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19 unusual facts about cantons of Switzerland


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Altach

Five other municipalities are surrounding Altach, Hohenems in the Dornbirn district, Götzis and Mäder in the Feldkirch district, and Oberriet and Diepoldsau in the Swiss canton St. Gallen.

Capol

Capol is an old Swiss noble family from the canton of Grisons.

Chalice

For instance, the coat of arms of the municipality of Fanas in the district of Prättigau/Davos in the Swiss canton of Graubünden, bears a gold chalice on a solid blue background.

Coffee Hag albums

The series were started in 1911 with the first album with Kantons und Stadtwappen (arms of Cantons and cities), numbered 1-80.

Daihatsu E-series engine

There was also a short-lived special version for the Swiss markets, where several cantons had tax systems which favoured cars of less than 800 cc.

Daihatsu Mira

Unlike the fractionally larger standard version, this one suited the four tax horsepower category in certain cantons, while other cantons had prominent tax limits at 800 cc.

Dutch Belted

These "Gurtenvieh" were evidently moved by Dutch nobility from the mountain farms of canton Appenzell and County of Tyrol Mountains during or soon after the feudal period.

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.

Expo.02

The barge represented the canton of Jura, which does not have access to any one of the three lakes.

Jean-Pierre Maradan

Maradan was brought up in Deitingen in the canton of Solothurn and started his football with the youth teams of the local football club.

Jennifer Oehrli

Her father's name was Rolf, her mother is Ruth, Jennifer grew up with her younger sister Svenja in Zollbrück/Rüderswil in the canton of Bern in Switzerland.

Johann Georg Tralles

From 1803 until 1805 these two men worked together on a topological survey of the Canton of Bern.

John Henni

John Henni was born in the village of Misanenga, municipality of Obersaxen, in the canton of Graubünden, in Switzerland.

Melchior Lussy

Melchior Lussy (1529–1606) was a Swiss Catholic statesman who represented the Catholic cantons of Switzerland in the Council of Trent.

Rallye International du Valais

The Rallye International du Valais is a yearly rally in the canton of Valais in Switzerland.

Serfaus

The Romansh language, which is still spoken in some parts of the Swiss Canton Graubünden, has survived in many of the regional field names.

Swiss referendums, 2008

In order for the initiative to pass a majority of Swiss cantons would have had to support it as well as a majority of voters.

Ulrich Giezendanner

In 1991, he was elected to the National Council, representing the canton of Aargau, and since 1995 he has been the head of the Commission for Transport and Telecommunications.


Agaunum

Roman Agaunum, the modern Saint-Maurice in the canton Valais in southwesternmost Switzerland, was a minor post confined between the Rhône and the mountains along the well-travelled road that led from Roman Genava, modern Geneva, over the Alps by the Great St. Bernard Pass to Italy.

Battle of Grauholz

The battle took place at Grauholz, a wooded hill in what is now the municipalities of Urtenen-Schönbühl and Moosseedorf in the canton of Bern in Switzerland.

Chemins de fer du Jura

The Chemins de fer du Jura (CJ), the railways of the Jura canton in northern Switzerland, came about as the result of an amalgamation, in 1944, of four independent companies connecting Porrentruy to Bonfol, Saignelégier to La Chaux-de-Fonds, Glovelier to Saignelégier and Tavannes to Tramelan and Le Noirmont.

Geisenheim Grape Breeding Institute

In 1876 professor Hermann Müller from Switzerland joined the institution, where he developed his namesake variety Müller-Thurgau (with Thurgau being his home canton), which became the most planted grape variety in Germany in the 1970s.

Johann August Nahl

Nahl is the author of the brass made in honour of Maria Magdalena Langhans, a clergyman's wife who died giving birth, in the church Hindelbank in the Bern Canton - this brass was one of the most admired in the 18th century.

Morgins

Morgins is a village in the municipality of Troistorrents in the district of Monthey in the canton of Valais in southern Switzerland.

Moutier-Grandval Abbey

Moutier-Grandval Abbey was a Benedictine abbey near the villages of Moutier and Grandval in the Jura bernois administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland.

Musée Baud

The Musée Baud is a music-box museum in the Swiss village of L'Auberson in the Jura Mountains in the canton of Vaud.

Regulation of genetically modified organisms in Switzerland

The Cantons of Switzerland perform tests to assess the presence of genetically modified organisms in foodstuffs.

Saint-Gotthard Massif

The Saint-Gotthard Massif (German: Gotthardmassiv) is a mountain range in the Alps in Switzerland, located at the border of four cantons: Valais, Ticino, Uri and Graubünden.

Schattenhalb

Schattenhalb is a municipality in the Interlaken-Oberhasli administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland.

Schweizerische Wagons- und Aufzügefabrik AG Schlieren-Zürich

The Schweizerische Wagons- und Aufzügefabrik AG (SWS, known colloquially as «Wagi»), which was based at Schlieren in the Canton of Zürich, Switzerland, was a manufacturer of railway rolling stock.

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.

Swiss passport

7 Place of Origin: family origin (municipality and canton) is different from Place of Birth (which is not displayed in the Swiss passport).

Turks in Switzerland

Accounting some 5% of the foreign population, the Turkish community in Switzerland, of which around 80% of them live in the German-speaking cantons, are concentreated particularly in the cities of Zurich, Basel and Aarau.

Ulrich von Zatzikhoven

However, it is generally accepted that Ulrich is the same person as a lay priest ("Leutpriester") from Lommis in the canton of Thurgau by the name of Uolricus de Cecinchoven, who occurs as a witness to a deed of gift dated March 29, 1214, executed by the family of the Counts of Toggenburg in favor of the monastery of St. Peterzell.