partner.


Battle of Laupen

To raise the siege, Bern raised a force of 6,000, consisting of Bernese, supported by Forest Cantons of Uri, Schwyz and Unterwalden (who had entered a military alliance with Bern in 1323), and other allies (Simmental, Weissenburg, Oberhasli).

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.

Pfäffikon railway station

Pfäffikon SZ railway station - in the Swiss canton of Schwyz, albeit on the shores of Lake Zurich

ProTell

Switzerland has a long tradition of gun ownership by civilians, as well as of target shooting practice, probably since 1291 at its very foundation with the first three cantons (Uri, Schwyz and Unterwalden).

Second War of Kappel

Only strategically important places such as the Freiamt or those along the route from Schwyz to the Rhine valley at Sargans (and thus to the alpine passes in the Grisons) were forcibly re-catholicised.


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