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19 unusual facts about Winterthur


2008 Women's EuroFloorball Cup Finals

The 2008 Women's EuroFloorball Cup Finals took place in Winterthur, Switzerland from 8 to 12 October 2008.

Burchard II, Duke of Swabia

At Winterthur, however, Rudolph was defeated by Burchard, who thus consolidated the duchy and forced on the king his own territorial claims.

Charles Georges Javet

Charles Georges Javet (1802, Winterthur, Kanton Zürich – 25 May 1882, Passy, Paris) was a Swiss-born French insect dealer and entomologist.

Dario Zuffi

Dario Zuffi (born 7 December 1964 in Basel) is a Swiss football coach and former international player, who is currently a coach for FC Winterthur's U-21 team.

In 1998, Zuffi returned to FC Winterthur, the club where he launched his professional career.

Eparistera Daimones

Like Celtic Frost's Monotheist album, Eparistera Daimones was mastered by Walter Schmid at Oakland Recording in Winterthur, Switzerland.

Henry Davis Sleeper

Isabella Stewart Gardner commissined work from him; Henry Francis du Pont engaged his assistance with the big new wing of the family's massive Delaware house, Winterthur, now a famed museum of American decorative arts; he designed for Hollywood stars Joan Crawford and Fredric March.

Jacob Weidenmann

Weidenmann was born in Winterthur, Switzerland, and educated at the Akadomie der Bildenden Kunste, where he studied art, architecture, and engineering.

Joan Gamper

Hans-Max Gamper (his mother's maiden name – Haessig – is generally appended in Spanish sources) was born in Winterthur, Switzerland.

Johannes Scherr

Condemned in contumaciam to fifteen years hard labor, he established himself in Zürich as Privatdozent in 1850, but moved in 1852 to Winterthur.

Natalie Rickli

Natalie Simone Rickli (born 19 November 1976 in Winterthur) is a Swiss politician of the Swiss People's Party.

Precision Time Protocol

The Institute of Embedded Systems (InES) of the University of Winterthur is addressing the practical implementation and application of PTP.

Robert Ensko

Other letters are archived with the Bernard M. Bloomfield Papers, 1743-1963 at Winterthur in Delaware.

Snowdon Mountain Railway

Built specially for the line in 1895 and 1896, Nos. 1 to 5 were manufactured by the Swiss Locomotive and Machine Works of Winterthur.

Swiss Communist Organization

Workers Politics Communist Organization (Kommunistische Organisation Arbeiterpolitik, KOAP) in Zurich and Winterthur; founded in 1977 through merger of the Workers Politics Communist Group (Kommunistische Gruppe Arbeiterpolitik, KGAP, founded in 1976 by minority of Revolutionary Build-up Organization Zurich (Revolutionäre Aufbauorganisation Zürich, RAZ)) and Critical Forum Winterthur (Kritisches Forum Winterthur);

Waldshut–Koblenz Rhine Bridge

In 2007, about 34 trains daily operated as line S41 of the Zürich S-Bahn between Waldshut and Winterthur.

Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library

Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library is an American estate and museum in Winterthur, Delaware.

The museum was named for the city of Winterthur (in Switzerland), the ancestral home of Jacques Antoine Bidermann, a son-in-law of Eleuthère Irénée du Pont, the founder of the du Pont family and fortune in the United States.

Winterthur, Delaware

This museum is named after the 6th-greatest city in Switzerland, Winterthur.


André Jaunet

After occupying the principal flute positions of the Opera de Lille (France), in the Stadtorchester Winterthur (Switzerland), and the Bern Symphony Orchestra (Switzerland), Jaunet moved to Zürich, Switzerland, where he was principal flutist in the Tonhalle Orchestra from 1938 to 1978.

Frauenfeld

Frauenfeld railway station supports a regional train, part of the Zürich S-Bahn, from Weinfelden to Winterthur (S8 and S30) every 30 minutes, as well in the opposite direction and a fast train (InterCity and InterRegio) that travels to Zurich every 30 minutes, as well in the opposite direction to Weinfelden and further to Constance in Germany or Romanshorn.

General Casualty Insurance

Winterthur North America was a subsidiary of Switzerland-based Winterthur Swiss Insurance Group, which was part of banking giant Credit Suisse Group.

Hans Winderstein

From 1880 to 1884, he led Baron von Derwies' private orchestra at Nice after which he was violin teacher at the Winterthur Conservatoire in Switzerland until 1887.

Johann Caspar Füssli

Johann Kaspar Füssli (9 March 1743 in Zurich – 4 May 1786 in Winterthur), painter and entomologist

Johann Jakob Biedermann

Beidermann was born in Winterthur, and initially instructed by Johann Rudolph Schellenberg and Heinrich Rieter in Bern.

Kaiserstuhl OW railway station

The station should not be confused with Kaiserstuhl AG station, on the Winterthur to Koblenz line in the canton of Aargau.

Kaiserstuhl railway station

Kaiserstuhl AG railway station, on the Winterthur to Koblenz line in the Swiss canton of Aargau

Koblenz, Switzerland

Koblenz station is served by Zurich S-Bahn line S41, which links Winterthur and Waldshut, and Aargau S-Bahn line S27, which links Baden and Koblenz, with alternate trains continuing to either Waldshut or Bad Zurzach.

Kunstmuseum Winterthur

Kunstmuseum Winterthur (English: The Winterthur Museum of Art) is an art museum in Winterthur, Switzerland run by the local Kunstverein.

Oliver Stöckli

He found first team opportunities few and far between at Winterthur, however, and joined FC St. Gallen a season later where he became a first team regular at the relatively young age of 24.

Rekingen

In 1876, Rekingen received a mainline railway station on the Koblenz-Winterthur line.

Ridge Mobulu

Mobulu made his professional debut with Lausanne-Sport on December 9, 2007, in a game against Winterthur in Switzerland's second division Challenge League.

Rietheim, Aargau

Since 1876 it was given a railroad station and connected to the Koblenz-Winterthur line.

Romanshorn

Romanshorn railway station, opened in 1855, forms the junction between the Winterthur–Romanshorn railway, the Schaffhausen–Rorschach railway and the Romanshorn–Nesslau Neu St. Johann railway.

Trams in Winterthur

It served as a complement to the existing Winterthur–Bülach–Koblenz railway line, which had been in service since 1876, and which already had a station at Töss.

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.

Wendy McMurdo

Her work has been commissioned by The Science Museum in London and The Scottish National Portrait Gallery in Edinburgh, and is in a number of collections including that of the Fotomuseum Winterthur, The British Council, agnès b, Mario Testino, the National Galleries of Scotland, and most recently Seattle's Henry Art Gallery, WA USA.