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The train goes through Chur and St. Moritz in Switzerland and Tirano, Italy.
On Tennis CHUR, Switzerland — Roger Federer had just finished his soup and was dubious.
That helps explain why Federer chose to train in Felsberg and nearby Chur despite the occasional chill and often-gusting winds.
Earlier this year in the mountain town of Chur, he walked into a full restaurant unannounced and drew only smiles or polite stares.
Great work, and keep inspiring us here in Aotearoa and around the world, with your young ones raw passion for hakaz... Chur 🤙😀 much aroha.
Beginning operations in Sydney on Tuesday, the food delivery service will serve up snacks from more than 100 restaurants including Three Blue Ducks, Chur Burger and Fratelli Fresh.
Museum director Stephan Kunz and his predecessor, Beat Stutzer, who organised the original deal with Stoffel that brought the collection to Chur, also declined comment, citing the legal proceedings.
After learning of the collection in 2009, the Grisons Art Museum in Chur enlisted Remo Stoffel, a local real estate tycoon and patron, to buy it for more than $1 million.
"They have asked us to confiscate the drawings and photographs, which we have done," said Claudio Riedi of the local prosecutors' office in the Swiss town of Chur where the museum holding the drawings and photos is located.
Police in the eastern canton of the Grisons, where Giger was born, said pieces worth nearly 18,000 Swiss francs ($18,450) were taken from the shop window of a gallery in the provincial capital of Chur before dawn on Thursday.
The collection was in Giacometti's possession when he died in Chur in 1966, but may have changed hands among family members before finding its way to an unidentified "great art lover" in Switzerland around 1998, according to the Swiss court documents.
One of the Theatertreffen top-ten selections was The Girl from the Fog Machine Factory, a production by Thom Luz and Bernetta Theaterproduktionen, in coproduction with Gessnerallee Zürich, Théâtre Vidy-Lausanne, Kaserne Basel, Internationales Sommerfestival Kampnagel Hamburg, Theater Chur, and Südpol Luzern.
Chur Cathedral The Bishop of Chur (German: Bischof von Chur) is the ordinary of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Chur, Grisons, Switzerland (Latin: Dioecesis Curiensis)."Diocese of Chur" Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved February 29, 2016"Diocese of Chur" GCatholic.org.
The Rhaetian Railway operates frequent train services on the Chur–Arosa railway to Chur.
The Bishopric of Chur was first founded in 451, when Asinio was made Bishop of Chur. In 1170, Emperor Frederick I raised the Bishopric of Chur to the title of Prince- Bishopric of Chur. In October 1621, Colonel Baldiron of Austria attacked the Prince-Bishopric of Chur, and the League of God's House as a whole, with 8,000 men. On November 22 of the same year, Baldiron and his soldiers captured Chur.
Most of the population speak Bündner German (in Chur the variant of Chur German). In Rhäzüns and especially in Domat/Ems they also speak Romansh. In recent years, the settlements of the Chur Rhine Valley have increasingly grown together into an urban region around the central town of Chur.
Fussballclub Chur 97 is a football team from Chur, Switzerland who play in 2. Liga Interregional (division 5). It was founded in 1997 as a merger of FC Chur, FC Neustadt and SC Grischuna.
The song is a long, elaborated series of call notes, and is made by breeding males in their nests. An alarm call like that of other sparrows, transcribed chur- chur-chur, is also used.
Rathaus Chur Coat of arms of Chur This is a list of mayors of Chur. The mayor of Chur held the title of Bürgermeister until 1875. Since then, the Stadtpräsident presides the city's executive, the office of the Bürgermeister is limited to the presidency of the local citizen's corporation (Bürgergemeinde).
EHC Chur Capricorns (formerly EHC Chur Sport AG) is a Swiss ice hockey team based in Chur, Switzerland who played until 2008 in National League B. They currently compete in the third tiered MySports League.
Maienfeld sits on the Chur–Rorschach railway between Sargans and Chur and is served by local trains at Maienfeld railway station.
Kul-chur inscription or Küli Čor inscription was an inscription erected in honor of a military leader called Kul Chur of the Xueyantuo. It was erected between 723 and 725.Ercilasun, (1985), p. 59 Kul-chur inscription, front side.
He was ordained a priest as well as incardinated in Chur on 7 April 1974. At the request of the bishop of Chur Johannes Vonderach, Haas was appointed to the position of coadjutor bishop of Chur on 25 March 1988.
Railjet passing through the then station of Weite The Chur–Rorschach line is an important rail link in the canton of St. Gallen. It runs through the Chur and St. Gallen sections of the Rhine valleys from Chur to Rheineck and on to Rorschach. The Rhine valley line begins in Chur railway station, where the standard gauge line connects with the dual gauge Domat/Ems–Chur line of the Rhaetian Railway (RhB). The route initially runs parallel to the Chur–Landquart line of the RhB north to Haldenstein, from where the two lines run to Zizers between the Rhine and the A13 motorway.
Hallenstadion is an arena in Chur, Switzerland. It is primarily used for ice hockey and is the home arena of EHC Chur. Hallenstadion holds 6,545 people.
The Prince-Bishopric of Chur () was an ecclesiastical principality of the Holy Roman Empire, and had Imperial immediacy. They were the leader of the League of God's House. The Prince-Bishopric of Chur controlled contiguous land from the city of Chur, to Engadin, and to Vinschgau.
Chur West railway station is a railway station in Chur, Switzerland. It is located on the Landquart–Thusis line of the Rhaetian Railway. It is served twice hourly by Chur S-Bahn trains in each direction. Some daytime long- distance services also stop at this station.
In the 14th century the core communities of the Bishopric of Chur lay along the north-south road on the Septimer-Julier route. The bishop ruled the region around Chur and had the right of high judgement in the Fünf Dörfer, Chur, Oberhalbstein, Oberengadin, Bergell, Schams, Rheinwald, Unterengadin and Vinschgau. After 1363 relationships between the bishop of Chur and his subjects worsened. Austrian dukes from the House of Habsburg had acquired the County of Tyrol which included Münstertal and Unterengadin and were trying to expand into the Bishopric of Chur.
In 1499 during the Swabian War the League together with the other two Leagues defeated a Habsburg army at the Battle of Calven and took the Vinschgau from the Bishopric of Chur. Over time the power of the Bishop of Chur weakened, but Chur became the center of the League of God's House. After about 1700, the mayor of Chur automatically became the leader of the League of God's House.
The hourly Chur–St. Moritz Regional Express does not normally stop in Bever. Some early morning and late evening regional services on the Chur–St. Moritz route do stop.
Chur stadtbahn (Engadinstrasse) Chur Sand depot; the Plessur and main running line are on the left The Chur stadtbahn ("town railway") is the part of the RhB line from Chur to Arosa which passes through the centre of the city of Chur, with on-street running. The line starts on Bahnhofplatz, in front of the main railway station, where that station's platforms for the Arosa line are. The line runs along Engadinstrasse from the Bahnhofplatz to the old town, where it then runs briefly along Grabenstrasse and then alongside the Plessur river on Plessurquai ("Plessur Quay"). After Chur Altstadt station, the line continues to run on the road alongside the river, heading up into the suburb of Sand and along Sandstrasse, which is the location of a compact permanent way depot ("Chur Sand") at 1.42 km from the beginning of the line.
In the ensuing peace deal, Austria took the Lower Engadine from Chur, and retained the right to station troops in Chur, and use their roads. On October 27, 1624, an army of 8,000 French and Swiss soldiers attacked the Austrians stationed at Chur, lead by the marquis de Coeuvres. Because Austria had pulled much of her garrison back during spring, the 8,000 strong army quickly overtook the Austrian skeleton garrison, and seized Chur and the surrounding land. During the time of the Transalpine campaigns of the Old Swiss Confederacy, the Prince-Bishopric of Chur took control of Valtellina, Bormio, and Chiavenna.
Chur Wiesental railway station is a railway station in the northern part of the town of Chur, the capital of the Swiss canton of Grisons. The station is on the Rhaetian Railway's single-track Landquart–Thusis line, and has one side platform. The two-track SBB line runs parallel but has no intermediate stops between Chur and Landquart.
The expression Chur S-Bahn () is used to describe two S-Bahn-style regional rail services focused upon Chur, the capital of the canton of Graubünden, Switzerland. Both of these S-Bahn services run on metre gauge lines, and are operated by the Rhaetian Railway, which also runs the line from Chur to Arosa in similar fashion.
In fresh fall plumage, the female's throat and breast are brownish near the flank contrasting with white tail underparts. Their call is a thin 'few'; while their song is warbled high 'chur chur'.
Chur Altstadt railway station is a small railway station (essentially a street halt) on the Chur–Arosa railway (the "Arosabahn") of the Rhaetian Railway (RhB). It is situated near the old town (Altstadt) of Chur, on Plessurquai by the Plessur river, less than a kilometre (0.76 km) from the main railway station of the city. It was called Chur Stadt railway station until 8 December 2018. The halt is closer to the shops, bars and attractions of the old town than the main station.
The Landquart–Thusis railway is a Swiss metre-gauge railway, which is operated by the Rhaetian Railway (Rhätischen Bahn; RhB), running via Landquart via Grisons capital of Chur to Thusis. It is part of the RhB core network and provides a connection between the Landquart–Davos Platz railway and the Albula Railway. Between Landquart and Chur, the line runs largely parallel to the standard-gauge Chur–Rorschach railway of the Swiss Federal Railway (SBB). The line from Chur to Thusis was opened in 1896.
Currently it is housed at the Rhätisches Museum (Clm 6436) in Chur.
On 1 January 2020 the former municipality of Maladers merged into Chur.
The Chur–Arosa railway, also called the Arosabahn, Arosalinie, Aroserbahn or Aroserlinie (all meaning Arosa railway or line), is a Swiss metre-gauge railway, which is operated by the Rhaetian Railway (Rhätischen Bahn; RhB). It was built in 1914 by the former Chur-Arosa-Bahn (Chur-Arosa Railway; ChA) to connect the Grisons capital, Chur, with the spa town of Arosa. Since 1942, it has been integrated into the network of the Rhaetian Railway. The name of the former company is still used as a name for the line.
This initial ratio is modelled relative to CHUR - the Chondritic Uniform Reservoir - which is an approximation of the chondritic material which formed the solar system. CHUR was determined by analysing chondrite and achondrite meteorites. The difference in the ratio of the sample relative to CHUR can give information on a model age of extraction from the mantle (for which an assumed evolution has been calculated relative to CHUR) and to whether this was extracted from a granitic source (depleted in radiogenic Nd), the mantle, or an enriched source.
Chur in 1642, by Matthäus Merian. Francis Nicholson (1753-1844). View of Chur. Archaeological evidence of settlement at the site, in the Eastern Alps, goes back as far as the Pfyn culture (3900-3500 BC),Schibler, J. 2006.
Haldenstein railway station is a railway station in the northern part of the municipality of Chur, in the Swiss canton of Grisons. The station is on the Rhaetian Railway's Landquart–Thusis line. The Swiss Federal Railways Chur–Rorschach line runs parallel but has no intermediate stops between Chur and Landquart. The station serves the municipality of Haldenstein, located on the other side of the River Rhine.
Manuela Laura Pesko (born 18 September 1978 in Chur) is a Swiss snowboarder.
Eques Auratus. Nephew of Dietegan 'Magnus'. He married Anna (1552-1613) daughter of Commissari Federico à Salis-Samedan (1512-1570).Stammbaumes der Familie von Salis von Anton von Sprecher, Chur, 1941Photographien der Bilder von Vorfahren der Familie von Salis, Chur, 1884.
Since 143Nd/144Nd departures from the CHUR evolution line are very small, DePaolo and Wasserburg argued that it would be useful to create a form of notation that described 143Nd/144Nd in terms of their deviations from the CHUR evolution line. This is called the epsilon notation, whereby one epsilon unit represents a one part per 10,000 deviation from the CHUR composition.Dickin, A. P., 2005. Radiogenic Isotope Geology, 2nd ed.
Chur has an oceanic climate in spite of its inland position. Summers are warm and sometimes hot, normally averaging around during the day, whilst winter means are around freezing, with daytime temperatures being about . Between 1981 and 2010 Chur had an average of 104.6 days of rain per year and on average received of precipitation. The wettest month was August during which time Chur received an average of of precipitation.
Some of his works may be seen at the museums in Chur and Lindau.
Peter Fane de Salis (22 November 1827 – 27 March 1919), was a painterKatalog der Kant.Kunstsammlung, Kunsthaus Chur, Chur, August 1930: no. 62, Graf Peter von Salis, Eichen im Jura/Oaks in the Jura, (geschenk des Malers, 1905). and engraver, notably of dogs.
Iso Camartin (born 24 March 1944 in Chur) is a Swiss author, publicist and anchorman.
On 20 May 2019, Francis appointed him apostolic administrator of the Diocese of Chur, Switzerland.
Rhaetia too, though Alamannic, was ruled by the Victorids coterminously with the Diocese of Chur.
This location has suffered from notable landslides in recent times - the mountainside to the rear of the station is unstable - with the railway line and road sometimes obstructed by rockfall. An alternative public transport service is provided by Chur town bus services which run through to Meiersboden.Chur town bus services - route 9 The nearest open railway station is now the RhB's Chur Stadt, a street halt, around 1.5 km away towards the centre of Chur.
Overall, this results in two trains per hour between St. Gallen and Altstätten and three between Heerbrugg and St. Gallen. On the Sargans–Chur section the good connections from Zürich on two InterCity services and a RegioExpress are supplemented by the S12 (Sargans–Chur) service.
From 2005 to 2015 there were two Hamburg–Chur services per day: the other pair, initially numbered 100/101, now has the numbers 8/9. From the December 2013 timetable change, the majority of the service terminated at Zurich, with through coaches to Chur. Two years later, service 8/9 was truncated entirely to Zurich, while 6/7 was redirected to Interlaken Ost, with Chur now served by ICEs from Hamburg, running via Hanover rather than the Rhine.
On 22 May 1990 Haas then became bishop of Chur. Haas was appointed bishop of Chur by Pope John Paul II who bypassed the traditional right of the senior clergy of Chur to propose candidates to the pope, who in turn would approve one. These clergymen, however, proposed in this instance candidates who were not acceptable to the Holy Father on political and theological grounds. The pope therefore named his own candidate without taking counsel from the senior clergy.
The Ziegelbrücke–Sargans railway and its continuation to Chur was built as part of sections of different lines of the United Swiss Railways (Vereinigte Schweizerbahnen, VSB), which were opened independently of each other. First, the line between Chur and Sargans was opened as part of the Chur–Rheineck line on 1 July 1858. Operations commenced on the Sargans–Murg line and between Ziegelbrücke and Weesen as part of the Rüti–Weesen–Glarus line on 15. February 1859.
Eduard Killias (1 March 1829 in Chur – 14 November 1891 in Chur) was a Swiss physician and naturalist. He studied medicine in Tübingen, Zurich, Bern, Prague and Vienna, obtaining his doctorate in medicine and surgery in 1852. Afterwards, he worked as a physician in his hometown of Chur and as a balneologist in Tarasp. He was long-time president of the Naturforschenden Gesellschaft Graubündens (1859–1891) and also served as vice-president of the Historisch-Antiquarischen Gesellschaft Graubündens.
The Bündner Herrschaft in the north of the Chur Rhine Valley The Chur Rhine Valley (, also commonly known as the Bündner Rheintal) is that part of Nordbünden through which the Rhine flows from the confluence of Anterior and Posterior Rhine near Reichenau to the cantonal border near Maienfeld and Fläsch. The plain of Bonaduz and Rhäzüns also belongs to the Chur Rhine Valley and forms its southern end. The valley is part of the Alpine Rhine natural landscape.
Chur Cathedral, otherwise the Cathedral of the Assumption of Mary (), is the Catholic cathedral of the diocese of Chur in Switzerland. The episcopal palace of the bishop of Chur is beside the church. The cathedral claims the relics of St Lucius of Britain, said to have been martyred nearby in the late 2nd century. During the Swiss Reformation, the Catholic population of the city were confined to a ghetto enclosed around the bishop's court beside the cathedral.
Aron Sele (born 2 September 1996) is a Liechtensteiner footballer who currently plays for FC Chur 97.
The Iris is an express train that links Brussels Midi/Zuid in Brussels, Belgium, with Chur station in Chur, Switzerland. Introduced in 1974,"Summer services, 1974" (changes due to take effect). Thomas Cook Continental Timetable (March 29–April 25, 1974 edition), p. 465. Peterborough, UK: Thomas Cook Publishing.
After the Napoleonic Wars, the Three Leagues became the canton of Graubünden in 1803. The guild constitution of the city of Chur lasted until 1839, while in 1874 the Burgergemeinde was replaced by an Einwohnergemeinde. When Graubünden became a canton in 1803, Chur was chosen as its capital.
Several ecclesiastical and secular offices were held by members of the Victorid dynasty. In the mid-8th century a surviving Lex Romana Curiensis, a "Roman Law of Chur", was an abbreviated epitome of the Breviary of Alaric. After the death of the last Victorid bishop Tello of Chur in 765, King Charlemagne took the occasion to issue a document of protection declaring Tello's successors his vassals. From the 770s onwards, Charlemagne appointed the bishops of Chur himself, increasing Frankish control over the territory.
It was reopened with eight students for the 2016/17 school year to reduce crowding in Chur schools.
The city of Chur suffered several invasions by the Magyars in 925-926, when the cathedral was destroyed.
For centuries after the split, the Bishops of Chur wished to expand their power both politically and spiritually.
Karl Rudolf Graf von Buol-Schauenstein Karl Rudolf Graf von Buol-Schauenstein (30 June 1760 – 23 October 1833) was Bishop of Chur (1794–1824), then of Chur- St. Gallen (1824-1833). He had also been the last prince-bishop of the Prince- Bishopric of Chur until the ecclesiastical principality was secularized in 1803 in the course of the German mediatization. An uncle of the Austrian diplomat Karl Ferdinand Graf von Buol-Schauenstein, Buol-Schauenstein was first ordained as a priest at Chur on 14 June 1783. He was elected prince- bishop on 22 January 1794; his confirmation followed on 12 September 1794, and he was consecrated as such on 5 October 1794.
Although in his astral form no time seems to have passed in the real world seven years have passed, Lei Xuan material body empty of a soul for seven years has been kept from decay by the efforts of Chur Wun and Ching Ao Gum who use ice from a mountain to preserve the body. Lei Xuan realises that the love he is being shown is that between Chur Wun and Ao Gum, who have grown to love each other, and not between Chur Wun and his own lifeless body. Wishing to free Chur Wun from their betrothal Lei Xuan accidentally destroys his material body in a fire, however Ao Gum because of his own lowly status refuses to acknowledge his love for Chur Wun. Finding himself powerless with the breaking of his ties to the material world, Lei Xuan's astral body occupies the body of a recently deceased beggar.
Zizers railway station () is a railway station in the municipality of Zizers, in the Swiss canton of Grisons. It is an intermediate stop on the Rhaetian Railway Landquart–Thusis line. The Swiss Federal Railways standard gauge Chur–Rorschach line runs parallel but has no intermediate stops between Chur and Landquart.
Untervaz-Trimmis railway station () is a railway station in the municipality of Trimmis, in the Swiss canton of Grisons. It is an intermediate stop on the Rhaetian Railway Landquart–Thusis line. The Swiss Federal Railways standard gauge Chur–Rorschach line runs parallel but has no intermediate stops between Chur and Landquart.
Planning for a station at Chur began in 1850. After heated debate, the station was built at its present site, just outside the city limits, and designed as a terminus of the Rheineck–Chur railway. It was opened on . The first operator of the station was the United Swiss Railways.
The Diocese of Chur extends over the Swiss Cantons of Graubünden (Grisons), Schwyz, Glarus, Zurich, Nidwalden, Obwalden and Uri.
In 1896, the Rhaetian Railway opened a narrow gauge line between Landquart and Thusis. The first of that line ran parallel with the already well established standard gauge line between Landquart and Chur. Due to a ruling by the Swiss Federal Council, the Rhaetian Railway was forced to abandon plans for a railway station of its own in Chur, and instead had to integrate itself into the existing United Swiss Railways station. In 1903, the Albula Railway was opened, making necessary another expansion of Chur station.
Because guild membership was the only route to political power, local patricians and nobles quickly became guild members, often joining the winemakers guild.Official Website - Fire. Chur becomes a guild city accessed 29 December 2016 The Chur lead League of the House of God allied with the Grey League and the League of the Ten Jurisdictions in 1471 to form the Three Leagues. In 1489 Chur obtained the right to have a tribunal of its own, but never had the title of Free Imperial City.
In 1997 the Archdiocese of Vaduz was erected by Pope John Paul II in the apostolic constitution Ad satius consulendum. Before then it had been the Liechtenstein Deanery of the Diocese of Chur. The former bishop of Chur, Wolfgang Haas has been the Archbishop of Vaduz since the founding of the Archdiocese.
Several Würth Group companies outside Germany have Würth art forums, including the Musée Würth France Erstein in France and the Museo Würth La Rioja in Spain.Die Kunstdependancen in den Konzerngesellschaften der Würth-Gruppe bei kunst.wuerth.com (abgerufen am 24. Mai 2010) In Chur, Switzerland, the Foundation maintains the Stiftung das Kulturforum Würth Chur.
Robert Indermaur was born on 9 June 1947 in Chur, Switzerland, the second of three children. He is a member of the In der Maur family. He attended the Bündner Lehrerseminar school in Chur and in 1967 graduated from a teaching seminar course. Upon graduation, he traveled around Europe, Asia, and Africa.
Die Südostschweiz (literally "The Southeastern Switzerland") is a Swiss German-language daily newspaper, published by Südostschweiz Mediengruppe in Chur, Graubünden.
Gimma, real name Gian-Marco Schmid, is a Swiss rapper from Chur in Graubünden Canton who raps in Swiss German.
Harry Schaffer (born 1963 in Chur/Switzerland) is a Swiss artist and interior architect, who lives and works in Basel.
Emperor Otto I granted the town the right to collect tolls in 952 and appointed his vassal Hartpert as bishop of Chur in 958, giving the bishopric numerous privileges. In 1170 the bishop became a prince-bishop and kept total control over the road between Chur and Chiavenna. In the 13th century, the town had some 1,300 inhabitants and was surrounded by a line of walls. In the 14th century, at least six fires damaged or destroyed the monasteries of St. Luzi and St. Nicolai, St. Martin's church and twice destroyed much of the town. The Gotteshausbund (League of the House of God) was formed in 1367 in Chur to resist the rising power of the Bishopric of Chur and the House of Habsburg.
Igis railway station () is a railway station in the village of Igis, within the municipality of Landquart, in the Swiss canton of Grisons. It is an intermediate stop on the Rhaetian Railway Landquart–Thusis line. The Swiss Federal Railways standard gauge Chur–Rorschach line runs parallel but has no intermediate stops between Chur and Landquart.
During the late 19th century, a mineral spa and water bottling plant were built between Araschgen and Passugg. The Chur-Tschiertschen road was built through the village from 1887 to 1894. In the late 20th century the village became a bedroom community of Chur. In 2014 the village kindergarten closed due to budget concerns.
Huber's birthplace in Chur Huber was born in Chur, Switzerland, to German parents. He grew up in Stuttgart and later, after his father's death, in Munich. He showed an aptitude for such subjects as music, philosophy and psychology. Huber became a professor of Psychology and Music in 1926 at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.
Chur's ice hockey team, EHC Chur, plays in the Swiss 1. Liga, the third tier of the Swiss ice hockey league system. They play their home games in the 6,500-seat Hallenstadion. The American football team Calanda Broncos (formally the Landquart Broncos) moved to Chur in 2009, playing their home games at Ringstrasse Stadium.
The monastery controlled the important route through the Kunkels Pass to the passes into Italy in the Graubünden. After the bishop's seat of Chur the monastery was the most important religious centre in Chur-Raetia and the diocese of Chur. Many parishes in the region were founded from Pfäfers in the 9th and 10th centuries. The substantial influence of the monastery was concentrated in eastern Switzerland, especially between Weesen and Maienfeld, but reached as far as present-day Baden-Württemberg, in the Val Bregaglia, the Vinschgau and the County of Tyrol.
Rätia is a EuroCity train service that linked Hamburg in Germany with Chur in Switzerland via Dortmund, Cologne, Mannheim, Basel and Zurich, following the river Rhine for a significant part of its journey. The service is named after Rhaetia, the Roman province that the city of Chur was in. Over the years, the name Rätia has been given to a number EC services between Chur and various parts in Germany, although the current services - EC 6/7 - lost their name in 2004. Since 2015 the service's southern terminus was cut bach to Zurich.
After the death of the last Victorid bishop Tello of Chur in 765, King Charlemagne took the occasion to issue a document of protection declaring Tello's successors his vassals. From the 770s onwards, Charlemagne appointed the bishops of Chur himself, increasing Frankish control over the territory. Upon the death of Bishop Remedius in 806/7 he legislated a division between episcopal and comital property, ending the de facto secular rule of the Chur bishops. He appointed Hunfriding counts, but the ecclesiastical and secular claims to power remained a source of contention.
The region that would become the League of God's House has always been heavily influenced by the Diocese of Chur. The Bishop of Chur is first mentioned in 451 when its Bishop St. Asimo attended the Synod of Milan,Mansi, IV, 141; but probably existed a century earlier. During the 5th and 6th centuries there is evidence of an extensive Romanisation and conversion to Christianity in the region around Chur. In 536 the region was conquered by the Merovingian Kingdom, but due to distance and isolation it quickly fell back into de facto independence.
The Scuol-Tarasp station is the eastern terminus of the private Rhaetian Railway network, served by trains from Chur and Pontresina.
With construction costs of CHF 402,700 per kilometer, the Chur–Arosa line was the most expensive on the Rhaetian Railway network.
His paintings are mostly in the Biedermeier style. His works may be seen at the Kunstmuseum Solothurn and the in Chur.
Ulrich von Tegerfelden († 12 April between 1200 and 1204 in Saint Gall) was Bishop of Chur and Abbot of Saint Gall.
Victor III (died 7 January before 836) was the Bishop of Chur from after 800 until his death. He was the last member of the Victorid family to hold the bishopric of Chur and the secular power in Rhaetia concurrently. He succeeded the bishop Remedius. During his episcopate the ecclesiastic and secular authority in Rhaetia were separated.
Landquart Ried railway station () is a railway station in the village of Igis, within the municipality of Landquart, in the Swiss canton of Grisons. It is an intermediate stop on the Rhaetian Railway Landquart–Thusis line. The Swiss Federal Railways standard gauge Chur–Rorschach line runs parallel but has no intermediate stops between Chur and Landquart.
Immature birds have duller colors than the adults, and have spots on their chest and back. Their calling consists of the mating songs which sound like "cheer," "chur-chur," and "chup." This helps male western bluebirds find the females easily in condensed forest. The males use these calls to tell competing males that the territory belongs to them.
Upon the 2005 timetable change, the Chur – Landquart and Thusis – Chur regional lines on the Landquart–Thusis railway were converted into S-Bahn lines. They were originally designated S8 and S9, respectively. The former line was also extended at both ends, to Rhäzüns and Schiers. Since 2009, the two lines have been designated S1 and S2, respectively.
There are proposals to add to the Chur S-Bahn network the Ziegelbrücke – Sargans – Landquart – Chur regional line, which is operated by the SBB-CFF-FFS, and also to shorten its service intervals to a train every thirty minutes. Additionally, this line is proposed to be extended to Ems Werk via SBB-CFF-FFS / RhB dual gauge track.
The viaduct is located on the Rhaetian Railway's metre gauge line from Chur to the holiday and recreation resort of Arosa (the Chur-Arosa line), between Peist and Langwies, at a place known as Matten-Gründji. It leads the railway line over the Gründjitobel, a steeply eroded gravel moraine gorge, with sandy formations known as "Steimannli".
Bever station is at the starting point of the Engadine line at its junction with the Albula Railway (Chur–St. Moritz). It is located to the southwest of the village of Bever at 1708 m above sea level. The station is served only by the passenger trains that operate on the Engadine line. The hourly Chur–St.
It is on the eastern foot of the Calanda mountains and is in the Churer Rheintal (Chur branch of the Rhine valley).
Immediately after Sassal, the line goes through the three Sassal tunnels, the first tunnels on the route up from Chur to Arosa.
Tamara Schädler (born 23 April 1977 in Chur, Switzerland) is a Liechtenstein former alpine skier who competed in the 1998 Winter Olympics.
Self-portrait (c.1850) Gaudenz Taverna (12 October 1814, Chur - 22 October 1878, Solothurn) was a Swiss portrait painter and graphic artist.
Engstingen is twinned with the Swiss town of Chur in the canton of Grisons, not least because of the common historical past.
Graph to show the depleted-mantle model of DePaolo (1981) Despite the good fit of Archean plutons to the CHUR Nd isotope evolution line, DePaolo and Wasserburg (1976) observed that the majority of young oceanic volcanics (Mid Ocean Ridge basalts and Island Arc basalts) lay +7 to +12 ɛ units above the CHUR line (see figure). This led to the realization that Archean continental igneous rocks that plotted within the error of the CHUR line could instead lie on a depleted-mantle evolution line characterized by increasing Sm/Nd and 143Nd/144Nd ratios over time. To further analyze this gap between the Archean CHUR data and the young volcanic samples, a study was conducted on the Proterozoic metamorphic basement of the Colorado Front Ranges (the Idaho Springs Formation).DePaolo, D. J. (1981).
Logo (2015) thumb Lia Rumantscha is an organization that promotes Romansh language usage and study. Established in 1919, its seat is in Chur.
The entire church was renovated in 1652. During the renovation, the upper sacristy was added.Diocese Chur website - History accessed 20 November 2017 Beginning in the 11th century, the Bishops of Chur began taking sides in secular conflicts as their worldly power grew. In 1079/80, during the Investiture Controversy the emperor's candidate Norbert became bishop over the pope's candidate Ulrich II of Tarasp. He held the office until 1087, when he was replaced by Ulrich II. During the conflicts between Frederick Barbarossa and Pope Alexander III following the 1159 papal election, Bishop Egino of Chur sided with the emperor and was rewarded with the dignity of Prince of the Empire (1170). In 1514 Emperor Maximilian I separated the land surrounding the cathedral from the town of Chur and granted it as an imperial estate to the Bishops. In 1524 the Protestant Reformation was accepted in Chur and the two Catholic churches of St. Martin and St. Regula were given over to the Protestants. The bishop fled, and his administrator, Abbot Theodore Schlegel, was publicly beheaded (1 January 1529).
Gradient diagram The halt of Chur Altstadt at Plessurquai The Langwies Viaduct, the landmark of the Arosa Railway In the basin of the Arosa Untersee (lower lake) The branch line starts on the forecourt of Chur station, where the trains to Arosa use tracks 1 and 2, each adjoining an outside platform. A rail track connects to the Landquart–Thusis railway, although this is only used for the movement of rolling stock to and from the main Landquart workshop. The railway traverses the urban area of Chur, initially on two tracks. This section is similar to a tramway and consists of grooved rails.
Chur is home to many buildings or other sites that are listed as Swiss heritage sites of national significance. There are two archeological sites in Chur, the old city which is a medieval city and Welschdörfli a prehistoric settlement and Roman Vicus. There are four archives or libraries; the bishop's palace (library and archive), the Cantonal Library, the Cantonal Archive of Graubünden and the city archive of Chur. There are also four museums on the list; the Bündner Kunstmuseum (Art Museum), Bündner Naturmuseum (Natural History Museum), the Dommuseum and the Rätisches Museum in the Haus Buol.
Map of the Three Leagues and surrounding lands Most of the lands of the canton were once part of a Roman province called Raetia, which was established in 15 BC. The current capital of Grisons, Chur, was known as Curia in Roman times. The area later was part of the lands of the diocese of Chur. In 1367 the League of God's House (Cadi, Gottes Haus, Ca' di Dio) was founded to resist the rising power of the Bishop of Chur. This was followed by the establishment of the Grey League (Grauer Bund), sometimes called Oberbund, in 1395 in the Upper Rhine valley.
Richard La Nicca Richard La Nicca (16 August 1794 in Safien-Neukirch - 27 August 1883 in Chur) was a Swiss engineer known as the pioneering planner and implementer of the Jura water correction project in the Swiss Jura. Originating from Sarn and Chur, La Nicca was the son of Christian La Nicca, a pastor of Safien, Neukirch and Tenna, and Anna Gredig.
So ϵNd is a function of T (time). Nd isotope evolution in mantle and crust in shown in the figure to the right. The upper plot (a), bold line shows the evolution of the bulk earth or CHUR(chondritic uniform reservoir). The lower plot (b) shows evolution of bulk earth (CHUR) crust and mantle, 143Nd/144Nd is transformed to εNd.
Bundi was born in Sagogn in the Canton of Grisons on 19 October 1932. He earned a doctorate at the University of Zürich in 1963 and became a teacher at the Graubünden Teacher Training Collegein Chur. He became the deputy director of the college in 1967. In 1972, Bundi was elected to the municipal council of Chur where he served until 1975.
In fresh fall plumage, the female's throat and breast are tinged with red-orange, brownish near the flank contrasting with white tail underparts. Their call is a thin 'few'; while their song is warbled high 'chur chur'. It is the state bird of Idaho and Nevada. It is an omnivore and it can live 6 to 10 years in the wild.
Between Chur and Domat/Ems runs the narrow-gauge railway line Chur-Domat/Ems of the Rhaetian Railway, which has three tracks since December 1959. Through this, standard gauge freight trains can reach the Ems- Chemie area directly. The RhB stop, Ems factory, serves the factory site directly. There are ideas to introduce normal passenger services to Ems factory in the future.
Corvi made his professional debut in the lower Swiss leagues with hometown club, EHC Chur. On May 1, 2012, Corvi left Chur to sign with NLA stalwart club, HC Davos. With Davos, Corvi played at the 2012 Spengler Cup, where they lost the final match against Team Canada 7-2. In the tournament, he scored his first goal for Davos against Adler Mannheim.
Adolfo Kind Adolf respectively Adolfo Kind (1848 in Chur – August 1907) was a Swiss chemical engineer and one of the fathers of Italian skiing.
Valendas-Sagogn station, on the line of the Rhaetian Railway that links Chur and Disentis, lies some below and distant from the village of Valendas.
Valendas-Sagogn station, on the line of the Rhaetian Railway that links Chur and Disentis, lies some below and distant from the village of Sagogn.
Moritz Regional Express does not normally stop in Bever. Some early morning and late evening regional services on the Chur–St. Moritz route do stop.
Chur Rhein valley, (l to r) Landquart, Maienfeld, Jenins and Malans. Maienfeld is located southeast of Sargans in the lower Chur Rhein valley. It is bordered on the west by Bad Ragaz, Canton of St. Gallen and on the west and north by the community of Fläsch, Canton Graubünden. To the north it is bordered by Balzers, Triesen, Schaan, the country of Liechtenstein, Nenzing and Vorarlberg, Austria.
In 1956 Hungary was threatened with political turmoil, which culminated in the popular uprising. The young family of four fled to Switzerland and lived in an apartment in Chur. In a studio in the old town of Chur, Tscheligi taught art. In the studio/gallery in St. Moritz he found the light and the freedom to explore philosophical thoughts with the significance of the colors.
Chronicles of the early Middle Ages mention the Lumnezia because of its fertile soils and advantageous climate. In several sheltered parishes, such as Peiden peaches and grapes were grown. In the 6th century AD the parish church at Pleif near Vella was built. At about this time the valley became a domain of Bishopric Chur, with its inhabitants living in serfdom to the bishops at Chur.
Lüen-Castiel railway station is a railway station on the Chur–Arosa railway (the "Arosabahn") of the Rhaetian Railway (RhB). It is situated in Lüen and also serves nearby Castiel. A short distance to the west of the station, in the direction of Chur, is the Castielertobel Viaduct, which, after the Langwieser Viaduct and the Gründjitobel Viaduct, is the third-largest bridge on the Arosa line.
The ducatus Curiensis (or duchy of Chur) corresponded more or less with the diocese of the same name (dioecesis Curiensis). This was the region which the Victorids dominated. The Victorids (Romansh: Zaccons) were a powerful family in Rhaetia during the seventh and eighth centuries, dominating the region politically and controlling the diocese of Chur. The family is termed after the continued use of the name Victor.
Rhaetia too, though Alamannic, was ruled by the Victorids coterminously with the Diocese of Chur. Alamannia was Christianised during the 7th century, although not as thoroughly as either Francia to its west or Bavaria to its east. The first Alamannic law code, Pactus Alamannorum, dates to this period. The Roman dioceses of Strasbourg and Basel covered Alsace and that of Chur, as mentioned, Rhaetia.
In 1993, Henrici was named Auxiliary Bishop in Chur (Switzerland) and Titular Bishop of Absorus. Henrici was one of the two auxiliary bishops appointed to Chur in an attempt by the Holy See to defuse the crisis caused by the conservative policies of Bishop Wolfgang Haas. His resignation as Auxiliary Bishop was accepted by Pope Benedict XVI on 5 February 2007, on the ground of age.
Staad railway station () is a railway station in Thal, in the Swiss canton of St. Gallen. It is an intermediate stop on the Chur–Rorschach line.
Heerbrugg railway station () is a railway station in Au, in the Swiss canton of St. Gallen. It is an intermediate stop on the Chur–Rorschach line.
Oberriet railway station () is a railway station in Oberriet, in the Swiss canton of St. Gallen. It is an intermediate stop on the Chur–Rorschach line.
Each morning one service departs from Zermatt to Chur, and one service departs from St. Moritz to Brig. These services then travel back in the afternoon.
Sevelen railway station () is a railway station in Sevelen, in the Swiss canton of St. Gallen. It is an intermediate stop on the Chur–Rorschach line.
In 1497-98, concerned about Habsburg expansion and with the Bishop of Chur quarrelling with Austria, the Three Leagues formed an alliance with the Swiss Confederation. In 1499 the Swabian War broke out between the Three Leagues and Austria and quickly expanded to include the Confederation. During the war, troops from Chur fought under the Bishop's Vogt Heinrich Ammann in the Lower Engadin, in Prättigau and near Balzers. Troops from Chur also took part in the 1512 invasion of the Valtellina and the Second Musso War in 1530-31. Aerial view from 300 m by Walter Mittelholzer (1925) In 1523 Johannes (Dorfmann) Comander was appointed parish priest of St. Martin's Church and began preaching the new faith of the Protestant Reformation. It spread rapidly and by 1524-25 the bishop had fled the city and Protestant services were taking place in the churches of St. Martin and St. Regula. The Ilanz articles of 1524 and 1526 allowed each resident of the Three Leagues to choose their religion, and sharply reduced the political and secular power of the Bishop of Chur and all monasteries in League territory. By 1527 all of Chur, except the bishop's estates, had adopted the Reformation.
Josias Braun-Blanquet (3 August 1884 – 20 September 1980) was an influential phytosociologist and botanist. Braun-Blanquet was born in Chur, Switzerland and died in Montpellier, France.
Au SG railway station () is a railway station in Au, in the Swiss canton of St. Gallen. It is an intermediate stop on the Chur–Rorschach line.
Salez-Sennwald railway station () is a railway station in Sennwald, in the Swiss canton of St. Gallen. It is an intermediate stop on the Chur–Rorschach line.
Rüthi SG railway station () is a railway station in Rüthi, in the Swiss canton of St. Gallen. It is an intermediate stop on the Chur–Rorschach line.
Rebstein-Marbach railway station () is a railway station in Rebstein, in the Swiss canton of St. Gallen. It is an intermediate stop on the Chur–Rorschach line.
Kauffman painted two other versions of this work: in 1788 (held by the in Chur, Switzerland, and in 1789 (sold by Christie's in London in April 1998).
Pestalozzi (Chur 29 September 1771 - Malans 27 June 1835). They had two sons; Johann-Ulrich Dietegan (Comte) v. Salis-Seewis (1794–1844) and Johann-Jakob (Freiherr) v.
On 23 February 1864 Kaiser died in Chur, Switzerland. Kaiser is credited with helping to define the "Liechtenstein identity", and memorial to him still stands in Mauren.
Mary Ocher ("Oh-chur", born Mariya Ocheretianskaya (Russian: Мария Очеретянская, Hebrew: מאריה אוצ'רטיאנסקי) b. November 10, 1986) is a recording artist, performer, poet, director and visual artist.
Since Roman times, the transit route of the "Lower Road" leads from Chur via the Schams valley to Splügen Pass and San Bernardino Pass. Today the highway A13 follows this route. The mountain passes into Oberhalbstein, the Pass da Surcarungas, Spunda Surses and Pass da Schmorras, were never very significant. Access by public transport is provided by the fast bus from Chur to Bellinzona (which stops in Zillis and Andeer).
Grand Council building in Chur The Grand Council (; , ), the legislature of the canton, sits in Chur, the cantonal capital. Its 120 members, elected in 39 districts using a majority system, are in office for four years. The last district elections were in 2014. The cantonal government, exercising executive authority, is made up of five members, elected by the parliament for a term of four years and limited to two terms.
After short stints with Chur of the Schweizerischer Eishockeyverband and the Vienna Capitals of the Austrian Hockey League, Lochead retired from the ice after the 1987–88 season.
Maladers is a former municipality in the Plessur Region in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland. On 1 January 2020 the former municipality of Maladers merged into Chur.
It consists of the linear village of Peist on the northern slope of the mid-Schanfigg. Nearby is the Peist railway station, on the Chur-Arosa railway line.
Alexander Moritzi (1806-1850) was a Swiss naturalist and early proponent of evolution."Alexander Moritzi (1806-1850)". The Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University. Moritzi born in Chur, Graubünden.
Maienfeld railway station () is a railway station in the municipality of Maienfeld, in the Swiss canton of Grisons. It is an intermediate stop on the Chur–Rorschach line.
Coaz was born in Antwerp in 1822, the son of Wilhelm Johann Coaz, a professional officer, and his wife Salomé née Koehl. He died in Chur in 1918.
Pronunciation of eu ('I') in the dialects of the Lower Engadine and the Val Müstair, as attested in 1962.Oscar Peer (1962). Dicziunari rumantsch. Ladin - tudais-ch. Chur.
Oscar Peer: Dicziunari rumantsch. Ladin - tudais- ch. Chur 1962. Puter and Vallader share the rounded front vowels [y] and [ø], which are not found in other Romansh varieties.
The 12th-century Book of Llandaf placed the court of Lucius in southern Wales and names his emissaries to the pope as Elfan and Medwy. An echo of this legend penetrated even to Switzerland. In a homily preached at Chur and preserved in an 8th- or 9th-century manuscript, Timothy is represented as an apostle to Gaul, whence he went into Roman Britain and baptised a king named Lucius, who himself became a missionary to Gaul and finally settled at Chur, where he preached the gospel with great success. In this way Lucius, the early missionary of the Swiss district of Chur, became identified with the alleged British king of the Liber Pontificalis.
On 7 December 2009, Pope Benedict XVI appointed Eleganti the titular bishop of Lamdia and auxiliary bishop in Chur. Eleganti received his episcopal ordination on 31 January 2010 by the Bishop of Chur, Vitus Huonder, in the Cathedral of St. Mary of the Assumption, including the co-Consecrators, the Apostolic Nuncio in Switzerland and Liechtenstein, Archbishop Francesco Canalini, and the emeritus Bishop of Chur, Amédée Grab. On 1 February 2010, Eleganti became episcopal vicar in the regional general vicariate for the cantons of Zurich and Glarus, with responsibility for pastoral work, representation and administration. Succeeding Denis Theurillat, he represented German-speaking Switzerland at Ticino at the Swiss Bishops' Conference Youth bishop since 2011.
He had played with Swiss clubs FC Widnau, FC Chur 97, FC Gossau and FC Altstetten, Austrian FC Höchst and Premier League of Bosnia and Herzegovina club FK Modriča.
Chur-Hansen, Anna. "Cremation Services Upon The Death of a Companion Animal: Views Of Service Providers And Service Users." Society & Animals 19.3 (2011): 248–260. Academic Search Premier. Web.
Ridvan Kardesoglu (born 12 October 1996) is a Liechtensteiner footballer who plays as a forward for FC Balzers on loan from FC Chur 97 and the Liechtenstein national team.
The river begins to be called Rhine in the vicinity of Chur, more specifically, at the confluence of the Vorderrhein and Hinterrhein/Rein Posteriur () next to Reichenau in Tamins.
They had two daughters: ::Anna Barbara Cäcilia (22 July 1859- ) married Dr. Paul Sprecher von Bernegg. ::Helene Elisabeth (Chur 8 June 1863- ) married Friedrich von Tscharner, colonel, of Andermatt.
In addition to the Carolingian coins, the horde contained Lombard and arab coins. About 142 coins from discoveries near the castle are kept at the Rätisches Museum in Chur.
Bonstetten, photographed in 2014 Filming took place from 22 February to April 1958 near Zürich and Chur. Interiors were shot at Praesens Atelier and the Spandau Studios in Berlin.
It is located on the shortest route between Chur and Davos which is over the Strela pass. It consists of the village of Langwies and the hamlets of Platz, Litzirüti, Fondei and Sapün. On the south-western edge of the village of Langwies, and lower down the hillside from the centre, is the Langwies railway station, on the Chur-Arosa railway line. Additionally, in the hamlet of Litzirüti is the Litzirüti railway station.
However, six days later a Graubünden army attacked and captured the town and castle. They plundered the town and brought Sigmund and Türing Brandis as prisoners to Chur. They were brought to their brother Johannes von Brandis, the provost of Chur Cathedral, who was forced to sell Maienfeld to pay for their freedom. After several years of unsuccessful negotiations, in 1509 Maienfeld and Brandis Castle were sold to the Three Leagues for 20,000 gulden.
At one point the line runs across a roundabout. After about half a kilometre, the line becomes single-track before crossing Grabenstrasse. Soon after, it reaches the right bank of the Plessur and a little later Chur Altstadt near the historic centre, which is now the only station on the line classified as a halt. Shortly before leaving Chur, the Sand depot and workshop is located on the left in the suburb of Sand.
Victor I was a 7th-century bishop of Chur, the first of the Victorid family which was to control the bishopric and the province of Rhaetia until the early ninth century. On 10 October 614, he signed the canons of the Fifth Council of Paris on church discipline. His participation in a Frankish church council signifies the breaking away of the diocese of Chur from the Archdiocese of Milan to which it was nominally attached.
A resolution to the tension in Chur was reached when Pope John Paul II appointed Haas to the newly created archbishopric of Vaduz in neighboring Liechtenstein. Vaduz had been part of the diocese of Chur. Unusual for an archdiocese, it is no longer part of any bishops' conference and has no suffragan sees assigned to it. Consisting of 12 parishes and 23 priests, Vaduz is among the smallest archdioceses in the world.
Reichenau-Tamins railway station is a railway station in the municipality of Domat/Ems serving the communities of Reichenau and Tamins in Switzerland. It is an important station for connections between the Landquart–Thusis and the Reichenau-Tamins–Disentis/Mustér lines as it is where the two lines diverge. From this station, there are trains to Chur, Disentis, Scuol, St. Moritz and Thusis. At Chur, there are also mainline connecting services to Zürich.
Chur was the chief town of the League and one of the places the Leagues' assemblies met regularly. A burgmeister (mayor) of Chur is first mentioned in 1413, The bishop's residence was attacked by the inhabitants in 1418 and 1422, when a series of concessions were wrung out of him. On 27 April 1464, most of the town was destroyed in a fire, which only the bishop's estates and St. Luzi monastery survived.
In 1310 he was appointed vicar general and deputy of the bishop of Chur. After the death of Chur's bishop Siegfried von Gelnhausen († 1321), Rudolf was appointed his successor and took office on 19 July 1322. However, Pope John XXII appointed him bishop of Konstanz shortly after, in October of the same year. He retained the position in Chur as administrator until he was replaced by the Konstanz Canon Johann Pfefferhard on 12 July 1325.
After the death of Arnold von Matsch, the Bishop of Chur, the cathedral chapter held a double election. However, the two elect, Heinrich von Rialt and Albert von Güttingen, a brother of Rudolf's, already died in 1223, before the Pope had made a decision. Rudolf became Bishop of Chur not later than in 1224. Pope Honorius III permitted him on 23 February 1224 to stay Abbot of Saint Gall for three more years.
Somedia is a Swiss publishing company, headquartered in Chur, Graubünden. The Somedia is a Media Empire in the east Switzerland. The most famous product from Somedia is the newspaper Südostschweiz.
CHUR-FM is a Canadian radio station, which broadcasts a hot adult contemporary format at 100.5 FM in North Bay, Ontario. The station uses the on-air brand KiSS 100.5.
Valerio Olgiati on a visit to Mexico City. Valerio Olgiati (born 18 July 1958 in Chur) is an internationally active Swiss architect, and son of the Swiss architect Rudolf Olgiati.
It consists of the village of Castiel with the two sections of Oberdorf and Unterdorf. Nearby, in Lüen, is the Lüen-Castiel railway station, on the Chur-Arosa railway line.
Yvonne Rüegg (born 2 August 1938) is a Swiss former alpine skier. At the 1960 Winter Olympics, she won the gold medal in giant slalom. She was born in Chur.
Baile Átha Cliath: Representative Body of the Church of Ireland, 2004. Other Titles: Book of Common Prayer. Responsibility: arna chur amach do Chumann Gaelach na hEaglaise le cead údarás na hEaglaise.
Peist railway station is a railway station on the Chur–Arosa railway (the "Arosabahn") of the Rhaetian Railway (RhB). It is situated very near to Peist, in the municipality of Arosa.
Paulo Tiefenthaler was born in Chur, Switzerland, during a trip of his parents in Europe, but he was raised in Rio de Janeiro. He is of Portuguese, German and Swiss descent.
Climatically, the Chur Rhine Valley is one of the warmest and driest regions in the Canton of Grisons. It experiences föhn winds on a large number of days during the year.
After two decades in Greenwich Village, MacDonald moved to south Florida in 1995. Currently living in Delray Beach, Florida, with wife Nicole Hitz, of Chur, Switzerland, and daughters Ella and Alena.
Bad Ragaz railway station () is a railway station in the municipality of Bad Ragaz, in the Swiss canton of St. Gallen. It is an intermediate stop on the Chur–Rorschach line.
Peter Henrici (born 31 March 1928) is a Swiss Jesuit priest, Blondelian philosopher and professor (1960–1993) at the Gregorian University. He was Auxiliary Bishop of Chur from 1993 to 2007.
The yellow-throated honeyeater makes a variety of calls. These include a breeding call, used for attracting mates, and to advertise ownership of a territory. That call varies geographically, but essentially consists of a whirring chur- uk, chur-uk or a loud de-wit, and is used during breeding season.CSIRO Publishing – Spatial and Individual Variation in the Songs of the Yellow- throated Honeyeater Lichenostomus flavicollis Abstract Another common call is a repeated tonk, tonk, tonk or tchook, tchook.
Arosa's most serious impediment in development, however, was the lack of convenient transportation facilities to and from the village. In those years it took visitors several hours by stagecoach to travel the from Chur. Carl Rüedi's greatest concern, therefore, was the improvement of the traffic connections from the Graubünden capital to Arosa. On September 14, 1897 Rüedi and some other residents of Arosa established a commission with the objective of broadening the narrow road from Chur to Arosa.
Today, the section from St. Margrethen through Haag has been thoroughly converted to a motorway. Due to the tough terrain, the transformation of the Graubünden section into a full motorway would be difficult. The A13 between Sargans and Chur (August 2004) The route is challenging south of Chur, capital of the Grisons. The year-round opening of the route only became possible in 1967, when the San-Bernardino tunnel was built, including the approaching branches of the A13.
Landquart railway station () is a major railway station in the municipality of Landquart, in the Swiss canton of Grisons. It is an intermediate stop on the Swiss Federal Railways Chur–Rorschach line and the junction of the Landquart–Davos Platz and Landquart–Thusis lines of the Rhaetian Railway. It is served by long-distance, local, and regional trains. There are trains to Zürich and beyond in the north and services to Chur and Disentis/Mustér in the south.
Chur railway station () serves the town of Chur, capital of the canton of Graubünden, Switzerland. Opened in 1858, it is the most important railway junction in Graubünden. The station is the terminus of the Swiss Federal Railways (SBB CFF FFS) standard-gauge main line from Zürich, and is also one of the most important stations on the Rhaetian Railway (RhB) metre-gauge network. Since 1986, on top of it one finds the central Grisonian PostAuto/AutoDaPosta bus terminal.
In 1396 Frik Tumb quarreled with Ulrich Brun von Rhäzüns, which led to a feud between the two families and Neuburg Castle being besieged. In 1400 Johann von Neuburg became a vassal to the Bishop of Chur to protect his claim to the castle. About 1450 it came under the control of Rudolf von Rappenstein or von Mötteli. In 1496 it was sold to the Bishop of Chur, who appointed a bailiff to administer the estates.
When the trial of David Frankfurter took place in Chur in December 1936, Diewerge and Friedrich Grimm shared the work again. Diewerge directed and organized the press work, Grimm created a role for himself as a representative of Gustloff's widow in the accompanying civil suit, which enabled him to make at least a brief appearance in Chur. Together they searched for and found a Swiss lawyer (Werner Ursprung) for the criminal case against Frankfurter.Fuhrer 2012, p.
Chur from its highest point, called Fürhörnli, looking upstream Chur had an area, (as of the 2004/09 survey) of . Of this area, about 17.6% is used for agricultural purposes, while 52.1% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 26.5% is settled (buildings or roads) and 3.9% is unproductive land. Over the past two decades (1979/85–2004/09) the amount of land that is settled has increased by and the agricultural land has decreased by .
Again, in the 1990 graduate seminar on 'Methods of Interpreting a Philosophical Text,' with a chapter from Blondel's L'Action (1893), he gave hands-on training in the methods of Internal and External Structure, Lexicology, Metaphorology, Internal and External Sources, Redaktionsgeschichte, Wirkungsgeschichte, and Deutungsgeschichte (self- and other-interpretation). Since 1993, he served as Visiting Professor at the Theologische Hochschule, Chur, and honorary professor at the University of Zürich. In 2008 he was named honorary professor of the Theologische Hochschule, Chur.
Wolfgang Haas (born 7 August 1948 in Vaduz) is the first archbishop of the Archdiocese of Vaduz in Liechtenstein. He previously held the position of Bishop of Chur from 1990 to 1997.
The University of Applied Sciences of Eastern Switzerland () is a governing body of the four Universities of Applied Science in Eastern Switzerland. They are located in St. Gallen, Rapperswil, Chur and Buchs.
Thusis train station Located a short distance to the southwest of Chur, Thusis is accessible using the A13 Autobahn (Junctions 20 and 21). The Rhaetian Railway operates services to the Thusis railway station.
Further upgrades took place in 1967, with an increase in the number of guest rooms permanently incorporating their own en suite bathroom facilities.Graubündner Kantonalbank: 97. Jahresbericht 1967. Graubündner Kantonalbank, Chur 1968, p. 22.
Altstätten has two train stations: Altstätten Stadt, the eastern terminus of the Altstätten–Gais railway, and Altstätten SG, an intermediate stop on the Chur–Rorschach line with frequent local and long-distance service.
Chur (, also Romanized as Chūr) is a village in Sarkal Rural District, in the Central District of Marivan County, Kurdistan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 617, in 151 families.
The central tower and oldest part of the castle was built in the 13th century, though it may have been built around an earlier 12th-century tower. It was built for the Lords of Rietberg, who in 1286 were vassals of the Freiherr von Sax-Misox. In the 14th century they became vassals of the Bishop of Chur. At that time they held the castle and estates in Schams, Chur and Oberhalbstein and were the bishop's representative in Oberhalbstein and Oberengadin.
Olgiatis father was Oreste Olgiati; a lawyer and citizen of Poschiavo and Chur. In 1927, Olgiati graduated from the Grisons Canton School in Chur. He then studied at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, where he graduated in 1934, with Josef Zemp, in art history. Rudolf Olgiati worked as an architect, first in Zürich and starting in 1944 in Flims, where he had purchased a house back in 1930 and then proceeded to renovate it making it the family home.
Chur ( or ) or (; or ; ), and . is the capital and largest town of the Swiss canton of Grisons and lies in the Grisonian Rhine Valley, where the Rhine turns towards the north, in the northern part of the canton. The city, which is located on the right bank of the Rhine, is reputedly the oldest town of Switzerland. The official language of Chur is Swiss Standard German, but the main spoken language is the local variant of the High Alemannic Swiss German dialect.
Hollenstein was born in Chur, Grisons, Switzerland. He has played with EHC Chur's junior teams since he was 6 years old. At age 15, he moved to Zug to join EV Zug U17 team.
From Ziegelbrücke, the main line continues, as the Ziegelbrücke–Sargans railway, towards its ultimate destination, Chur. Ziegelbrücke is also a terminus for two regional lines, the Weesen–Linthal railway and the Rapperswil–Ziegelbrücke railway.
His Ave Maria was recorded in 1913 by Enrico Caruso and Mischa Elman, with the composer at the piano.Kozinn, Allan (1990). Mischa Elman and the Romantic Style. Chur, Switzerland: Harwood Academic Publishers. . p. 77.
The Chur bus station was moved closer to the railway station and has a direct connection to the underground shopping arcade. Also, the Bahnhofplatz in front of the station was extensively renovated in 2007.
One of her sons, Songtsen Gyalzur, became a professional ice hockey player, and established a brewery in Shangri-La, Shangri-La Beer. Gyalzur died on 3 May 2020 in Chur, Switzerland, of COVID-19.
In the Swiss canton of Graubünden (Grisons) only the Walser exclaves in the Romansh part and the Prättigau, Schanfigg and Davos are Highest Alemannic; the Rhine Valley with Chur and Engadin are High Alemannic.
In 1810, Buol joined the Order of Knights of Malta. Buol was appointed bishop of the combined diocese of Chur-St. Gallen on 27 September 1824 and served in this capacity until his death.
Philippe Erne (born 14 December 1986) is a Liechtensteiner international footballer who plays as a striker for FC Balzers, and formerly played for SC Pfullendorf, FC Vaduz, USV Eschen/Mauren and FC Chur 97.
He was the fourth in a family of eight children. His father, Alberto, was a baker who also ran a café. The painter, Augusto Giacometti, was his cousin. He received his primary education in Chur.
He spent his European career at FC Aarau of Swiss Super League, SV Darmstadt 98 of Regionalliga, FC Baden and YF Juventus of Swiss Challenge League, FC Rapperswil-Jona and Chur 97 of 1. Liga.
Susanne Leutenegger Oberholzer (born March 6, 1948 in Chur, Grisons) is a politician of the Social Democratic Party of Switzerland. She was a National Councillor from 1987 to 1991, then again from 1999 to 2018.
It thus opened up the Cantons of Valais and Graubünden to further tourist development. This led to the introduction of Kurswagen (through coaches) between Brig and Chur, and between Brig and St. Moritz., page 102.
In 960 Emperor Otto I granted the castle and right to collect tolls to the Bishop of Chur to help secure this important alpine trade route. In 988 Emperor Otto III confirmed his grandfather's grant to the Bishop and specifically mentioned both the castle and the nearby Nossa Donna Church. The current tower was probably built around 1200. Over the following centuries the Bishop of Chur and the town of Chiavenna quarreled over Castelmur and in 1121 or 1122 the town captured the castle.
As an ecclesiastical state, their leader was appointed by the Pope. It is, however, known that at least once, in 1440, the Bishop-elect requested confirmation from the Archbishop of Mainz, rather than the current pope, Eugenius IV. In 1441 Heinrich von Höwen, who was already the Bishop of Constance, became the Bishop of Chur as well. On 12 January 1447, Pope Eugenius IV issued a papal bull to Emperor Frederick III, allowing him to nominate bishops for Chur, for the rest of his life.
During this time the region was known as Churrätien or Churwalchen and occupied politically virtually the same territory that the Bishopric of Chur spiritually led. In 773 the political and spiritual power in the region was consolidated into a single family. However this situation only lasted until 806 when Charlemagne split the political and spiritual power into two. This split and the resulting conflicts let to the collapse of Churrätien and the creation of numerous small independent communities, with the power center of Chur in the middle.
With the bishops' power waning as he came increasingly under the influence of the nearby Habsburg County of Tyrol, the citizens sent a delegation to Emperor Frederick III. The Emperor reconfirmed the historic rights of Chur and also granted them extensive new rights which freed the city from the bishop's power. In 1465 the citizens wrote a constitution which granted all governmental power to Chur's guilds. All government positions were restricted to guild members, allowing the guilds to regulate all aspects of life in Chur.
Several times hourly, InterCity trains run to Zürich HB, Bern and Olten. At least hourly, Zürich–Chur, Olten–Lucerne–Bellinzona–Lugano, Olten–Bern–Interlaken/Visp–Brig, and Delémont–Biel/Bienne–Neuchâtel–Lausanne/Geneva can be reached.
Two-track passage through the Engadinstrasse- Gäuggelistrasse roundabout in Chur In 1988, Chur voters approved by a large majority a project that would have included a three-track underground station for the Arosa Railway as well as the 2836 metre-long Mittenberg Tunnel between Chur station and Sassal. The project, which would have been built during the planned conversion of the Arosa railway to 11 kilovolts AC, had to be abandoned in the autumn of 1996 due to the withdrawal of a guaranteed federal contributions. The planned line would have first run to the east and then turned to the south past the Mittenberg (mountain) in order to run under as few buildings as possible. Part of the new line would have been built in the open, but most of it would have been in a bored tunnel.
The gorge is largely inaccessible by road, but is traversed by the Disentis to Chur line of the Rhaetian Railway. It is accessible from the Valendas-Sagogn, Versam-Safien and Trin stations that lie within the gorge.
Andreas Ritsch (born June 23, 1961) is a retired Swiss professional ice hockey defenceman who last played for EHC Chur in the National League B. He also represented the Swiss national team at the 1988 Winter Olympics.
The Cantonal School of Graubünden (, also known as Kantonsschule Halde; ; ) is the largest high school in the Swiss canton of Graubünden. It is located at the Alte Schanfiggerstrasse / Arosastrasse 2 next to the Theological College in Chur.
Jakob Lechleiter (born 1911) was a Swiss politician. Jakob Lechleiter was born as Jakob Lüthi in Chur. His father was a railway worker. He moved to Zurich in 1921 together with his mother, following his father's death.
Peer met his wife, Monica, at the training college - he was a substitute teacher and she, a student. They had two children, Simon and Leta. Peer died from a long illness on 22 December 2013 in Chur.
The Stifflers were part of the network of hoteliers exploiting the tourism boom in Pontrsina.Michael Caviezel: Das Oberengadin. Ein Führer auf Spaziergängen, grossen und kleinen Touren., Gengel Chur 1876 p. 136 The marriage produced six recorded children.
From 1840–63 he served as engineer on the Linth Commission, From 1840–42, he projected the 1st Jura water correction (finalised 1868–91). In 1847 he participated in the Sonderbund war as a military chief engineer in Canton Ticino, and then as Federal Colonel in the Génie troops. In 1853 he was technical director of the Südostbahn Rorschach- Chur. From 1858–71 he unsuccessfully urged a merger of railroad companies to form a railway line from Fluelen to Disentis and from Chur to Disentis through the Lukmanier, as an alternative to the Gotthard line.
The ducatus Curiensis (or duchy of Chur) corresponded more or less with the diocese of the same name (dioecesis Curiensis) at the time of Tello, who had control over both. Tello (died 24 September probably 765) was the Bishop of Chur from 758/759 until his death. He was the last member of the ecclesiastical dynasty of the Victorids to wield power in Rhaetia through his control of the bishopric. His will is one of the earliest surviving records from Graubünden and is an important source for the history of Rhaetia in the eighth century.
The journey from Chur to Arosa initially took between 80 and 85 minutes. The ChA used a different electrification system for its blue and white rolling stock than the neighbouring Rhaetian Railway, namely the rare voltage of 2400 volts DC. At the beginning of the 1930s, the heavily worn rails were replaced and extended the sidings. A concrete rockfall shelter was built between the Sassal I and II tunnels in 1931. Rockfall shelter above Sassal In contrast to the then still independent Bernina Railway, the Chur-Arosa Railway was financially successful in the early years.
Carl Rüedi was the youngest of eight children of the Graubünden district doctor and pioneer of climatotherapy Lucius Rüedi and his wife Rahel (née Conrad). Yet in early childhood Carl Rüedi excelled himself by physical fitness, liveliness and intelligence. At the age of four Carl hiked with his father in midsummer from Alvaneu (the family's residence) to Davos (Carl's birthplace) away. When Carl was nine of age, he and two of his brothers who attended the cantonal school at Chur, hiked from Chur to Davos on one day.
Since CHUR defines initial ratios of continental rocks through time, it was deduced that measurements of 143Nd/144Nd and 147Sm/144Nd, with the use of CHUR, could produce model ages for the segregation from the mantle of the melt that formed any crustal rock. This has been termed TCHUR. In order for a TCHUR age to be calculated, fractionation between Nd/Sm would have to have occurred during magma extraction from the mantle to produce a continental rock. This fractionation would then cause a deviation between the crustal and mantle isotopic evolution lines.
Thalwil is located along the A3 motorway from Zurich to Chur as well as on the main railway lines from Zurich to Chur, Lucerne and Italy. In the summer there are regular boats to Zurich as well as along the lake to Rapperswil, run by the Zürichsee-Schifffahrtsgesellschaft. Thalwil railway station is served by lines S2, S8, S21 and S24 of the Zürich S-Bahn. The Zimmerberg bus line (Zimmerbergbus), provided by the Sihltal Zürich Uetliberg Bahn (SZU), connects the Zimmerberg region and parts of the Sihl valley.
The northeastern border of Raetia Curiensis with Raetia Vindelica cannot be determined exactly. During the Christianization in the 4th century, the Bishopric of Chur arose in Raetia Curiensis; a first bishop is mentioned in 451/52. Still under Italian rule during the tenure of King Odoacer, Raetia Curiensis nominally passed to Ostrogothic Kingdom in 493, and King Theoderic the Great again began to appoint dux governors, who however had only military competences, while civil administration remained with a praeses. Nevertheless, it appears that the Chur bishops remained de facto independent rulers.
The Bernina Express is a train connecting Chur (or Davos) in Switzerland to Poschiavo in Switzerland and Tirano in Italy by crossing the Swiss Engadin Alps. For most of its journey, the train also runs along the World Heritage Site known as the Rhaetian Railway in the Albula / Bernina Landscapes. The train is operated by the Rhaetian Railway company for the purpose of sightseeing. It takes the form of an enhanced regional service between Tirano and Chur or Davos: panoramic coaches with enlarged windows and multi-lingual (English, Italian and German) audio guide on board.
Aggressive males give a trilled version of their call, transcribed as "chur-chur-r-r-it-it-it-it". This call is also used by females in the breeding season, to establish dominance over males while displacing them to feed young or incubate eggs. House sparrows give a nasal alarm call, the basic sound of which is transcribed as quer, and a shrill chree call in great distress. Another vocalisation is the "appeasement call", a soft quee given to inhibit aggression, usually given between birds of a mated pair.
The Archdiocese of Vaduz was erected by Pope John Paul II in the apostolic constitution Ad satius consulendum on 2 December 1997. Before then it had been the Liechtenstein Deanery, a part of the Swiss Diocese of Chur. The public and solemn ceremony took place on 21 December 1997 in the parish church of Vaduz, which was then raised to the dignity of a cathedral, Vaduz Cathedral. Wolfgang Haas, who had been Bishop of Chur since 1988, was appointed to head the new archdiocese carved out of it.
The foreign and frequently absent bishop Peter Gelyto von Böhmen, who had driven the bishopric deep into debt, was willing to sell the political leadership of the area in exchange for a yearly salary. As a first step, in 1366 he rented out the Fürstenburg fortress at Burgeis in the Vinschgau. In response to this development representatives from the cathedral church of St. Luzius, the valley communities and the city of Chur met in 1365 in Wildenberg Castle in Zernez. On 29 January 1367 they met again in Chur, with revolution in mind.
The legendary first bishop of Chur and patron saint of the Grisons (Switzerland) was also named Lucius, with whom the British Lucius is not to be confused. It is possible, however, that the mentioning of Saint Lucius of Britain in the Liber Pontificalis soon led to a scholarly identification of the otherwise somewhat shapeless patron saint with his more prominent British namesake. His supposed relics are still kept in the cathedral of Chur, although there is little doubt among scholars that the bishopric was only established some 150 years after its alleged founder was martyred.
Thalwil is a railway station in the municipality of Thalwil in the Swiss Canton of Zürich. The station is located on the Lake Zurich left bank (Zurich to Chur) main line and the Thalwil–Arth-Goldau railway, part of the Zurich to Lucerne line. To the Zurich side of the station, the Zimmerberg Base Tunnel diverges from the original lakeside line, whilst on the Lucerne side is the junction point where the Zurich to Chur and Zurich to Lucerne lines diverge. Thus all trains on both lines must pass through the station.
Most of the lands of the region were once part of a Roman province called Raetia, which was established in 15 BC. The current capital of Graubünden, Chur, was known as Curia in Roman times. The area was later part of the diocese of Chur. A Roman road crossed Liechtenstein from south to north, traversing the Alps by the Splügen Pass and following the right bank of the Rhine at the edge of the floodplain, for long uninhabited because of periodic flooding. Some Roman villas have been excavated in Schaanwald and Nendeln.
His father was an innkeeper and warden. He began his art studies at the Accademia di San Luca in Rome. After that, he spent some time in Munich. Upon returning, he divided his time between Chur and Zürich.
During the Second World War, Canova delivered a notable anti-fascist speech as Graubünden Standespräsident in November 1940. Its content was officially censored, and the address remained unpublished until 1980. Canova died on January 21, 1962 in Chur, Graubünden.
The Chur–Rorschach railway, also called the Rheintallinie (Rhine valley line), is a standard gauge railway line in Switzerland. It belongs to the Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) and is located in the cantons of St. Gallen and the Grisons.
On 14 October 2014, the band released a video clip for "C'est La Vie". On 21 November 2014, Gotthard was presented in Chur with a Platinum Award for having sold more than 20.000 copies of the album in Switzerland.
In Chur about 70.3% of the population (between age 25 and 64) have completed either non-mandatory upper secondary education or additional higher education (either University or a Fachhochschule). The town is home to the Cantonal School of Graubünden.
Walters died in Waikato Hospital, Hamilton, on 14 December 2016 after a short illness.'Chur bro': Iconic Māori singer Bunny Walters dies aged 63, Yahoo! News. Retrieved 23 January 2017."Tribute concert for New Zealand hit maker", Stuff (company).
Ronny Büchel (born 19 March 1982) is a Liechtensteiner former international footballer who last played as a midfielder for FC Triesen, and formerly played for FC Vaduz, Young Boys, FC Chur 97, USV Eschen/Mauren, FC Ruggell and Buchs.
The Ful Berg is a mountain of the Plessur Alps, located east of Chur in the canton of Graubünden. It lies at the western end of the chain separating the valleys of Prättigau and Schanfigg, just east of the Rhine.
Binia Feltscher (born October 13, 1978 in Chur) is a Swiss retired curler from Flims. She was the skip of the 2014 and 2016 World championship curling teams from Switzerland. From 2006 to 2013 she was known as Binia Feltscher-Beeli.
St. Margrethen railway station () is a railway station in St. Margrethen, in the Swiss canton of St. Gallen. It is an intermediate stop on the Chur–Rorschach line and the western terminus of the St. Margrethen–Lauterach line to Austria.
Litzirüti railway station is a railway station on the Chur–Arosa railway (the "Arosabahn") of the Rhaetian Railway (RhB). It is situated in the hamlet of Litzirüti. The station has a small café on the Arosa end of the main platform.
Rudolf I (1081 – 27 April 1160Leeper, p.398) was Count of Bregenz, Count of Chur and Count of Lower Raetia from 1097 to his death in 1160. He may well be claimed as the first ruler of a united Vorarlberg.
The Graubundner Kantonalbank (known as Banca Cantonale Grigione in Italian) is a Swiss cantonal bank which is part of the 24 cantonal banks serving Switzerland's 26 cantons. The headquarters are located in Chur, and there are 67 branches around Graubünden.
The municipality is located on the A3 motorway. Sargans is an important regional transportation node. Trains heading north toward St. Gallen, east toward Chur and Ticino, and toward Austria, all pass through Sargans. Buses heading toward Liechtenstein also leave Sargans.
It consists of the haufendorf village (an irregular, unplanned and quite closely packed village, built around a central square) of Molinis. Nearby is the Sankt Peter-Molinis railway station, on the Chur-Arosa railway line, which also serves Sankt Peter.
Clara Nadig was born on 30 March 1874 in Chur, in the Grisons canton of Switzerland to Christina (née Plattner) and Johann Josua Nadig. She studied to be a teacher, completing her training in 1892 at the normal school in Aarau.
It originates from the mainstream of Ganga in Barahara in Bhojpur district and flows from north east part of Arrah to the south - west part and meets again Ganga in Buxar. The Ara Canal falls into it near Ramsara Chandar Chur.
The municipality is located on the A3 motorway. The A3 national motorway ends at Mels; the portion north toward St. Margrethen and the portion east toward Landquart, Chur, San Bernardino and ultimately Bellinzona are all part of the A13 national motorway.
As well as standard agriculture, grapes and hops are grown and from them wine and beer produced (the beer is brewed by Calanda Bräu in Chur) and milk from the estate's own cows is used for the production of various cheeses.
The station is located in the centre of the town of Chur, and forms the transition between the old and new towns. Bus terminal, on the upper level Chur station platforms The most striking of the station's buildings is now the roof over the Postauto bus station, which is located above the station platforms. In 1986, the architects Richard Brosi and Robert Obrist won first prize in a competition for the design of the bus station, including its roof. Their idea was to create an airy concourse, and the structure built to their design was completed in 1993.
In the 12th century, these fell to the counts of Buchhorn, Bregenz and Tyrol, respectively. In the later medieval period, the bishops of Chur regained a certain amount of secular influence, which was however more limited in extent, restricted to the Chur itself, the Domleschg, Engadin, Bergell, Chiavenna, Bormio and Vinschgau. Raetia as a geographic designation remained in use at the end of the medieval period, when political power passed to the Three Leagues (Drei Bünde) federation. When the Free State of the Three Leagues eventually joined the Helvetic Republic in 1798, the territory was incorporated as the Canton of Raetia.
Robert Elwes at ART BODENSEE 2019 The Alpine Rhine Valley is characterised by a very active culture scene. The Bregenzer Festspiele as well as the Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein have great significance and popularity beyond the region. From a regional perspective, there are many platforms, events and projects that enhance the cultural life of the inhabitants and the local actors. An example of cross-border cooperation in the Alpine Rhine Valley is the cultural axis of the cities Bregenz, St.Gallen, Vaduz and Chur: The Kunsthaus Bregenz, the Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, the Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein and the Bündner Kunstmuseum in Chur have been cooperating since 2001.
The initiative was founded in 2007 from the University Lucerne (HSLU) together with the Berne University of Applied Sciences, University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland (FHNW), Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW) and the University of Applied Sciences Chur (HTW Chur). Participation is also given from the Conference of Cantonal Energy Directors Switzerland (EnDK) and the Swiss Federal Office of Energy (BFE) in Berne.Partner ENBau (German)Neues Weiterbildungsangebot ENBau (German) President of the leading Cooperation Council is Prof. Peter Schürch; director of the ENBau office for sustainable construction at University Lucerne (HSLU) is Christoph Wagener Ph.D..
Tosio began his professional career playing for EHC Chur, after playing in junior teams of the club since he was 8 years old. He stayed with Chur until the end of the 1986/87 season, twice winning the NLB championship and thus promoting to the NLA (in 1984 and 1986). He then played 14 years for SC Bern, the first game on 3 October 1987 against EHC Biel and the final one on 20 March 2001 against HC Lugano. He was Swiss Ice Hockey Champion for four times with SC Bern: 1989, 1991, 1992, 1997 His jersey number 31 has since been retired.
Using his knowledge of the couple and not magic Lei Xuan convinces Ao Gum to express his love for Chur Wun, and to compete in a competition to find a champion to lead the Tang vanguard. Through his supernatural strength, skill with an axe and an unwillingness to give up, Ao Gum wins and is accepted by the chancellor as a suitable match for Chur Wun (it is hinted that Ao Gum will become the famed Tang general of the same name, known in folklore as the Tang dynasty's lucky general who would always arrive in the right place at the right time to save the day). With Ao Gum united with Chur Wun, Lei Xuan proceeds to abandon the material realm for that of the immortals, during his ascent and farewell to Ao Gum it is revealed that the beggar is Lei Xuan and that Lei Xuan is Tieguai Li, Iron-Crutch Li of the Eight Immortals.
A Glacier Express coupled with a RegioExpress between Reichenau-Tamins and Bonaduz is the starting point of the Rhaetian Railway, historically part of the Landquart–Davos railway, operationally the location of the main workshop and network. It is kilometre 0 for the measurement of distances (chainage) on all core network lines. While the passenger traffic of the SBB ends in Chur, there is a connection with the Arosa Railway and there is a link for standard gauge freight operations using a dual gauge (three-rail) section in Untervaz and a dual gauge section (22.5 tonne axle load) for standard-gauge freight traffic from Chur to Domat/Ems for the factory premises of Ems-Chemie and the large sawmill of Mayr-Melnhof Swiss Timber AG. All rail infrastructure is metre- gauge from Domat/Ems. The line to Disentis/Mustér branches off in Reichenau- Tamins; this connects with the trunk line of the MGB and these lines are served by Glacier Express services running between Chur and .
He was president of the International Association of Transport Museums from 1983 to 1986. The Heritage Railway Association awards a John Coiley Award, for locomotive preservation. Coiley died at Chur railway station, Switzerland on 22 May 1998 whilst on a rail tour.
The five intermediate stations of Lüen-Castiel, St. Peter-Molinis, Peist, Langwies and Litzirüti are served before the line reaches the terminus of Arosa on the Obersee (upper lake), 25.681 km from Chur. There are two additional crossing loops at Untersax and Haspelgrube.
Rudolf Olgiati (Chur, 7 September 1910 – Flims, 25 September 1995) was a Swiss architect. Olgiati is known for his work with Alfred Werner Maurer on the French Riviera, and has had some of his more notable work exhibited in the 1977 ETH Zürich.
Caspar Decurtins (23 November 1855 - 30 May 1916) was a politician (Catholic- Conservative) from the Surselva region, up-river to the west of Chur in the Swiss canton of Grisons. He is regarded as a leading pioneer of the European Social Catholicism movement.
The principal patron of the Archdiocese is the Holy Virgin Mary, Mother of God, under the title of her birth (September 8). Additional patrons are the martyr St. Lucius (St. Luzi), also a patron of the diocese of Chur, and St. Florin.
Ab Chur (, also Romanized as Āb Chūr and Ābchowr; also known as Āpkhvor) is a village in Aladagh Rural District, in the Central District of Bojnord County, North Khorasan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 437, in 106 families.
Elisabeth Lardelli (born as von Waldkirch on 21 February 1921 in Bern; died 9 March 2008 in Chur; originally from Poschiavo) was a politician of the Swiss People's Party. She was a National Councillor for the canton of Grisons from 1974 to 1975.
Chur Ab Qalandari (also Romanized as Chūr Āb Qalandarī; also known as Cherr Āb Qalandarī-ye ‘Olyā) is a village in Qarah Chaman Rural District, Arzhan District, Shiraz County, Fars Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 241, in 50 families.
The south wing, the oldest part of the hotel, was extensively reconfigured and the number of guest rooms was reduced through the substitution on the first and second floors of two large apartments.Graubündner Kantonalbank: 95. Jahresbericht 1965. Graubündner Kantonalbank, Chur 1966, p. 20.
Throughout the history of the Abbey of Saint John there were conflicts between the Bishop of Chur, the Grey League and the House of Habsburg. The abbey's ruler, the abbess, and the government authority, the vogt, were often chosen by one of these three powers.
Sargans railway station () is a railway station in Sargans, in the Swiss canton of St. Gallen. It is an intermediate stop on the Chur–Rorschach line and eastern terminus of the Ziegelbrücke–Sargans line. It is served by local, regional, and long-distance trains.
The church was restored between 1975 and 1980. The church is surrounded by several half-timbered houses. The court clerk worked and lived in the Renaissance-style half-timbered house called the "Chur Cöllnisches Amtshaus". An important event in Oestinghausen is the annual Schützenfest.
Mario Brodmann (born April 24, 1966) is a former Swiss professional ice hockey forward who last played for EHC Chur in Switzerland's National League B. Brodmann has participated as a member of the Swiss national team in numerous international tournaments, including the 1992 Winter Olympics.
St. Peter-Molinis railway station is a Swiss railway station on the Chur–Arosa railway (the "Arosabahn") of the Rhaetian Railway (RhB). It is situated between the villages of Molinis and St. Peter, both within the municipality of Arosa, though slightly nearer to Molinis.
Thomas Hanselmann (born 21 April 1976) is a former Liechtenstein football defender. Making his debut against Macedonia in 1996, Hanselmann would go on to win 25 caps and score one goal for his country. He last played at the club level for FC Chur 97.
Chur Kuchan (, also Romanized as Chūr Kūchān and Chever Kūchān; also known as Chever Kūkhān) is a village in Kurka Rural District, in the Central District of Astaneh-ye Ashrafiyeh County, Gilan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 1,586, in 428 families.
Olwig, Karen Fog (1993). Global Culture, Island Identity: continuity and change in the Afro-Caribbean community of Nevis. Chur, Switzerland: Harwood Academic Publishers, 1993. Examples of European forms appropriated to express Afro-Caribbean culture are the Nevisian and Kittitian Tea Meetings and Christmas Sports.
381, moved to Sion in 585), Geneva (doc. 441), and Chur (doc. 451). There is evidence from the 6th century for a bishopric in Lausanne, which maybe had been moved from Avenches. With the fall of the Western Roman Empire, Germanic tribes moved in.
Between 2000 and 2005 she alternated between Paris and Zürich. The song "Senza patria", "Homeless" in English, stems from this rather eventful period in her life. Since 2005 the artist has lived in Zürich and in the Surselvan Rueun about 30 kilometers outside of Chur.
Rageth Abys Rageth Abys (1790–1861). was a Swiss politician, merchant, and soldier. He served as the mayor of Chur from 1834-1839 and 1843-1846, and 1847-1848. He also served as a city councilor from 1846-1848 and as deputy minister in 1847.
Confluence of Vorderrhein and Hinterrhein as seen from the train crossing Hinterrhein Reichenau castle Aerial view (1947) Reichenau () is a village in the municipality of Tamins in the Canton of Graubünden, Switzerland, where the two Rhine tributaries Vorderrhein and Hinterrhein meet, forming the Alpine Rhine. It is a major traffic junction of the routes from Chur towards the Oberalp Pass and Lukmanier Pass and from Chur towards San Bernardino Pass and Julier Pass. The civilisation of the place is traced back until the year 500. The name originates from the Benedictine Abbey of Reichenau on Reichenau Island in Lake Constance which owned properties in this area during the Middle Ages.
Giger Bar in Gruyères, Switzerland A Giger Bar is a bar themed and modelled by the Swiss artist H. R. Giger. There are two Giger Bars: the first, the H.R. Giger Bar in Chur, Switzerland, which opened in 1992, and the second is The Museum HR Giger Bar, located in Château St. Germain, Gruyères, Switzerland, which opened on April 12, 2003. Entrance to Giger bar in Chur A third Giger bar was located in Shirokanedai, Tokyo in the late 1980s. Giger dissolved his involvement with this location after facing frustrations with Japanese building codes and with the Japanese company behind the bar, which created the bar after only rough preliminary sketches.
Sassal was a small railway station (essentially a halt) on the Chur-Arosa line (the "Arosabahn") of the Rhaetian Railway (RhB). It was situated on the southeastern outskirts of Chur, by the Plessur river, between the city suburb of Sand and the settlement of Meiersboden. The small community of Sassal is located on the other side of the river, on the hillside near Meiersboden. The RhB has closed Sassal halt (that is, passengers can no longer embark/alight there, though trains continue to run through on the line) due to the danger of falling rocks, low passenger numbers, and problems getting on and off trains at this location.
Because of the complex ownership (owned by the Bishop of Chur, granted as a fief to the Brandis family, collateral to the Sigberg family), a quarrel broke out between the Brandis and Sigberg families over the cost of repairs. A mediator from the Three Leagues determined that the Brandis family needed to repay the loan and that the repair costs would be shared equally. In 1462 the Duke of Austria acquired the castle and estates from the Bishop of Chur and sold it to Ulrich von Brandis, who began rebuilding. In 1467 the duke expanded the estates attached to Marschlins by adding Malans, Untervaz and Valzeina.
He is listed as deacon of Saint Gall on 8 April 1576 and was elected abbot on 29 January 1577. The papal confirmation was conferred by Gregory XIII on 16 April 1578, while the benediction was performed by the Auxiliary Bishop Balthasar Wurer of Konstanz on 24 June 1578. On 27 November 1578, Joachim Opser was chosen by Beatus a Porta and the Chur cathedral chapter to be auxiliary bishop and thus also designated successor of the acting bishop. However, he was met by strong opposition because he did not come from one of the Three Leagues and thus had to forego his appointment to Chur.
The application for a concession was lodged on 15 October 1908. Arosa station in about 1915 It was followed by a protracted competition between the Wildberger & Co. project, which was revised again and favoured by the Schanfigg valley communities, and the proposal of Ahlsfeld & Spyri, which initially also found the support of the city of Chur. For a short time, another project via Tschiertschen was also discussed. After a conference to determine a way forward in December 1909, the Chur city council supported the project of Wildberger, which also caused a change in opinion in Arosa and led to a withdrawal of the Churwalden line's application for a concession.
Florinus of Remüs (died 856 AD), also known as Florin, Florian of Chur, Florinus of Matsch, and Florinus of Vinschgau, is venerated as a saint in the Catholic Church, particularly in the dioceses of Chur, Bolzano-Brixen, Vaduz, and in the Rhineland. Little is known of his life, as there is no early vita. Florinus may have been the son of an Anglo-Saxon man and Jewish woman, a convert to Christianity, who had settled at Matsch (Mazia) in the Vinschgau Valley on their way back from a pilgrimage to Rome. Florinus received his education from a priest at Unterengadin, where he was also ordained.
Rorschach station, with town behind Until the 1890s, the VSB supported a projected railway under the Splügen Pass, which, however, could not be built because of a lack of funds. Eventually the VSB succeeded in establishing the right to use an important connection to Zürich over the Wallisellen–Zürich line of the Swiss Northeastern Railway (NOB). Since the idea of building an eastern Alpine railway from Chur towards Italy ended with the start of construction of the Gotthard Railway, the Rhine Valley Railway from Rorschach to Chur remained a regional line. Over time, Rorschach was displaced as the leading port town on the Swiss shore of Lake Constance by Romanshorn.
Until 1963 Disentis/Mustér was known as Disentis/Mustèr.Amtliches Gemeindeverzeichnis der Schweiz published by the Swiss Federal Statistical Office accessed 23 September 2009 Disentis lies on the highest step of the Rhine valley, where the roads of the Oberalp pass coming from central and western Switzerland and of the Lukmanier pass coming from the Ticino meet. It has a station where the line from Brig meets the line from Chur and is connected by train and road to the Valais via the Oberalp pass and to Chur following the Rhine valley. The Lukmanier pass road is in summer served by a post bus line.
Furthermore, the Habsburgs and the Bishop of Chur had been quarrelling over the judicial rights over the region for some time. On January 20, 1499, Habsburg troops occupied the valley and plundered the Benedictine Convent of Saint John at Müstair, but were soon driven back by the forces of the Three Leagues, and an armistice was signed already on February 2 in Glurns (Glorenza), a village in the upper Vinschgau. But the Three Leagues had already called upon the Swiss for help and troops from Uri had already arrived in Chur. Upon learning about the truce, they withdrew, but met a small troop of Habsburg soldiers on their way back home.
The viaduct is located on the Rhaetian Railway's metre gauge line from Chur to the holiday and recreation resort of Arosa (the Chur–Arosa line), and links Calfreisen with Castiel, just to the west of the Lüen-Castiel railway station. After the Langwieser Viaduct and the Gründjitobel Viaduct, the Castielertobel Viaduct is the third largest bridge on the Arosa line. It spans the Castielertobel, a wild and deeply eroded Bündner schist gorge, and the Castielertobelbach. In similar fashion to the Landwasser Viaduct on the Rhaetian Railway's Albula Railway, the viaduct leads directly into a tunnel portal, where the Arosa line dives into the 249 m long S-shaped Bärenfalle- Tunnel.
Mannitol was due to marry Princess Minnie, and, when worrying with Lutin over the effects of their last names, revealed his surname to be Chur-Railways (Manni Chur-Railways being a pun on 'miniature railways'). But Mannitol knows the knowledge of the Items about like the tears of furry and there was a story about it. In 'Land of the Luvies' everyone thought he had been infected by 'luviness' due to his nice optimistic comments about his stay in their village; Therefore, they had tied him up to a chair in 'Normans' Lab and left there when Dom revealed himself to be a 'Luvie'.
His time at Sarajevo was interrupted by two brief stints elsewhere, first a successful time with Rudar Prijedor, where Petković showed a good of scoring form, and then a season in the Yugoslav Second League with NK Koper, which finished last and were relegated. Petković emigrated from Yugoslavia in 1987, leaving FK Sarajevo and moving permanently to Switzerland, where he joined second division club Chur 97. After a season with Chur, Petković moved to the Swiss top division, joining a strong Sion side. Sion achieved a third- place finish in the Nationalliga but Petković left the club at the end of the season after only making six league appearances.
The river's name is the same derivation as that of the nearby Jordan Hill, most probably from the Old English "cerr dūn" meaning "hill at the bend" (thus "Jordan Hill" is tautological). The former spelling of the name, Jordon, includes the later Common Brittonic suffix "-don", also derived from the Old English "dūn". A second possible origin is that "Jordan" is derived from "Chur dūn", or "hill on the River Chur". The Place-names of Dorset (1989) references the 16th century spelling "Jordain", and suggests that the river (and hill) are either named after the Jo(u)rdan family of Dorset, or simply after the River Jordan in the Middle East.
The line from Chur to Arosa was the last of the railway lines in the Rhaetian Railway's so-called core network to be constructed. During its building, the Arosa line pioneered the use of numerous new construction methods and techniques. A total of 19 tunnels and 52 bridges are present along the track between Chur and Arosa due to the predominantly challenging terrain present. Erected between 1912 and 1914, the Langwieser Viaduct was the world's first railway bridge to be constructed of reinforced concrete, and at that time represented a significant breakthrough; furthermore, it was one of the only structures of its size to be constructed entirely out of ferroconcrete.
Brambus Records is a small record label based in Chur, Switzerland. It was founded 1988 by Paul Rostetter. In 2013, Brambus Records celebrated 25 years of existence and his 270th released production. The record label is focused on international folk/songwriter and jazz, especially from Switzerland.
Maladers is classed as a bedroom community with few new residents. The municipality is part of the agglomeration of Chur. , there were a total of 88 people employed in the municipality. Of these, a total of 22 people worked in 11 businesses in the primary economic sector.
The Railway station is located at Ilanz/Glion in the valley of the Rein Anteriur. The Rhaetian Railway line to Disentis/Mustér serves the valley, with connecting services to the Swiss Federal Railways network at Chur. In addition, Ilanz is a stop for the famous Glacier Express.
Peter Benedict was born Christian Riss in Chur, Switzerland. He is the only son of actors Walter Riss and Christa Rossenbach. He grew up in Berlin, Paris and Salzburg. Benedict studied drama and film directing at Mozarteum University Salzburg and at Konrad Wolf Film University of Babelsberg.
It consists of the haufendorf village (an irregular, unplanned and quite closely packed village, built around a central square) of Lüen on the north face of the mid-Schanfigg. In Lüen is the Lüen-Castiel railway station, on the Chur-Arosa railway line, which also serves Castiel.
Only one bishop of the town is known. The Donatist Felix, attended the 411 Conference of Carthage. The town at that time had no Catholic bishops. Today Lamdia survives as a titular bishopric of the Roman Church and the current bishop is Marian Eleganti, bishop of Chur.
In 1800 he worked in Switzerland as Professor of Mathematics in Reichenau (Canton Graubünden). In 1801 he was active in the cantonal school in Aarau. He married Anna Magdalena Saluz from Chur in 1802. The University of Jena promoted him to the Faculty of Philosophy in 1803.
In addition to the WHA Stingers, Bill Gilligan played for Brown University (NCAA), Hampton Gulls (AHL), Vienna EV and Klagenfurt AC in Austria and EHC Chur in Switzerland. He was also a member of Team USA in the 1978 and 1983 Ice Hockey World Championship tournaments.
Afterwards, Allen played in the European league, beginning with a spell in the Swiss Nationalliga B with EHC Chur. He then had spells in Germany's Deutsche Eishockey Liga for the Schwenninger Wild Wings and in the German 2. Bundesliga for EC Bad Nauheim before retiring in 2004.
The parish office in Sedrun announced on 15 March 2013 that Reto Nay had disappeared the day before and was no longer traceable. From April 2013 Nay preached again on gloria.tv and reported to the diocese of Chur, his whereabouts remained unknown for the time being. According to gloria.
After another spiral, the train reaches Filisur at the end of the valley at (). From there, the train passes on the Landwasser Viaduct, the most emblematic landmark of the railway line and continues toward Thusis () where it reaches the Posterior Rhine and follows it to the city of Chur ().
Beginning in the 1st century A.D., Busskirch was a Roman lakeside settlement that served as a stage town on the intersection of the streets to Kempraten (Latin: Centum Prata) respectively Zürich (Turicum), Winterthur (Vitudurum) and to Chur (Curia Rhaetorum) respectively on the waterway Walensee–Zürichsee to Rome's alpine route.
Felsberg railway station is a railway station in Domat/Ems, Switzerland. It takes its name from Felsberg, on the opposite side of the Rhine. It is located on the Landquart–Thusis line of the Rhaetian Railway. It is served twice hourly by Chur S-Bahn trains in each direction.
1990: Admitted to the Gesellschaft Schweizericher Bergmaler (GSB). After the Review Exhibition 1985 in the Bündner Kunstmuseum Chur, large individual travelling exhibition as retrospective in Hungary (1989/90) in the Art Museums of Esztergom, Tata,-Budapest, under the auspices of Pro Helvetia. 1991: Prize, Musée Suisse du Vitrail, Romont.
Adalgott II of Disentis (died 1165) was a twelfth-century monk and bishop. He entered Clairvaux Abbey as a monk, and was appointed as abbot of Disentis. Adalgott cared for the sick and poor. He was subsequently named bishop of Chur, and continued to care for the poor.
The 1998-99 Nationalliga B season was the 52nd season of the Nationalliga B, the second tier level of ice hockey in Switzerland. 11 teams participated in the league, and EHC Chur won the championship and were promoted to Nationalliga A. HC Martigny were relegated due to financial reasons.
Rudolf's clerical career was largely similar to his uncle Friedrich von Montfort's († 1290): He became canon in 1283The recorded employment as canon (cf. Degler-Spengler) makes a birth year of 1275 (cf. Feller-Vest) impossible and prompts a date of around 1268. and provost in Chur in 1307.
Old Turkic Kul-chur inscription with the Old Turkic alphabet (c. 8th century). Töv Province, Mongolia About 40% of all speakers of Turkic languages are native Turkish speakers. The characteristic features of Turkish, such as vowel harmony, agglutination, and lack of grammatical gender, are universal within the Turkic family.
The supreme power in the Free State was a Bundestag, composed of 63 deputies with responsible to constituencies; this Bundestag alternated between Ilanz, Chur and Davos. By today's standards, the Three Leagues would be considered a federation of three states, rather than a single, unified state; the union had few competencies and virtually all affairs of the Free State were settled by referendum. The Ilanz Articles of 1524 and 1526 reduced the power of the Bishop of Chur and strengthened the alliance between the Three Leagues. The first articles, adopted 4 April 1524, required priests to live in the communities they served, to earnestly care for the spiritual needs of their congregation and to live a righteous life.
Share certificate worth 500 francs of the Chur-Arosa Bahn AG of 15 December 1913 Even before finance for the railway was definitively secured, the ChA was provisionally constituted on 15 July 1911 and formally established in Chur with a share capital of CHF 7.6 million at its general meeting on 4 July 1912. The canton of Grisons was a majority shareholder from the beginning. Gustav Bener, who had been commissioned as chief engineer, and the Wildberger company resolved outstanding issues and presented plans to the Grisons government for approval on 4 March 1912. Construction began on 1 August 1912 under the direction of Bener and his deputy Hans Studer, the builder of the Wiesen Viaduct.
This included Sarganserland (now Canton of St. Gallen), as far as Lake Walen and the Linth River, the Ill basin in what is now Vorarlberg, and the upper Vinschgau in what is now South Tyrol. Rhaeto-Romance linguistic unity broke down from the end of the Carolingian period, with the establishment of the imperial counties of Werdenberg and Tyrol to the north and east, and the March of Verona to the south. Nominally under Frankish rule from the 6th century, the local bishops of Chur still retained de facto control. In the mid-8th century a surviving Lex Romana Curiensis, a "Roman Law of Chur", was an abbreviated epitome of the Breviary of Alaric.
As a result of these struggles, the villages in the upper Valais organized themselves in the Sieben Zenden ("seven tenths") around 1355, emerging after these wars as largely independent small states, much like the cantons of the Eidgenossenschaft. In the Grisons, called Churwalchen then, the bishop of Chur and numerous local noble families competed for the control of the region with its many alpine passes. Throughout the 14th century, three leagues of free communities appeared. The Gotteshausbund ("League of the House of God"), covering the area around Chur and the Engadin, was founded when in 1367 the bishop, Jean de Vienne, planned to hand over the administration of his diocese to the Austrian Habsburgs.
His brother John, circa 1815. Jerome's younger brother: Graf Johann von Salis-Soglio-Bondo (1776–1855). Jerome's younger brother: His Excellency, Count Giovanni, aka Graf Johann von Salis, aka John, Count de Salis-Soglio-Bondo (Chiavenna 1776 – Modena 1855) of Bondo, Bregaglia; schloss Sulzberg, San Gallen (a Salis-Zizers house, sold on 2 June 1857 for 160,000 Franks); houses in Monstein and Avers; and the grafliche Salis house in Chur, L'Obere Spaniöl. He converted to Catholicism in Vienna, February 1813. Nearly 20 years later he married Grafin Emilia Elisabetha 'Luisa' (1804–1875), daughter of Feldzugmeister (Comte François) Graf Franz-Simon Fidelis Rudolf von Salis-Zizers (1777–1845), in Coire/Chur, July 1831 or 1832.
The Langwieser Viaduct is located on the Rhaetian Railway's metre gauge line from Chur to the holiday and recreation resort of Arosa (the Chur–Arosa line). It carries the railway line over the Plessur River valley, immediately up the line from Langwies station. While most of the line's bridges are composed from locally-source stone, a decision that had been a specified preference of the route's chief engineer Gustav Bener, this was not possible at the location of the Langwieser Viaduct. The soil lacked sufficient bearing capacity, comprising high levels of gravel and sand, and was a generally very difficult to build a bridge upon; it did not allow for suitable foundations upon which to build a stone bridge.
Nine national and many regional routes were established. The nine national routes are: #Rhone Route : Andermatt - Geneva, 309 km (26 km unpaved road ), 4360 meters of altitude #Rhine Route : Andermatt - Oberalp Pass - Chur - Schaffhausen - Basel, 424 km #North -South Route : Basel - Chiasso, 363 km #Alpine Panorama Route : St.Margrethen - Aigle, 483 km #Mittelland Route : Roman Horn - Lausanne, 369 km #Graubünden Route : Chur - Bellinzona, 260 km #Jura Route : Basel - Nyon, 275 km #Aare Route : Upper Forest - Koblenz, 305 km #Lakes Route : Montreux - Rorschach, 497 km Note that, these routes often follow paved roads and paths, but they also contain sections that are not yet paved. Only the Route 4 (Alpine Panorama Route) is paved throughout.
The first mention of the municipality came in 1154, on the occasion of the construction of nunnery named Alvasinis. It became subordinate to the Princes-Bishop of Chur in 1282. In 1367 it belonged to the municipality of Gotteshausband. The inhabitants finally bought their freedom from the Princes-Bishop in 1732.
The Diocese of Chur called on him to resign immediately from his activities as a pastor. In March 2013, the Graubündner Kantonspolizei (cantonal police of Graubünden) initiated an investigation in connection with gloria.tv. On 15 March 2013, Bishop Huonder also removed Nay from office. Nay attributed this to a "witch hunt".
Litzirüti Litzirüti is a small village in the municipality of Langwies, in the canton of Graubünden, Switzerland. The village effectively forms part of the Arosa (summer & winter) resort. The elevation is roughly 1,452 metres (4,764 ft). There is a railway station at Litzirüti, on the Chur-Arosa railway line: Litzirüti.
Langwies GR railway station, often just Langweis railway station, is a railway station on the Chur–Arosa railway (the "Arosabahn") of the Rhaetian Railway (RhB). It is situated in Langwies, lower down the hillside from the centre of the village. A minor level crossing straddles the tracks at the station.
SBB InterCity, InterRegio, and RegioExpress services stop at the station, alongside Rhaetian Railway InterRegio, RegioExpress and Regio services. The station is also served by several Deutsche Bahn InterCity Express trains and by the Glacier Express. Finally, local service is provided by both the St. Gallen and Chur S-Bahn networks.
Austria has an embassy in Bern, a general consulate in Zürich and seven honorary consulates (in Basel, Chur, Geneva, Lausanne, Lugano, Lucerne and St. Gallen). Switzerland has an embassy in Vienna and six honorary consulates (in Bregenz, Graz, Innsbruck, Klagenfurt, Linz, and Salzburg). Together, both countries organized the Euro 2008.
The first mention of the municipality came in 1154, on the occasion of the construction of nunnery named Alvasinis. It became subordinate to the Princes-Bishop of Chur in 1282. In 1367 it belonged to the municipality of Gotteshausband. The inhabitants finally bought their freedom from the Princes-Bishop in 1732.
The capital city is Chur. The world-famous resorts of St. Moritz and Davos-Klosters are located in the canton, complemented by the larger all-year-round tourist destinations of Arosa, Flims, Lenzerheide, Scuol-Sammnaun and more. The climate is arid-dry as Graubünden is shielded on all sides from rain.
Senad Lulić (; born 18 January 1986) is a Bosnian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder and captains Serie A club Lazio. Lulić started his professional career at Chur 97, before joining Bellinzona in 2006. Two years later, he moved to Grasshopper. In 2010, he was transferred to Young Boys.
Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa christiana, Volume I, (Brescia, 1816), p. 231. We know two bishops, Irondino, exiled by the Vandal king Huneric in 484, and Servusdei, who witnessed the Carthaginian council of 525. Today the diocese survives as a titular bishopric and the current bishop is Paul Vollmar, of Chur.
At this time, Chur was also conquered by the Franks.Franks, page at Switzerland Historical Dictionary By the 590s AD, today's East Tyrol and Carinthia had come to be referred to in historical sources as Provincia Sclaborum (the Country of Slavs).Oto Luthar, ed., "The Land Between: A History of Slovenia".
The VT 10.5 was withdrawn from service on 20 December 1960Das grosse TEE Buch, p. 34 and replaced by locomotive-hauled coaches. By at least the early 1960s, the Komet was operating seven days a week, and its route had been extended from Basel to Chur, Switzerland."Table 45: Komet".
On 4 May 1500, Ferdinando Castiglia was appointed during the papacy of Pope Alexander VI as Bishop of Bagnoregio. He served as Bishop of Bagnoregio until his death in 1521. While bishop, he was the principal co-consecrator of Stefan Tschugli, Titular Bishop of Belline and Auxiliary Bishop of Chur (1501).
The airport in Samedan It is the administrative center of the upper Engadin region, and services include a regional hospital (Spital Oberengadin), a major RhB railway station with regular trains towards Pontresina, Chur and St. Moritz, and a regional airport (Engadin Airport). Both the Bernina Express and Glacier Express trains pass Samedan.
Brienz/Brinzauls is first mentioned around 840 as Brienzola. By the 12th century the village was an economic center for the Bishop of Chur. The Lords of Brienz were first mentioned as the owners of a fortified tower in the village in 1259. The tower fell in ruin and was demolished in 1880.
As an alternative, the Rhaetian Railway was determined to improve the traffic conditions in the area of Chur station and improvements to the city line, including the installation of a double-track section, was completed on 6 May 2007. Trains and road vehicles formerly approached each other head on in some places.
Johann Lukas Legrand was born in Basel on 30 May 1755. He was the son of Daniel Legrand, a civil judge and deputy to the Grand Council. Johann Lukas married Rosina Lindenmeyer in 1780. He was educated as a pietist at Chur, then studied philosophy and theology in Basel, Leipzig and Göttingen.
View of Araschgen Araschgen is a village near Chur in the Plessur district, Switzerland. It is part of the municipality of Churwalden. The village was first mentioned in the mid-14th century as Giraschga. The mineral springs in the village were first mentioned in the 16th century and were rediscovered in 1863.
The former gold medallist lost balance before turning midair and landing heavily on his back. The skier received immediate medical attention for internal bleeding and a punctured lung. The 28-year-old was lifted via a helicopter to a hospital in Chur where he was later confirmed as being in a stable condition.
Shortly before his exit from the Society, the University of Munich offered him a professorship, as a successor to Romano Guardini, but he declined.Peter Henrici (1991), p. 24. He remained without a ministerial role in the Church until, in 1956, he was incardinated into the Diocese of Chur as a diocesan priest.
Rorschach railway station () is a railway station in Rorschach, in the Swiss canton of St. Gallen. It sits at the junction of four railway lines: Chur–Rorschach, Rorschach–St. Gallen, Rorschach–Heiden, and the Lake Line. It is the primary station for Rorschach and is served by local and long-distance trains.
Brecht's decision to appear before the committee led to criticism, including accusations of betrayal. The day after his testimony, on 31 October, Brecht returned to Europe. He lived in Zurich in Switzerland for a year. In February 1948 in Chur, Brecht staged an adaptation of Sophocles' Antigone, based on a translation by Hölderlin.
His successor, Bishop John V (Flugi d'Aspermont, 1601–27), a saintly and courageous man, endeavoured to restore the Catholic religion, but was compelled to flee three times (1607, 1612, and 1617), and for several years a bloody war was waged between the Catholics and the Protestants. Finally, the newly erected Congregation of Propaganda commissioned the Capuchins to 'save the Catholic faith' among the people (1621). The first Capuchin superior of the mission was St. Fidelis of Sigmaringen, who, on his way from Sewis to Grüsch, a little north of Chur, was slain (24 April 1622) by peasants whom the sermons of the Protestant preachers had wrought up to a fury. Some relics of this martyr are preserved in the cathedral at Chur.
After the founding of the Dominican convents in Bern, Chur and Zofingen, remained under the pastoral care of the canton of Zürich – the counties of Baden and Uznach, the cantons Obwalden, Nidwalden and Zug as well as parts of Glarus, Uri and Gaster, and the border areas around Schwarzwald and Klettgau. In 1259 Count Rudolf IV von Rapperswil, Countess Elisabeth's father, donated certain duties and lands "in den Widen" for the construction of the Dominikanerinnenkloster Maria Zuflucht. Initially, the Dominican nuns were supported by the Dominican convent in Zürich, because of its close relationship to the House of Rapperswil. After the founding of the monastery, the Dominican friars in Chur took over the pastoral assistance of the monastic community in Weesen.
In the 13th century Chur had some 1,300 inhabitants, and was surrounded by a line of walls. In 1367 the foundation of the Three Leagues in the area was a first step towards Chur's autonomy: a burgmeister (mayor) is first mentioned in 1413, and the bishop's residence was attacked by the inhabitants. Chur was the chief town of the Gotteshausbund or Chadé (League of the House of God), and one of the regular meeting places of the assemblies of the Leagues. As the power of the bishops, now increasingly under the influence of the nearby Habsburg County of Tyrol, decreased, in 1464 the citizens wrote a constitution which was adopted as the rule for the peoples of the local guilds and political positions.
International Jewish Day is an international day observed annually on August 2. It is a day of global celebration of the Jewish people and culture. On this day, Swiss Catholics also celebrate "Dies Iudaicus" (Jewish Day). The bishop of Chur, Switzerland has noted particularly that Catholics should combat anti- Semitism, and promote peace and conciliation.
Stephan was born in Zürich, Switzerland. As a youth, he played in the 1997 and 1998 Quebec International Pee-Wee Hockey Tournaments with a team from [Zürich. In 2001, he was named the best goaltender at U18 World Junior Championships. Stephan first played for EHC Chur and then for the Kloten Flyers in Switzerland.
Jarek Srnensky (born 16 January 1963) is a Swiss former professional tennis player. Srnensky is Czechoslovakian by birth, but grew up in the Swiss town of Chur. While competing on the professional tour he twice featured in the French Open main draw as a doubles player, in 1985 and 1986, both times partnering João Soares.
The male's song is an explosive whistled spit-CHUR see- see-see. The white-eared ground sparrow feeds on the ground on seeds, fallen berries, insects and spiders. It is usually in pairs, and is a shy species best seen at near or dusk, although easier to find than its skulking relative, Prevost's ground sparrow.
In Switzerland, dual gauge standard track and metre track is used in Lucerne and Interlaken stations, the terminals of the Brünigbahn. A section of dual gauge at Niederbipp allows the Jura Foot Railway and the Oberaargau-Jura Railways to share the station there. The RhB line between Chur and Domat/Ems is also dual gauge.
Comprehensive redevelopment of the station began in 2000. The complete redesign of the station was a joint project of the SBB-CFF-FFS, the Rhaetian Railway and the town of Chur. As part of the redevelopment, a new pedestrian underpass was opened in 2003. By 2006, the underpass had been expanded to the south.
In the courtyard of Engelberg Abbey Engelberg Abbey () is a Benedictine monastery in Engelberg, Canton of Obwalden, Switzerland. It was formerly in the Diocese of Constance, but is now in the Diocese of Chur. It is dedicated to Our Lady of the Angels and occupies a commanding position at the head of the Nidwalden Valley.
Versam-Safien station on the valley floor Versam-Safien station, on the line of the Rhaetian Railway that links Chur and Disentis, is located and some lower than the village of Versam, and about to the north. To reach the village directly, a Postauto bus service provides a connection, which also serves Thalkirch and Tenna.
At the time of the Roman Empire, today's Rankweil was known as "Vinomna". Vinomna was a transport hub where stone-paved Roman roads converged, including the main road from Chur to Augsburg. Rankweil itself was first mentioned in 842. In 1375 the Counts of Montfort sold the dominion of Feldkirch, including Rankweil, to the Habsburgs.
In 1461 the castle returned to the Werdenberg-Sargans family. In 1475 the Heinzenberg lands, except for the castle, was sold to the Bishop of Chur. In 1482 there was a Werdenberg vogt resident in the castle. After the death of Count Georg von Werdenberg-Sargans in 1504, it was abandoned and fell into ruin.
The station is served on the lakeside line by an hourly long-distance RegioExpress service between Zürich and Chur. InterRegio services between Zürich and Lucerne operate every half-hour, with one train an hour extended to Konstanz. The station is also served by trains on lines S2, S8, and S24 of the Zurich S-Bahn.
The earliest document of the name of the place names "Anegistingin" was dated 24 January 783 in a deed of Lorsch Abbey. The Roman Catholic Diocese of Chur acquired some properties at the beginning of the 10th century. In 1439 the name "Großengstingen" appeared for the first time. A rarely used name was "Churengstingen".
Daniela Decurtins, Susi Grossmann: Auf Gedeih und Verderb. Schweizerische Bankgesellschaft Chur 1994 p. 56. The Credit Co-operative's own capital was subscribed by the local communities affected and banks as well as the hotel businesses themselves and their suppliers. By providing additional subordinated mortgage loans they were able to provide vital additional working capital.
Rocca was born in Chur, Switzerland. He made his debut in the Alpine Skiing World Cup on 6 January 1996 in Flachau. However, Rocca broke his right knee and was forced off the tour for a year. In March 1997 he scored his first point-scoring result in the World Cup, at the Shigakogen slalom.
Theodosius - in 1850 - put her in charge of a home for the poor and orphaned at Nagels and became known there as the "Mother of the Poor". Around that time in 1850 she was asked to take administration of a hospital that the priest had just opened. In 1852 she was sent to Chur.
The area of the diocese in Baden became part of the newly established Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Freiburg in 1827 while the Swiss areas were incorporated in the Diocese of Basel, whereas the cantons of Obwalden and Nidwalden, parts of Uri, Glarus and Zürich are provisorily administrated by the Diocese of Chur up to today.
The pass was already in use in the Roman era. It possibly corresponds to Cunus Aureus shown on the Tabula Peutingeriana (which may alternatively have referred to the Julier Pass). The name Splügen itself is possibly derived from specula ("lookout"). In the Middle Ages, the Bishops of Chur had the trade route relocated to Septimer Pass.
His journey across the desert was in a horse-drawn "van" carrying six passengers. He sailed the most direct route home from Alexandria via Malta, Sicily, Naples and Genoa. From Genoa he travelled by "poste" to Milan and Chur and then by steamer down the Rhine to Rotterdam and thence to London where he arrived on 20 June 1850.
In 1137-39 the village was acquired from the count von Gamertingen by the Bishop of Chur. In 1244 Bishop Volkart appointed Andreas Planta from Zuoz to be the chancellor of the Oberengadin. The Planta family remained in power until 1798. In 1367, Zuoz joined the League of God's House under the leadership of the Amtmann Thomas Planta.
Filisur's railway station is located in the northwest of the village 50 metres above the center and served by the Rhaetian Railway (RhB), the Glacier Express and the Bernina Express on the route between Chur () and St. Moritz (). It is also the end station for the line to Davos. PostBus Switzerland also operate services through the village.
Fritz Krauss (born March 20, 1898 in Chur, Germany, died July 13, 1978 in Großhansdorf) was a German naval officer, most recently a Konteradmiral in the World War II. Between 16 August 1944 – 22 July 1945, Fritz Krauss was Director of Department of Naval Intelligence (German: Marinenachrichtendienst), specifically 3 SKL/MND IV of the German Navy.
From Chur the train follows back the course of the Rhine through the gorge of Ruinaulta and climbs slowly the valley toward Ilanz (), Disentis/Mustér () and Sedrun (). From Sedrun the line becomes steeper to finally reach its summit, the Oberalp Pass at . From there the train enters the Canton of Uri in Central Switzerland and continues down to Andermatt ().
Saint Stefanus parish church Chur Cöllnisches Amtshaus The most important building in Oestinghausen is the romanesque church of St Stephanus in the old centre of the village. It has been the parish church for the villages of Oestinghausen, Krewinkel, Wiltrop and Niederbauer. The church was built c. 1000 as a parish church for the local farm (erzbischöflichen Oberhof).
La Quotidiana is the only Romansh daily newspaper. It is published by the Südostschweiz Mediengruppe and was founded in 1997 with support from the Romansh news agency Agentura da Novitads Rumantscha. The newspaper is based in Ilanz, previously in Chur. It is the successor of all Romansh newspapers, with the exception of the Surmiran Pagina da Surmeir.
After the death of the last Count of Toggenburg, Frederick VII, in 1436 the fief passed back to the Austrians who granted it to the Brandis family to hold for the Bishop of Chur. In 1442 they used the castle as collateral for a loan from Heinrich von Sigberg. In 1460 the castle was partly destroyed in a fire.
At the northern end of Feldkirch station a single-track, electrified, 18.5 km line branches to Buchs from Bregenz. Although this line runs through the territory of Liechtenstein and Switzerland, it is completely operated and maintained by the ÖBB. In Buchs comes it connects with the St. Gallen–St. Margrethen–Sargans–Chur line of the SBB.
The castle was built in the 12th century to guard the road from Chur over the alpine passes. The oldest part of the castle, the ring wall, was built in the second half of the 12th century. The main tower was added in the early 13th century. The Lords of Strassberg first appear in the historical record in 1253.
Disentis/Mustér railway station is the eastern terminus of the Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn line from Brig via Andermatt, and the western terminus of the Rhaetian Railway line from Landquart via Chur and Reichenau-Tamins. The station is located on the south bank of the river in the village and municipality of Disentis/Mustér, in the Swiss canton of Graubünden.
St. Brigid's High School was a secondary school located on the edge of Armagh City, County Armagh, Northern Ireland. The school was founded in 1971 and closed in 2015. It was the only Catholic maintained boys' non-grammar school in Armagh City, with around 210 pupils. The school motto was "Feabhas a chur ar" which means "Try Your Best".
During and after his time as British Resident in the Grisons he lived in both Chur and in Chiavenna and, in the mid-1760s, he started to build an Anglo-Palladian double-pile summer villa in Bondo, a village in the Val Bregaglia between Chiavenna and the Maloja Pass. The house was completed by his son Peter in 1774.
Raetia Curiensis (in Latin; , ) was an Early medieval province in Central Europe, named after the preceding Roman province of Raetia prima which retained its Romansh culture during the Migration Period, while the adjacent territories in the north were largely settled by Alemannic tribes. The administrative capital was Chur (Curia Raetorum) in the present Swiss canton of Grisons.
In the Swiss Chur Rhine Valley and the Prättigau, the meadowland was measured in klafters. In the adjoining Principality of Liechtenstein, the square klafter is still used today for the measurement of land areas. 1 m2 equals 0.27804 square klafters, 1 square klafter equals 3.59665 m2. The klafter as a unit of length was consequently about 1.8965 metres long.
Sketch of Wynegg Castle Wynegg castle was built in the 13th century for the Wynegg family. The first known member of the family, Ludwig von Wynegg, appears in a record in 1254. The family last appears in 1270 when Ulrich von Wynegg was mentioned. The family probably served the Bishop of Chur or the Freiherr von Vaz.
Angela Deuber (born 1975) is a German-born Swiss architect. She was born in Bad Kissingen and graduated in architecture from the ETH Zurich. She set up her own office "Angela Deuber Architect" (ADA) in Chur in 2006. Deuber taught at the ETH Zurich from 2007 to 2010; in 2012, she became a lecturer at the University of Lucerne.
In 1200 there were about 30 cities. A century later, in 1300, there were over 190 interconnected cities. At the beginning of the 14th century, the artisans in the cities began forming guilds and increasingly took over political control, especially in the cities along the Rhine, e.g. in the Alsace, in Basel, Schaffhausen, Zürich, or Chur.
Romano Torriani played for EHC Basel and HC Davos, and Marco played for EHC Basel and SC Langnau Tigers, and later became president of Genève-Servette HC. As a manager, Marco helped Geneva earn a promotion from Swiss League 1 to National League A. Torriani died on 3 September 1988, in Chur, Switzerland at age 76.
Andreas Walser (13 April 1908 - 19 March 1930) was a Swiss painter. He was born in Chur and moved to Paris at the age of 20 to become more involved in the art world and "to become completely and utterly french". Many of his works were produced under the influence of drugs. He died in Paris aged 22.
Monks were specially engaged to recite hymns of Mani-tung chur in Nubra Valley and in other surrounding areas. In mid eighteenth century, Tshe-dbang-rnam-rgyal gave away the control of Diskit monastery to the Rinpoche of Thikse Monastery and this arrangement has been perpetuated to this day. Since then, Diskit is considered a sub-gompa of Thikse.
Brugg's train station Brugg is an important crossroads. Two national highways meet in town, A3 motorway (Basel – Zürich – Chur) and A5 motorway (Lausanne – Biel/Bienne – Waldshut). Access to the A3 is located four kilometers south, between Hausen and Lupfig. There is also access to A1 motorway a further four kilometers to the south in the town of Mägenwil.
These include the BBC, who commissioned The Firmament of Time in 2008 for performance by the BBC Symphony Orchestra. Portrait concerts have been given by in Salzburg (2011) by the Österreichisches Ensemble für Neue Musik, in Chur (2016) by Ensemble ö! and in Gdańsk (2019) at the NeoArte Festival. Pritchard is also active as a new music promoter.
All routes serve the railway station. The A2 and A13 motorways, as well as some main roads, link here, thus making it an important transportational node. The A2 runs north via the Gotthard Pass to Lucerne, Basle and Germany, and south to Lugano and Italy. The A13 runs north-east via the San Bernardino Pass to Chur and Austria.
When Graubünden became a Swiss canton in 1803, Chur was chosen as its capital. Mt. Piz Bernina (4,049 m) was given its name in 1850 by Johann Coaz, who also made the first ascent.Collomb, Robin, Bernina Alps, Goring: West Col Productions, 1988, p. 55. The completion of the final portion of the FO railway occurred in 1926.
Scheduled passenger train service continually increased through the early 1900s. Additionally, freight train service also saw growth in that same period. Starting in the summer of 1906, more and more passenger express trains utilized the line, amongst them international connections such as Amsterdam–Konstanz, Ostende–Konstanz and Frankfurt am Main–Chur. However, these connections were soon discontinued.
The economy and environment of the 4th and 3rd millennia BC in the northern Alpine foreland based on studies of animal bones. Environmental Archaeology 11(1): 49-65 making Chur one of the oldest settlements in Switzerland. Remains and objects from the Bronze and Iron Ages have also been found in the eastern sector of the current city's centre. These include Bronze Age Urnfield and Luco-Meluno settlements from 1300-800 BC and Iron Age settlements from the 5th to 3rd centuries BC. The Roman Empire conquered the area that then came to be known as the Roman province of Raetia in 15 BC. Under emperor Diocletian (late 3rd century AD), the existing settlement of Curia Raetorum (later Chur) was made the capital of the newly established province of Raetia prima.
Jakob Ragaz was born into a family of craftsmen in Tamins, a village in the canton of Grisons, located a short distance to the west of Chur and close to the point where the "Hinterrhein" and "Vorderrhein" rivers join together and become the River Rhine. He attended the cantonal secondary school ("Scola chantunala grischuna") in Chur and then moved on to study at polytechnical academies in Stuttgart and Munich. As a newly trained architect he received his first commission in the Engadin valley, where his father, Linhard Ragaz, had been employed as a carpenter in the 1840s. He took on project management for construction of the "Hotel Bernina" in Samedan, which the architect Johann Jakob Breitinger had abandoned in order to focus on a city planning scheme in his home city of Zürich.
It was only on 30 June 1898 that the Federal Assembly in Bern finally decided on the construction of the Albula Railway. The Federal Assembly thereby also decided against another standard gauge transit railway, and a similarly contemplated railway over the Julier Pass. In 1896, there were only 20 km of standard gauge railway line in Graubünden - and 90 km of narrow gauge railways. (Incidentally, the length of the standard gauge line has remained unchanged to this day, apart from the construction of a new industrial spur line from Chur to Domat / Ems.) Priority was given to the construction of a rail connection to the spa at St Moritz, which at that time was a 14-hour stage coach ride distant from Chur, the terminus of the standard gauge line.
Around 300 students from 45 countries follow courses at the Passugg campus near Chur. The SSTH is a member of the Ecole hôtelière de Lausanne (EHL), the world's pre- eminent hospitality management school, since November 2013 and is the only school in Switzerland with German- and English-language training programs recognized under the Swiss framework curriculum and is classified as tertiary education.
Simbschen subsequently retreated farther east to Chur. The French took possession of the Gotthard Pass, Simplon Pass, and the upper Valais. Lecourbe's offensive was aided by two diversionary attacks carried out by the divisions of Soult and Chabran. On the morning of 14 August, Soult's right brigade under Édouard Mortier crossed the Sihl River at Adliswil and attacked Wollishofen, a suburb of Zürich.
He was later a canon at Basel, Constanz, and Chur from 1486 until 1492, when he was promoted to deacon. The cities are on the border of modern Germany and Switzerland. In October 1496, he was elected by the Cathedral Chapter of Konstanz as the new bishop of the diocese. He was installed as bishop in Konstanz on 18 December 1496.
Johanna Louise Spyri (née Heusser; ; 12 June 1827 - 7 July 1901) was a Swiss- born author of novels, notably children's stories, and is best known for her book Heidi. Born in Hirzel, a rural area in the canton of Zurich, Switzerland, as a child she spent several summers near Chur in Graubünden, the setting she later would use in her novels.
The castle is first mentioned in 1193. Andreas von Tarasp granted Andreas von Marmels, who already held a fiefdom over half of Tarasp Castle, a position as a ministerialis to the Bishop of Chur. In service to the Bishop, the family was able to expand their land and power. They grew to be one of the foremost minor noble families in Rätien.
However, due to his pro-Habsburg stance he was quickly overthrown and imprisoned. His oldest son, Johannes inherited Rhäzüns and later Neu-Aspermont Castle. His younger son, Rudolf, received Burg Haldenstein, was mayor of Chur and later the primary Landeshauptmann in Veltlin. The castle remained in the possession of the family von Marmels throughout its history, which is quite unusual.
It was built during a wave of monastery construction that included the nearby monasteries at Cazis, Mistail, Pfäfers, and Disentis. The abbey was located along the Val Müstair pass over the Alps from Italy and was fortified to allow it to control the pass. In 881 the abbey passed over to be completely under the control of the Bishop of Chur.
It is located on a terrace above the Churer Rheintal (Chur branch of the Rhine river). It consists of the sections of Valtanna, Untersays and Obersays. In 1880 the municipality separated from Trimmis to become an independent municipality.Amtliches Gemeindeverzeichnis der Schweiz published by the Swiss Federal Statistical Office accessed 23 September 2009 However, in 2008 Says merged back into Trimmis.
Gray, p. 42 Three ships, the Crocodile, the Patientia, and the Chur, were placed at Moulin's disposal. There were a number of issues with the expedition, and in December 1652, Treyden wrote to the Duke of Courland describing Moulin as a "light-hearted knave". After setting sail in March 1653, the expedition shortly after ran out of supplies and was forced to return.
The Rembrandt was an express train that linked Amsterdam in the Netherlands, with Munich in Germany and later Chur in Switzerland. The train was named after the renowned Dutch painter Rembrandt.TEE, p. 22. For its first 16 years it was a first-class-only Trans Europ Express, becoming a two-class InterCity in 1983 and finally a EuroCity in 1987.
Aerial view of the castle The castle was built around 1250 on the bishop's land near Tumegl/Tomils. It was built either by the Bishop of Chur or by his representative, the Lords of Vaz. The ecclesiastical farms in Tomils were given as a fief to the Vaz family in 1275. The castle is first mentioned in 1309 as Ortenstain.
The Three Leagues was the alliance of 1471 of the League of God's House, the League of the Ten Jurisdictions and the Grey League, leading eventually to the formation of the Swiss canton of Graubünden (Grisons). The territory corresponds to the core territory of Raetia Curiensis (ruled by the bishops of Chur), the early medieval remnant of the Roman province of Raetia prima.
He has coached with a number of clubs: Nijmegen, Heerenveen Flyers, Rotterdam Panda's, Tigers Amsterdam, and IJHC Den Bosch in the Netherlands; Schwenninger Wild Wings, Essen Moskitoes, Deggendorf, and Grefrather EC in Germany; and EHC Chur and Rapperswil-Jona in Switzerland. He currently coaches the U-18 Serbia national ice hockey team. He played for Yugoslavia at the 1964 Winter Olympics.
The Archdiocese of Vaduz was erected by Pope John Paul II in the apostolic constitution Ad satins consulendum 2 December 1997. Before then it had been the Liechtenstein Deanery, a part of the Swiss Diocese of Chur. The solemn public ceremony took place on December 12, 1997, in the parish church of Vaduz, which was then raised to the dignity of a cathedral.
The Plessur is a river, long, and a right tributary of the Rhine running through the Swiss canton of Graubünden. Its head is near Arosa in the Plessur Range. It then flows through the Schanfigg valley before emptying into the Rhine at Chur. The Langwieser Viaduct, an early reinforced concrete railway bridge constructed in 1914, spans the Plessur near Langwies.
The former SBB District Directorate IV was created from the headquarters of the VSB in St. Gallen. The former SBB main workshop in Chur had its roots in the SOB. Over time, the now closed SBB Rorschach locomotive depot emerged from the main workshop of the VSB. The railway built in Uster what is now the oldest roundhouse with a turntable in Switzerland.
Mario Illien is an engineer specialising in motorsport engine design and comes from Chur in the Canton of Graubünden, Switzerland. Despite living in a country in which motor racing was banned in 1955 (when Illien was six years old), he developed an interest in the sport during the 1960s while following the career of Jo Bonnier, a Swedish expatriate living in Switzerland.
They had taken the Rappenstein name after their castle near St. Gallen. When they moved to Graubünden, that name was applied to this castle as well. By the late 15th century, Rappenstein had been abandoned. In 1496, when the von Rappensteins sold Neuburg to the Bishop of Chur, Rappenstein Castle was not mentioned but its land was included in the sale.
Theodosius Florentini was born 23 May1808 in Münster, Graubünden. He entered the Capuchin Franciscan Order, 22 October 1825, was ordained priest in 1830, and appointed novice master, and lecturer on philosophy and theology. In 1838 he became guardian at Baden; in 1845 superior and parish priest at Chur; in 1857 definitor, and in 1860 vicar-general of the Diocese of Chur.Hess, Lawrence.
Canton Grisons : In large-scale, highly compartmentalized Canton municipal autonomy is of high importance and so also within the cantonal police jurisdiction. Grisons City police: Chur (Coire), St. Moritz and Arosa. Canton of Solothurn : Since 2005, the demand employed by a government unit of the police. This idea was abandoned in 2009, the city did not want to give up their police powers.
She had never done anything like this but within two months they also had the support of Chur theatre and the director Achim Lenz. Her opera Bergpiraten (Mountain Pirates), like the work of Bertold Brecht, draws on the Beggars Opera of 1728. It has a theme documenting how capitalism can beat nature, but the story also entertained. In 2018 she published "Widerschien".
The inheritance of the last Free Lord was thus split between the two noble houses. Vaz/Obervaz paid to become an independent municipality in 1456. The bishops of Chur, Schams and Obervaz bought the inheritance of Ursula from an impoverished Count Werdenberg Sargans for 3600 Gulden in 1456. Obervaz paid about 600 Gulden for its area, or about 11,000 Franks.
St Joseph's Parish Church, Triesenberg The Catholic Church in Liechtenstein is part of the worldwide Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of the Pope in Rome. Around three quarters of the population is Catholic. Prior to 1997, the principality was part of the Swiss Diocese of Chur. In 1997, the Archdiocese of Vaduz was created, covering the whole of the principality.
Regional daily newspapers in the area are the Bündner Tagblatt and Südostschweiz. In the Bündner Herrschaft, the local papers are the Prättigauer und Herrschäftler and in the southern part of the Bündner Rhine Valley, the Ruinaulta (called the Rhiiblatt until late 2013). The periodicals, Terra Grischuna and Rheinfluss, deal with the Chur Rhine Valley in terms of cultural and natural history.
Anny Rüegg-Hardmeier (1912 - 1 May 2011)Anny Rüegg's obituary was a Swiss alpine skier and world champion. She was born in Chur. Rüegg won a gold medal at the 1934 World Championships in St. Moritz, winning the Downhill event, and a gold medal in slalom at the 1935 World Championships in Mürren.Official results for the FIS Alpine World Ski Championships - FIS-ski.
In delivering his eulogy, Ratzinger, quoting de Lubac, called Balthasar, "perhaps the most cultured man of our time." In March 2018, together with Adrienne von Speyr, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Chur formally opened their cause towards canonisation. Von Balthasar has also been highly influential in the work of Bishop Robert Barron, who has been an ardent advocate of von Balthasar's soteriology.
During his time in office, he held the Federal Department of Transport, Communications and Energy and was President of the Confederation in 1984. Schlumpf died on 7 July 2012 in Chur, aged 87. He was the father of Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf, member of the cantonal government of Graubünden (Grisons), who was herself elected to the Federal Council on 12 December 2007.
Chur has a population (as of ) of . In 2008, 17.8% of the population was made up of foreign nationals, by 2014 that number was 19.2%. Over the last 4 years (2010-2014) the population has changed at a rate of 2.34%. The birth rate in the municipality, in 2014, was 9.2, while the death rate was 10.0 per thousand residents.
The sessions of the Municipal Council are public. Unlike members of the City Council, members of the Municipal Council are not politicians by profession, and they are paid a fee based on their attendance. Any resident of Chur allowed to vote can be elected as a member of the Municipal Council. The parliament holds its meetings in the Rathaus (Town Hall).
The project drafted by the project team Kuhn Truninger, Zurich / P. Wiedemann, Chur and C. Schubiger, Zurich and Hans H. Moser, Zurich was defined in a study assignment with preselection in 2000. Construction was started in 2002. Louis-Häfliger-Park was handed over to the population in an opening ceremony in 2003 after 10 months of construction.Medienmitteilung der Stadt Zürich vom 25.
Oscar Peer was born on 23 April 1928 in Lavin, in the Lower Engadine, Switzerland. His father, Jon Peer, was a one-time lumberjack, while his mother Silva Wieser belonged to a farming family. He was the fourth of five children. Peer began his training as a machinist before abandoning his apprenticeship to join a teachers' training school in Chur.
He taught in Tschierv and Felsberg as a primary school teacher. He then proceeded to study German and Romance language at the University of Zurich and Sorbonne. He obtained his PhD with a dissertation on Gian Fontana, a writer in Surselva. He worked as a middle-school teacher in Winterthur, and finally as a lecturer at the Chur teachers' training college.
Lulić was born in Mostar, but he spent most of his childhood in Jablanica. Due to Bosnian War, his family moved to Switzerland, where he started playing football at a local club, Chur 97, whose youth setup he joined in 1998. He made his professional debut in 2003 at the age of 17. In the summer of 2006, Lulić switched to Bellinzona.
The right for free hunting was abolished in 1709 and partially re-introduced from 1713 to 1806 out of courtesy of the duke. On October 31, 1717 Chur sold Engstingen to the Zwiefalten Abbey. From there it was transferred to the Protestant Württemberg on 30 April 1750. Großengstingen became part of Oberamt Reutlingen in 1806 and became a district (Landkreis) from 1938.
An accumulator battery and a circuit board were also sold off at this point.Advertisement in the: Schweizerische Bauzeitung. Volume 38 (1901), 28 September 1901 Hotel buses awaiting guests at Samedan railway station Technical progress also impacted transport links. On 1 July 1903 the Albula Railway opened between Thusis and Samedan, which connected the Engadin region with the cantonal capital, Chur.
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Saint Gallen () is a Roman Catholic diocese in St. Gallen, Switzerland. The diocese was created in 1847 from the territory of the episcopal see of Chur-St. Gallen. Much of the territory had earlier been part of the Diocese of Konstanz. The St Gallen Cathedral, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is the see of the diocese.
He went to the public school in Kraków, but was later excluded due to political problems. From 1883, he resides in Switzerland, where he follows the colleges in Chur and Winterthur. He then studies natural sciences, and particularly botany, from the year 1888 on at the Zürich, Geneva and Bern universities. In 1894, he obtains a thesis of the Bern university on Saprolegnia.
The municipality is located on the A3 motorway. There exists a cablecar from Unterterzen via Oberterzen to Tannenbodenalp. Unterterzen has a train station, where (as of 2016) the S4 (circling around the Säntis mountain range) and (on weekends) the S2 (Zurich Main Station & Airport) stop. There is also a connecting bus to Walenstadt, giving access to the hourly Zürich-Chur express train service.
For the next year he worked as a primary school teacher in St. Antönien. In 1974 he met a woman named Barbara whom he married in 1975 and had three children; Rebecca, Alexander, and Adrian. Together they founded a "small theater" in Chur, called the Klibühni Schnidrzunft. They ran it for ten years and lived in an apartment above it.
Rebecca Indermaur was born and raised in Chur, Grissons and is a member of the In der Maur family. Her father is Swiss painter Robert Indermaur. She was introduced to acting by her parents who ran and lived above a small theater, Klibühni Schnidrzunft, often participating in theatrical performances and art shows. She attended Bern University of Music and Theater in Bern, Switzerland.
The Gründjitobel Viaduct (or Gründjitobel Bridge; ) is a single track reinforced concrete railway bridge, spanning the Gründjitobelbach near Langwies, in the Canton of Graubünden, Switzerland. Designed by Hermann Schürch, it was built between late June 1913 and early July 1914 by Müller, Zeerleder und Gobat, for the Chur–Arosa railway. It is now owned and used by the Rhaetian Railway.
At each of these points, instead of a bridge with many multiple openings, a sensational reinforced concrete structure arose with a large single span. The risk that piers might be undermined by the course of the river could thus be met successfully; since the completion of the Chur-Arosa line, the Gründjitobel Viaduct has only rarely been harmed by erosion.
Vaduz Castle, built during the Middle Ages In the years 1007 and 1027 the Emperors of the Holy Roman Empire granted the counties of Trento and Vinschgau to the Bishopric of Trent and the Bishopric of Brixen the county of Norital in 1027 and the Puster Valley in 1091 by the county of Milan and Como. By about 1100 Ticino was the centre of struggle between the free communes of Milan and Como. The upper Rhine river had been visited by traders since Roman times, but acquired greater importance under the Ottonian dynasty of the Holy Roman Empire. Emperor Otto I appointed his vassal Hartpert as bishop of Chur in 958, and awarded the bishopric numerous privileges. In 1170 the bishop became a prince-bishop and kept total control over the road between Chur and Chiavenna.
Two years later, the people of Graubünden decided, in a referendum, that the RhB would come under state ownership. These two changes created suitable conditions for a rapid construction of further RhB lines, which were intended to open up large parts of the Canton. In 1890, the Davos hotelier Willem-Jan Holsboer proposed the construction of a rail link from Chur via Davos, and through a tunnel under the Scaletta Pass, to St Moritz, and then onwards via the Maloja Pass, to Chiavenna in Italy. Holsboer later had to abandon this planned Scalettabahn, in favour of a route through what was to become the Albula Tunnel. In 1895, the Zurich railway pioneer Adolf Guyer-Zeller presented the idea of an Engadine-Orient-Railway, which would have connected Chur, via Thusis and Engadine, and over the Fuorn Pass, with the Vinschgau and Trieste.
Everyday Ranjit's wife Pummy and his sister Simran go to the hospital. Pummy tries to remind him of their own story. It is learnt that Ranjit meets Pummy at the engagement of a friend Ravi (Chandra Chur Singh) and falls in love with her, but her uncle and aunty get her engaged to a bad man. Pummy escaped from him and went to Ranjit's home.
Soon there after the village of Brusio was settled on the valley floor below the monastery. The monastery influenced this early stage of settlement and growth in the village. By 1212 it was an independent municipality with its own dean or senior pastor who represented the municipality's interests. In the 13th Century, the entire Val Poschiavo became part of the fief of the Bishop of Chur.
In January 2014, Tia arrived in Switzerland as an asylum seeker. He soon joined Chur 97 after asking to try out, and worked his way into their first team soon after. On 18 February 2019, Tia signed a professional contract with FC Luzern. Tia made his professional debut with Luzern in a 1-0 Swiss Super League win over Servette FC on 4 August 2019.
August B. Michaelis: Einleitung zu einer volständigen Geschichte der Chur- und Fürstlichen Häuser in Teutschland, Meyer, 1760, p. 78 Before her 20th birthday, Amalie got very ill and went to bathe in the spa Baden-Baden, where she died. A fierce controversy erupted about her dower: her father-in-law, Count Palatine Louis I of Zweibrücken- Veldenz tried to recover it, but Kaspar refused to return it.
It is placed in a tree up, occasionally higher, in the fork of a twig. The clutch is two or three brown-speckled pale grey eggs, which are incubated by the female alone for 12–14 days to hatching. The variable seedeater has a harsh chur call. The male's song consists of a mixture of warbles, whistles, and twitters, and is more elaborate on the Pacific slope.
Founded in Balzers in 1932, FC Balzers was the first foreign team to join the Swiss Football Association and therefore is the oldest football team from Liechtenstein. On the 22nd of may 1932, the team played its first friendly match against FC Chur. In 1947, the team was promoted to the 3. Liga for the first time, after winning their league in the 1946/47 season.
They owned castles and villages throughout the region. Konrad von Belmont was the Bishop of Chur from 1273 until 1282. In 1267 Heinrich von Belmont was the first student from Raetia to study at University of Bologna. By 1200 the Belmonts appear to have moved to another castle near Castrisch and then to Tuma Casti by Domat/Ems, probably leaving a bailiff or vogt at Belmont.
The castle was built with a large tower and a separate palas west of the tower. In the late 13th century, the bishop of Chur (and the Lords of Aspermont) and the Freiherr of Vaz quarreled over Jenins. The conflict was resolved in 1284 through arbitration. In the agreement they were ordered to share the castle, but neither were allowed to expand the fortifications.
The Lords of Ramosch first appear in historical records in the 12th century. They were vassals of the Bishop of Chur and the Lords of Tarasp. The oldest part of the castle is the main tower, which was built as a bergfried (a fighting tower without permanent inhabitants) in the 12th century for the Lords of Ramosch. A ring wall was added in the 13th century.
In 1389 the Bishopric of Chur recorded that Bishop Hartmann granted lands that used to be the Campell fief to Hans and Gottfried von Ehrenfels. Though the grant probably did not include the castle, because it wasn't until 1418 that the Bishop granted the castle to Hermann von Schauenstein-Ehrenfels. During the 15th century, the west wall was raised and had a roof added.
The castle was protected by two ditches on the mountain side of the spur. The lower castle stretches between the base of the spur and the river banks. There are three doors in the wall, one toward Chur, one toward the Viamala road and one toward the Rhine river. Inside the wall, the only remaining building is a tower in the south-west corner.
In both 1406 and 1525 a portion of the League of God's House joined the League, and in 1440 Chur (the leader of the League of God's House) joined. In 1471 the League of the Ten Jurisdictions joined the League. The combination of the Grey League, the League of God's House and the League of the Ten Jurisdictions became known as the Three Leagues.
In the late twelfth century, the communities in the valleys in Raetia were generally small and independent. There were very few large landholders and no central authority. For years blood feuds and battles had raged between the Lords of Belmont, Werdenberg, Rhäzüns and the Bishop of Chur as well as minor nobles. The constant warfare had seriously damaged trade and transportation in the region.
A bus service was established between Chur and St. Peter-Molinis. In 2002, the earth moved on the slope in the Verbrunnawald area at the Lüener Rüfe tunnel. In 2007, the stone Rüti bridge was demolished and replaced with a new structure made of reinforced concrete. Two viaducts were comprehensively refurbished: the Castielertobel Viaduct in 2006, the Langwieser Viaduct in 2009 and the Calfreisertobel Viaduct in 2010.
In addition to the transport of cars, Sagliains station also serves as an interchange station between the Scuol-Tarasp–Pontresina regional services and the Scuol-Tarasp–Landquart–Chur–Disentis regional express services. As an interchange station, it only has an island platform without access from the outside. Thus, it is not normally possible to use this station for embarking and disembarking, except for changing trains.
A View (2016) The Chur Peak in district Sirmmaur rises to an elevation of 3647 m above the sea level. The mountain is an important religious place for all Sirmauries. It is one of the Shivalik ranges at a height of 11965 feet, and is the highest peak in southern Himachal Pradesh. Churdhar, also known as Churchandni (Bangle of Snow), is known for its spectacular landscapes.
Hans Gmür (1 February 1927 – 15 April 2004) was a Swiss-German theatre author, director, composer and producer. He was born in Chur, Switzerland, and graduated from the University of Zürich. Among others, Gmür wrote farces and comedies starring popular Swiss actors like Walter Andreas Müller for the Bernhard-Theater Zürich. He died of complications of a back operation at Paraplegikerzentrum Nottwil in Nottwil, Switzerland.
Until the 13th century, the Schöllenen Gorge was impassable, separating Urseren from Uri. Urseren was accessible via Furka and Oberalp, and was under the influence of the bishopric of Chur. The main settlement area of Uri was the plain of the Reuss estuary Altdorf (Reussebene). Settlements tended to form on either side of the river, while the river itself was often taken as communal or parish boundary.
Mannitol Chur-Railways (Steve Furst) is a mage who embarks on the quest with Dick, Dom and Lutin. Although he appears to be an experienced wizard, he is appallingly bad at magic, and most of his spells turn out disastrously wrong. His mishaps have included, among other things, turning Dick into a cowpat. Unlike the other characters, he wears a full-length, itchy-looking brown robe.
Obersee Nachrichten was founded by the publisher Bruno Hug. The first issue was published on 20 June 1981. By the end of 1999, Obersee Nachrichten AG was sold to the Mediengruppe West Schweiz AG, headquartered in Chur. The staff comprises 12 employees in five (500%) full-time jobs, as well as employees comprising the newspaper prepress (Südostschweiz, Glarus) and the print shop (Südostschweiz Partner AG, Haag).
In the early 18th century, Peter de Salis was Imperial Ambassador in England, and was given the Countship, presumably for his diplomatic services. His son was naturalized in England.'Burke's Landed Gentry, edited by Peter Townend, eighteenth edition, volume one, London, Burke's Peerage, 1965, (pages 251-253). Stammbaumes der Familie von Salis von Anton von Sprecher, Chur, 1941 Giovanni Battista à Salis-Soglio I (1521-1597).
The Colico–Chiavenna railway is a railway line in Lombardy, Italy. It was opened on 9 September 1886.Prospetto cronologico dei tratti di ferrovia aperti all'esercizio dal 1839 al 31 dicembre 1926 The line was part of a miscarried project of a Milan-Chur railway through a planned Splugen pass tunnel, which was cancelled after the success of the line through the Gotthard tunnel.
Thereafter, the Gem 4/4 would lead the Bernina Express further, to Tirano. Today, this form of operation would be regarded as hybrid traction. Ever since the installation in 1981 of a switchable catenary section above track 3 at Pontresina station, the Bernina Express through coaches from Chur have been hauled as far as Pontresina by a core network electric locomotive powered by 11 kV AC current.
Schocher was born in Pontresina in the Upper Engadin valley. His father was a Swiss photographer and documentary filmmaker. He attended high school in Samedan and apprenticed as a photographer in Chur. Rather than taking over his father's photographic shop, as it was expected from him, the twenty-one-year-old opted for Cinéma Rex instead, a local movie theater equally owned by his father.
Masséna committed 5,000 to the battle and sustained 300 casualties. The Austrians had 4,200 troops in the area but they were spread out with no reserves. Consequently, they lost 400 killed and wounded plus 1,450 soldiers, 12 guns and three colors captured. Another source stated that the Austrians lost only 1,100 prisoners and five guns. On the 7th Masséna turned south and attacked Auffenberg at Chur.
Three Benedictine abbeys — Einsiedeln, Engelberg, and Disentis — are within the diocese and, with the church of Saint Nicholas of Flüe at Sachseln, are places of pilgrimage. There was an ecclesiastical seminary in Chur, besides colleges in Schwyz, Disentis, Einsiedeln, Engelberg, Sarnen, and Stans. The diocese include nine orders of men and ten orders of women (Franciscans, Augustinians, Dominicans, Benedictines, and others), as well as eleven congregations.
Höchst The Alpine Rhine begins in the centre of the Swiss canton of Grisons, and later forms the border between Switzerland to the west and Liechtenstein and later Austria to the east. It is formed near Tamins-Reichenau by the confluence of the Anterior Rhine and the Posterior Rhine. It descends from an elevation of . The river makes a distinctive turn to the north near Chur.
John Gamper (February 11, 1860 - October 29, 1946) was an American farmer and politician. Born in Chur, Switzerland, Gamper went to University of Zurich. In 1882, Gamper emigrated to the United States, worked for the editorial staff of a German newspaper in Saint Louis, Missouri and then settled in Taylor County, Wisconsin in 1885. He owned farms in the towns of Browning and Deer Creek, Taylor County.
Made a Field Marshal, he received supreme command of the campaign in Northern Italy against Charles Gonzaga of Nevers during the War of Mantuan Succession. Already very sick, he was not present at the siege and sack of Mantua on July 18, 1630. Charged of conspiring with Venice, he traveled to Vienna to defend himself, but died on the way in Chur, on November 19, 1630.
Tarasp Castle, Lower Engadine With Brail the Lower Engadine (, ) begins. Here the villages are no longer located on the valley floor, with the exception of Zernez, but higher up on sunny terraces formed during glacial periods. To the north, another train route connects the Lower Engadine with Klosters (and Davos) in the Prätigau via the recently built Vereina Tunnel. And further via Landquart to Chur or Zurich.
Calonder was born in Scuol in the Engadin valley, the son of a master builder from Trin. When Calonder was six years old, his family moved to Trin, where he went to elementary school. From 1878 to 1881 Calonder visited the cantonal school in Chur. He dropped out, worked as a commercial trainée for three years, and didn't graduate with a Matura until 1885 in Zurich.
These poles, or statues, are called rodovoi, stolb, chur, but also kapy ("poles"). There are many such basic temples throughout Russia, Belarus and Ukraine. A large, elaborate temple of this type is projected to be built in Khabarovsk. In 2015, the Temple of Svarozich's Fire, in the form of a simple wooden architecture, was opened by the Union of Slavic Native Belief Communities in Krasotynka, Kaluga.
On 20 July 1558, Andrea Matteo Acquaviva d'Aragona was appointed during the papacy of Pope Paul IV as Bishop of Venafro. On 16 September 1573, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Gregory XIII as Archbishop of Cosenza. He served as Archbishop of Cosenza until his death in 1576. While bishop, he was the principal co-consecrator of Beatus di Porta, Bishop of Chur (1565).
Ulrich descended from the Aargau family of Tegerfelden; his nephew Konrad was Bishop of Konstanz. From 1166 to 1167, he was provost and after 1167 abbot in Saint Gall. In 1170, he was elected Bishop of Chur, but retained the office of abbot. During his term of office, the reconstruction of the cathedral, whose choir was sanctified by Bishop Berno von Schwerin in 1178, was commenced.
After the Third Council of the Lateran had militated against the accumulation of church offices, Ulrich renounced the Bishopric Chur in 1179, but remained Abbot of Saint Gall. As Abbot of Saint Gall, he renewed the existing fraternity with theElectorate of Mainz in 1187. In 1199, shortly before his death, he renounced his abbacy. He died on 12 April, the exact year of death is unknown.
Kantonale Denkmalpflege, Chur 1984/85, p. 106 From now on the clientele of what was now known as the Hotel Pontresina came increasingly from the German upper middle class. Following the installation of central heating, in 1906/07, for the first time, the hotel opened for a winter season. In 1909 a company acquired the hotel from the Stoppany family, but the family remained closely involved.
In 1963, finally, the Cantonal Bank decided that the Sporthotel had no longterm commercial future, and "Sporthotel Pontresina AG" was placed in liquidation.Publikation der Löschung nach vollendeter Liquidation im Schweizerischen Handelsamtsblatt 8 May 1964, Nr. 129, p. 1776. On 17 August 1963 the cantonal land registry recorded a change in ownership in respect of the hotel building.Graubündner Kantonalbank: 93. Jahresbericht 1963. Graubündner Kantonalbank, Chur 1964, p. 27.
472, 511. Peterborough, UK: Thomas Cook Publishing. Its route continued to be Hamburg – Chur, and it operated seven days a week on this route, carrying sleeping cars and couchette cars only. One day a week, in summer and winter only, the EC Komet also carried through coaches (sleeping cars and couchettes) from Hamburg to Brig; these were carried southbound on Fridays and northbound on Saturdays.
Of particular note is the expansion of the Hotel Kronenhof between 1896 and 1898 to its present "horseshoe-shaped three-winged" configuration. His brother Georg died in 1909 after which the building business was taken over by the Samedan firm, "Koch, Vonesch & Co". Jakob Ragaz went back to Tamins where he died in 1922. His papers are held by the Cantonal Archive in Chur.
It sits at the eastern entrance into the Toggenburg as well as the footpath over the Saxerlücke to Appenzell and St. Gallen. Additionally, it was on the most important trade route between Chur- Sargans-Lake Constance and was the starting point of the pilgrimage routes to Einsiedeln and Rankweil. It consists of the village of Gams with its surrounding settlements and the village of Gasenzen.
In 1987 the life of Paul Rostetter still pursued its accustomed, and somewhat predictable, course; nine to five employment in a Swiss Bank .... However, hearing the complaints of outstanding musicians performing in Chur, that they could never find a congenial record label, Paul immediately spotted a niche, and blue‐eyed and adventurous, sprang into the wide ocean of sounds which deserved to be heard. The English Blues‐Rocker Mick Clarke was the catalyst and, after nearly twenty years in banking, it was also high time for the label's founder Paul Rostetter to start thinking about a new direction. That's how it all began: 1988 saw the release of the first Brambus album: Mick Clarke's "West Coast Connection." The label based itself in Chur, in association with the record shop Grammophone Heeb AG, with Paul Rostetter and partner Marcus Heeb as the two‐man management team.
A treasure trove of 10th Century coins that were found near the village indicate that there was trade over the Viamala pass by this time. The first church in Zillis dates from about the 5th Century. The three-apse church is from the 8th Century, and around 840 the parish church of St. Martin was first mentioned. In 940 King Otto I gave the Zillis Church to the Bishop of Chur.
In April 2002, Camenisch was extradited to Switzerland and transferred to a prison in Pfäffikon near Zürich. In January 2003, after a hunger strike against the conditions of imprisonment he was suffering, he was transferred to a prison in Chur with better conditions. Recently the Swiss government transferred him back to Pfäffikon. In July 2004 he was sentenced to 17 years in prison for the murder of Kurt Moser.
CHUR was one of four EZ Rock-branded stations owned and operated by Rogers Media, all of which are located in Northern Ontario (the others are located in Sudbury, Sault Ste. Marie, and Timmins)."Rogers Preparing To Rebrand Four Ontario EZRock's," from Radio Insight, 7/8/2013 On August 29, 2013, all four EZ Rock stations rebranded to "Kiss", discarding the EZ Rock branding now owned by Bell Media Radio.
Pfäfers Abbey (), also known as St. Pirminsberg from its position on a mountain, was a Benedictine monastery in Pfäfers near Bad Ragaz, in the canton of St. Gallen, Switzerland. Situated at the junction of the Tamina and Rhine valleys, it flourished as a religious house and owner of lands and serfs, as well as assuming extraordinary importance as a political and cultural centre of the Chur–Raetian region.
It runs through the Zimmerberg Base Tunnel, emerging alongside Lake Zurich for the stop at Thalwil. It continues along the lake towards Pfäffikon, then alongside Walensee after Ziegelbrücke. After a stop at the junction station of Sargans, the train heads south towards Landquart and rejoins the Rhine, crossing it, then running parallel to it, as well as the narrow-gauge Rhätische Bahn railway until its final destination of Chur.
Altstätten Stadt railway station () is a railway station in Altstätten, in the Swiss canton of St. Gallen. It is the eastern terminus of the Altstätten–Gais line and is served by local trains only. The station is located in the town center; another station, Altstätten SG, is an intermediate stop on the Chur–Rorschach line with additional local and long-distance services. The stations are approximately apart and linked by bus.
During the expansion of the 11th century, the bishop of Chur enlarged his residence at the monastery. A fine tower home, cloister, and the double chapel of St. Ulrich and St. Nicholas were added. During the expansion, the two-story residence chapel of the bishop was also decorated with extensive stucco and fresco work. At some time in the 12th century, the occupants of the abbey changed from monks to nuns.
The station is served by an hourly RegioExpress service between Zürich and Chur, stopping at Thalwil, Pfaffikon SZ, Ziegelbrücke, Sargans and Landquart. Two lines of the Zürich S-Bahn also connect Zürich and Ziegelbrücke, combining to provide three trains per hour. The S2 terminates at Ziegelbrücke and runs twice per hour; with some weekend trains continuing to Unterterzen. The hourly S25 continues through the canton of Glarus to Linthal.
The village is located in the Schanfigg sub- district of the Plessur district in the northern slope of the mid-Schanfigg at an elevation of . It consists of the village of St. Peter which is made up of two sections. In 2008 St. Peter merged with Pagig to form St. Peter-Pagig. Nearby is the Sankt Peter-Molinis railway station, on the Chur-Arosa railway line, which also serves Molinis.
Giger was born in 1940 in Chur, the capital city of Graubünden, the largest and easternmost Swiss canton. His father, a pharmacist, viewed art as a "breadless profession" and strongly encouraged him to enter pharmacy. He moved to Zürich in 1962, where he studied architecture and industrial design at the School of Applied Arts until 1970.Hans Ruedi Giger, HR Giger ARh+, translated by Karen Williams, Taschen, 1993. .
Primitive grinding stones known as Schalensteine or Hexensteine were found in the Tarasp area. This indicates that Stone Age food processing happened in the area. However, there are no records or indications of settlements in the area until the 11th Century. Aerial view (1954) The Lordship of Tarasp Castle was established in the 11th century and for centuries claimed by the Bishopric of Chur and the Counts of Tyrol.
Count Albert von Tirol also had a claim on the lands, but in 1228 relinquished his claim to the Bishop of Chur. The castle became the center of the ecclesiastical estates in the area. In 1348 the Bishop pledged the castle and lands to the Planta family for a loan of 150 Marks. In 1359, the Bishop again pledged the castle to the Lords of Katzenstein for 700 Gulden.
In 1502 the heavily damaged castle was pledged to Hans von Planta. He and his son spent the remainder of the 16th century trying to get the Bishop of Chur to pay interest owed on the loan. At some point during that century, they abandoned the ruined castle. As the Three Leagues grew in power, they repeatedly denied the Bishop the right to appoint a vogt over Steinsberg.
These buildings were surrounded with a ring wall. The gatehouse was demolished in the past few centuries and no trace of it remains. The castle and surrounding estates were sold by Berall von Wangen in 1258 to the Bishop of Chur for 300 silver Marks. However, to purchase the estates the Bishop had to put the castle up as collateral to secure a loan from the Freiherr von Vaz.
The Wildenberg family was a cadet branch of the Greifenstein family of Filisur. In addition to Wildenberg Castle in Falera, they owned castles and estates throughout the valleys of Graubünden. Wildenberg Castle in Zernez was first mentioned as the home of the family in 1280/90. In 1296 the Bishop of Chur took the right to collect tithes from Wildenberg and pledged it to the Lords of Planta.
Trial express services ran without stopping at Langwies from 1979 to 1981. However, the time gain was insignificant, so the stop at Langwies was reinstated. A project study investigated relocating the railway from Lüen to a new tunnel to avoid landslides near the Cuorra Tunnel in 1985. Train radio was introduced and staffed operations at stations—except at Arosa, Chur and Langwies—were abandoned for cost reasons in 1985.
The Lumnezia can be accessed only by the Via Principala road from Ilanz. Arriving from Zürich and Chur, respectively, the Swiss Federal Highways A3 and A13(E43) to the San Bernardino road tunnel have to be left at the intersection Reichenau. The Swiss National Road 19 is to be followed to Ilanz. From here the Lumnezia can be reached taking the Via Principala past Cumbel into Vella or Vals.
Main route: St. Margrethen - Buchs SG - Sargans - Landquart - Chur - Thusis - Splügen - Cassanawald tunnel - Hinterrhein - San Bernardino road tunnel - Pian San Giacomo - Roveredo - Bellinzona - Locarno - Ascona Speed limit: 120 km/h (75 mph) on all motorway parts; 100 km/h (65 mph) or at times 80 km/h (50 mph) on expressway parts. Speed checks do appear and penalties can be severe. Tolls: Covered by CHF 40 annual motorway toll sticker.
Ziegelbrücke railway station is a nodal point of the SBB-CFF-FFS lines between Zürich and Chur. The station is also a terminus of the Zürich S-Bahn on the line S2 to Effretikon, and of the regional line to Schänis and Rapperswil. In addition, the Postauto and local Autobetrieb Weesen-Amden bus lines connect the communities in the Wahlkreis See-Gaster and the municipalities Bilten and Niederurnen.
St. Moritz railway station is a railway station in the resort town of St. Moritz, in the Swiss canton of Graubünden. It is the southern terminus of the Albula Railway line from Chur, and a northern terminus for the Bernina Railway line from Tirano in Italy. The station also serves as a terminus for local bus and Postbus services. Hourly services operate on both the Albula and Bernina lines.
The Arlberg Railway, which was opened on 6 September 1884, had a significant influence on the development of traffic. The VSB gave access to two metre-gauge lines of the Rhaetian Railway (Rhätische Bahn), the Landquart–Davos lines, opened in 1889, and the Chur–Thusis line, opened in 1896. The VSB suffered, like many other companies, during the economic crisis of the late 1870s. Its stock prices dropped massively.
The Basel Gladiators and the Geneva Seahawks are the most unsuccessful teams, having lost seven of their eight Swiss Bowl appearances. The last Swiss Bowl game, Swiss Bowl XXXIV, was held at Ringstrasse Chur on 13 July 2019 at 6pm where the #1 seed Calanda Broncos (9-1) played the #2 seed Geneva Seahawks (8-2) in their third meeting of the season, which the Broncos won 31-0.
Likewise, the freight handling facilities were renewed and rebuilt. Scuol- Tarasp is the terminus or starting point for the Scuol- Tarasp–Zernez–Samedan–Pontresina regional service and for the Scuol- Tarasp–Landquart–Chur–Disentis Regional-Express service, both running hourly. Regular bus routes to Ftan, Tarasp, Samnaun, Martina, Sent, S-charl and Val Sinestra start at the station. In addition, the local school bus stops at the station.
In 1914, traffic at the station increased even further, with the opening of the Chur–Arosa railway. Between 1926 and 1928, following yet another sharp increase in traffic, the station was completely rebuilt. As part of the late 1920s renovation, the number of tracks was increased, new bridges were built, and the track layout was simplified. Simultaneously, buildings from earlier times were refurbished, and new buildings were erected.
Born in Meiringen, Canton of Bern, Menn graduated from high school (Kantonsschule Chur) in 1946, followed by structural engineering studies at ETH Zurich. He received a diploma as Bauingenieur (civil engineer) in 1950. From 1950 through 1953 he worked for construction engineering companies. Then, he returned to ETH Zurich to become assistant to Pierre Lardy, a well-known professor of structural engineering, and was awarded a PhD degree in 1956.
The Castielertobel ViaductThe viaduct is sometimes confusingly described as the Castielertobel Bridge - a confusing description because there is a nearby road bridge of that name. () is a single track railway bridge spanning the Castielertobelbach, and linking the municipalities of Castiel and Calfreisen, in the Canton of Graubünden, Switzerland. It was built between 1913 and 1914 for the Chur–Arosa railway, and is now owned and used by the Rhaetian Railway.
In 1845, he became Dean at the Cathedral of the Assumption of Mary in Chur."Biography of Father Theodosius Florentini 1808 – 1865 ", Sisters of the Holy Cross Menzingen In the meantime Father Theodosius was himself busy as a schoolmaster. He superintended the people's schools (Volksschulen), which are attended by others besides the poor. He promoted continuation schools and was in favour of technical instruction for apprentices and workmen.
Otto Veraguth (13 May 1870, Chur – 17 December 1944) was a Swiss neurologist. In 1895 he received his doctorate at Zurich, where he trained under Constantin von Monakow (1853–1930). In 1900 he obtained his habilitation for neurology, and in 1918 was appointed associate professor of physical therapy at the University of Zurich. From 1922 to 1924 he was president of the Schweizerischen Neurologischen Gesellschaft (Swiss Neurological Society).
Delivered by Robert Aebi (Raco) and Brown, Boveri & Cie (BBC), the Ge 3/3s feature some componentry — e.g., traction motor, compressor and vacuum pump — that are the same as the corresponding components in the second series locomotives of the Rhaetian Railway Ge 4/4 II class. The orange liveried Ge 3/3 locomotives are used at major Rhaetian Railway stations: no 214 in Samedan and no 215 in Chur.
In the first half of the 11th century, the diocese of Chur in Switzerland received his relics as well. Additionally, the abbey of Malmédy in Belgium asserted that at the beginning of 10th century its monk had acquired -at a good price- the body of Justus. Saint-Riquier also claimed his body. Zutphen in the Netherlands also claimed some of his relics since at least the 14th century.
Jakob Buchli was born in Chur, Switzerland, on 4 March 1876. After his training to be an engineer he worked from 1902 to 1910 for the Swiss Locomotive and Machine Works (Schweizerische Lokomotiv- und Maschinenfabrik or SLM) in Winterthur; from 1907 as its head of the design office. After that he switched to Brown, Boveri & Cie. in Baden, Switzerland, where he was the chief engineer for electric traction until 1924.
Conradi served in the French Foreign Legion and information about his death circulated in newspapers in 1931. He however returned safely and lived in Switzerland until he died on 7 February 1947 in Chur. Conradi's surviving victims — Ariens and Divilkovsky — returned to the Soviet Union and held various positions in the administration. Ariens was executed in 1937 during Great Purge, while Divilkovsky died as a soldier in 1942.
In the German-speaking part of Europe, there is only one altarpiece remaining that was made for the high altar of a cathedral (in the Chur Cathedral in Switzerland). In the 18th century, altarpieces like Piero della Francesca's Saint Augustine Altarpiece were often disassembled and seen as independent artworks. The different panels of the polyptych of St Augustine are thus today spread out among several different art museums.
Florian Cajori was born in Switzerland, and was the son of Georg Cajori and Catherine Camenisch. He attended schools first in Zillis and later in Chur. In 1875, Florian Cajori emigrated to the United States at the age of sixteen, and attended the State Normal school in Whitewater, Wisconsin. After graduating in 1878, he taught in a country school, and then later began studying mathematics at University of Wisconsin–Madison.
As early as 1237, raw silk was documented to be brought to Zurich from Como via Walenstadt. At that time, shipments were transported in primitive vehicles on poorly paved roads, narrow bridle paths, and dangerously labile, unstable footbridges. Back then, transporting silk was much more laborious and hazardous than it is today. To reach Chur and adjacently Walenstadt, traders were forced to pass the Septimer Pass and the old imperial road.
Soloman Sprecher von Bernegg, born in Chur, Canton Grisons, 14 December 1697 – 14 September 1758 Aussig, Bohemia (today known as Ústí nad Labem, in the Czech Republic)Hans Jacob Leu, Allgemeines Helvetisches, Eydgenößisches, Oder Schweitzerisches ..., Volume 5, Hans Ulrich Denzler, 1751, p.357. was a Habsburg military commander in the War of Austrian Succession and the Seven Years' War.Sprecher, Daniel, "Sprecher", Neue Deutsche Biographie 24 (2010), S. 745–746.
Even following its completion, it is planned to retain the intermediate exit to Thalwil, which would still be used by passenger and freight trains going to Chur as well as by international trains to Austria. Until Phase II is completed, capacity and speeds both remain heavily constrained by traditional routes; the Swiss Federal parliament has voted to include the work in its long term expansion plan for 2030–2035.
So in 1814 Aemilian Hafner, once a close advisor of Pankraz Vorster and since 1805 vicar of Ebringen, was appointed as parish priest. This was the last appointment of a St Gall parish priest. After Hafner was promoted to vicar general of the new diocese Chur-St Gall in 1824, in Ebringen the era of religious influence of St Gall also ended. In September 1893 Talhausen got a water supply.
The Gelgia in Savognin As seat of the district administration, district hospital, and secondary school, Savognin forms the center of the valley. The most important sector is tourism; in one year about 200,000 rooms are let. The ski areas on Mounts Piz Martegnas and Val Nandro are accessible by multiple aerial lifts. Savognin is one Highway 3, which goes from Chur to Engadin via Lenzerheide and the Julier pass.
The mountain ranges in the central area are very steep, having some of the deepest valleys in Europe. These valleys were originally settled by the Raetians (Rhaeti). Chur, capital of Grisons seen to the west and the Rhine valley towards its source. Grisons borders on the cantons of St. Gallen to the north, Glarus to the north-west, Uri to the west, and Ticino to the south-west.
Since wolf and bear have returned, the use of Maremma Sheepdogs is not unusual. There is wine production in the Rhine Valley north to the capital Chur. 24 per cent of the workforce are employed in industry whereas 68 per cent work in the service industry where tourism reaches a remarkable 14 per cent of the GDP. Tourism is concentrated around the towns of Davos/Arosa, Flims and St. Moritz/Pontresina.
The Kurhaus when new, viewed from the north The Kurhaus bar The Kurhaus dining room The Kurhaus Bergün was built as a grand hotel, opening in 1906. Located in the village of Bergün/Bravuogn in the Albula valley, south of Chur and north of St. Moritz, at an altitude of approximately above mean sea level, the Kurhaus is a well preserved/restored hotel of the Jugenstil (Art Nouveau) era.
Recently, he turned down an opportunity to consider a new library for Magdalen College, Oxford. He was selected to design the Serpentine Gallery's annual summer pavilion with designer Piet Oudolf in 2011.Jonathan Glancey (4 April 2011), Peter Zumthor unveils secret garden for Serpentine pavilion The Guardian. Currently, Zumthor works out of his small studio with around 30 employees, in Haldenstein, near the city of Chur, in Switzerland.
After leaving Sion, Petković moved back into the lower tiers, first joining Martigny-Sports before returning to his first Swiss club, Chur 97. Petković enjoyed a career as a regular goalscoring midfielder in the Swiss second division, which included two more stints at Bellinzona and Lugano. Petković completed his playing career as a player-manager with Bellinzona and Malcantone Agno, the latter having later merged with financially stricken Lugano.
In 1911, economic hardship forced them to move to the canton's German-speaking capital Chur where his father found employment. This relocation into a more urban environment had a strong impact on the nine-year-old. In retrospect, Carigiet described the move as an "emigration to the low-lands", from a "mountain boy's paradise" to a "gloomy apartment on the ground floor in a narrow town alley".Stutzer, p. 8.
Under the abbess, the villages of the valley began to develop a sort of local government. In contrast, the Urseren remained more isolated, though they had some connections to the Leventina valley. Some of the villages in the Urseren were settled by Disentis Abbey and were part of the Diocese of Chur. By the 10th century, there were settlements of Romansh speakers from Disentis in the high valleys.
Rudolf von Güttingen (died 9 September 1226 in Rome) was Abbot of Saint Gall from 1220 and Bishop of Chur from 1224 until his death. He is documented for the first time in 1208. Rudolf descended from a nobel family from the Canton of Thurgau. He had been a monk since 1208, became provost in 1211, dean und cellarar in 1219 and Abbot of Saint Gall in 1220.
The Emperor had also offered the see of Worms to a renowned pastor named Erpho. Within three days of becoming bishop, Erpho died from unknown causes and a certain Razo was quickly appointed to fill the resulting vacancy, who killed himself at Chur, Switzerland shortly thereafter. The same narrative indicates that Worms was in disrepair, and wolves and robbers had regularly attacked it. Therefore, it urgently needed an administrator.
The region around Cagliatscha was originally granted to the Bishop of Chur, who later gave it to the Freiherr von Vaz as a fief. The Vaz family built a number of small castles throughout their lands, including Cagliatscha. It was probably finished around 1266 as several of the wooden beams have been dated to that year. There are no surviving records of the castle and even its original name is unknown.
Großengstingen (Diocese of Chur) remained Catholic, while Kleinengstingen and Kohlstetten (both Württemberg) have been reformed to become Protestant (Evangelical Pietist) due to their different relations during the Reformation. Kleinengstingen belonged initially to the parish of St. Martin in Großengstingen, which was first mentioned in 1275. The Martin Church was built in the Rococo style by Zwiefalten Abbey 1717-1719. The parish includes today also the Catholics of Kleinengstingen and Kohlstetten.
Peggy Tsiang Cherng (pronounced Chur-ng, born 1947/1948) is an American billionaire businesswoman. Cherng co-founded Panda Express in 1983 and serves as the co-chief executive officer of Panda Restaurant Group. She was born in Burma (now Myanmar). With an estimated net worth of US$1.7 billion as of 2019, Forbes reported that she is America's second richest self-made woman born outside the United States.
On the portion within Switzerland, the train was not designated as an EC. On 2 June 1991, the Komet lost its EuroCity status and was reclassified as a German D-Zug (ordinary express train). Its main, daily route was shortened, to Hamburg–Zurich, and both the Chur and Brig through cars ran only on Fridays (returning on Saturdays, northbound).Thomas Cook European Timetable (April 1991 edition), pp. 91, 523–524.
The line was built as an extension of the Wallisellen–Uster–Rapperswil railway (Glatthalbahn), which had been extended from Wetzikon to Rüti on 15 August 1858 after its acquisition by the VSB. The line was opened at the same time as the Murg–Sargans line. The intervening section between Weesen and Murg was not completed until 1 July 1859. The line shortened the distance between Zurich and Chur.
Manor's mainline stores are located in Basel, Geneva, Lausanne, Locarno, Lugano, Luzern & Zürich plus Aarau, Albis, Ascona, Bachenbülach, Baden, Balerna, Bellinzona, Biasca, Biel, Bulle, Bogis, Chur, Delémont, Emmen, Frauenfeld, Freiburg, Haag, Heerbrugg, Hinwil, Ibach, Kreuzlingen, La Chaux-de-Fonds, Langenthal, Liestal, Marin- Epagnier, Monthey, Morges, Nyon, Payerne, Pfaffikon, Rapperswil, Rickenbach, S. Antonino, Sargans, Schaffhausen, Schattdorf, Schönbühl, Sierre, Sion, Solothrun, Spreitenbach, St Gallen, Thun, Vesenaz, Vevey, Vezia, Wattwil, Winterthur, Wohlen, Yverdon, & Zug.
Gabet was in graduate school at Indiana University-Purdue University when he decided to test a priestly vocation. In 1991 he entered St. Peter's Seminary, the Fraternity of St Peter's international seminary in Wigratzbad, Germany. Gabet was ordained a deacon in 1996 by Wolfgang Haas, then Bishop of Chur-Zurich, Switzerland. In 1997 he was ordained priest by Bishop John M D'Arcy of Fort Wayne and South Bend.
Enrico Bianchi (born 13 May 1930) is a Swiss rower who competed in the 1952 Summer Olympics and in the 1960 Summer Olympics. He was born in Chur. In 1952 he was a crew member of the Swiss boat which won the silver medal in the coxed four event. Eight years later he was part of the Swiss boat which was eliminated in the repêchage of the eight competition.
Preußische und Chur-Brandenburgische Hof-Wehemutter. This treatise for midwives demonstrated abnormal presentations at birth and their management. She was the first to describe a two-handed method of performing an internal rotation of the baby to extract it as a breech (a variation of which is performed today on the second twin, see above) using a sling. The procedure was useful provided the fetus was not impacted.
This is corroborated by archaeological investigation showing that the first traceable structure on the site was built in or about 700 and was destroyed in about 940, which is attributed to raiding Saracens. The account of Sigisbert, as dramatised in the 12th century work, the "Passio Placidi", is that he was a wandering Frankish monk, inspired by the ideals of Columbanus and Luxeuil, who set up a cell here, under the protection of Saint Martin. Placidus was a local magnate and landowner, who supported Sigisbert, and who was murdered by Victor, the praeses ("president") of Chur, in an attempt to prevent the loss of independence involved in the transfer of a large amount of land to the church. One of the earliest surviving documents relating to Disentis is the so-called "Testament of Tello", Bishop of Chur, which is dated 765 and records the already very extensive properties owned by the monastery.
The journey from Zermatt starts at the dead end of an Alpine valley, the Mattertal, just below the world-renowned Matterhorn at an elevation of before it descends to the huge valley of the Valais in Brig. It traverses the journey through the center of the Swiss Alps, over 291 bridges, through 91 tunnels, such as the Furka Tunnel at an elevation of to circumvent the Furka Pass, makes an intermediate stop at Andermatt on a secluded high Alpine valley, just to traverse its highest point on the Oberalp Pass at in order to descend to its lowest point at Chur at . From Chur, the capital of the canton of Graubünden, the GEX backtracks to higher altitudes again in order to reach the resort St. Moritz in a further valley to the south. Previously, before traversing the Albula Range by a tunnel at , in Filisur travelers can change to a connecting train to reach Davos to the east.
Chur Wun is the daughter of the Tang chancellor and Lei Xuan's betrothed, despite her devotion to him Lei Xuan doubts his own love for her and in a moment of confusion asks the manual to show him what true love is. The manual taking Lei Xuan at his word leads Lei Xuan's astral body on a journey in which he encounters lovers of various times and eras, including the past and future. Early in his voyage Lei Xuan becomes frustrated by lovers who out of misunderstandings or circumstances appear to be drifting apart and uses the manual to smooth their paths, with each subsequent pair that he is shown Lei Xuan's powers increase as is his desire to aid those in love, so that those who truly love one another can be together. The last couple that the manual shows Lei Xuan is Chur Wun and his man servant Ching Ao Gum (Louis Fan).
In 1809 La Nicca was at Canton School Chur. as a lieutenant in the Swiss regiment of Victor Emanuel I. in Piedmont. 1816–18 Student of technical sciences at the University of Tübingen. In 1818-21 he was Assistant to Giulio L. Pocobellis in the construction of the “Kommerzialstrasse” on the San Bernardino and in this function and others involved in the construction of the important "Ponte Vittorio Emanuele", south of the pass.
Cadi (), the Sursilvan for "House of God" (Casa Dei), is the historical name of Disentis Abbey and its feudal territories, later part of the Grey League. The territories in the upper Anterior Rhine valley (Surselva) were given to Disentis Abbey, and thus removed from the direct rule of Raetia Curiensis, by Tello, Bishop of Chur (d. 765). The territory was divided into Sursassiala ("above the gorge [viz. Punt Russein]") and Sutsassiala ("below the gorge").
Madulain is first mentioned around 1137-39 as Madulene. Guardaval Castle was built near the village of Madulain in the 13th century to administer the estates of the Bishop of Chur in the Upper Engadine. In 1409 the Bishop had to pledge the castle to the League of God's House to pay off some of his debts. Under the League, the castle was no longer an administrative center and was abandoned, falling into ruin.
The municipality is located near the Rhine River about north of the cantonal capital of Chur. It consists of the village of Trimmis and the hamlets of Letsch and Talein and since 2008 the former municipality of Says. In 1880 the Says separated from Trimmis to become an independent municipality.Amtliches Gemeindeverzeichnis der Schweiz published by the Swiss Federal Statistical Office accessed 23 September 2009 However, in 2008 Says merged back into Trimmis.
He was born in Schwarzenberg, Austria, and is described as a relatively poor man with painting skills. The original family home was a small village in the Austrian alps called Schwarzenberg in the Vorarlberg area. In the years 1740 to 1742 he was in duty of the prince-bishop from Chur/Switzerland. In 1755 the family moved to Milan until in 1757 the mother died and father with daughter returned to Schwarzenberg.
He was attacked by the raiders and killed by Jenatsch with an axe. Years later, Jenatsch converted to Catholicism and on 24 January 1639, he was killed during Carnival in Chur by an unknown attacker who was dressed as a bear. The attacker may have been a son of Pompeius Planta or an assassin hired by the local aristocracy. According to legend he was killed by the same axe that he used on Pompeius.
As a sign of appreciation for his service in an Austrian war in Italy, the Duke appointed Ulrich of Matsch as owner of Tschanüff. The Matsch family took possession of the castle on 17 February 1369. The Bishop of Chur also had a claim on the castle and fearing Austria's growing influence in the region, began reasserting his claim. In 1394 Bishop Hartmann forced the Lords of Matsch to give up the castle.
Around 1250 they built Innerjuvalt Castle about south-east of Hochjuvalt to improve their control over the area. By the 14th century the castle passed, probably through inheritance, to the Rietberg family. Following the death of the last male heir, Johann von Reitberg, in 1349 the castle was supposed to pass to his relative, the Freiherr von Landenberg. However, the Bishop of Chur claimed Hochjuvalt as well as other Reitberg estates in the region.
The terminal station would have been built on the Hubelwiese at the Hotel Hof Arosa. After the unexpected death of Rüedi in June 1901, his concession lapsed and his plans were no longer pursued. Course of the track (black) The Chur engineer Robert Wildberger and his colleague Englert applied for a concession for the construction of an electric railway to Arosa in January 1903. Their application competed with numerous other applications filed in the meantime.
Padded Room was recorded from 2007 and 2008 at Bennett Studios in Englewood, New Jersey, Glenwood Place Studios in Burbank, California, and Sundance Studios in Jersey City, New Jersey. The album's production was handled by Blastah Beatz, Fyu-chur, MoSS, Dub B, Versatile, Qwan, Dilemma and The Klasix. The album was mixed and mastered at Cyber Sound Studio in New York City by Jeremy Page. In January 2008, Joe Budden told Billboard.
Lu and Hf are also refractory elements, meaning they quickly condensed from the protoplanetary disk to form the solid part of Earth, as opposed to volatile elements. The two elements as a result would not be found in Earth's early atmosphere. Due to these characteristics, the two elements are relatively stationary throughout planetary evolution and are thought to retain the isotopic abundance characteristics of primitive planetary material, i.e. chondritic uniform reservoir (CHUR).
Luigi Alois Hirschbühl (1883-1950) was a Swiss painter and commander of the Pontifical Swiss Guard from 1921 to 1935. Born in Chur as the son of Anton Hirschbühl, a painter and immigrant from Riefensberg, Vorarlberg and of Walpurga née Willi, of Domat. He married Claudia née Zanolari, of Brusio, and was naturalized as Swiss citizen. He served with the Pontifical Swiss Guard before spending the year 1904 with the study of painting in Minca.
Keith Fair (born January 8, 1968) is a Canadian-born Swiss former professional ice hockey left winger. Born in Castlegar, British Columbia, Fair played his entire professional career in Switzerland, playing in the National League A for HC Ambrì-Piotta and HC Lugano and in the National League B for EHC Chur. Fair has participated as a member of the Swiss national team at the 1992 Winter Olympics and the 1992 IIHF World Championships.
Two notable railway viaducts (or bridges) carry the line over deep valleys near to Langwies. Down the line (towards Chur) is the Gründjitobel Viaduct (or Gründjitobel Bridge; German: Gründjitobel-Viadukt) which is 145m long, and a short distance up the line is the Langwieser Viaduct (or Langwies Viaduct; German: Langwieser Viadukt). The latter viaduct is listed as a Swiss heritage site of national significance.Swiss inventory of cultural property of national and regional significance 21.11.
Filisur is located very close to three of the Rhaetian Railway's major railway bridges. Shortly before trains on the Albula Railway arrive in Filisur from the direction of Chur, Thusis and Tiefencastel, they pass over both the Schmittentobel Viaduct and the Landwasser Viaduct, the latter of which is one of the signature structures of the Albula Railway. On the Davos to Filisur line, trains from Davos similarly cross the Wiesen Viaduct just before entering Filisur.
Located on the south-east slope of the Weisshorn chain, the town of Arosa is at the top of the Schanfigg valley at the foot of the Aroser Weisshorn (). Adjoining are the areas of Innerarosa, Dorf-Obersee, Untersee and Maran- Prätschli at an elevation of . The two lakes in the centre of Arosa are the Obersee (upper lake) and Untersee. The town's railway station is at the end of a branch line from Chur.
It is unclear why this was necessary since Friedrich should have inherited the castle through his wife, Kunigunde von Vaz. Then, on 11 December 1338 Friedrich received the castle as a fief under the authority of the Bishop of Chur. Over the following decades the Toggenburg counts held the castle, along with Schanfigg and Davos, for the bishops. In 1421 Frederick VII and the bishop quarreled and the bishop withdrew the fief.
This connecting loop was constructed for freight traffic and allows trains to avoid reversing in Sargans. However, it is also used by services on line 4 of the St. Gallen S-Bahn, Transalpin services and, subsequently, Railjet services. The Rossriet–Landquart sections was duplicated on 6 June 1993 and the Bad Ragaz–Rossriet was duplicated on 8 November 1994. Since then, duplication of the line between Sargans and Chur has been completed.
Born in Ludwigshafen, Germany, on 18 May 1885, Laura Elisabeth Rosa Gutknecht was brought up in Chur before she studied to become a teacher in Zürich. After working as a teacher for eight years, she studied theology at the University of Zurich, graduating in 1918. Together with her friend Elise Pfister, she was ordained the same year. Appointed as assistant pastors at Zurich's Grossmünster, the two were principally involved in social work.
In 955 Emperor Otto I granted his estates in Zizers to the Bishop of Chur. Friedau Castle may have been built on the site of one of the buildings from this 10th century grant. Construction on the castle begun under Bishop Volkart von Neuenburg (1237-1251) but was completed under Heinrich IV von Montfort (1251-1272). Once it was completed it became the administrative center of the Herrschaft and the home of the bishop's landvogt.
Between 2004 and 2009 she had her own medical business focused on psychiatry and psychotherapy at Chur. Most recently she headed up the Anthroposophic Psychosomatic Rehabilitation Clinic at Badenweiler on the south-western tip of Germany. Melitta Breznik in the author of novels and short stories, which are influenced by family and professional experience of psychiatry and which have been critically praised for their precise style.Hubert Spiegel: Schnee im Oktober. Melitta Brezniks beeindruckender „Nachtdienst“.
During the Swabian war, the village was burned down by the Swiss. 1538–1636 Bendern hosted the Premonstratensians of St Luzi Abby in Chur, that fled the Reformation. The church hill of Bendern is an important place for the history of the country. On March 16, 1699, the men from Liechtenstein's lowlands pledged allegiance to the Prince of Liechtenstein on the church hill, after Lordship of Schellenberg was bought by the Prince of Liechtenstein.
A Bishop of Chur is first mentioned in 451/ 452 when its Bishop Saint Asimo attended the Synod of Milan,Mansi, Sacrorum Conciliorum Nova ..., Vol. IV, p. 141; but probably existed a century earlier. The see was at first suffragan to the archbishop of Milan, but after the treaty of Verdun (843) it became suffragan to Mainz. In consequence of political changes it became, in 1803, immediately subject to the Holy See.
Tectonic activity rapidly resumed in the late Pliocene, leading to erosion of continental sediments into intermontane basins into the Quaternary. Folding developed into the Quaternary in the Tien Shan mountains as global changes in climate brought on the Pleistocene ice ages. Most ridges in the mountain range are asymmetric anticlines bounded by reverse and thrust faults. Folding and thrusting is often oriented toward major basins like the Fergana, Chur or Tarim basins.
In the 1960s, the Rhaetian Railway was exposed to steadily rising passenger numbers and therefore increasing demands on its rolling stock. In particular, passenger expectations of rolling stock had altered. These changes led the Rhaetian Railway to carry out detailed studies as to what new rolling stock should be acquired. The studies revealed, amongst other things, that there was a need for a contemporary vehicle concept to serve commuter traffic around Chur.
Savognin is first mentioned in 1154 as Sueningin. An important Bronze Age settlement is located on the Padnal hill to the south of town. In multiple excavations, many discoveries have been made, mostly from the period between 1800 and 1000 B.C. At least since the time of the Romans, important travel routes have passed through the Julier and Septimer passes. Savognin came into the possession of the Bishops of Chur in the 13th century.
Among the graduates of the Lyceum of different years, many influential Ukrainian journalists, including Lidia Taran, Maxim Drabok, Natalie Fitsych, Alex Ananov, Tatiana Chur, Alex Berdnick, Godovanets Olga, Natalia Ivchenko ( Turchak ), Anna Berezetska, Bogdan Nasal, Natalia Nedilko, Maxim Butkevych, politicians and diplomats Yuriy Pavlenko, Alexander Kravchenko, and Lesya Orobets. Graduates include popular singer Kate Chile, director and actor Philip Illyenko, screenwriter Natalie Kononchuk, and the lawyer of European Court of Human Rights Olga Dmitrenco .
He resigned from this position in early March 2018 due to disagreements with the other bishops of the Youth Synod Conference in the fall of 2018. From 23 February 2011 to 1 July 2014, Eleganti succeeded Ernst Fuchs Regens of the St. Lucy Seminary in Chur. Since 7 April 2011, Eleganti has been the Episcopal Vicar for Religious and Monastic communities, for philosophical and theological training and for the training and development of pastors.
Hamburg to Chur EuroCity service between Karlsruhe and Mannheim. A DB Class 101 hauls a rake of SBB coaches. The German rail network provides connections to each of its neighbouring countries, many of which are under the EuroCity classification. EuroCity services are part of the Intercity network - many EC services represented a couple of train pairs on an IC route extended across the border, while other routes are served primarily by EuroCity services.
Both sexes are similar in appearance, but the juvenile rufous-crowned sparrow has a brown crown and numerous streaks on its breast and flanks during the spring and autumn. The song is a short, fast, bubbling series of chip notes that can accelerate near the end, and the calls include a nasal chur and a thin tsi. When threatened or separated from its mate, the sparrow makes a dear-dear-dear call.
There are, however, a great number of other tourist resorts in the canton, divided by the official tourist board for winter sports for example into categories "Top - Large - Small and beautiful" Switzerland holidays Graubünden winter St. Moritz is said to be the cradle of winter tourism at all around 1860. The Chur area is also an industrial centre. In the southern valleys of Mesolcina and Poschiavo there is corn (maize) and chestnut farming.
In 1424 the inhabitants of the valley joined the Grey League. In 1451 the Count led an army into the valley in an attempt to force them to leave the League and come back under his authority. The Count was unsuccessful in his attempt to bring the Hinterrhein valley back under his control and had to sell the land to the Bishop of Chur. By 1458 the valley bought their freedom from the Bishop.
Ge 4/4 I No. 607 Surselva. The Ge 4/4 I class locomotives presently have a top speed of (originally ) and a power output of . They now weigh (originally ) and are long. Beginning in 1997, the Ge 4/4 I class's old diamond-shaped pantographs were replaced by new single- arm pantographs, to enable deployment of the class on the Chur-Arosa line, which at that time was having its electrification system changed.
To reduce the travel times of fast trains between Chur and St Moritz, locomotives nos 105 onwards were given larger tenders. These held of coal and of water, and made it possible to delete the majority of the intermediate coaling and watering stops. Only in Thusis was it still necessary for locomotives with the larger tenders to take on coal and water. From locomotive No. 123, the tenders were increased in size again.
Buchs is first mentioned in 765 as de Pogio in the testament of the Chur bishop Tello. In 1213 it was mentioned as Buchs, when it was held by the Counts of Werdenberg. From 1404 the Werdenberg estates were a possession of the Counts of Montfort, succeeded by Count John Peter of Sax-Misox in 1483. In 1517 the area was acquired by the citizens of Glarus who implemented the Protestant Reformation.
South side of the church and buildings of the Bishop's Hof Bishop Asinio of Chur was first mentioned in 451 with the diocese probably being founded in the 4th or 5th century. The first church on the site was built in the 5th century. In 1921 an excavation discovered a small apse from this first church below the current building. The second church was probably built by Bishop Tello before his death in 773.
In addition, an island platform was built with platform track 1 as a dead-end track and track 2 as a through track. This allows direct access to the trains and platform at ground level. Likewise, the freight handling facilities were renewed and rebuilt. Scuol-Tarasp is the terminus or starting point for the Scuol-Tarasp–Zernez–Samedan–Pontresina regional service and for the Scuol- Tarasp–Landquart–Chur–Disentis Regional-Express service.
Giacometti was born in Stampa. After studies with Otto Salvisberg and Karl Moser at the ETH Zurich, he worked as an architect in Zurich, initially for Karl Egender. There, he designed the Hallenstadion (1939) and the hygiene and pharmacology institutes of the University of Zurich (1960) among others. His other main works include the Swiss pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 1952, the schools of Brusio (1962), the Uster town hall (1965) and the Chur natural history museum (1982).
Pompeius studied in Basel and converted to Catholicism after graduation. As a member of the important Planta family, he soon found himself in high office: in 1614 he was bailiff of the Bishopric of Chur in Fürstenau, as well as Hereditary Marshal. He married Catharina von Salis, the daughter of the Governor-General of the Valtellina. Together with his older brother Rudolf, he led the movement for the Three Leagues to support the Austro-Spanish party.
Niklas Wikegård (born October 3, 1963) is a Swedish former ice hockey player and coach, currently working for the TV4 Group as a color commentator in ice hockey-related shows. Wikegård was head coach for Djurgårdens IF between 2002 and 2005. He has also coached Väsby IK, Bodens IK, and Swiss team EHC Chur. He also worked as an assistant coach to Stephan Lundh in Djurgården 1996 to 1998, and in Malmö Redhawks 1998 to 2001.
Basel German is characterised by aspirates which are absent or at least less common in other dialects. Compare Basel German Khind (usually spelled Kind), pronounced more or less as Standard German Kind, with Chind with initial , used in all other Swiss German dialects, with the exception of the dialect of Chur. Thus, Basel German did not complete the second Germanic sound shift (High German consonant shift). Nowadays, many speakers pronounce the (or [χ], to be more exact), however.
In 1388 Maienfeld acquired the rights to charge a toll on the Roman Road that led from Chur over the St. Luzisteig to the north. Maienfeld also had a market, though the neighboring city of Malans had the market right. Following the death of the Toggenburger line, Maienfeld joined the League of the Ten Jurisdictions in 1436. In 1438 the city reached an agreement with the von Brandis and von Aarburg (inheritors of some Toggenburg lands) families.
The western apse was often flanked by two symmetrical, square towers which may include a westwork. Interior of Romainmôtier Priory church showing the Romanesque massive pillars and groined arches. When the Cluniac reforms spread through Switzerland in the late 10th and 11th centuries, it triggered a wave of church and monastery construction. All five Bishops in the area (Basel, Chur, Geneva, Lausanne and Sion) built Romanesque cathedrals, which included a full range of Romanesque and later Gothic elements.
Altstätten SG railway station () is a railway station in Altstätten, in the Swiss canton of St. Gallen. It is an intermediate stop on the Chur–Rorschach line and is served by local and long-distance trains. The station is located east of the town center; another station, Altstätten Stadt, is located in the town center and is the eastern terminus of the Altstätten–Gais line with additional local services. The stations are approximately apart and linked by bus.
The completion of the final portion of the FO in 1926 opened up the Cantons of Valais and Graubünden to further tourist development. In particular, a pathway was laid for the introduction of Kurswagen (through coaches) between Brig and Chur, and between Brig and St. Moritz., page 102. In early June 1930, the then Visp–Zermatt Bahn was extended to Brig by the opening of a metre gauge line along the Rhone Valley between Visp and Brig.
Buchs SG railway station () is a railway station in Buchs, in the Swiss canton of St. Gallen. It is an intermediate stop on the Chur–Rorschach line and western terminus of the Feldkirch–Buchs line to Austria and Liechtenstein. It is served by local and long-distance trains. As the station is located just north of the crossing of the Rhine between Switzerland and Liechtenstein, long-distance trains traveling between Zürich and points east must reverse direction.
However, Pope Callixtus II intervened and forced Chiavenna to return the castle to Chur. In 1190 the Bishop granted the castle to Albertus de Castello Muro or Castelmur. His descendants ruled over the castle until 1264 when Albertus Popus Castelmur stole cattle from the nobles of Chiavenna and Piuro, led to an invasion and the castle being conquered in 1268. These nobles held the Castelmur for four years before returning it to the Castelmurs in 1272.
In 1376 they gave up their rights to be buried in Chur Cathedral to the Lords of Greifensee and moved to Dornbirn, using the name Aspermont in Rhomberg. The castle then passed through several owners until it was acquired in 1468 by Diepold von Schlandersberg. During the 1499 Swabian War the Schlandersberg family supported the Habsburg king against the local Three Leagues. On 14 February 1499 League troops attacked and captured Maienfeld and then marched on Neu-Aspermont.
The Austrians invaded the valley twice more, attempting to reimpose the Catholic faith, in 1623-24 and 1629-31. In 1622 the Catholic Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples appointed the Capuchins to spread the faith in the region. On 24 April 1622, the leader of the Capuchin mission, St. Fidelis of Sigmaringen, was murdered by Protestant peasants while on his way from Sewis to Grüsch near Chur. His death ended the first Capuchin missionary effort.
In the area of Lauterach station a triangular junction was created to connect to Switzerland. The link from Feldkirch to Switzerland is only used by freight trains to Switzerland or to the petroleum storage of OMV in Lustenau, while the link from Bregenz is used primarily by passenger trains and is part of the major route between Munich and Zurich. In St.Margrethen the line connects to the St. Gallen–St. Margrethen–Sargans–Chur line of the SBB.
72, 559. Peterborough, England: Thomas Cook Publishing. but was reinstated in autumn 1980 as winter-only service. The Basel–Geneva section was discontinued in 1982. However, during certain times of the year both before 1982 and continuing after, the train carried through coaches to Chur and (until 1985) Milan, which were attached to ordinary express trains south of Basel. Starting in 1983,Thomas Cook Continental Timetable (May 29–June 30, 1983 edition), pp. 6 and 66. Thomas Cook Publishing.
UHT granulites appear to have evolved in a low Lu-Hf environment, probably formed when the rocks were first extracted from a mantle profoundly depleted in lithophile elements. The source materials for the magmas that formed the Napier Complex were extremely depleted relative to the chondritic uniform reservoir (CHUR). These results also suggest significant depletion of the early Archean mantle, in agreement with the early igneous differentiation of the Earth that the latest core formation models require.
It was named after the county in the state of New York where he had spent some time between 1867-70. On February 26, 1875 Carl Rüedi, together with two other representatives of the Rhätia hotel, was elected into the managing committee of the newly founded health resort club. On July 30 or 31, 1875 he was additionally elected its treasurer. In 1876 Rüedi was admissioned to the Graubünden Society of Physicians (Bündner Ärzteverein) seated in Chur.
As a connection to the southern end of the underpass, a new shopping mall was opened. Meanwhile, the height of the platforms was raised to Switzerland's usual height of 55 cm, and the platform roofs were renewed. The old station building, which was called Belle Epoque, was completely renovated in a project completed in 2007. Between the tracks of the SBB and those of the Rhaetian Railway's Chur-Arosa line is now a new office and retail building.
The existence of monasteries dedicated to Hilarius of Poitiers in Ediger-Eller, Dillersmünster, Strasbourg and Chur as well as Säckingen points to a trend of veneration of Hilarius in the 7th century, when the Alamanni were effectively Christianised. Fridolin would have been a representative of this movement. Fridolin's own relics are venerated in Säckingen. His cult is attested from the late 9th century, although his name is missing from the list of saints by Notker Balbulus (d. 912).
Since the completion of the 1942 reconstruction, its special design has compensated for slipping movements, which cannot be eliminated, even by modern engineering measures. Both piers of the viaduct are regularly reviewed to detect irregularities immediately. A monitoring device attached to the viaduct makes it possible to register even the slightest shifts. Additionally, a counterweight suspended from a wire rope provides a pulling effect on the pier heads, along the line of the railway formation towards Chur.
The Russians irritated their allies by boasting that where the Austrians posted one battalion, they only needed one company. On Korsakov's right was Friedrich Joseph, Count of Nauendorf with 5,400 Austrians near Basel while Hotze was on his left with 23,000 Austrians holding the line of the Linth River. On Hotze's left was Franz Jellacic with a force near Chur. Seeing Charles move away from Switzerland, Masséna prepared to strike with 49,098 troops.Phipps (2011), pp. 128–129.
In 2013, she sent (ascended cleanly) her first problem graded when she climbed Nuthin' But Sunshine in Rocky Mountain National Park. In November, she was appointed one of the UK's first British Mountaineering Council Ambassadors. In 2014, Coxsey placed second overall in the IFSC Bouldering World Cup, and fourth at the Bouldering World Championships in Munich. In the same year, she became the third woman ever to boulder when she topped New Baseline in Magic Wood near Chur, Switzerland.
Schaff was born in Chur, Switzerland, and educated at the gymnasium of Stuttgart. At the universities of Tübingen, Halle and Berlin, he was successively influenced by Ferdinand Christian Baur and Schmid, by Friedrich August Tholuck and Julius Müller, by David Strauss and, above all, Johann August Wilhelm Neander. At Berlin in 1841 he took the degree of Bachelor of Divinity and passed examinations for a professorship. He then traveled through Italy and Sicily as tutor to Baron Krischer.
Tower of the Church of St. John the Baptist While Bronze and Iron Age items have been found in Tschlin, the first mention of the village is in the 10th Century. In the 10th Century, bishop Hildibald gave the chapterhouse in Chur a gift of a farm house in Tschlin. In the High Middle Ages Tschlin was under the authority of Ramosch. The village church of St. Blasius was built in 1515 in the gothic style.
The train leaves the city of Chur (585 m) in Graubünden and follows the course of the Rhine to Bonaduz (655 m). From there it enters the Domleschg Valley and follows the Posterior Rhine from Rhäzüns (658 m) to Thusis (697 m). The train continues toward Tiefencastel (851 m) following the Albula and then crosses the Landwasser Viaduct before arriving at Filisur (1032 m). Shortly after Filisur the train passes its first spiral tunnel and continues to Bergün/Bravuogn.
He was born in Chur, on 14 December 1697, the son of Johann Andreas, Landmann, und his wife Maria Terz. He was descended from the Davos line of the noble Sprecher von Bernegg family. He married first to Dorothea Maria Sprecher von Bernegg, daughter of Johann, a fellow lieutenant in Spanish service, and second, in 1738, to Elisabeth Ursula Buol, daughter of Stephan Buol.Kurt Wanner, Solomon von Sprecher, Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz,10 January 2013 version.
However, when Otto's envoys, the bishops of Mainz and Chur, were sent to the pope to discuss Otto's reception in Rome and other more important questions, they were turned away by Alberic.Gregorovius, pgs 323-324 Agapetus was forced to intervene in the dispute over the occupancy of the See of Reims. He ordered a synod to be held at Ingelheim in June 948 to resolve the rights of the rival claimants, Hugh of Vermandois and Artald of Reims.
The village was settled around the 14th Century by Walser immigrants. Initially it was a held in fief for the Bishop of Chur by the von Tersnaus and von Mont families. In 1457 the German- speaking population was forbidden from purchasing land or marrying in the neighboring village of Tersnaus. The village church (consecrated 1345) was initially under the parish church of St. Vinzenz in Pleif (in Vella municipality), but in 1528 came under the authority of Tersnaus.
The Be 4/4 themselves have seating for 40 second class passengers. Whole trains, including an intermediate car (B) and a driving car (ABt), have a total of 12 first class seats, 136 second class seats, and also 22 fold down seats. The main application served by these Vorortspendel trains was and is regional traffic in the environs of Chur. Operations on the Davos – Filisur line and in the Engadin have been for only short episodes.
Based on careful notes that she had made during her deliveries she published an authoritative obstetrical text titled the Court Midwife (actually Die Kgl. Preußische und Chur-Brandenburgische Hof-Wehemutter) in 1690. It discusses its topics in the form of a dialogue between Justine (herself) and Christina, a pupil. The Court Midwife was systematic and evidence-based in its presentation of possible childbirth complications, including problems like poor presentations, umbilical cord problems, and placenta previa and their management.
One of the earliest mentions of a Christian hospice was the one placed at the pass itself, mentioned in 831. It was mentioned in documents for the following millennium, even though it was abandoned in the tenth century and rebuilt at the beginning of the eleventh. (The hospice was later abandoned for good in 1778.)Hyde, 325-6. During the Middle Ages the Septimer Pass was crucial to the temporal power of the Bishopric of Chur,Freshfield, 20.
Tower of the Church of St. John the Baptist While Bronze and Iron Age items have been found in Tschlin, the first mention of the village is in the 10th Century. In the 10th Century, bishop Hildibald gave the chapterhouse in Chur a gift of a farm house in Tschlin. In the High Middle Ages Tschlin was under the authority of Ramosch. The village church of St. Blasius was built in 1515 in the gothic style.
He studied law in Zurich, Munich, Paris, and Bern, where he submitted his doctoral thesis on international law in 1889. He was active in the student corporation "Zofingia", and became a militia officer and judge in the Swiss Armed Forces. After completing his studies, Calonder returned to Chur, where he worked as a court secretary, and later established his own partnership in a lawyer's office. In 1892, he married Ursulina Walther, with whom he had three children.
Alamannia itself had a diocese only in the east, at Augsburg (early 7th century). There were two Roman bishoprics, Windisch and Octodurum, which were moved early to other sites (Avenches and Sitten respectively). Western Alamannia did eventually (7th century) receive a diocese (Constance) through the cooperation of the bishops of Chur and the Merovingian monarchs. The foundation of Constance is obscure, though it was the largest diocese in Germany throughout the Merovingian and early Carolingian era.
Oddly enough, he does not seem to have visited any of the higher peaks of the Medel group, but only its outliers, here again the dread of glaciers probably holding him back. In the course of all his climbs he rarely set foot on a glacier, though in 1812, on occasion of his second ascent of the Oberalpstock, he did cross the easy glacier Brunni Pass (8977 ft). The Raetian Museum in Chur contains part of his geological collection.
Anna Sophia Elisabeth, (28 July 1832 – 17 March 1916) married, at Neuchatel on 24 September 1858, a cousin Johann Gaudenz Dietegan (Freiherr) v. Salis-Seewis (4 December 1825- Chur 27 March 1886) of Bothmar, Malans. He was a grandson of the poet, lieder writer, and politician, Johann Gaudenz von Salis-Seewis (1762–1834). The younger Johann Gaudenz was a member of the Swiss parliament (Nationalrat in Bern) 1861-63 and represented Maienfeld in the Grossen Kantonalrats.
Guanella was born in Chur, then educated in Lucerne, Switzerland. He finished high school in 1929, studied electrical engineering at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH Zurich) and graduated in 1933. There, he became assistant to Professor Fritz Fischer, known as the inventor of the Eidophor large-screen video projection system, at the Institute of Technical Physics until 1937, followed by a few years as a consultant to different companies. In 1938 he married Hanni Zietzschmann.
The Sporthotel Pontresina was completed in 1881. It is a three star hotel in the resort village of Pontresina, slightly less than two hours (depending on road/rail conditions) to the south of Chur in Graubünden, Switzerland. The hotel comprises 140 beds in 82 rooms, with underground parking for 60 cars. During the summer season its focus is on hikers and mountain bikers, while winter season guests mostly come for the skiing and other winter sports.
Hitherto hotel guests had been required to undergo a ten-hour journey, normally by post carriage, via the Julier or Albula Pass in order to reach Pontresina from Chur. That ten hour post carriage journey was now replaced with a four-hour railway journey. At Samedan Station trains were met by the Hotel Pontresina's own horse-drawn bus for the final 6 km (4 mile) climb up the valley to Pontresina.Schweizer Hotellier- Verein (Ed.): Die Hotels der Schweiz.
A Bronze Age settlement at the site goes back as far as the Pfyn culture (3900–3500 BC),Schibler, J. 2006. The economy and environment of the 4th and 3rd millennia BC in the northern Alpine foreland based on studies of animal bones. Environmental Archaeology 11(1): 49–65 making Chur one of the oldest settlements in Switzerland. In ancient times, the area of what is today Ticino was settled by the Lepontii, a Celtic tribe.
CEFL Bowl XIV was played in Chur, Switzerland on 8 June between Calanda Broncos and Swarco Raiders. This very exciting duel went to Swarco Raiders in the final seconds, and they triumphed by 46–42. Another excitement followed a day later in Bolzano Italy, where Moscow Spartans outlasted Bolzano Giants 15–14. ECTC finals, a successor of the Superfinals, were played at the Tivoli stadium in Innsbruck, where Swarco Raiders conquered Vienna Vikings with a 35–10 score.
School Hotel Passugg Studying in the school hotel lobby Founded by Dr. Markus Christoffel in 1966, what is now the Passugg hospitality management school developed out of the hotel department of the hotel secretarial school in Chur. It did not remain a hotel department for long. The business school steadily expanded its program and soon afterward began welcoming students from the Far East. As early as 1972, the first “Special Courses” were given in English, separately from the purely German classes.
He began his career as an oberst in the 1793 Austrian Netherlands campaign of the War of the First Coalition. He was promoted major general in February 1797 for his service at the battle of Würzburg and battle of Wetzlar. During the War of the Second Coalition he commanded a corps in the Swiss Graubünden. On 7 March 1799 he was beaten on the Luziensteig by André Masséna and his force and he was captured the following day when he withdrew to Chur.
His father was a farmer in Trun in the canton of Grisons, and had served as magistrate in the district of Disentis. Economic hardship forced the family to resettle in the canton's capital Chur in 1911, where Zarli visited the primary and secondary school, and absolved an apprenticeship with decorative artist Walter Räth. Zarli's older brother Alois had also been trained in Räth's atelier. In the late 1920s and early 1930s, Zarli worked as a graphic designer for his brother's atelier in Zurich.
In 840, Emperor Lothair I, king of Northern Italy and, nominally, Emperor of the Franks, assured the monastery the right of freely electing its abbot. This was extended in 861 to include ecclesiastical immunity and royal protection. The East Frankish king Louis the Child gave Pfäfers, in 905, to Solomon III, Bishop of Constance, who was also the abbot of St Gall. Between 914 and 949, the Abbey of St. Gall and the bishop of Chur fought over the protectorship of the Abbey.
The manner in which figures were portrayed was clearly Roman in style, the subject matter very often Christian, and the geometric designs and animal figures were Germanic in nature. Depictions from the gospels, as well as those of King David were particularly popular, as well as some Carolingian kings, and of course Christ in majesty.Frasett p. 102 It is believed that the abbey was established ca. 780 by a bishop of Chur,ICOMOS Evaluation for UNESCO perhaps under orders from Charlemagne.
Castelberg in 1896 Castelberg is one of several castles built near Ilanz, a major town along the Vorderrhein river. The castle itself does not appear in any surviving records, but based on construction it was built in the first half of the 13th century. It was the home castle of the Castelberg family which were first mentioned in 1289. The family were originally a ministerialis family, unfree knights in service to a higher noble, in this case the Bishop of Chur.
They were raised to the nobility by Emperor Charles V in 1544, but may have chosen to name themselves after the ruins. In 1811 and again in 1904 several large Carolingian coin hoards were discovered during construction of the Ruschein road near the castle. The coins were probably buried around 790 and included coins from the rule of Charlemagne and the Lombard King Desiderius. About 137 coins from the discoveries are cataloged and held at the Rätisches Museum in Chur.
During the late 13th century Walter V von Vaz allied himself with the Habsburgs against the Bishop of Chur and other local nobles. In 1287 a representative of the Bishop's, Walter Caramamma, was killed at Belfort. In 1332 another representative of the Bishop, Ulrich von Marmels, was executed at the castle, probably after being captured in a battle near Filisur. When the last of the male line, Donat von Vaz, died in 1337 Count Friedrich V von Toggenburg inherited the castle.
During the High Middle Ages a fortified church with a ring wall and perhaps a tower was built near the current castle. By the end of the 12th century, these fortifications were demolished and a new castle was built above formerly fortified plateau and the Church of St. Lazius. It was probably built for a local noble family. In 1209 Albert von Frickingen sold all his estates and villages as well as the castle above Ardez to the Bishop of Chur.
In 1798 Johann von Buol-Schauenstein sold the castle to his brother, the Bishop of Chur Karl Rudolf. The Bishop's plans to turn the castle into a seminary ended with the 1798 French invasion of Switzerland and the end of the Prince- Bishops' power under the Helvetic Republic. In the 19th century it passed through a number of owners before ending up with the Casparis family in 1822. In 1917 it was inherited by a branch of the Planta family.
Versam-Safien station on the valley floor The municipality is served by two railway stations on the line of the Rhaetian Railway that links Chur and Disentis, these being Versam-Safien and Valendas-Sagogn. Versam- Safien station is located some lower than the village of Versam, and about to the north. To reach the village directly, a Postauto bus service provides a connection, which also serves Thalkirch and Tenna. Similarly, Valendas-Sagogn station lies some below and distant from the village of Valendas.
Prior to independence, the Turgesh were ruled by a subordinate tutuk, later shad, of the Western Turkic Khaganate's Onoq elites. Turgesh leaders belonged to Duolu division and held the title chur. A Turgesh commander of the Talas district and the town of Balu possessed a name symbolizing some sacred relation to a divine or heavenly sphere. The first Turgesh Kaghan Wuzhile (Chinese transcription 烏質 Wuzhi means "black substance") was a leader of a Manichaean consortium known as yüz er "hundred men".
Since the change, both stations used the following slogans such as "Today's Country", "News Leader" and "Sports Leader". The station's general manager is Peter McKeown, a former morning man for many years on CHUR and CKAT. In 2009, CKAT's sister station CIGM in Sudbury (under the ownership of Rogers Media) was acquired by Newcap Radio and then converted the station to the FM dial. CKAT is currently one of the last high-powered commercial AM radio stations operating in Northern Ontario.
Arosa railway station is a railway station on the Chur–Arosa railway (the "Arosabahn") of the Rhaetian Railway (RhB). It is situated in the town and resort of Arosa, close by to the Obersee (one of the lakes in the vicinity). The station is the upper terminus of the line and has a number of passenger facilities including a ticket office, shop, and cafe. A 299m long tunnel takes the line under part of Arosa as it ascends to the station.
Initially, the community was supported by Predigerkloster Zürich, because its close relationship to the House of Rapperswil. After the founding of the monastery, the Dominican friars in Chur took over the pastoral assistance in Weesen. Heinrich III, Bishop of Konstanz, in 1272 issued the authorization to build a chapel, and called a Dominican priest for the fair, the sacraments and the pastoral care of the nunnery. With episcopal permission, the convention was allowed to bury its deceased members in the monastic church.
The section from Rorschach to St. Margrethen is served four times a day by a EuroCity service on the Zürich–Munich route. Rheintal Express (REX) services now run between Chur and St. Gallen every hour. Between Sargans and Rorschach, line S4 St Gallen S-Bahn services operated by Südostbahn also run every hour on a circular route with stops at all stations. Between Altstätten and St. Gallen the line is served by lines S1 and S2 of the S-Bahn.
The Imperial Circles; Austrian, Bavarian, Burgundian, Electoral Rhenish, Franconin, Westpolian, Lower Saxon, Swabbian, Upper Saxon. The Austrian Circle; An der Etsch, Austria, Austrian, Brixen, Carinthia, Carniola, Chur, Gorizia, Istria, Stiria, Tarasp, Trent, Trieste, Tyrol. The Istrian Circle was divided into Districts; Bellai, Buie, Albona, Capodistria, Cherso, Dignano, Lussino, Montona, Parenzo, Pisino, Rovigno, Pola, veglia, Volosca. In 1632, Antonio Civran, Administrator of Dalmatia and Albania divided the District of Albona into 12 external sub-districts called Parishes;Albona, Fianona, Rippend, S.Domenica, Dubrova.
Laws passed by the Frankish kings protected the old established winemakers. For example, there were islands of settlement here until the High Middle Ages in which Moselle Roman was spoken instead of a Frankish language.Rudolf Post, Zur Geschichte und Erforschung des Moselromanischen, Rhein. Vierteljahresblätter No. 68, Bonn 2004 The still commonly used dialect word for a vineyard terrace - Chur or Kuur (plural: Chuer, Kuure), derived from cura (Latin for "care") or chorus (Latin for the raised altar area of a church).
A train on the open-air section of the Jungfrau Railway, the highest in Europe This is a list of mountain railways in operation in Switzerland. It includes railways that overcome steep gradients (over 5%) or whose culminating point is over above sea level. Most of them are located in the Alps, which include the highest European railways, such as the Jungfrau and Gornergrat Railways. Many of these railways converge on mountain railway hubs, notably Lucerne, Interlaken, Montreux, Aigle, Brig and Chur.
Residents in Switzerland set up donation for the victims of the earthquake, with hotlines reportedly set up in the city of Zurich, Geneva, Lugano and Chur. A total of $6.25 million were collected from the public. Swiss News Agency reported that 900 kg of aids and 5 experts were also sent to Sulawesi. The Salvation Army's Indonesia Emergency Services Team was activated in response and worked to assess the damage and needs of those injured or displaced by the tsunami.
The height difference between the terminal stations is , and the maximum gradient is 25%. The line starts from its own terminus, located on platform 1 of Rheineck's main line railway station. For about the first the line parallels the Swiss Federal Railway's Chur–Rorschach railway, before bearing right and crossing the road on a level crossing to reach the stop at Ruderbach. The station building here incorporates the line's single track depot, accessed via the line's only set of points.
Melitta Breznik (born Kapfenberg 1961) is a senior doctor, specializing in psychiatry and a writer of novels and short stories. She was born in southern Austria, though most of her professional life has been spent in Switzerland. Melitta Breznik studied medicine in Graz and Innsbruck which is where she obtained her doctorate. She was a senior doctor at the Psychiatric Clinic in Cazis (south of Chur), at the Private Psychiatric Clinic at the Zürichberg and at the Hohenegg Psychiatric Clinic in Meilen.
Sarah Viktoria Frick (born 28 July 1982 in Chur, Switzerland) is a Swiss theatre and film actress. She has dual nationality with Liechtenstein.Die Presse, retrieved 31 August 2015. She left school at 16Der Standard, retrieved 31 August 2015 to study at the Academy of Music and Theatre in ZurichBiography at the Salzburg Festival website for 2015, retrieved 31 August 2015 and has gone on to a career celebrated for her performance as Puck in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream,Review at kulturwest.
Giacometti died in 1966 of heart disease (pericarditis) and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease at the Kantonsspital in Chur, Switzerland. His body was returned to his birthplace in Borgonovo, where he was interred close to his parents. With no children, Annette Giacometti became the sole holder of his property rights. She worked to collect a full listing of authenticated works by her late husband, gathering documentation on the location and manufacture of his works and working to fight the rising number of counterfeited works.
Angelica Kauffman (self-portrait, 1771) The Angelika Kauffmann Museum is a museum in Schwarzenberg, Vorarlberg (Austria) dedicated to the life and works of the Swiss painter Angelica Kauffman. Although born in Chur in Switzerland, Angelica Kauffman had close ties to her father's home village of Schwarzenberg. Together, they worked for the local bishop, creating apostle frescoes and the high altarpiece. Numerous letters and donations to the community indicate her life-long connection to Schwarzenberg, even after having moved to Italy.
The village lies in the valley between the cantonal capital Chur and the resort Lenzerheide. It offers access to the skiing area of Rothorn and mountain railways Danis Staetz AG. The finish of the Alpine skiing World Cup slope "Silvano Beltrametti" for the downhill race in Lenzerheide is in Parpan. At the end of 2013 the ski resort was linked with Arosa by cable- car, creating the new ski resort of Arosa Lenzerheide. Since then transport passes work in both resorts.
Einsiedeln abbey There is a strong architectural tradition in Switzerland. The Romanesque style of the 12th century can be found in the cathedrals of Basel, Sion, Chur, Geneva, Zürich and Schaffhausen. This style, which is rich in expression, can also be found on many castles and fortresses around the country, many of which preserved in a good condition. The cathedrals of Lausanne and Bern are of the Gothic style, and the churches of Einsiedeln and St. Gallen are of Baroque style.
She became a 'Sternkreuz-Ordens-Dame & Oberhofmeisterin' of the Modena Archduchesses Thereses and Beatrice von Oesterreich-Este. Educated in Chur and Chiavenna and then studying law at Göttingen, John was briefly at the London bar but went back to the Grisons to try to right the wrongs of Napoleon in the Three Leagues and Valtelline. After that he was a Grisons statesman: Bundespräsident of the Gotteshausbund (League of God's House) in 1811, 1813 and 1817; Landammann of the Bregaglia-Sopra- Porta 1816–26.
Regionalporträts 2017: Swiss Federal Statistical Office accessed 18 May 2017 Before 2017, the municipality was located in Churwalden sub- district of the Plessur district on the Rabiusa river and near the Lenzerheide Pass. The village lies in the valley between the cantonal capital Chur and the resort Lenzerheide. The Lenzerheide Bergbahnen AG offers access to the skiing area of Lenzerheide as well as Stätzerhorn, Danis, Scalottas, and Rothorn. The longest summer toboggan run (Rodelbahn) in Switzerland, long, is situated at Pradaschier.
In 1953, a fifth railcar, no 30, was similarly rebuilt. For use on the Chur-Arosa-Bahn, which was operated by a direct current system until 1997, rebuilt railcars nos 30–34 were equipped during the rebuild with regenerative brakes. At a later stage, the retention of the step controllers enabled them also to be fitted with multiple unit control. The other railcars to undergo rebuilding, nos 35 to 38, were only given electrical equipment for the Bernina Railway, and no air compressor.
Andre Staffelbach, FIIDA, ASID (born 1939) was born in Chur, Switzerland. Upon completion of his apprenticeship in interior design and studies in the Kunstgewerbeschule in Luzern and Zurich, he received practical experience in Europe with one of Zurich's leading interior design firms before moving to the United States in 1962. Staffelbach is the founder and creative principal for Staffelbach, an interior design and architecture firm in Dallas, Texas. Staffelbach was inducted into the International Interior Design Hall of Fame in 1988.
On 5 November 1984, Kwan married his second wife Kwan Yut-chur in Reno, Nevada, whom he first met whilst travelling in the US, whilst raising money for the Chinese war effort. To the Chinese, Kwan embodied Confucian virtues and patriarchal authority, and he is thought to have modelled his speeches on those of Sun Yat-sen.Hunt, Leon. (2003). Kung Fu Cult Masters Wallflower Press Kwan appeared in cameo roles in The Family Strikes Back and Aces Go Places 4 (both 1986).
This put an end to their plans to escape across the Atlantic. During the Summer of 1940, the Swiss authorities prepared a number of labour camps: the plan was to intern all able-bodied foreign residents and set them to work in the national interest. In September 1940 Crüger was sent to the Felsberger Labour Camp near Chur, in Graubünden. In Felsberg he became part of a labour gang of between 120 and 150 people set to build a supposedly strategic road.
His motto is "Caritas Christi urget nos" (The love of Christ drives us). On 22 January 1990, Pope John Paul II appointed Rauber President of the Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy, a post he held until 16 March 1993. In 1991, he was assigned to investigate the problems encountered in the Diocese of Chur by Bishop Wolfgang Haas. He returned to the diplomatic service of the Holy See when he was named Apostolic Nuncio to Switzerland on 16 March 1993 and to Liechtenstein on 17 April 1993.
Supporters of the mass claimed that the eucharist was a true sacrifice, while Zwingli claimed that it was a commemorative meal. As in the first disputation, an invitation was sent out to the Zürich clergy and the bishop of Constance. This time, however, the lay people of Zürich, the dioceses of Chur and Basel, the University of Basel, and the twelve members of the Confederation were also invited. About nine hundred persons attended this meeting, but neither the bishop nor the Confederation sent representatives.
The Alps are often divided into Eastern, Central and Western Alps, even though the boundaries between these subdivisions are arbitrary. The division between the Eastern and Central Alps is approximately the line between St. Margrethen, Chur and Sondrio; the division between the Central and Western Alps is unclear . The main suture (big shear zone) in the Alps is called the Periadriatic Seam and runs through the Alps from east to west. This is the boundary between materials from the (former) European and Adriatic plate plates.
The Lords of Aspermont first appear in the historical record in 1120 as ministerialis or unfree knights in service to the Bishop of Chur, living at their castle Alt-Aspermont near Trimmis. Over the following centuries, they rose to become one of the main noble families in the region, with ties to the powerful Hohenstaufen family. In the early 13th century they built Neu-Aspermont north-east of the village of Jenins. The oldest wooden beams in the castle have been dated to 1235.
The Obersaxen plateau first appears in historic records in 765 when Bishop Tello gave his farms and meadows there to Disentis Abbey. In 806 it became an Imperial Estate, which it remained until 956 when Emperor Otto I donated the village and the village church back to the Bishop of Chur. To control this important village along the Rhine river, four castles were built at various points throughout the Middle Ages. The first was Heidenberg above Tavanasa which may have been built as early as 1000.
Since the city of Chur was planning to build a tram line at the same time, it suggested that the route from Arosa to Sassal be routed through the city. With the elimination of the Rosenhügelel tunnel and the two bridges over the Plessur, the ChA reduced construction costs by approximately CHF 150,000. The track was divided into four lots, which employed a total of about 1,000 workers. The unstable terrain made site management difficult, causing the original opening date of 15 November 1914 to be postponed.
After the extinction of the Vaz family, in 1339, the castle was inherited by the Counts of Toggenburg. The Toggenburg counts received imperial permission to establish a customs station at Strassberg in April 1348. However, the Bishop of Chur objected and by December of the same year, the Toggenburg permission was revoked. Over sixty years later, in 1413, they were able to acquire customs rights from Emperor Sigismund, which when the bishop objected, ended up with Zürich having to arbitrate between the Toggenburgs and the bishop.
The Calanda Broncos are an American football team from Landquart, Switzerland. The club, formed in 1991 as the Landquart Broncos, changed its name in late 2008 after the Calanda mountain to show the club's desire to represent a larger region of Graubünden then just the community of Landquart.Von den Landquart Broncos zu den Calanda Broncos football.sport-heute.ch, published: 14 December 2008, accessed: 5 December 2013 With the move to the stadium in nearby Chur the club was also able to draw larger crowds for its home matches.
The Seeztal (or Seez Valley) is a valley of the canton of St. Gallen, Switzerland, extending to the east of Lake Walen for some 10 km, formed by the river Seez. The valley appears to be a left branch off the Rhine valley at Sargans, but there is a divide at Mels. Situated in the Seeztal are the municipalities of Walenstadt (425 m), Flums (453 m) and Mels (500 m). Running along the valley are the A3 motorway and the Chur-Zürich railway line.
In 1692, Emperor Leopold I elevated Duke Ernest Augustus of the Brunswick-Lüneburg line of Calenberg, to the rank of prince- elector of the Empire as a reward for aid given in the Nine Years' War. There were protests against the addition of a new elector, and the elevation did not become official until the approval of the Imperial Diet in 1708. Calenberg's capital, Hanover, became colloquially eponymous for the electorate, but it officially used the name Chur-Braunschweig-Lüneburg of the entire ducal dynasty.
Leonard P. Zakim Bunker Hill Memorial Bridge, Boston Sunniberg Bridge, view from south abutment, near Klosters, Switzerland Ganter Bridge Rhine bridge Tamins Cresta forest bridge Mesocco bridges Christian Menn (March 3, 1927 – July 16, 2018) was a Swiss civil engineer. He led his own engineering company in Chur from 1957–1971. From 1971 until his retirement in 1992, he was a professor of structural engineering at ETH Zurich, specializing in bridge design. In his retirement years, he continued to be a consulting engineer in private practice.
Approximate extent of Raetia Curiensis in the 10th century. The territory of Switzerland was Romanized in the 1st to 3rd centuries AD, and its population spoke a form of Vulgar Latin by the time of the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century. The province of Raetia prima, established c. 300 (under Diocletian) became known as Raetia Curiensis, ruled by the bishops of Chur throughout the 5th to 12th centuries (albeit nominally part of the Duchy of Swabia from the 10th century).
Berthold Albrecht (14 August 1954 in Essen – 21 November 2012 in Chur) was a German businessman and one of Germany's wealthiest men, as co-owner (with his brother Theo Albrecht Jr.) of the Aldi Nord chain of discount supermarkets. They inherited the company from their father, Theo Albrecht, upon his death in July 2010. Together, the two brothers had an estimated net worth of . Their uncle (and Theo Albrecht's brother), Karl Albrecht, owned Aldi Süd and was Germany's wealthiest person up until his death in 2014.
The Murg–Weesen line was opened on 1 July 1859. Until 1875 all express trains to and from Chur ran via the Uster–Rapperswil line, as the Thalwil–Pfäffikon line of the Swiss Northeastern Railway (Schweizerische Nordostbahn, NOB) had not yet been completed. As early as 1918, passenger traffic on the Weesen–Näfels section of the former VSB Rüti–Weesen–Glarus line was abandoned, because the connection from Glarus to the former NOB line appeared more useful. The disused section was dismantled in 1931.
Kahu played for the Broncos NYC team in 2010 and 2011, scoring 11 tries and kicking 2 goals in 23 games. Kahu’s 2011 and 2012 seasons were shattered by two season ending knee injuries. Kahu got engaged in October 2017 to Ms. Jessica Kent, who he has two children with named Jayla & Jude. In September 2019 Kahu opened his own videography & photography business Chur Media Kahu's older brother is Jared Kahu, a former Broncos U20s five-eighth who was once touted as Darren Lockyer's successor .
René Stüssi (born December 13, 1978) is a former Swiss professional ice hockey player, who played right winger. Stüssi played a total of 227 regular season games in the Nationalliga A, playing for EHC Kloten, ZSC Lions, EV Zug, EHC Chur and EHC Basel. He finished his career in 2017 with Pikes EHC Oberthurgau in the Regio League. Stüssi was drafted 209th overall by the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim in the 1997 NHL Entry DraftAnaheim Ducks Draft History but he remained in Switzerland throughout his career.
He was born in Grabs, Switzerland and grew up in the town of Maienfeld. He graduated from the Humanistische Gymnasium in Chur in 1947 and left to attend respectively school at the University of Basel (pre-clinical) and the University of Zurich (clinical), graduating from the latter with an M.D. in 1955. During his college years he was highly influenced by the works of Karl Jaspers. This influence has pushed him towards experimental biology, culminating in a decision to move from psychoanalysis to pharmacology.
On a flimsy pretext, a Republican French army invaded Switzerland in January 1798 and forced the country into an uneasy alliance marked by occasional revolts. By the start of hostilities with Austria in early 1799, Masséna was in command of the Army of Helvetia. Going on the offensive, the French inflicted defeats on the Austrians at Maienfeld, Chur and Feldkirch on 6 and 7 March. Ordered to attack Feldkirch in late March by his superior Jean-Baptiste Jourdan, Masséna attacked with troops under Nicolas Oudinot.
Hotze had 20,000 troops at Bregenz and Feldkirch while Franz Xaver von Auffenberg held Chur with 4,500 men. Though war had not been declared, Jourdan notified Masséna that he would cross the Rhine on 1 March and be near Lake Constance by the 6th. Therefore, Masséna launched an assault crossing of the Rhine on 6 March at Luziensteig, which was between Hotze and Auffenberg. The Austrian defenses were strong and the river was rising, but the French finally captured the place in the evening.Phipps (2011), p. 75.
Salis- Seewis was one of the favourites of Marie Antoinette. In the next year Salis- Seewis undertook a journey to the Netherlands and Germany (including Weimar), meeting Goethe, Herder, Schiller, Wieland, and Matthisson. He particularly connected with Matthisson, and an intimate friendship developed. The poet colleagues shared a sense of Sturm und Drang and empathy, calling it the "Bündner Nachtigall" (Graubünden nightingale). Salis-Seewis returned to Switzerland in 1791, living in Chur and marrying there, on 26 December 1793, the 22-year-old Ursina v.
The bishop of Chur proposed to Zita that she move into a residence that he administered (formerly a castle of the Counts de Salis) at Zizers, Graubünden in Switzerland. As the castle had enough space for visits from her large family and a nearby chapel (a necessity for the devoutly Catholic Zita), she accepted with ease. Zita occupied herself in her final years with her family. Although the restrictions on the Habsburgs entering Austria had been lifted, this only applied to those born after 10 April 1919.
Arms of the counts of Sax-Misox in Cathedral of Chur. In 1257 Albrecht of Sax-Misox sold Wartenstein Castle and the villages of Pfäfers, Valens, Vättis and Untervaz to Pfäfers Abbey for 300 silver marks.Act in Stiftsarchiv St. Gallen, StiAPf, Urk 1257 After the decline of the imperial Hohenstaufen family the Sax-Misox lost the Blenio Valley, Monte Dongo and Clanx Castle. Their lands were reduced to the Core of the Misox Valley with the San Bernardino Pass and the Walser settlements in the Rheinwald Valley.
The Rhine between Sargans (CH, left) and Balzers (Liechtenstein, right) with the Gonzen (, left), the Girrenspitz () in the back, and the Maziferchopf () to the right Next to Reichenau in Tamins the Anterior Rhine and the Posterior Rhine join and form the Alpine Rhine. The river makes a distinctive turn to the north near Chur. This section is nearly 86 km long, and descends from a height of 599 m to 396 m. It flows through a wide glacial Alpine valley known as the Rhine Valley ().
The medieval county of Vaduz was formed in 1342 as a small subdivision of the Werdenberg county of the dynasty of Montfort of Vorarlberg. In 1367 the League of God's House (Cadi, Gottes Haus, Ca' di Dio) was founded to resist the rising power of the Bishop of Chur. This was followed by the establishment of the Grey League (Grauer Bund), sometimes called Oberbund, in 1395 in the Upper Rhine valley. In the 14th century it was acquired by the Visconti, Dukes of Milan.
During the Early Middle Ages Schänis Abbey acquired the right to collect tithes in Gommiswald and the patronage rights over the village church. At around the same time, the village was part of the large parish of Benken and was part of the Diocese of Chur. Politically, by 1200, it was part of the Toggenburg County of Uznach. In 1439, three years after the death of the last Count of Toggenburg, Frederick VII of Toggenburg, Schwyz and Glarus established a joint condominium over the County of Uznach.
The general Irish term for the casting of lots is crann-chur, literally 'the casting of wood'; probably originating from the traditional use of sticks or pieces of wood to draw the lots. This is not enough evidence in itself of course, to say that the term originated from a connection with ogham. Another often quoted example of magical use concerns the fé or rod of aspen. The fé was kept in pagan graveyards to measure corpses and graves and was regarded with fear and dread.
Along with this, he was appointed Municipal Archivist in 1899, initially on an honorary basis, but the position was one for which he received a salary between 1921 and 1929. It was in 1929 that his two-volume work "Geschichte der Chur- und Hauptstadt Brandenburg a. d. Havel. Festschrift zur Tausendjahrfeier der Stadt 1928/29" was published, its appearance timed to coincide with the town's millennium. Most recently reprinted in 2013, the work has become a standard work on the history of Brandenburg and the region.
Swiss Federal Railways describes the trains as ones that serve "rapidly into the regions". Until the 2003 timetable overhaul(December 2002 to December 2003), the RegioExpress was limited in circulation. One of the main lines which ran as a RegioExpress line (abbreviation: RX) was the Rheintal Express, from St. Gallen through Sargans to Chur (the other was the CityVogel from Zurich to Konstanz). As of the 2004 timetable overhaul, the RegioExpress was introduced as faster Regio (formerly regional) trains, and the term was thrown into expanded usage.
According to the Swiss census of 2000, 86.4% in the Val Müstair report to speak Romansh habitually, and 74.1% declare it as their language of best command.Gross, Manfred (2004), Romanisch – Facts & Figures (in German), Chur This amounts to around 1,400 speakers in absolute numbers in the year 2000. Jauer is usually not written; the written standard in Val Müstair is traditionally Vallader. Jauer is occasionally written regardless, and in 2007, a collection of short stories written in Jauer (Dschon Uein id atras istorias grischunas) was published.
Eastern Switzerland (, , ) is the common name of the region situated to the east of Glarus Alps, with the cantons of Schaffhausen, Thurgau, St. Gallen, Appenzell Ausserrhoden, Appenzell Innerrhoden, and Glarus. The north of canton of Graubünden (with the city of Chur) is usually considered to be part of Eastern Switzerland as well. Eastern Switzerland is also defined as one of the NUTS-2 regions of Switzerland. In this case, it includes the cantons of Appenzell Ausserrhoden, Appenzell Innerrhoden, Glarus, Graubünden, Schaffhausen, St. Gallen, and Thurgau.
The VSB was nationalised with a route length of 269 kilometres on 1 July 1902 and its routes have since belonged to the Swiss Federal Railways (SBB). Ragaz Until 1928, the railway line between Maienfeld and Bad Ragaz crossed the Rhine with a covered timber bridge, it was the last of its kind in the Swiss railway network. The Sargans–Buchs was electrified at 15 kV 16⅔ Hz on 15 December 1927 as part of the ongoing electrification program of the SBB. About six months later, on 11 May 1928, electric operations started on the Sargans–Chur section. The section from St. Margrethen to Rorschach was electrified on 15 May 1934 and the last section from Buchs to St. Margrethen was wired on 21 September 1934. A second track was put into operation between St. Margrethen and Rheineck on 1 December 1920. The Staad–Rorschach section was duplicated on 15 May 1930 and the Rheineck–Staad section on 12 August 1930. The line between Sargans and Bad Ragaz has been duplicated since 20 December 1957. The line between Landquart and Chur was duplicated between 15 December 1970 and 10 April 1973.
Then in 1992 they moved to Vienna, and he stayed with the Vienna Boys Choir until 1995. With this famous Austrian boys choir, he got to know the world early via the joint concert tours (Japan, Australia, USA). In 1995, he had his first theater appearance, he participated in the open air theater in Chur (in Switzerland) in the theater production of Woyzeck. Then he could continue with other performances at the Vienna Burgtheater, among other things, he played Prince Edward III in the production of Edward II, directed by Claus Peymann.
Solomon (or Salomon) I (died 871) was the Bishop of Constance from an unknown date between 835 and 847 until his death. He was the first of an "episcopal dynasty" which ruled Constance until 919 and briefly held the Diocese of Freising from 884 until 906 and that of Chur from 913 until 949. In 847, his diocese was the first to be disturbed by the preachings of a false prophetess named Thiota. She was condemned at a synod in Mainz later that year and ceased to be a problem thereafter.
Following impressive performances with the youth teams, Abrashi was first called up to the reserve side towards the end of the 2006–07 season, making his debut on 16 May 2007 in a goalless draw against GC Biaschesi, coming on in the 81st minute for Micha Iseli. Ten days later he was in the starting formation for the 3–2 away win against FC Chur 97.ABRASHI, Amir, in: kicker-Almanach 2017, München: Copress Verlag, , Seite 334. He finished his first season with the reserve team by scoring twice in 14 appearances.
Swiss Federal Statistical Office - Amtliches Gemeindeverzeichnis der Schweiz - Mutationsmeldungen 2016 accessed 16 February 2017 It is located north of Chur and on the left bank of the Rhine River. It consists of the haufendorf (an irregular, unplanned and quite closely packed village, built around a central square) village of Haldenstein (which is an elevation of ) and the hamlets of Batänja (formerly: Sewils) (which is at ) and Berg (which is at ). The municipality's boundaries are the Rhine and then up the Calanda mountain from the river to the border with the canton of St. Gallen.
1989 In the following year eight more albums appeared, together with the first foreign contacts and business associates in Europe. Since 1990 Brambus has settled into a moreorless regular pattern of a dozen or so CD releases per year, a realistic maximum target for times when the Record market was already flooded. 1994 Brambus records became independent, ending the previous partnership with Grammophone Heeb. Now on his own, Paul started planning for the future, and was able to enlist the valuable support of the local graphics studio Diro, also based in Chur.
View of Bondo from the north, c. 1870 Under the Carolingian dynasty Bondo belonged to the Ministerium Bergallia, which was a dependant of the early Bishops of Chur, though after 960 it was owned directly by the Bishop. The valley church of S. Maria at Castelmur is first mentioned in 988, while the village church for Bondo, S. Martino, was consecrated in 1250. During the High Middle Ages Bondo was part of several villages that were collectively known as di là dell'acqua ('across the water'), which were part of the district of Unterporta.
In 1243, his relatives Heinrich and Albert were listed as witnesses in a legal proceeding as Hainricus et Albertus de Grifinstain. By the late 13th century the family disappears from the record and in 1300 the Wildenberg family owns the castle and surrounding lands. Whether the Greifensteins died out or if the Wildenbergs married into the family or were a branch of the family is unclear. In 1320 Count Hugo III von Werdenberg- Heiligenberg / von Wildenberg and his wife Anna von Wildenberg mortgaged the castle and lands to the Bishop of Chur for 1150 Marks.
The last male member of the Rietberg line, Johann von Reitberg, attempted to guarantee that the castle and his estates would pass to his wife, Berta von Rhäzüns, and to his relative Hermann von Landenberg. However, after his death in 1349 the Bishop of Chur claimed the castle. In 1353 he succeed in forcing the Landenbergs to sign away their claim to the castle and estates. Other claims to the castle continued to simmer until 1388 then the Bishop paid off the Lords of Rhäzüns and Lumerins to settle their claims.
It is unclear if the castle went with the tithes, but by the 14th century Wildenberg was owned by the bishop and held by the Planta family. In 1365 representatives from the communities around Chur met for the first time at the castle under the auspices of the Planta family. The representatives met because they were concerned about the growing power of Tyrol and the bishop's debts. Two years after the meeting at Wildenberg and building off the 1365 agreements, they founded the League of God's House to curtail the bishop's power.
By around 1400 the branch of the Planta family at Wildenberg was using the name von Wildenberg or Planta-Wildenberg and held the castle as a permanent fief. They became very wealthy with lands and rights from the bishop as well as the mining concession in the Lower Engadine from Emperor Henry VII. While the Planta-Wildenberg family often loaned money to the bishop, their relationship was not always good. In 1430 Conradin von Planta-Wildenberg wrote and demanded the abdication of Bishop Johann von Chur, who in turn excommunicated Conradin.
The castle consists of two sections, the upper castle on a rocky spur above the valley and the lower castle along the trade road on the valley floor. The spur created a natural pinch point in the valley, forcing traffic from the Septimer, Splügen and San Bernardino Passes to pass through the customs post in the lower castle. The von Juvalt family first appears in records in 1140 and the castle is first mentioned in 1149. The von Juvalt family were vassals of the Bishop of Chur and had estates from Feldis/Veulden to Scharans.
Map of the Three Leagues and surrounding lands The Three Leagues were a federation of three states (the League of God's House, the League of the Ten Jurisdictions and the Grey League) in the alpine valleys around the city of Chur. Due to their position, they controlled a number of key alpine passes. The League was also not a unified state and virtually all external affairs were settled by referendum. At the beginning of the 17th century, the regional powers around the Leagues attempted to secure transit and trade routes through the League passes.
A court was set up that initially supported the French-Venetian faction and pronounced judgments against the Habsburg faction for a variety of crimes. Shortly thereafter the Habsburg faction gained power and returned judgments against the French-Venetian side. At the same time, the Protestant and even a few Catholic representatives turned their ire on the Bishop of Chur, Giovanni or Johann V of Flugi. They criticized the Bishop for working against the interests of the Leagues and for living outside the Diocese in Feldkirch or at Fürstenburg in Vintschgau.
Today, it is used to store the vehicles of a track construction company, but part of it can still be used as a crossing loop. The line leaves the roadway about 1.6 km later. For a few hundred metres, it now runs to the right of the road on Vignoles rails, until the line reaches the former halt of Chur-Sassal, which was abandoned in 2001. Immediately afterwards, the line crosses the Churs city limits from which the railway runs completely independently of the road as a mountain railway up the Schanfigg valley.
The location of the Arosa terminal station was particularly controversial. As a result, the Arosa municipality first decided to examine more closely another proposal from the Churwalden line (Churwaldnerlinie) company for a line from Chur via Passugg, Malix and Parpan to Arosa with a possible, later, connection to Lenzerheide. The core of this 32-km project was a tunnel connection under the Urdenfürggli and the Hörnli mountains to the Wasserboden lake at an altitude of 2100 m. The terminus would have been located in Innerarosa near the Bergkirchli (church).
On November 27, 1416, he was elected bishop of Chur and affirmed by the archbishop of Mainz, Johann II. Shortly afterwards, Ambundii returned to the council. At this time, Italy, France and Spain demanded the immediate election of the pope, while the Holy Roman Empire preferred to first initiate the reform of the Church. Ambundii convinced Emperor Sigismund to give priority to the election. On July 11, 1418 Pope Martin V by recommendation of the Emperor nominated Johannes Ambundii to the position of Archbishopric of Riga where he stayed until 1424.
In 1900 (or shortly before) Carl Rüedi and the Graubünden Landammann (governor) Hans Brunold of Peist (1861 – 1941) submitted petitions to the Great Council (the parliament of Graubünden) and the Federal Assembly of Switzerland for the erection of an electric railway between Chur and Arosa.Rüedi’s home municipality of Davos had been profiting from such a connection for ten years already. Carl Rüedi, however, was not granted to witness the arrival of the first train at Arosa (December 1914). On June 17, 1901 Rüedi died unexpectedly at Arosa at the early age of 53.
Beginning in the 1st century AD, the Roman vicus Centum Prata (100 meadows) has been an important Roman settlement to secure the province borders, and was both a stage town on the intersection of the streets to Zürich (Latin Turicum), Winterthur (Vitudurum) via Irgenhausen (Irgenhausen Castrum) and to Chur (Curia Rhaetorum) to Rome's alpine route. Centum prata was an economic center for the surrounding area, too, a residential and commercial area for artisans, traders, boatmen and carters living in it.D. Hintermann: Der römische Vicus von Kempraten. In: HA 106-108, 1996, p. 128-136.
Victor II was an 8th-century bishop of Chur of the Victorid family which had controlled the bishopric and the province of Rhaetia since the early seventh century. He is mentioned in an inscription on the tomb of his predecessor Paschal in the monastery of Cazis. According to the Liber de feodis of 1388, he was a son of the tribune Vigilius and a woman named Episcopina. The date of his death was 21 November, but the date is unrecorded, probably in the first half of the eighth century.
The association has published numerous editions with Swiss and international artists maintaining affordable prices in recent decades. Edition VFO publishes up to 60 editions a year and shows them in various exhibitions. Many works have been exhibited and presented in collaboration with Swiss museums and institutions, such as Bündner Kunstmuseum, Chur or Museum Tinguely, Basel. Among others, Edition VFO has published works and did exhibitions with artists such as Pipilotti Rist, Leiko Ikemura, Richard Deacon, Roman Signer, Günther Förg, Shirana Shahbazi, Annelies Strba and Tony Cragg in recent years.
A "night-walker" is someone from a species that normally sleep during jump (naturally or via trank) who have learnt to function normally while in jump-time. They embrace this alternate reality, with all its unworldly shapes and sounds, and believe there are new "worlds" to be found out there. New jump-points and routes are often discovered by night-walkers. Notable night-walkers in Cherryh's Alliance-Union universe include Chur Anify (hani) in Chanur's Homecoming (1986), Hallan Meras (hani) in Chanur's Legacy (1992), and Capella (human) in Tripoint (1994).
Some early onsets of winter brought distress to the FO. On those occasions, staff members had to clear the track. For that work, steam locomotives of type HG 3/4 were used until 1968. They were then replaced with modern diesel electric locomotives of class HGm 4/4. In the years when winter came early, locomotives and railcars sometimes had to be loaded onto standard gauge vehicles, to be transported from either Göschenen or Chur to Brig or vice versa, on the side of the pass where they were needed.
Upon the death of Bishop Remedius in 806 or 807, he legislated a division between episcopal and comital property (divisio inter episcopatum et comitatum), ending the de facto secular rule of the Chur bishops. He appointed Hunfried I comes curiensis (or Reciarum comes), ruling over a vast Imperial demesne. The ecclesiastical and secular claims to power remained a source of contention. With Churraetia as a power base, the Hunfriding heirs were able to gather enough power that Count Burchard II was able to proclaim himself a duke of Swabia in 917.
Sargans station was opened as a junction station with the station building between the diverging lines along with the section of the Ziegelbrücke–Sargans railway to Murg on 15 February 1859. In the same year, the VSB took over the continuous operation of the line via Ziegelbrücke and Rapperswil to Zürich. Since then, the section between Sargans and Chur has served traffic from both Zürich and St. Gallen. The Rhine valley line would have become a lucrative access route if an eastern Alpine railway crossing had been built.
These two train operated as EuroCity services, but had the same stopping pattern as IR services. At the end of 2013, the regional trains were also changed. Instead of NPZ push-pull trains, which ran from Ziegelbrücke to Chur, the line is now served by line S 4 of the St. Gallen S-Bahn using Stadler Flirt sets and stops at all the stations between Ziegelbrücke and Sargans. Weesen station has not been served since this change (instead, the Ziegelbrücke–Amden bus route of the Autobetrieb Weesen-Amden serves it every half hour).
Nothing is known about the castle and church complex from historical records. Chuno and Egino de Sancto Petro are mentioned in 1139 as is Conradus de Sancto Petro in 1274, but the name may not refer to this castle. The Lord of Sent appears as a vassal of the Bishop of Chur around 1160, but is never listed as patron of the church or owner of the castle. Based on the design and construction, the Romanesque church of St. Peter (San Peder) was probably built in the 12th century.
In this role the locomotive led fast trains to Zürich, Chur, Luzern, Berne and Spiez. Often the Ae 4/8 worked freight trains to Zürich and Winterthur. During its last years of service the locomotive was used for Basel – Zürich – Winterthur services, and then commuter trains around Olten and freight trains around Solothurn. In 1961 the locomotive was fitted with new cogwheels in the Tschanz drives. But on October 7th 1964 a driver reported a flashover at the step switch, and as a result of this the locomotive was towed to the Zürich repair workshop.
Guardval Castle and restaurant around 1880 Guardaval Castle was built around 1250 near the village of Madulain to administer the estates of the Bishop of Chur in the Upper Engadine by Bishop Volkard von Neuenburg. The castle sat along the Albula Pass road and collected tolls from travelers going over the pass. The castle was an important administrative center for the bishops; they often took up residence in the castle and ordered their vassals to frequently repair and hold it always available to them. Originally the castle consisted of just the main tower.
In his early career, DePaolo pioneered the use of samarium and neodymium isotope ratios to constrain the age and chemical evolution of rocks. DePaolo and his then advisor Gerald Wasserburg made the first Nd isotope measurements on terrestrial igneous rocks [5]. An important byproduct of this work was the development of epsilon notation (ε), with which initial 143Nd/144Nd values could be distinguished from the chondritic uniform reservoir (CHUR) in parts per ten thousand. Key principles of the Nd isotope system were laid out in his 1988 book, Neodymium Isotope Geochemistry: An Introduction.
Following the Pope's request for help, the Emperor prepared his army for a third expedition into Italy. In August 966 at Worms, Otto announced his arrangements for the government of Germany in his absence. Otto's illegitimate son Archbishop William of Mainz would serve as his regent over all of Germany, while Otto's trusted lieutenant, Margrave Hermann Billung, would be his personal administrator over the Duchy of Saxony. With preparations completed, Otto left his heir in William's custody and led his army into northern Italy via Strasbourg and Chur.
She brought him to the city of Lecco where he mounted his first solo Italian show in 1978. As a result of the success of the show, his paintings were exhibited in a variety of European cities, including Milan, Copenhagen, Paris, Chur, Bergamo, and Stockholm. After experimenting with a range of materials, in 1979, Atchugarry took up carving marble, and he created his first sculpture in Carrara marble entitled La Lumiere. His first monumental sculpture made of Carrara was completed in 1982, and later that year he moved permanently to Lecco.
She was the daughter of the Republican lawyer and politician .Historical Dictionary of SwitzerlandDas Online-Lexikon der Frauen in Graubünden After she earned her Matura in Bern, Lardelli studied law at the University of Bern from 1941 to 1947 and obtained the advocate patent in Bern. After she moved to Chur in the canton of Grisons in 1950, she was the first woman to earn the lawyer patent in the canton of Grisons. From 1955 to 1985, Lardelli headed the legal advice service of the Grisons Women's Associations Liaison Centre.
The parish of Waltensburg included Andiast until 1526, when Waltensburg was the only municipality in the Bündner Oberland that converted to the Reformed faith. A procession from Roman Catholic Andiast through Waltensburg toward Rueun in 1682 started the Fahnenkrieg (Flag War) in the valley. Until 1963 the municipality was financially stable from water and forest use taxes and did not have property taxes. However, starting in 1961 many of the small farms began to combine into a few larger operations which led to the emigration of many farmers to Ilanz, Domat/Ems and Chur.
Camenisch grew up in Tavanasa and moved to Chur to study at a teacher training college at the age of sixteen. After finishing his degree as an elementary school teacher he decided to travel all over the world, including half a year- residencies in Australia and Ecuador. Whilst travelling Middle and South America, Camenisch with his Romansh background easily picked up Spanish. After a short return to Switzerland, Camenish moved to Madrid, where he was employed as a teacher at the Colegio Suizo de Madrid from 2004 to 2007.
Heidenberg Castle was the first of four castles built to defend and control the region around Obersaxen. The Obersaxen plateau first appears in historic records in 765 when Bishop Tello gave his farms and meadows there to Disentis Abbey. In 806 it became an Imperial Estate, which it remained until 956 when Emperor Otto I donated the village and the village church back to the Bishop of Chur. To control this important village along the Rhine river, four castles were built at various points throughout the Middle Ages.
The third volume also involved him in controversy with the canons of St. Emmeram of Regensburg. With advancing age he ceased personal researches, but induced his younger Jesuit peers, in Graz and Klagenfurt, to take up and carry on his work. With the same end in view he communicated, only a short time before his death, with the learned prince abbot, Martin Gerbert, the result being that the Benedictine Fathers, Emil Usserman, Ambrosius Eichhorn, and Trudpert Neugart, took charge of the work for the Dioceses of Würzburg, Chur, and Constanz. He died in Vienna.
The Broncos currently play in the Nationalliga A and are the most successful Swiss American football team with the record for most Swiss Bowl wins (eight wins) as well as winning the EFAF Cup in 2010 and the Eurobowl in 2012. As of 2017 they finished first in the league, hosting Swiss Bowl XXXII in Ringstrasse Stadium where they defeated the Basel Gladiators 42-6 on July 8. The local football team are FC Chur 97 who play in the sixth division of Swiss football. They play home games at Ringstrasse.
The main routes for arrival are from Nohradhar, Sirmour of 14 km and Sarahan, Chaupal of 8 km. The Churdhar Peak is mentioned in the book, The Great Arc, by John Keay but is referred to as The Chur. It is from this peak that George Everest made many astronomical readings and sightings of the Himalaya mountains around 1834. He was the Surveyor General of India and did the initial survey of the full length of India as well as some very accurate measurements of the earth's curvature.
1939 Schützentaler (Lucerne) Schützentaler (commemorative silver coins in thaler size, not to be confused with shooting medals awarded for shooting performance) were first minted in 1842, by Graubünden for the festival in Chur. Between 1855 and 1885, fifteen such coins were issued by the federal mint with the denomination of five francs; two final Schützentaler were issued by the federal mint in 1934 and 1939. During 1890-1929 and since 1949, privately produced commemorative gold and silver medals have been issued for the federal shooting festivals, sometimes also included under the term of Schützentaler.
Nadig first taught in England and France before returning to Switzerland. She taught in a Sunday school and became involved in missionary work, which is how she met the social activist Leonhard Ragaz in 1893, whom she married in 1901. She took a teaching position in the Engadin valley, while her husband served as the chief Protestant cleric of Chur between 1902 and 1906. In 1902, she was one of the founders of the Swiss Federation of Abstinent Women (), an arm of the international temperance movement in Switzerland.
The Vorarlberg Railway opened the connecting line between the Chur–Rorschach line and the Vorarlberg line on 23 November 23 1872. The first through express train between Zürich and Munich ran just under a year later, on 1 November 1873. The line, as with most of the Austrian railway network, was nationalized prior to World War I. The line was electrified on 2 January 1949. Currently, local passenger service over the route is provided by the S3 of the Vorarlberg S-Bahn, which operates every half-hour between and .
The Austroalpine nappes are a geological nappe stack in the European Alps. The Alps contain three such stacks, of which the Austroalpine nappes are structurally on top of the other two (meaning they were thrusted over the other two). The name Austroalpine means Southern Alpine, because these nappes crop out mainly in the Eastern Alps (the Alps east of the line Lake Constance - Chur – Lake Como). Because the Austroalpine nappes consist of material from the former Apulian or Adriatic plate, that was thrusted over the European plate, they are called allochthon nappes.
Corin Curschellas produced her first substantial composition in 1979/1980 while she was still studying. It was a theatrical composition for the play Woman by Edward Bond at the National Theatre in Zürich – Schauspielhaus Zürich, directed by George Gruntz. In 2003 Corin Curschellas composed the music for the TV drama, Marilyn by Stina Werenfels together with Christian Rösli In 2014 she worked on the cultural-political project "Uccelin – eine Singvogel Suite" (Uccelin – a Songbird Suite). Die Suite pays Hommage to and supports the art project «Uccellin» (English Little Bird) of the Chur artist Hans Danuser.
Thierry Paterlini (born April 27, 1975 in Chur, Graubünden) is a Swiss professional ice hockey defenceman. He currently plays for the ZSC Lions of the Swiss National League A. He first played professionally in the National League B with Grasshopper Club Zürich in 1993. Paterlini debuted in the top league in 1996 for SC Bern. He played four seasons with Bern, four with HC Davos, three with the ZSC Lions, and two with HC Lugano. Seger was selected to play for the Switzerland men's national ice hockey team at the 2010 Winter Olympics.
Nearly 2000 years later, some of the population of Graubünden still speak Romansh which has descended from Vulgar Latin. In the 4th century Chur became the seat of the first Christian bishopric north to the Alps. Despite a legend assigning its foundation to a legendary British king, St Lucius, the first known bishop is one AsinioReligious life in the Alps, Switzerland Historical Dictionary in AD 451. In ancient times, the region had long been inhabited by the Celts before it became part of the ancient Roman provinces of Raetia and Noricum.
Nine railcars received completely new electrical equipment; their power output was thereby increased to , and in some of the later rebuilds to as much as . Those modifications doubled the railcars' maximum towing capacity to , and increased their top speed from . This first series of rebuilt railcars was given the new traffic numbers 30–38 (see table). The Chur-Arosa-Bahn, which was similarly merged with the Rhaetian Railway during World War II, brought to that merger only six railcars, which was insufficient for its burgeoning winter sport traffic.
As the traffic peak on the Bernina Railway was in summer, it was possible, after the three way merger, to redeploy a few railcars to Chur each winter. For that purpose, the Rhaetian Railway rebuilt railcars nos 31 to 34 in 1946–1947 to a dual voltage configuration. That rebuilding included totally new electrical equipment with a step controller and more powerful motors made by SAAS, and an air brake system for the railcars themselves. However, trains hauled by the railcars continued to be braked using a vacuum system.
On track 3 is also the exchange of locomotives for the famous Bernina Express, which operates between Chur or Davos Platz and Tirano. At "Montebello Curve" railway crossing The line now turns to the south east. After crossing the Rosegbach, passing through the Surovas station (which was previously called "Sans Souci" (Carefree)), and crossing the Berninabach, it finally reaches Morteratsch station, about below the Morteratsch Glacier. Past the other end of the station is the world-famous Montebello Curve, where the line meets the road over the pass.
The Albula Railway begins in Thusis, where it connects with the Landquart-Chur railway, built in 1896. Behind Thusis station, the line crosses the Hinterrhein, as well as the A 13 Autobahn, and enters the Albula Valley, which, east of Thusis, is known as the Schinschlucht. Even at this early stage, it passes many bridges and tunnels. After Solis station, from Thusis, the line crosses the Albula for the first time, on the high Solis Viaduct, which is both the highest bridge on the Rhaetian Railway, and the broadest span viaduct on the Albula Railway.
The relations of the Land of Wursten with the convent improved and on 24 June 1383 the Wursten Consuls donated several estates left by people without heirs to the convent in order to pray requiem masses for the deceased.Polycarp-Gottlieb Hempel, Inventarium Diplomaticum Historiæ Saxoniæ Inferioris Et Omnium Ditionum Brunsvico-Luneburgicarum / Verzeichniß derer Urkunden der Historie von Nieder-Sachsen und aller Chur- und Fürstlich-Braunschweig-Lüneburgischen Staaten, darinnen ... Schenkungen, Privilegia, auch ... Documente ... In Chronologischer Ordnung von 786 bis 1778. enthalten: 4 parts, Hanover and Leipzig: Helwing, 1785-1798, pt. 1., p. 402.
Richard returned to Britain in 1961 to be a Consultant Orthopaedic and Trauma surgeon at the West Bromwich Hospital. In 1965 he took sabbatical leave to work in Chur, Switzerland with Professor Martin Allgöwer who in the early 1960s had pioneered a new internal fixation technique for fractures. Richard introduced to Britain this AO technique developed by the AO Foundation (the Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Osteosynthesefragen).AO Foundation website Convinced that this technique was a major advance in fracture management, he spread the technique throughout the UK via his orthopaedic registrars.
The car loading station is equipped with two loading tracks next to a loading ramp, which stretches along the valley slope. It has a direct connection to the main road through a car tunnel and a covered gallery, which serves, among other things, the waiting road vehicles and has offices for cashiers. There is also a service building with a self-service kiosk. In addition to the transport of cars, Sagliains station also serves as an interchange station between the Scuol- Tarasp–Pontresina regional services and the Scuol- Tarasp–Landquart–Chur–Disentis regional express services.
There he continued his political agitation, largely based in Chur and Yverdon.Fisch (1943) He travelled throughout Europe, maintaining his revolutionary activism,Robson & Robson (1986) before being granted right of asylum in England in 1823. There, he soon established a broad circle of exiled and radical friends including: Ugo Foscolo, Sir John Bowring, Thomas Campbell, Joseph Henry Green and Edward Craven Hawtrey. Though he claims that Bowring had introduced him to write for the Westminster Review, he managed a meagre living on various failed educational enterprises, and publishing on educational matters and tutoring in German.
Like other of Förderer's works, the Friedenskirche, with its construction method in exposed concrete, is associated with Brutalism – a view that is not shared by all architecture experts. Between 1963 and 1971 the trained sculptor built community centers with an integrated church in a similar style, mainly in Switzerland, but also in Germany. Examples are the Protestant parish hall in Moers-Hochstrass, St. John in Lucerne and the Holy Cross Church in Chur, whose alpine silhouette is reminiscent of the Friedenskirche. These buildings are open meeting places and designed as a walk-in sculpture with clearly recognizable sculptural orientation.
Former friends Jedi Yau (Him Law) and Fighting Yip (Sammy Sum) are rivals at work, love and bicycle racing. Jedi and Fighting became friends in high school because of their shared interest in bicycle racing, but lost touch when Fighting had to return to Taiwan for family issues. The two meet again when Fighting becomes Jedi's new colleague at CHUR accounting firm, however Fighting doesn't want to resume his past friendship with Jedi. Their rivalry is further intensified when their work superiors Mucci Lai (Hanjin Tan) and Hillary Ning (Rosina Lam) pit Jedi and Fighting against each other to play office politics.
The son of a civil servant, Kekulé was born in Darmstadt, the capital of the Grand Duchy of Hesse. After graduating from secondary school (the Grand Ducal Gymnasium in Darmstadt), in the fall of 1847 he entered the University of Giessen, with the intention of studying architecture. After hearing the lectures of Justus von Liebig in his first semester, he decided to study chemistry. Following four years of study in Giessen and a brief compulsory military service, he took temporary assistantships in Paris (1851–52), in Chur, Switzerland (1852–53), and in London (1853–55), where he was decisively influenced by Alexander Williamson.
In the late 1970s, Camenisch was involved in local opposition to the nuclear power industry. In Switzerland, as in other countries, the movement against nuclear power plants utilized tactics of direct action: cutting down electrical pylons, sabotage against power stations, and actions against leaders of the nuclear industry. In January 1980, Camenisch and other activists were arrested for sabotaging a pylon and a power station of NOK (Nordostschweizer Kraftwerke = "Northeast Swiss Power Stations") at Bad Ragaz. After spending a year free on bail, the court of Canton in Chur and Graubünden sentenced Camenisch to 10 years in prison.
View of Bondo from the north, c. 1870 Aerial view (1954) Under the Carolingian dynasty Bondo belonged to the Ministerium Bergallia, which was a dependant of the early Bishops of Chur, though after 960 it was owned directly by the Bishop. The valley church of S. Maria at Castelmur is first mentioned in 988, while the village church for Bondo, S. Martino, was consecrated in 1250. During the High Middle Ages Bondo was part of several villages that were collectively known as di là dell'acqua (‘across the water’), which were part of the district of Sotto Porta/Unterporta.
Alexander's tomb effigy in St. Stephen's Cathedral, Vienna. Alexander of Masovia (pl: Aleksander mazowiecki; 1400 - 2 June 1444) was a Polish prince member of the House of Piast from the Masovian branch. He was Bishop of Trento since 1425, titular Patriarch of Aquileia since 1439, Cardinal nominated by Antipope Felix V as titular of the diocese of St. Lawrence at Damascus (San Lorenzo in Damaso) since 1440, titular Bishop of Chur since 1442 and rector at St. Stephen's Cathedral, Vienna since 1442, a diplomat. He was the second son of Siemowit IV, Duke of Masovia and Alexandra of Lithuania, daughter of Algirdas.
The old church of Rethen before its demolition in 1901 Already around the year 1211 "Heinrich Bethman from Chur in the land of Rhetia" received the feudality about court, jus patronatus about church and the right of hunting. The documentary mentioning of these rights was firstly found in a document from the year 1383/85. Based on his long- standing experience in the war service Bethmann built his house in the kind of a water castle on a small island in the village pond. During the following decades the village was attacked several times by robber barons.
Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor, finally confirmed again in 949 the right of free election of the abbot to the monks themselves. During the Investiture Controversy, Pfäfers again fell under foreign control, however. In 1095, Henry IV gave the abbey to the diocese of Basel, which exchanged the abbey with Henry V in 1114 for the castle of Rappoltstein in Alsace; only the intervention of Pope Paschal II in 1116 restored the monastery's freedom. During the early Middle Ages Pfäfers remained the most important monastery in the diocese of Chur, and intellectual centre of the region.
The three most important Chur-Raetian manuscripts were made in Pfäfers: Liber Aureus (the main source for the abbey's history), Liber viventium (the abbey's memorial book) and Vidimus Heider (the abbey's cartulary). In 1208, Otto IV, Holy Roman Emperor, passed Vogtei (protectorship) of the monastery to the Barony of Sax, to whom the monks pledged at least partial allegiance. In 1257, Abbot Rudolf bought back their freedom for 300 silver marks and, in 1261, transferred it to the of Freudenberg Castle. In the 14th century there were two separate Vogtei over the monastery and the upper Taminatal: Castle Freudenberg and Ragaz.
Filmed in the aftermath of 2002 Gujarat violence in which over a thousand people were killed, and mistrust between Muslim and Hindu communities ran high, the film focuses on the work of two Muslim healers who live and work among predominantly Hindu communities. Karimbhai Sumra of Virampur village, Gujarat, uses traditional medicine to heal humans, animals, and even plants. The last category includes producing a variety of herbal pesticides for farmers. Rehmat Khan Solanki of Chur Village, Gujarat, on the other hand, specializes in treating animals and uses traditional medicine and environmentally friendly methods to heal them.
Wädenswil railway station is a railway station in Switzerland, situated near to the banks of Lake Zurich in the municipality of Wädenswil in the canton of Zurich. It is located on the Lake Zurich left bank railway line, and is the junction station for the Südostbahn's Wädenswil to Einsiedeln line. The station is served on the lakeside line by an hourly long-distance RegioExpress service between Zürich and Chur. It is also served by Zurich S-Bahn services S2, S8 and S25 on the lakeside line, and is the terminus of the S13 on the Wädenswil to Einsiedeln line.
All of the offices and branches of Wegelin & Co. are located in Switzerland, and the bank is headquartered in St. Gallen. Until its 2012 restructuring, the bank employed about 700 staff and had offices in Basel, Bern, Chiasso, Chur, Geneva, Lausanne, Locarno, Lugano, Lucerne, Schaffhausen, Winterthur and Zurich. Many employees come from the local University of St. Gallen, which has a good relationship with the bank. The bank managed client assets of over CHF 24 billion (figures dated to January 2012), and according to another source was also managing CHF 3 billion in pensions and moneys of private clients.
He joined his order in 1964 as a novice, and studied Theology at the order's seminary in Solothurn. He was ordained a priest in 1972, and continued his studies in Fribourg, Tübingen and Lucerne, where he earned a doctorate with a dissertation on the work of Hans Urs von Balthasar. In the following years, he lived in the monastery of Madonna del Sasso in Locarno, where he was active as a teacher. Subsequently, he taught dogmatic theology and fundamental theology at the theological seminary in Chur, and served as a Professor of Theology at the University of Lugano.
Brussels National Airport railway station The Airport Railway Station is located under the airport building at level −1. The train station has direct services to Antwerp, Brussels, De Panne, Ghent, Hasselt, Landen, Leuven, Mechelen, Nivelles and Quévy. At least four trains per hour serve the most used link to Brussels South Railway Station, where international connections are offered by Eurostar (to London), Thalys (to Amsterdam, Avignon, Cologne, Essen, Lille, Marseille, Paris and Valence), ICE (to Cologne and Frankfurt), and Eurocity (to Basel, Bern, Chur, Luxembourg and Zürich). A direct train link with Leuven was opened on 12 December 2005.
The An Wang Middle School in Lowell, Massachusetts, is named in his honor, as is the An Wang Professorship of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Harvard University, held by Roger W. Brockett and Hanspeter Pfister, the An Wang Professorship of Computer Science at Brown University, held by John E. Savage, and the Wang Professorship of Cognitive and Neural Systems at Boston University, held by Stephen Grossberg; see sites.bu.edu/steveg. An Wang died of cancer in 1990. He and his wife, Lorraine (Chur) Wang, lived in Lincoln, Massachusetts. Lorraine Wang died on March 1, 2016, at Emerson Hospital in Concord, Massachusetts.
Drawing of the castle in 1830 Grüneck Castle was probably built around 1200 by an unknown builder. The de Grienenech family first appears in the historical record in 1260, but it is unclear whether they had any ties to the castle. The first time the castle is clearly named in a record is in 1515, when it was owned by St. Nicolai monastery in Chur and may have already been a ruin. The noble family Schmid von Grüneck, who were one of the most powerful families in Ilanz from the 15th to 18th century, never owned or lived at Grüneck Castle.
During the medieval period more regional traffic used the Septimer Pass than the Splügen Pass. Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor, supported this arrangement. He forbade the local Count of Werdenberg to build a new path in 1359 in order to support the loyal Bishop of Chur; the Bishop controlled Septimer Pass. In 1473 the then Count of Werdenberg allowed the municipalities and transport cooperatives of Thusis, Masein, and Cazis to rebuild the passage, which was by then in poor condition: die richstrass und den waeg entzwüschend Tusis und Schams, so man nempt Fyamala zuo howen, uffzuorichten und ze machen.
Dreibündenstein, 1915 erected stone to mark the border of the Three Leagues The Dreibündenstein (Romanish: Term bel) is a marker erected at the intersection of the Three Leagues (League of God's House, the League of the Ten Jurisdictions and the Grey League) which would found the modern canton of Graubünden. The stone is at an altitude of on the border between the municipalities of Domat/Ems, Scheid village (now part of Tomils municipality) and Malix. The original stone dates from 1722, and today is in the Rätian Museum in Chur. In 1742, Nicolin Sererhard mentions three stones.
For further information on the Army of the Danube's movements and orders, see Jean- Baptiste Jourdan. A Memoir of the operations of the army of the Danube under the command of General Jourdan, taken from the manuscripts of that officer. London: Debrett, 1799, pp. 140–144. For further information on its size and composition, see Army of the Danube order of battle, or Roland Kessinger, Order of Battle, Army of the Danube . Retrieved 3 December 2009. André Masséna had already pushed into Switzerland with his force of 30,000, and successfully passed into the Grison Alps, Chur, and Finstermünz on the Inn.
The Vorderrhein at Schluein Thanks to its attractive scenery and some interesting passage, the Vorderrhein is a popular river for paddling and rafting, especially the section between Ilanz and Versam. Along entire length of the Vorderrhein there is a narrow-gauge railway line: from Chur to Disentis there is a line of the Rhätische Bahn. From Disentis, the Furka-Oberalp line of the Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn runs to the Oberalp Pass and on to Andermatt. In the Ruinaulta area, the main road runs to the North of the river, and at its highest point, at Flims, it is about above the Rhine.
Nevertheless, an engineer from Chur, Versell, proposed a new, 24-kilometer option, the so-called Lenzerheidebahn via Malix, Praden, Tschiertschen and under the Ochsenalp to the Obersee. Although this proposal enjoyed a degree of support in Arosa, it focused from then on the financing of the Wildberger proposal, which provided for a pure adhesion railway with a maximum of 6.0% grade. In March 1910, negotiations were conducted on the location of Arosa station and the route was optimised. Since the rolling stock of the RhB would be able to run on the line, the minimum radius of curvature was set at 60 metres.
The construction of the Lüen power plant, which was intended to supply both the railway line and the city of Chur with electricity, was not allowed to fall behind, unlike the other works. In addition to the difficult terrain, preparations for the general mobilisation at the beginning of the First World War also caused serious problems, as various construction workers and engineers were drafted for military service. In particular this affected Hans Studer, who had to resign from his post as deputy chief engineer. Despite all difficulties, the line was finally opened on 12 December 1914 after only two years of construction.
The son of farmer Jakob Daniel Canova and his wife Maria Elisabeth (née Jörg), Gaudenz Canova was born on December 31, 1887 in the municipality Domat/Ems in Graubünden, Switzerland. At first educated at Swiss schools, he proceeded to study law in Berlin and Freiburg and was awarded the title of doctor of jurisprudence by the University of Freiburg. Canova became involved in Graubünden's social democratic politics as a lawyer in Chur. He was elected to his first term in the National Council of Switzerland in 1922, and was a part-time editor of Graubünden's Bündner Volkswacht during the 1920s.
Here, the A1 and A3 share the same route as far as Motorway Interchange Limmattal, where the A3 goes towards Urdorf and the Uetliberg Tunnel which was opened on May 4, 2009. After Zürich the motorway weaves through the hills of the south-east bank of Lake Zürich. It continues along the Walensee (Walen Lake), and on to Mels where it ends at a junction with the A13. The A3 represents (together with a section of the A1) the most important connection between Basel and Zürich, and (together with a section of the A13) the most important connection Zürich–Chur.
The composition of the depleted reservoir relative to the CHUR evolution line, at time T, is given by the equation :ɛNd(T) = 0.25 T2 – 3 T + 8.5. Sm-Nd model ages calculated using this curve are denoted as TDM ages. DePaolo (1981) argued that these TDM model ages would yield a more accurate age for crustal formation ages than TCHUR model ages – for example, an anomalously low TCHUR model age of 0.8 Gy from McCulloch and Wasserburg's Grenville composite was revised to a TDM age of 1.3 Gy, typical for juvenile crust formation during the Grenville orogeny.
The A13 starts in St. Margrethen, Canton of St. Gallen right after the A1. Afterwards, it crosses through the entire Rhine Valley, connects along the border with Austria and Liechtenstein, towards Sargans, where A3 joins the A13. The highway then heads to Chur, the capital of Grisons, and turns southwards at Reichenau, where one can divert to drive along the Alps on the main road to Flims-Disentis-Andermatt-Brig (summer only), whereas A13 leads to Thusis (about up). From Thusis the A13 climbs an altitude difference of some 1000 metres to the long San Bernardino Tunnel at around .
Official Website-The Early Middle Ages accessed July 7, 2008 From Bellinzona the Longobards controlled the traffic on the important trade route from Varese over Ponte Tresa, the Monte Ceneri Pass, Biasca and finally over the Lukmanier Pass into Chur. Some researchers believe that Bellinzona may have been the capital of a county that included most of the valleys in Ticino. Location of the three castles in Bellinzona At around 774 the Frankish Kingdom (that would become the Carolingian Empire) gained control of the Ticino valley including Bellinzona. Castelgrande was expanded with a chapel, apartments, towers and barracks.
It included a German translation of the story of Sigisbert of Disentis, an eighth century hermit credited with having founded what became Disentis Abbey. The book was introduced to the school replacing a German version of "Robinson Crusoe" which Decurtins dismissed as "lightweight" ("zu seicht"). Then, in 1899 a version of the Sigisbert story, "Sigisbert en Rezia", was produced in Romansh. However, Sigisbert came up against the modernising agenda of the education administrators in the cantonal capital, Chur, who had implemented a major school reform in 1890, following the precepts of the influential education reformers Johann Friedrich Herbart and Tuiskon Ziller.
His allies of the Swabian League refused to send more soldiers to the Grisons, which was of no interest to them. Maximilian returned to Lake Constance, and subsequently led the operations on the northern border of the Swiss Confederacy. But his troops suffered many defeats, and in September 1499, he had to agree to the Peace of Basel. Although this peace treaty affirmed the status quo ante bellum and thus the mixed jurisdiction over the Grisons between the Habsburgs, the bishopric of Chur, and the Three Leagues remained, the battle of Calven marked the end of the Habsburg expansion in the Grisons.
In May 2014 Sealand drew 1–1 with the Chagos Islands at Crawley Town a fortnight before another draw, 2–2 with Somaliland (who were making their non-FIFA debut) in London. Sealand underwent a European tour for the first time in August 2014 which proved to be hugely successful. In Chur a record 6–1 win over Raetia saw Dan Hughes become the record-scorer with 4 goals, before a 3–2 win over Seborga in Ospedaletti, Italy. Hughes added to his tally in that game and the Seals extended their unbeaten international run to 6 games.
At the same time, the former Raetia province was absorbed into the re-established Swabian stem duchy. For this reason, Churraetia remained nominally part of Swabia and by extension of the Holy Roman Empire even though it had not historically been part of Alemannia. Chur suffered several invasions in the 10th century, by the Magyars in 925/6, and by the Saracens in 940 and 954. In parallel with the development of feudalism in Western Europe, political power became fragmented over the 10th and 11th centuries, and Churraetia was divided into the three counties of Oberrätien, Unterrätien and Vinschgau.
Stadler KISS (class RABe 511) running as the Rheintal-Express Chur–Wil at a stop in St. Margrethen. Sargans, the starting point for the measurement of the line-kilometrage (chainage), follows a junction with the Sargans loop (Sargans Schleife), which allows trains coming from Ziegelbrücke to proceed to Trübbach next to the A13, avoiding the need to reverse in Sargans. A short double track section between Trübbach and Neugrüt allows train crossings, otherwise the line to St. Margrethen is single-track. It no longer runs along the A13 and the Rhine, but has its own route between the motorway and the valley slope.
Making Dwelly available digitally, so it could be searched both as a Gaelic–English and an English–Gaelic dictionary, was a frequent request from Gaelic speakers, learners and enthusiasts. Due to a change in copyright law and various other complications, it eventually took a German learner of Scottish Gaelic, Michael Bauer, over 10 years to complete the digitisation. It was finally launched online in co-operation with Will Robertson, a software engineer from Perthshire, in January 2009 under the name Dwelly-d (short for Dwelly digiteach "Digital Dwelly")."Dwelly air a thionndadh 's ga chur air loidhne".
Drawing of the castle, date unknown The castle was probably built in the 12th century as the home castle of the Aspermont family. The Aspermont family were ministerialis, unfree knights in service to a higher noble, in service to the Bishop of Chur. Ulrich and Schwicker von Aspermont were first mentioned in 1149. The family had ties to the locally powerful Lords of Tarasp and to the Hohenstaufen kings. In 1170 two of Schwicker's sons, Ulrich and Heinrich, were two of the three witnesses when the Bishop bestowed a title on the son of the king.
Frankish Empire (AD 788–843) In the 4th century Chur became the seat of the first Christian bishopric north to the Alps. Despite a legend assigning its foundation to an alleged Briton king, St. Lucius, the first known bishop is one AsinioReligious life in the Alps, Switzerland Historical Dictionary in AD 451. In the 6th century, the Alpine Slavs, who are ancestors of present-day Slovenes, settled the eastern areas of the Friulia region. They settled in the easternmost mountainous areas of Friuli, known as the Friulian Slavia, as well as the Karst Plateau and the area north and south from Gorizia.
Constance was a missionary bishopric in newly converted lands, and did not look back on late Roman church history unlike the Raetian bishopric of Chur (established 451) and Basel (an episcopal seat from 740, and which continued the line of Bishops of Augusta Raurica, see Bishop of Basel). The establishment of the church as an institution recognized by worldly rulers is also visible in legal history. In the early 7th century Pactus Alamannorum hardly ever mentions the special privileges of the church, while Lantfrid's Lex Alamannorum of 720 has an entire chapter reserved for ecclesial matters alone.
At the 2008 election of Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf to the Federal Council of the Swiss People's Party (SVP) of the Canton of Grisons, a new political party—the Conservative Democratic Party (BDP) Graubünden—emerged. Trachsel moved to the BDP along with several colleagues and went on to be successful in the 2010 elections despite the party change. He served his final 4-year term until 31 December 2014 when he fulfilled the 10 year limit of service. Trachsel retired from Government service in December 2014 and received a standing ovation from his colleagues at his retirement ceremony in Chur, Switzerland.
Maria Cunitz, Elisabeth Hevelius, and Maria Clara Eimmart had been active astronomers in the seventeenth century. Through an edict Friedrich III introduced a monopoly for calendars in Brandenburg, and later Prussia, imposing a calendar tax. The income from this monopoly was to pay astronomers and members of the Berlin Academy of Sciences which Friedrich III founded in July 1700. Friedrich III also went on to build an observatory, which was inaugurated in January 1711. Assisted by his wife Gottfried Kirch prepared the first calendar of a series, entitled Chur-Brandenburgischer Verbesserter Calender Auff das Jahr Christi 1701, which became very popular.
The League of God's House (German: Gotteshausbund, Italian: Lega Caddea, ) was formed in what is now Switzerland on January 29, 1367 to resist the rising power of the Bishopric of Chur and the House of Habsburg. The League allied with the Grey League and the League of the Ten Jurisdictions in 1471 to form the Three Leagues. The League of God's House, together with the two other Leagues, was allied with the Old Swiss Confederacy throughout the 15th and 16th centuries. After the Napoleonic wars the League of God's House became a part of the Swiss canton of Graubünden.
For further information on the Army of the Danube's movements and orders, see Jean- Baptiste Jourdan. A Memoir of the operations of the army of the Danube under the command of General Jourdan, taken from the manuscripts of that officer. London: Debrett, 1799, pp. 140–144. For further information on its size and composition, see Army of the Danube order of battle, or Roland Kessinger, Order of Battle, Army of the Danube . Retrieved 3 December 2009. André Masséna had already pushed into Switzerland with his force of 30,000, and successfully passed into the Grison Alps, Chur, and Finstermünz on the Inn river.
His groundless allegations did not affect Siegemund's professional employment opportunities, and in 1670 she was named the "city midwife" of Legnica/Lignitz. Her expertise and dexterity caught the attention of Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg who appointed her as his court midwife termed the Chur-Brandenburgische Hof-Wehemutter in Berlin in 1683. She also served as royal midwife for Frederick III's sister Marie- Amalie, Duchess of Saxony-Zeitz, and delivered four of her children. At the court of August the Strong, she assisted Saxon Electress Eberhardine to give birth to her son, Frederick August II (1696).
Lambert was born in 1728 into a Huguenot family in the city of Mulhouse (now in Alsace, France), at that time an exclave of Switzerland. Some sources give 26 August as his birth date and others 28 August. Leaving school at 12, he continued to study in his free time whilst undertaking a series of jobs. These included assistant to his father (a tailor), a clerk at a nearby iron works, a private tutor, secretary to the editor of Basler Zeitung and, at the age of 20, private tutor to the sons of Count Salis in Chur.
Travelling Europe with his charges (1756–1758) allowed him to meet established mathematicians in the German states, The Netherlands, France and the Italian states. On his return to Chur he published his first books (on optics and cosmology) and began to seek an academic post. After a few short posts he was rewarded (1763) by an invitation to a position at the Prussian Academy of Sciences in Berlin, where he gained the sponsorship of Frederick II of Prussia, and became a friend of Euler. In this stimulating and financially stable environment, he worked prodigiously until his death in 1777.
The Swiss Federal Railways extend only a few kilometres into the canton, to the capital, Chur, where passengers transfer to the Rhaetian Railway. "Rhaetia" is the Latin name for the area. The Albula Line became a UNESCO world heritage as did the Bernina Railway, the highest and only railway to cross the alps without the use of a tunnel at the pass. In winter some of the road passes are closed statistical pass closures in Graubünden whereas several high mountain passes such as the Julier, Bernina and Lukmanier are kept open all winter (subject to restrictions).
Hills spent seven years (1994-2001) as an assistant coach with Bowling Green. During that time he assisted with Team Canada's national team selection committee in 1997 and 1998. He also coached the Chur (Switzerland) Junior Hockey Team in 1986-87. He would later become the head coach at SUNY Geneseo, a position he would hold for four seasons where he led the Knights to a record of 18-7-4, a SUNYAC Championship, the quarterfinals of the NCAA Division III Tournament, and a No. 7 ranking in the final Division III poll during his last season.
Slavs kindled ritual fires in the heathen temples. These bonfires were started from the "living fire" — a need- fire. The construction for the fire obtaining is represented at the exposition. Around the heathen temple there are located the mockups of the main Slav idols: Rod — the ancestor of the universe, Rozhanitsy the celestial mistresses of the world, Veles — "skotiy god" (god of cattle), Rugiewit — the god of war and the judge of souls in the afterworld, Svarog — the father of the sun god, Svetovid — fertility god, Chur — the guard of boundaries, Yarilo — the deity of the sun and fertility.
Heinrich Willi was born in 1900 in Chur. He received his medical qualification from the University of Zurich in 1925 before becoming a resident at the Institute of Pathology Anatomy in Zurich and the Winterthur Hospital. He began training in pediatrics in 1928 at the Zurich Children's Hospital, under the director Guido Fanconi, and was appointed assistant medical director in 1930. He completed a doctoral thesis in 1936 on childhood leukemia and in 1937 he became the director of neonatology in what is now the University Hospital of Zürich, remaining in the position until his retirement in 1970.
It runs from the border crossing Trasadingen/Erzingen on the German border via Neunkirch, the Galgenbucktunnel at Neuhausen am Rheinfall, Schaffhausen and leads over Rheinbrücke to Feuerthalen. From there, it follows the Swiss bank of the Rhine and the Hochrhein along via Diessenhofen to Stein am Rhein, along the Untersee via Steckborn to Bodensee to Kreuzlingen. There it forms the main connecting road along the Swiss bank of the Rhine via Romanshorn, Arbon and Rorschach to St. Margrethen. Further up the Alpine Rhine to Chur, over the San Bernardino Pass to Bellinzona and further to Locarno to the Italian border.
Lenzerheide Valley of Lenzerheide Gondola lift system Aerial view (1947) Lenzerheide (Romansh: Lai) is a mountain resort in the canton of Graubünden, Switzerland at the foot of the Parpaner Rothorn. The village lies in the municipality Vaz/Obervaz in the district of Albula, sub-district Alvaschein. The village lies in a broadened section of the valley between the cantonal capital Chur to the north and Tiefencastel, beyond which are the Julier Pass and St Moritz. The high valley forms a pass of no official name, often referred to as Lenzerheide Pass, with a culmination point located 5 km north of the village.
Bar Aba Khel includes Kalakalay, Totano Bandai, Manja, Golden, Devlai, Nasrat, Shahdeari, Samai, Maira, Tall, [Dardyal],kamkhwalai, chur, penawrhai and Kamyari. Bar Aba Khel is divided into three clans or tribes: Mata Khel, Zaina Khel, and Sahib Khel. Mata Khel sub clan are Karam Ali Khel (Karmali Khel), Maryam Khel, Saran Khel, Jora Khel, Khusal Khel, Bemi Khel, Ranjo Khel and some descendant from wasli Khattak reside in Shahderai, Totano Bandai (Totanobandai), Golden, Manja and Dardyal. Zaina Khel sub clan are Merwais Khel, Usman Khel; Merwais Khel is further expanded to Sheda Khel, Umer Khel, Painda Khel, Musa Khel.
When Hannikel brutally murdered a grenadier of the Duke of Württemberg on April 5, 1786, close to Reutlingen, the Vogt of Sulz am Neckar, Jacob Georg Schäffer followed in pursuit of the gang. Twenty-seven members of Hannikel's gang were arrested close to Hohenstaufen Castle, but Hannikel himself and 28 members escaped into Switzerland. A few months later, the earl of Salis-Zizers arrested Hannikel and the rest of his gang at Untervaz and transported them to Chur. Hannikel managed to escape from the dungeon – today called Hannikel's tower – after some days but was finally arrested by the earl at Sargans.
Liechtenstein - History www.nationsencyclopedia.com (accessed on May 2012) Liechtenstein's borders have remained unchanged since 1434, when the Rhine was established as the border between the Holy Roman Empire and the newly formed Swiss cantons. The city of Chur suffered several invasions: by the Magyars in 925–926, when the cathedral was destroyed, and by the Saracens (940 and 954), but afterwards it flourished thanks to its location, where the roads from several major Alpine transit routes come together and continue down the Rhine river. In 926 more Magyar raiders attacked the abbey and the nearby town of St Gallen.
Loco 702 bears the name Curia, which is the Latin name of the canton's capital city, Chur. The remaining locos, numbered 703–707, are named after major Graubünden municipalities, each situated at an end point of the core network. Adjacent to the name on every locomotive is the traffic number in white, along with the coat of arms of the applicable municipality (on loco 701, the Graubünden coat of arms). As for the future of the Ge 6/6 II class one locomotive is to be retained by Rhb Historic for preservation Loco 704 Davos for forseable future.
Büchel's first big success was the Swiss championship title with the U17 team in Liechtenstein, which takes part in the Swiss Youth Championship. In 2001 he moved to the National League B with FC Vaduz and then switched to the Swiss first division club BSC Young Boys from Bern. In Bern, however, the 19-year-old was unable to break through and moved back to FC Vaduz after only one year. There too, the offensive player was plagued by many injuries and he hardly came into practice, which led him to move to FC Chur 97 in the third Swiss league.
The first clear testaments to Christian communities in Switzerland date after 313, when the religion was officially tolerated with the Edict of Milan. It is however certain that, as in Gaul, the Christian faith had already had adherents for some time prior to 313. The first bishop in Switzerland was either Justinianus, bishop of the Rauricans, in 340 (his historicity is not certain) or Theodorus, bishop of Octodurus, in 381 or earlier. The first Christian religious buildings date to the 4th century; they are found in Geneva, Chur and Saint-Maurice, known for the legend of the Theban Legion.
View from Araschgen The SSTH Swiss School of Tourism and Hospitality is a College of Professional Training and Education for the hotel and catering sector based in Passugg, municipality Churwalden. The courses of study range from vocational training as a hotel and catering specialist to the Swiss Professional Degree in Hospitality Management and the bachelor's degree in International Hospitality Management HES-SO (École hôtelière de Lausanne curriculum). Both the German- and English-language training programs of the SSTH are recognized in Switzerland. The hospitality management school is in the building of the former Passugg spa hotel, in a side valley about four kilometers from Chur.
Even the family Salis transferred themselves to the Val Bregaglia and resettled in the village Soglio which had a prosper position for trading. First one out of the family clan named in a document there was Rudolf Salis who died in Soglio in about 1300. Due to their position in Soglio and their contacts to the Bishop of Chur they could increase their political and economic importance first in the Val Bregaglia, and later even in the League of God's House. After the formation of the Three Leagues they spread during the 15th and especially 16th century even into the Grey League and the League of the Ten Jurisdictions.
The station was launched in 1984 by Gateway City Broadcasting, at 1110 AM.Decision CRTC 84-661 It was subsequently acquired in 1985 by Mid-Canada Radio,Decision CRTC 85-147 who also changed the station's frequency to 840 AM.Decision CRTC 85-148 In 1990, the station was acquired by the Pelmorex Radio Network. Pelmorex converted the station to FM in 1994,Decision CRTC 94-775 and sold it to Telemedia in 1999.Decision CRTC 99-38 Under Telemedia's ownership, the station adopted the "EZ Rock" brand. In 2002, Telemedia was acquired by Standard Broadcasting, and CHUR was one of the stations sold by Standard to Rogers Radio.
Bad König was already fortified in the Early Middle Ages, and was the hub of a tithing area with a tithing office. In 1477, Künnig als Chur Maintzisch Lehn (or in standard modern German König als Kurmainzisches Lehen – “König as an Electorate of Mainz fief”) was given to the Schenk Konrad von Erbach. Under the terms of the Erbach land partition in 1747, the Amt of König passed into the ownership of the Counts of Erbach-Schönberg. In 1948, König was granted the right to call itself staatlich anerkanntes Bad, or “state- recognized resort”, and in 1980 this resort in the Odenwald was granted town rights.
Two of them form the double loop of Wassen, at an altitude of , which allows the famous church of Wassen to be seen three times from different perspectives, first from below and the last time from above. The line passes over the Reuss twice, and the Meienreuss three times in this section. After a tunnel, the line reaches Göschenen station, at an altitude of . Here the Gotthard line meets the Schöllenenbahn, a metre gauge rack operated branch of the Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn that ascends to Andermatt, where connections can be made over the Oberalppass to Chur or through the Furka Base Tunnel to Brig.
Service is based on hourly regional trains between Scuol-Tarasp and Chur, complemented every 30 minutes by car shuttle trains transporting road vehicles between the two valleys linked via the tunnel and by freight trains. The tunnel is single track, with passing loops (each two km long) in the middle and near the two portals. Electrification is the RhB overhead standard of 11 kV 16.7 Hz AC. Due to its length, the spatial effects of the Vereina Tunnel have been subject to studies. Since its completion, multiple safety-related modifications to the tunnel have been performed, largely due to changes in standards that have elevated safety requirements.
Also, the Valendas-Sagogn station carries a double name but here for another reason: a bridge over the Rhine, which was built during the construction of the line, allowed access to the station from both sides of the Rhine. The station is located on the southern (right) bank of the Rhine and was opened in 1903 and connected on both sides by a dirt road, which was replaced by a paved road on the Valendas side during improvement works in 2010. Services run every hour towards Ilanz and Disentis as well as towards Reichenau-Tamins, Chur and Scuol-Tarasp. The road to Sagogn remains unpaved.
The first proposals for a railway from Chur to Arosa originated around the turn of the twentieth century, when it was realised that the Schanfiggerstrasse, which was completed in 1890, would not be able to cope with the traffic bound to the rapidly expanding spa of Arosa. Local spa doctor Carl Rüedi was the first to apply for a concession to build a railway line. A meeting was held in St. Peter with the Schanfigg stakeholders on 9 February 1901. It was planned to run the line along the cantonal road after it was widened with some sections on separate track through tunnels in difficult places.
Lenzerheide is the common name of a passage past a high mountain pass in the Alps in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland, reaching summit at 1549 m between Valbella and Parpan, approximately 5 kilometers south of the resort of Lenzerheide. The road connects Chur in the valley of the Rhine and Tiefencastel in the valley of the Albula, which is actually a tributary to the Rhine. The pass nevertheless offered a shortcut which additionally avoided the gorge "Schinschlucht" with its difficult terrain in the past. Nowadays most traffic to Tiefencastel would use the A13 motorway to Thusis to get to Tiefencastel on a main road.
In 1832, at his suggestion, the Bishopric of Chur was dissolved. In 1834, at the so-called Assembly of Baden, he gave expression to his views in the motions he introduced. These were, that ecclesiastical administration of law be placed under the control of the State, that he should have direction of the education of the clergy, that the ecclesiastical right of patronage should be limited and that the privileges of the religious orders should be revoked. After 1841, when his political friends dissolved the monastic houses of Aargau by force, he changed his opinions and came over to the side of his former opponents.
Through the analysis of isotopic compositions of neodymium, DePaolo and Wasserburg (1976) discovered that terrestrial igneous rocks at the time of their formation from melts closely followed the "chondritic uniform reservoir" or "chondritic unifractionated reservoir" (CHUR) line – the way the 143Nd:144Nd ratio increased with time in chondrites. Chondritic meteorites are thought to represent the earliest (unsorted) material that formed in the Solar system before planets formed. They have relatively homogeneous trace-element signatures, and therefore their isotopic evolution can model the evolution of the whole Solar system and of the "bulk Earth". After plotting the ages and initial 143Nd/144Nd ratios of terrestrial igneous rocks on a Nd evolution vs.
Caspar Decurtins was born in Trun, a small village in the Romansh speaking western part of the canton. His father, Laurenz Christian Decurtins, was a physician and one of the local land owners. His mother, born Margaretha Katharina Latour, also came from a prominent family in the Vorderrhein (literally: "pre-Rhine") valley. The politician Caspar de Latour (1827-1861) was a paternal uncle. He attended Gymnasium (secondary school) in Disentis and Chur, before moving to Germany in 1875 to conclude his university-level studies. He studied History, Art history and Civil Law at Munich and Heidelberg where after just three (half-year) terms he received his doctorate in 1876.
Autumn lady's tresses occurs in Europe and small adjacent parts of North Africa and Asia. In the west, it occurs from Ireland to Portugal, in the south from Spain including the Balearic Islands, the coastal mountains of Algeria, Italy including Sicily, Greece including Crete, the Mediterranean, Aegean and Black Sea Coasts of Turkey and the Caucasus Mountains, North Iran eastwards to the Western Himalayas. To the North its limit is from northern England, the Netherlands, Denmark and the southern Baltic, Poland to western Ukraine. In Switzerland the most recent locations are around Lake Lucerne, the Rhine Valley near Chur, in the area of Lake Walen and in Ticino.
Since the early Middle Ages, the Bishopric of Chur and the Counts of Tyrol had been disputing and quarrelling over the judicial rights in the lower Engadin, the Val Müstair, and the Vinschgau. When Tyrol came under the rule of the Habsburgs in 1363, Habsburg reeves had tried repeatedly to curtail the rights of the bishopric and to assimilate the valleys to their territories. The people of these valleys opposed these attempts and between 1367 and 1415 united in the League of God's House, one of the Three Leagues of the Grisons. In the Holy Roman Empire, Maximilian I of the House of Habsburg had become king in 1486.
As the oldest document of the monastery testifies, the women in Weesen joined the Dominican Order on 7 October 1256, and Maria Zuflucht is the oldest monastery of its kind in Switzerland. The sisterhood in Weesen was mentioned as "Sorores de congregacione in Wesen" in 1256 for the first time. From the Bishop of Chur, the community was given the right to free reception of novices, and even the authority to grant their benefactors an indulgence. Situated between the former villages of Oberwesin and Niderwesin, in 1259 Count Rudolf IV von Rapperswil, Countess Elisabeth's father, donated certain duties and lands "in den Widen" for the construction of their monastery.
Rheintal- Express between Trübbach and Sargans upright At the 2013 timetable change, the range of InterRegio and Regional services were comprehensively expanded and the lines of the St. Gallen S-Bahn were completely rearranged. Since then, the St Gallen and Sargans junctions have formed the basis for the S-Bahn timetable, which offers half-hourly services on virtually all lines, with extras services in the core area. Infrastructure upgrades were necessary to make the new timetable possible. The travel time of the Rheintal-Express (REX) was shortened by ten minutes to just under an hour, so that better connections could be offered in Sargans and Chur.
Hamilton acquired a Martinsyde F.6 (G-EBDK) from F. P. Raynham, and on 29 January 1925 he flew from London to St. Moritz, Switzerland, via Paris, Zurich, and Chur, a total distance of 450 miles, being airborne for eight hours. In August he competed in two events at the Royal Aero Club Meeting at Lympne Aerodrome, Kent. Hamilton, along with Geoffrey de Havilland, Hubert Broad and others, was a founder member of the British Private Aircraft Owners' Club on 17 February 1926. During the General Strike in May Hamilton was one of the pilots taking part a scheme organised by the Royal Aero Club to deliver newspapers by air.
Today (2018), an InterCity and an InterRegio service runs every hour between Zürich and Chur. While the InterCity trains predominantly consist of IC2000 push-pull sets propelled by class SBB Re 460 locomotives, there are also locomotive-hauled trains consisting of standard coaches (Einheitswagen) and (partly former) Eurocity coaches hauled by locomotives of classes Re 420 or Re 460\. The InterRegios were converted to Stadler KISS (RABe 511) at the end of 2013 and they no longer continue through Zurich to/from Basel, but they also stop in Walenstadt. This also eliminated the InterRegio services that had continued twice a day from Basel to Hamburg-Altona.
In March 1940 the Swiss parliament decided to revoke the blanket ban on paid employment being undertaken by "tolerated migrants" (refugees), but at the same time plans were set in train for the construction of labour camps to be administered by the police. In July 1940 Bernhard Steinberger was sent to the labour camp at Tamins, just outside Chur in Graubünden/Grisons. This turned out to be the first of six different labour camps in which he would successively be accommodated during the war. During that period he was able to obtain a work permit for work which he undertook as a designer for a total of twenty months.
New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1908. 31 July 2019 Upon their return to Löwenberg, two women who had been hired to work at the castle were inspired to join Maria Anna for nocturnal hours of adoration. Other women soon joined the original three, and in 1834 Maria Anna obtained permission from the Bishop of Chur to lead a communal life with her small group of women. The rule was founded on that of St. Benedict and approved by the bishop, the object of the community being the adoration of the Most Precious Blood and the education of youth, including the care of orphans and homeless or destitute girls.
Born in Chur, after studying music in Stuttgart, Munich and Leipzig, Heuß received his doctorate in 1902 and was editor of the Zeitschrift der internationalen Musikgesellschaft from 1904 to 1914, and editor-in-chief of the Neue Zeitschrift für Musik from 1921 to 1929. As a music critic and music writer, Heuß published mainly on early music and on the music of the classical and romantic periods. Heuß was hostile to contemporary music, which he regarded as "un-German". Oliver Hilmes has described how Heuß developed the Zeitschrift für Musik during the Weimar Republic into a bulwark against the avant-garde and everything supposedly 'un-German'.
Roggenburg Abbey seen from the air Roggenburg Abbey, Baroque building Organ, originally by Schmahl Quire, Roggenburg Abbey church In 1126 Count Bertold of Bibereck, together with his wife and his two brothers, Konrad, Bishop of Chur, and Siegfried, a canon in the diocese of Augsburg, founded the monastery. The first Premonstratensian canons came from Ursberg Abbey nearby and built the first monastery church. In 1444 the foundation was raised to the status of an abbey. The first description of Roggenburg Abbey as reichsunmittelbar dates from 1482/5; the legal consolidation of this status took place in tiny stages over the first half of the 16th century.
450), Saint Valentinian (530–548), Saint Ursicinus (d. 760), and Saint Adalbert(1151–60). Saint Sigisbert flourished about the year 600, Saint Pirminus a century later; Saint Florian, whom the diocese has chosen as its second patron, lived in the ninth century, the hermit Saint Gerold in the tenth. The Capuchin Theodosius Florentini, vicar-general from 1860 till his death (15 February 1865), was a very distinguished missionary; in 1852 he erected the Hospital of the Cross at Chur; before this he had already laid the foundations of two female religious congregations, one for the instruction of children, the other for the care of the sick.
From Reichenau, the Alpine Rhine flows east, passing Chur and turning north, before it turns north-east at Landquart, and then roughly north, east of Sargans. From here, the Alpine Rhine forms the border between the canton of St. Gallen of Switzerland on the left, west side, and the Principality of Liechtenstein on the east side. About further down, the Rhine then meets the Austrian federal state Vorarlberg and finally flows into Lake Constance, south of Lindau (Germany), which is no longer part of the Rhine Valley. The Swiss-Austrian border follows the historical bed of the Rhine, but today the river follows an artificial canal within Austria for the final .
The Gaelic poet Donald MacDonald (Dòmhnall Aonghais Bhàin) was commissioned by Comann Each nan Eilean - The Eriskay Pony Society to compose a praise poem for the Eriskay pony to commemorate the publication of the original studbook in 1972. The poem makes reference to the pony's position as a crofting animal used to transport seaweed and peat, as well as its genial nature towards children. > Bha iad riamh an Èirisgeidh 's gum b' fheumail iad don t-sluagh, Bha iad > troimh na linntean ann sna tìmean chaidh air ruaig; Thàirneadh iad a' mhòine > gu fògairt chur air fuachd Is làimhsicheadh an òigridh iad 's bha iomadh > spòrs 'nan cuairt.
Few have come up with a small number of missions in the NHL, such as Harijs Vītoliņš, Viktors Ignatjevs, Kaspars Astašenko, Raitis Ivanāns, Herberts Vasiļjevs and Panteļejevs , Only Irbe, Ozoliņš, Žoltoks and Kārlis Skrastiņš established themselves permanently in the NHL and play there even today. Other players moved to Western Europe or to the top clubs to Moscow. Harijs Vītoliņš soon returned from North America and played for many years for the EHC Chur. The returnees from North America found a financially troubled country in which the hockey game for survival and players abruptly left their teams as soon as they offered a chance abroad.
After he was welcomed into the Diocese of Chur, he settled in the city of Basel, hosted by his married friends Werner Kaegi and Adrienne von Speyr, in whose home he remained until 1967. During this period—although he was diagnosed with leukemia in 1958—von Balthasar wrote prolifically,Peter Henrici (1991), pp. 26. most notably the seven-volume work Herrlichkeit (The Glory of the Lord) (1961–1967), which was to serve as the first part of a theological trilogy on the three classical transcendentals of beauty, goodness, and truth. He also translated and edited for Johannes Verlag, with an emphasis on the writing of his collaborator von Speyr.
From 1960 to 1993 Henrici taught History of Modern Western Philosophy at the Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome, where he also served as Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy up to his appointment as Auxiliary Bishop of Chur. He was one of the much sought after professors at the Gregorian. His occasional lecture courses were often given to classes that were packed to overflowing. In the 1990–91 'A Philosophical Discourse for Theology' in the Faculty of Theology, for example, he gave a thrilling overview of the contributions of philosophy to Christian theology beginning from the doctrine of analogy in Plato and coming down to Heidegger.
At the same time the Swiss Northeastern Railway (German: Schweizerische Nordostbahn, NOB) concentrated on eastern Switzerland in the cantons of Zürich and Thurgau; its network covered the lines from Zürich to Lake Constance and to Schaffhausen and later to Lucerne. The United Swiss Railways (VSB) built lines from Winterthur to Rorschach and from Wallisellen to Rapperswil, Sargans and Chur. There were contracts for sharing the interlinked VSB line between Weesen and Glarus and the NOB line between Ziegelbrücke, Näfels, Glarus and Linthal. During the same period, railways were built in western Switzerland along Lake Geneva from Geneva to Lausanne and Bex and from Morges to Yverdon.
The line experienced its heyday during the time of Deutsche Reichsbahn. In 1938-1939, as a result of Wilhelmshaven’s status as a navy base, the line was served, along with other services, by a high-speed diesel multiple unit (Schnellverkehrs-Triebwagen, abbreviated SVT) service called the SVT Hamburg, which ran each day from Wilhelmshaven to Berlin Lehrter Bahnhof and back via Oldenburg, Bremen, Langwedel, Uelzen, Salzwedel and Stendal. In the 1950s to the 1970s, there was a long-distance express train to Basel SBB and/or Zürich (sometimes continuing to Chur), as well as Frankfurt. There were also special long-distance trains at the weekend for conscripts returning home.
These trains are the Glacier Express from Zermatt to St Moritz, and the Bernina Express from Chur via Samedan and Pontresina to Tirano. The most frequently used motive power on the Albula Railway is the modern Ge 4/4 III class of electric locomotive, which is also in service on the Vereina line. The Albula Railway was once the main stamping ground of the Rhaetian Crocodile (the Ge 6/6 I). The two remaining locos of this class, and the similarly historic Ge 4/6, still operate today at the head of not uncommon special trains. In contrast, the newer RhB locomotives have not achieved the popularity of the Crocodiles.
Due to the difficult geological conditions in Schanfigg, a total of 18 tunnels and 40 bridges needed to be created between 1912 and 1914 for the privately built Chur-Arosa line. Most of the bridges were constructed in the classical manner, in stone, which was often available in sufficient quantities in the nearby Plessur River valley. In places where the building conditions were especially unpromising, iron bridges were created. A completely new building method came to be used near Gründji, due to the distance to be overcome by the Gründjitobel Viaduct, and also by the Langwieser Viaduct, located only a short distance to the southeast.
The Langwieser Viaduct (or Langwies Viaduct; ) is a single track reinforced concrete railway bridge spanning the Plessur River and the Sapünerbach, near Langwies, in the Canton of Graubünden, Switzerland. It was designed by Hermann Schürch and constructed between 1912 and 1914 by Eduard Züblin for the Chur–Arosa railway. At the time of its completion, the Langwieser Viaduct was the first railway bridge anywhere in the world to possess a span of 100 meters, as well as the first railway bridge of such a scale to be made of concrete. Presently, the Langwieser Viaduct is owned and used by the Rhaetian Railway; it remains the biggest bridge on the company's network.
Portrait of a Young Woman or Bust of a Young Woman is a 1632 oil on canvas painting by Rembrandt, signed and dated by the artist. At the end of the 19th century it was bought by Johann II, Prince of Liechtenstein, who gave it to Georg Schmid von Grüneck, bishop of Chur, who in 1929 sold it for $125,000 to R. C. Vose Galleries, an art dealer in Boston, USA. Later in 1929 Vose re-sold it to the Boston-based collector Robert Treat Paine II for $125,000. He loaned it to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston from January 1930 to 1944.
To begin expanding their power into the deep forests and isolated mountain valleys, the Carolingian kings established several monasteries in Switzerland. One well preserved example of this style in Switzerland is Saint John Abbey, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, which was probably founded around 775 either on orders of Charlemagne or his Bishop in Chur. Many of the frescoes in the chapel are from the first half of the 9th century.UNESCO list accessed 12 October 2016 Another well known example of Carolingian architecture is the World Heritage Site Abbey of St. Gall which, while it was rebuilt in the Baroque style between 1755 and 1768, is based on the much older Carolingian monastery.
Born in Chur, Graubünden, Switzerland, Frick started his career with the youth team at Liechtensteiner club FC Balzers, in which he then played four seasons in the first team within the early 1990s. In 1994, Frick played abroad for the first time, signing with FC St. Gallen. In doing so, Frick became the first ever professional footballer in Liechtenstein history. After further spells in the Swiss Super League with FC Basel and FC Zürich,where he built a successful strike partnership with South Africa striker Shaun Bartlett,Connelly 2002, 52 Frick began catching the eyes of scouts from some of the best leagues in the world, including the Serie A in neighboring Italy.
Initially, the train was made up of first to third class salon and passenger coaches, supplied by all three of the participating railway companies. Between Chur and Disentis/Mustér, passengers could enjoy a hot lunch in a Mitropa dining car. From 1933, the Glacier Express through coaches were attached to normal passenger trains between Brig and Zermatt. In the earliest years of the Glacier Express, electric locomotives were used to haul the Glacier Express on the BVZ and the RhB, but steam locomotives were used on the FO. That changed in 1941-1942, when overhead catenary was installed on the FO, enabling completely electric operation for the full length of the route.
On 31 May 1987, with the start of the EuroCity network, the EC Rembrandt replaced the TEE Rheingold, although the Swiss terminus was not Geneva but Chur. The original route of the Rembrandt was served by EC Frans Hals. When new Swiss rolling stock of type EC90 became available in 1991, the Rembrandt was formed with class EC90 coaches, including observation cars – or "panoramic" coaches – Swiss class Apm 19. As the Rheingold had carried observation cars from 1962 until 1976, the 1991 change to the Rembrandts consist returned such cars to the train service through the Rhine Valley, although in a newer form, not the vista-dome type that the Rheingold had carried.
In the same year, Maienfeld joined the League of the Ten Jurisdictions which was founded to resist the influence of the Austrian Habsburgs. During the Old Zürich War over the Toggenburg inheritance, Wolfhart V von Brandis initially fought on the Schwyz-Glarus side, but switched to the Zürich-Habsburg side from 1444 to 1446. After the war, he was able to buy the Aarburg portion of the inheritance and bring the castle firmly under the Brandis family. Over the following decade he sold all of his estates in the Canton of Bern. In 1475 he signed treaties with the League of God's House and the Bishop of Chur and in 1477 with the League of Ten Jurisdictions.
Already in 1847, the entrepreneur Carl Ganahl, later the main proponent of the railway construction in the Vorarlberg, recognised the importance of a railway line in the Vorarlberg, although there were many problems with this idea. No mountain railway, which would be needed to cross the Arlberg, had yet been built in Austria and a line with no connection to the Tyrolean areas seemed useless. Moreover, Vorarlberg was not an independent crown land of Austria-Hungary, and thus possessed no representatives in the Imperial Council (Reichsrat) in Vienna. Operations commenced on the Bavarian Ludwig South-North Railway to Lindau in 1853 and the Swiss lines from Rorschach to Rheineck and from Rheineck to Chur opened in 1857.
After the Second World War, three new three new substations with rectifier systems were built to improve the power supply in Chur-Sand, Lüen-Castiel and in the Haspel mine. In 1951, the Gitzistein Tunnel received a gallery (avalanche protection) on both sides, and in 1956, the Sassal II and III tunnels were connected by a concrete gallery. To secure a bridge abutment in the Lüen ravine (Lüener Tobel) against landslides, a suspension device with wire ropes was installed between the abutment and the pier in 1955. It was attached to a weight of twelve tonnes, which acted on the pier head and held it in the desired position with a force of 50 tonnes.
Using SHRIMPU–Pb zircon dating methodology, Belyatsky et al determined the oldest tectonothermal event in the formation of the Napier Complex to have occurred approximately 2.8 billion years ago. Preservation of the UHT mineral assemblage in the analyzed rock suggests rapid cooling, with closure likely to have occurred for the Lu-Hf system at post- peak UHT conditions near a closure temperature of 800 °C. UHT granulites appear to have evolved in a low Lu-Hf environment, probably formed when the rocks were first extracted from a mantle profoundly depleted in lithophile elements. The source materials for the magmas that formed the Napier Complex were extremely depleted relative to the chondritic uniform reservoir (CHUR).
In political terms, he had grown up in the liberal enlightenment ambience of his mother's family, the Latours. He showed early evidence of his own political commitment in 1874, however, when he was expelled from the Swiss "Zofinger" students' association while still in Chur, after he showed his support for Ultramontanism. In 1875, he joined an alternative student association, the Schweizerischer Studentenverein. Decurtin returned to Grisons in 1877 and immediately involved himself in politics. On 6 May 1877, despite his youth, he was proposed for election by around 1,300 eligible voters and elected to the Cantonal parliament (" Grosse Rat" / "Grand Conseil"), representing the Cadi electoral district and remaining a member till 1904.
Earlier the Venetians had also made him a (life) Knight of the Order of St. Mark. had been a soldier in France, in the Dutch Republic and in England, where he became envoy of the Grisons Republic to the Court of St. James's during the reign of Queen Anne. There he became an Anglophile and made influential friends amongst the Hanoverians. On his return to Chur he resolved to send his son to London and Jerome De Salis became a naturalised British subject by private Act of Parliament on 24 March 1730/31. On 7 January 1734/35, de Salis married Mary Fane (baptised 18 September 1710), eldest daughter of Charles, the first Viscount Fane.
Vöhlinschloss 1923 The oldest evidence of settlement in Illertissen goes back to the beginning of the 6th century A.D. The first documented mention, going by the name "Tussa", was in the year 954. This was on the occasion of the reconciliation by Ulrich, Bishop of Augsburg and the then bishop of Chur, King Otto I., and his son Duke Liudolf of Swabia. The occasion was a military alliance at Lechfeld, with the goal of preventing further penetrations by the Magyars. The three "P"s in the coat of arms may have originated from this event. From the 12th century to the 13th century the castle of Tissen was developed by the Counts of Kirchberg.
Paulus Diaconus, "Historia Langobardorum". In the 6th century, the Alpine Slavs, who are reckoned to be among the ancestors of present-day Slovenes, settled the eastern areas of the Friuli region. They settled in the easternmost mountainous areas of Friuli, known as the Friulian Slavia, as well as the Kras Plateau and the area north and south from Gorizia. In the 6th century Chur was also conquered by the Franks.Franks, page at Switzerland Historical Dictionary Slavic settlement in the Eastern Alps region is assumed to be connected to the collapse of local dioceses in the late 6th century, a change in population and material culture, and most importantly, in the establishment of a Slavic language group in the area.
The origins of the Waldhaus go back to the foundation in 1869 of the "Waldhaus- Flims cure and lake-bathing establishment" ("Kur- und Seebadanstalt Waldhaus Flims"). Two businessmen from Chur, Peter-Jakob Bener-Caviezel and Paul Lorenz obtained a concession to build a spa centre. 60 shares, each of 5,000 Swiss francs, were offered for subscription, which was underwritten with a guarantee from the municipality. The company was also guaranteed exclusive use of the Caumasee (lake), and provided with a large undeveloped knoll, covered with larch woods and pasture, located beyond the foresters' huts on the edge of the village, for a price of 50 Rappen (half a Swiss Franc) per square meter.
The Flims Panorama by Giovanni Giacometti (1904) A triptych entitled "The Flims Panorama" was commissioned by the hotel director in 1904 from Giovanni Giacometti and presented to the hotel to celebrate the opening of the casino- pavilion in 1904. However, on the occasion of the buildings's first major restoration the tryptich was taken down it was subsequently hung in the pavilion's entrance lobby for a period. During a subsequent renovation, in 1968 the hotel director of the time, Roman Bezzola, asked the Fine Arts Museum in Chur about the value of the Giacometti tryptich. The Museum were dismissive, warned that costly restoration would be necessary, and even rejected an offer to gift the piece to them.
The confederation had grown into a political alliance so close that it no longer tolerated separatist tendencies of its members. The end of the dynasty of the counts of Toggenburg in 1436 also had effects on the Grisons. In their former territories in the Prättigau and Davos, the (initially eleven, after a merger only ten) villages founded the Zehngerichtebund ("League of the Ten Jurisdictions"). By 1471, the three leagues, together with the city of Chur, had formed a close federation, based on military assistance and free trade pacts between the partners and including a common federal diet: the Drei Bünde ("Three Leagues") was born, even though the alliance would be officially concluded in a written contract only in 1524.
The Tagsatzung dealt with all inter-cantonal affairs and also served as the final arbitral court to settle disputes between member states, or to decide on sanctions against dissenting members, as happened in the Old Zürich War. It also organized and oversaw the administration of the commons such as the County of Baden and the neighbouring Freiamt, the Thurgau, in the Rhine valley between Lake Constance and Chur, or those in the Ticino. The reeves for these commons were delegated for two years, each time by a different canton. Despite its informal character (there was no formal legal base describing its competencies), the Tagsatzung was an important instrument of the eight, later thirteen cantons to decide inter-cantonal matters.
Pfister has been involved in association football for almost 60 years, he began his coaching career in Switzerland as player-coach in 1961 at the age of just 23. Pfister's early coaching experience was gained with FC Vaduz, FC St. Gallen, FC Nordstern Basel, FC Moutier and finally FC Chur 97. He has worked as head coach for 10 international football teams, eight from Africa and two from Asia. In June 1972, at the age of 34, Pfister retired from his playing days and left Switzerland for Africa, taking the reins as the head coach of Rwanda. Pfister would stay in Africa for 23 years until 1995 working as the head coach for five other African Nations.
Blacktooth's reputation as a misfit compels the Abbot of Leibowitz, Jarad, to seek his expulsion from the order, while Blacktooth's unique linguistic skills attract the attention of the visiting Cardinal Elia Brownpony (called the Red Deacon since he was never ordained as a priest). Brownpony requires a translator in his travels in order to deal diplomatically with unruly Nomad tribes, the Grasshoppers and Jackrabbits. Thus, Cardinal Brownpony decides to enlist Nimmy's services, saving him from disgrace at the hands of Jarad. Brownpony and Nimmy set off to the conclave, along with Brownpony's other servants: Wooshin (aka "Axe"), a mysterious warrior from the Orient, and Chur Hongan (aka "Holy Madness"), his Nomadic driver.
1–15 January of the Chur-Brandenburgischer Calender for 1701. The first column lists the days in the week, the second column gives the name day, the third column predicts the zodiac in which the moon would stand that day, while the fourth column either contains astronomical information – 1 January conjunction of Saturn and Mars, 9 January new moon – or vague weather predictions – 12 and 13 January snow or just rain. At the bottom of the page the daylight hours, and the time the sun rises and sets is predicted for every fifth day. Gottfried Kirch gave his wife further instruction in astronomy, as he did for his sister and many other students.
The meeting represented the three sources of power in the area: first, the spiritual community, represented by personnel from the bishop's cathedral; second, representatives of the large valley communities (six representatives each from Domleschg, Schams, and Bergell; four from Oberhalbstein; three from Oberengadin; and two from Unterengadin); and third, representatives of the citizens of Chur. The group met without the bishop and voted to limit his power sharply and to demand authority over financial matters. The decision of 1367 was not a formal federation or alliance, but represented a desire to stick together in a crisis. However the decision included a desire to hold future assemblies and to closely monitor the power of the bishop.
Giovanni Pietro Ligario (1686–1748) was an Italian painter and architect of the late-Baroque. 1880s photograph of a portrait by Ligario of Margaretha (1704–1765), wife of Anton de Salis-Soglio (Casa Battista) (1702–1765), Grisons Bundespraesident and Chur Stadrichter, and sister of Jerome, 2nd Count de Salis.Opere Ligariane in Coira by Camillo Bassi, in Zeitschrift für schweizerische Archäologie und Kunstgeschichte, aka Revue suisse d'art et d'archéologie, aka Rivista svizzera d'arte e d'archeologia aka Journal of Swiss archeology and art history, 1939. He was born at Sondrio in the Valtelline valley, and after early training there, moved to Rome, where he frequented the studio of Lazzaro Baldi, and afterwards visited Venice.
Swiss Federal Statistical Office - Regional portraits accessed 27 October 2016 Chur is situated at a height of above sea level, on the right bank of the torrent Plessur, just as it issues from the valley Schanfigg, and about a mile above its junction with the Rhine, almost entirely surrounded by the Alps, overshadowed by the Mittenberg (northeast) and Pizoggel (southwest), hills that guard the entrance to the deep-cut valley Schanfigg. The altitude in the city area varies from above sea level to above sea level, the Churer Hausberg Brambrüesch (accessible from the Old Town) situated at above sea level. The water of Chur's spring is exported and sold as Passugger mineral water.
The dioceses of Alamannia, including Chur, which had been a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Milan, were placed under the jurisdiction of the Archdiocese of Mainz by the Carolingians. After the death of Dagobert I in 638, Alamannia, like Bavaria, Aquitaine, and Brittany, broke its ties with its Frankish sovereigns and struggled for independence. This was largely successful until the early 8th century, when a series of campaigns waged by the Arnulfing mayors of the palace reduced Alamannia to a province of Francia once again. It was, however, during this period of de facto independence that the Alamanni began to be ruled by one duke, though Alsace and Rhaetia remained outside of the scope of Alamannia.
Coat-of-arms of the counts of Montfort Wilhelm's election signalled a systemic change for Saint Gall. he was elected abbot from the dynasty of the counts of Montfort, which was hostile towards the abbey during Berchtold's abbacy and sided with Ulrich during the time of double rule. While the spreading influence of the Montforts from the Rheintal to the Argengau had been a point of contention between the house and the convent, the electorate now sought to use the name of the counts for their own benefit. Wilhelm had influential secular brothers who boosted his election, among which were Rudolf I von Montfort, Ulrich I von Montfort as well as the later bishop of Chur, Friedrich von Montfort.
His set designs the Faust opera, which debuted at Wiesbaden Staatstheater and the Faust ballet at the Les Ballets de Monte Carlo, which toured globally. In March 2009, Sachs completed the set design for Vincenzo Bellini’s “Norma” at the Opera de Monte Carlo. Rolf collaborated with Maryam Sachs on developing the concept for the photographic project entitled The Wild Emperor The Wild Emperor where over a period of a year, a stationary camera captured the Wild Kaiser mountain range outside his house in Bavaria , in 10.5 minute intervals. At the end of September 2016, Sachs published a yearlong photographic exploration on the UNESCO World Heritage Rhaetian Albula / Bernina Railway line, entitled Camera in Motion: From Chur to Tirano.
Seeing Zumthor represents a unique collaboration between Zumthor and Swiss photographer Hans Danuser, containing Danuser's images of buildings created by Zumthor. More than twenty years ago, in a milestone event of twentieth-century architectural photography, Danuser photographed, at Zumthor's invitation, two buildings: the protective structure built for archaeological excavations in Chur and St. Benedict's Chapel in Sumvitg. When first shown in exhibition, those photos ignited a lively debate that has been revived with a recent exhibition of Danuser's photographs of Zumthor's most famous work, the spa at Therme Vals. Seeing Zumthor collects these three important series of Danuser's pictures and includes essays by leading art historians exploring the relationship between the two seemingly different disciplines or architecture and photography.
His host hoped to make its way over the Swiss passes to the Upper Rhine and arrive at Vorarlberg, where the army, much shattered and almost destitute of horses and artillery, went into winter quarters. When Suvorov battled his way through the snow-capped Alps his army was checked but never defeated. Suvorov refused to call it a retreat and commenced a trek through the deep snows of Panix Pass and into the 9,000-foot mountains of the Bündner Oberland, by then deep in snow. Thousands of Russians slipped from the cliffs or succumbed to cold and hunger, eventually escaping encirclement and reached Chur on the Rhine, with the bulk of his army intact at 16,000 men.
Debrett's, People of Today, 2014 Imperial (Holy Roman Empire) arms of the Counts de Salis, as seen on the base of a now dismembered statue put up in Chiavenna in honour of Peter, 3rd Count de Salis, a popular 1770s Governor of the Valtelline. (Photo: Chiavenna, 2009). A Count of the Holy Roman Empire (Reichsgraf), (created by letters patent dated Vienna, 12 March 1748 for Envoy Peter de Salis-Soglio (1675-1749), of Chur and Chiavenna, and his son Jerome (Naturalized British in 1731), by Emperor Francis I), John de Salis was the only child of Lt. Colonel John Eugène, 8th Count de Salis (1891-1949),Burke's Irish Family Records, ed. Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd, Burke's Peerage Ltd, London, 1976.
The RhB station at Tiefencastel After Thusis was reached from Chur, the construction of the Albula Railway began on 15 October 1898. Unlike the Bernina Railway, which was opened a good ten years later, and operated in fully electrified form right from the start, the Albula Railway was still a steam railway at its conception. Moreover, (and again unlike the Bernina Railway), it was intended to be universally available, particularly for the transport of goods. As the steam locomotives of the time were still not particularly powerful, and in order to permit the highest possible speeds, the maximum gradients were restricted to 3.5%, and the minimum curve radius was also generously defined.
The city was encircled with a new line of walls and towers, and the building of the Cathedral was commenced. The death of Wanga in the Holy Land, during a Crusade, stopped his reforms. In 1236 Emperor Frederick II of Hohenstaufen deposed the bishops and ensured to himself the authority over the important military area of Trento, annexing it to the Mark of Treviso — the administration was entrusted to his faithful friend, Ezzelino III da Romano at Verona. In the 13th century the Counts of Tyrol took advantage of the confused situation to carve out a conspicuous power as a Vogt for himself, much at the loss of the Bishops of Chur, Brixen, the Archbishopric of Salzburg and Trento itself.
Aerial view from 500 m by Walter Mittelholzer (1923) While the area was settled in the late Roman era or Early Middle Ages, Breil/Brigels is first mentioned in 765 as in Bregelo when the Bishop of Chur granted a farm in Breil/Brigels to Disentis Abbey. Shortly thereafter, the Abbey established a church and fortification on St. Eusebius' hill near the village. The village church of S. Maria and the chapel of S. Sievi (Chaplutta Son Sievi) both came under control of the Abbey in 1185 at the order of the Pope.Village of Breil/Brigels history accessed 2 November 2009 New immigrants, known as the Freie von Laax, moved into the village during the middle ages which weakened the power of the Abbey.
With the treatise in his possession Lei Xuan uses the populaces belief in magic to solve crimes in his jurisdiction by pretending to consult and use the manual. Even when magical formulations from the manual appear to work Lei Xuan puts the results down to co-incidence and the gullibility of the uneducated. However, when Lei Xuan is targeted by a witch who uses her powers to steal the life essence of men to maintain an illusion of eternal youth he cannot but admit that magic is real, and with the aid of the manual defeats the witch and saves his own life. Lei Xuan is aided in his adventures by his man servant Ching Ao Gum and his betrothed Bei Chur Wun (Shirley Yeung).
The latter two options provided for rack railways to overcome the slope, which was expressly not recommended by the chief engineer Moser of Zurich, who had been commissioned by the municipality of Arosa. In view of the differing interests of the valley communities, the previous applicants for a concession joined together in March 1905 to prepare a joint study with three different options. All three proposals began at the Chur station forecourt, headed west and crossed the Plessur near the Welschdörfli district, ran under the Rosenhügel through a 500 m-long tunnel and had their first stop at Bodmergut. Finally, at the end of October 1907, there was a modified project which, although later realised, was initially rejected by an Arosa town meeting.
Roman provinces in the Alps, 395 AD After the Alpine regions were conquered during the campaigns of Emperor Augustus in 15 BC, the lands between the Inn and Danube rivers were incorporated into the Provincia Raetia et Vindelicia, an Imperial province governed by a Senator exercising the functions of a Praetor. The province was divided into the mountainous part of Raetia prima and northeastern Raetia secunda in the Alpine foothills during the reforms enacted by Emperor Diocletian in 297. Both were assigned to the Diocese of Italia under the Praetorian prefecture of Italy and placed under the military authority of a dux. The civil administration was entrusted to lower-ranking praeses officials, who took their seats at Curia Raetorum (Chur) and Augusta Vindelicorum (Augsburg).
Photograph from 1923 with station (right) and Heerbrugg palace (left) Steam trains at the 150th anniversary of the Rhine line with Ec 3/5 and E 3/3 between Au and St. Margrethen The construction of the Rhine valley line was started by the Southeastern Railway (Schweizerische Südostbahn), which sought to build a railway through the Lukmanier Pass. The first work, which was carried out by English contractors, was unsatisfactory. Due to a lack of financial resources, the Southeastern Railway was taken over during the construction by the United Swiss Railways (Vereinigte Schweizerbahnen, VSB), which continued the work without interruption. The VSB opened the section from Rorschach to Rheineck on 25 August 1857 and the section from Rheineck to Chur on 1 July 1858.
The St. Gall Rhine Valley, on the right, and the Liechtenstein Rhine Valley, on the left of the Alpine Rhine, as seen from the Stauberen () The Rhine Valley's upper third has the character of an Alpine valley, enclosing a bottom plain of about across. Downstream of Vaduz, the valley widens considerably, developing into a broad plain, measuring some across at its lower end along the southeastern shores of Lake Constance. From the point of the Rhine's emergence from Lake Constance, it is known as High Rhine. Right tributaries of the Alpine Rhine are the Plessur in Chur, the Landquart in the town of the same name, the Ill and Frutz on the Upper Land of the Austrian plain near Feldkirch.
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In 1814 he became teacher of modern languages and history at the cantonal school at Chur; in 1819, professor of eloquence and hermeneutics at the Carolinum, Zürich, and in 1833 professor at the new University of Zürich, the foundation of which was largely due to his efforts. His attention during this period was mainly devoted to classical literature and antiquities. He had already published (1814) an edition, with critical notes and commentary, of the Antidosis of Isocrates, the complete text of which, based upon the manuscripts in the Ambrosian and Laurentian libraries, had been made known by Andreas Mustoxydis of Corfu. The three works upon which his reputation rests are the following: #A complete edition of Cicero in seven volumes (1826–1838).
Illustration by Heinrich Kranek around 1830, looking up the valley The architectural form of Splügen Castle, with its door and window shapes and doorjambs made of tuff, match well to the second half of the 13th century; and it may have been built around 1275. In that period the valley in the Rheinwald was part of the territory of the County of Schams which, as a fief of the Prince-Bishopric of Chur, was given to the barons of Vaz and, later, the counts of Werdenberg. The barons of Sax-Misox tried to manage their territory of Misox over the San Bernardino by settling Walsers there. In 1274 they wrote out a letter (Schirmbrief) in Mesocco to a group of Walsers.
Following the collapse of the Western Roman Empire the successor states, which included the Ostrogoths around 500 AD, the eastern Byzantine Empire towards the middle of the 6th century, and the Longobards from 568/70, all took control of Bellinzona and used the castle to assert control of the surrounding passes. Under the Longobards, Bellinzona became the site of a permanent garrison to protect the region from raids by the neighboring Frankish and Alemannic tribes. From Bellinzona the Longobards controlled the traffic on the important trade route from Varese over Ponte Tresa, the Monte Ceneri Pass, Biasca and finally over the Lukmanier Pass into Chur. Some researchers believe that Bellinzona may have been the capital of a county that included most of the valleys in Ticino.
The carriages were built by Bombardier and BN in Bruges, Belgium between 1995 and 1997.Sources: Three types were constructed: 36 of an "A type" with 60 seats in [2+1] seating formation, 106 of a "B type" with 80 seats in [2+2] formation, and 21 "BDX type" with 58 seats and incorporating a control car with a driving cab. thumb The designation "I" indicates that the vehicle is also suitable for international traffic, but are mostly used for work inside Belgium; they have been used for international services including to Milan (Italy), and Chur and Brig (Switzerland) in the early 2000s. The carriages have air conditioning and electronic displays, and a top operating speed of with good ride quality and low sound levels, the bogies are an ANF type.
In 15 BC the Celtic people then living in the upper Vinschgau valley found themselves incorporated into the Roman Empire following the construction of a commercial and military route crossing the Alps via what is now known as the Reschen Pass, the route then being called the "Via Claudia Augusta". The transalpine route retained its importance through the medieval period, being variously called the "Upper Way" ("Oberer Weg"/"Via Superiore") or the "Swabia Road" ("Schwabenweg"/"Via di Svevia"). After 450 a wave of Christian missionaries arrived from Chur. By the time of the Black death (1348), from which most of the population of the time died, most of the Vinschgau Valley, including Graun, had been settled by German speakers; the exception being the side valley of Müstair, where the Romansh language survives to this day.
Although only 8 of the initial 14 hourstones remain, these monuments of Germany's more distant past are not under preservation order. The inscription "CT" beneath the symbolised Elector's Crown stands for "Chur Trier", now known as "Kurtrier" (Electorate of Trier). The route from "Coblenz" to "Franckfurt" lead through different territories, including the Electorate of Trier, the Principality of Nassau- Oranien, the Principality of Nassau-Usingen, the Electorate of Mainz and the Imperial City of Frankfurt and it was not uncommon for a territory to have its own system of length units. In order to avoid laborious conversions between the different systems, the down-to-earth dimension of "average distance covered by a fully loaded horse-drawn cart per" hour was introduced, which was much more useful to the common traveller of the day.
The "Hotel Waldhaus" (1906) The Waldhaus Flims is a five star hotel in Flims, a resort village to the west of Chur, in the eastern Swiss canton of Graubünden (Grigioni/Grisons). The hotel was founded in 1877 as the "Hotel Waldhaus" at a time when the tourism potential of the Swiss Alps was leading to rapid growth in the sector. In 2008, following a major building programme, the Hotel Waldhaus was rebranded as the "Waldhaus Flims Mountain Resort & Spa". In 2015 the business was forced by heavy indebtedness into bankruptcy and 900 shareholders lost their investment, although confidence was expressed that following financial restructuring, likely to include the sale to second home-buyers of holiday apartments included in what had by this time become a major hotel complex, the hotel would survive.
The door to the convent church The Dominican Convent, Ilanz, the motherhouse of the Congregation of the Ilanz Dominican Sisters (), is located on a low hillside across the valley from the little town, roughly 30 km (20 miles) to the west of Chur in the canton of Graubünden, Switzerland. The striking convent buildings date from the early 1970s, but the community traces its origins back to St. Joseph's Institute, founded with an educational remit at Ilanz in 1865.Today the sisters at Ilanz are the core element of an international community comprising around 160 sisters, members of one of a number of congregations of Ilanz Dominican Sisters operating from addresses in Switzerland, Germany and Austria. Outside Europe there is also one congregation in Brazil and another in Taiwan.
In 1976 she starred in the title role of Hansjörg Schneider's "Sennentuntschi" that was directed by Schneider. It was followed by appearances at the Stadttheater Luzern, Kleintheater Kramgasse 6 in Bern and at the Stadttheater Chur, and since the early 1970s, also first appearances in the Swiss German dialect theater. Her breakthrough celebrated Ursula Schäppi in 1975, at Bernhard-Theater Zürich as Heideli in the premiere of Max Rüeger's "Hochzeit in Hägglingen", under the direction of Inigo Gallo, followed by regular appearances in the Bernhard-Theater, at first mainly in cabaret revues by Charles Lewinsky, Fredy Lienhard and Hans Gmür, later in Swiss dialect versions of boulevard plays, for example, in 1988 in the title role of Jack Popplewell's successful play "Katharina die Kühne" and Swiss tour performances and television broadcasting.
In 1566, when the Frederick III the Pious, elector palatine introduced Reformed elements into the church in his region, Bullinger felt that this statement might be useful for the elector, so he had it circulated among the Protestant cities of Switzerland. It gained a favourable hold on the Swiss churches in Bern, Zürich, Schaffhausen, St. Gallen, Chur, Geneva and other cities. The Second Helvetic Confession was adopted by the Reformed Church not only throughout Switzerland but in Scotland (1566), Hungary (1567), France (1571), Poland (1578), and next to the Heidelberg Catechism is the most generally recognized Confession of the Reformed Church. Slight variations of this confession existed in the French Confession de Foy (1559), the Scottish Confessio Fidei (1560) the Belfian Ecclasiarum Belgicarum Confessio (1561) and the Heidelberg Catechism (1563).
In the 4th century, Chur became the seat of the first Christian bishopric north of the Alps. Despite a legend assigning its foundation to an alleged Briton king, St. Lucius, the first known bishop is one Asinio in 451 AD. After the invasion of the Ostrogoths, it was rechristened Theodoricopolis; in the 6th century it was conquered by the Franks. The city suffered several invasions, by the Magyars in 925-926, when the cathedral was destroyed, and by the Saracens (940 and 954),Stadtbrände from Official Website but afterwards it flourished thanks to its location, where the roads from several major Alpine transit routes come together and continue down the Rhine. The routes had been already used under the Romans but acquired greater importance under the Ottonian dynasty of the Holy Roman Empire.
Peter's torso in June 2009 Upper part of the statue put up in honour the benevolevent and popular old Etonian Valtelline governor-general/landamann Pietro, PETRI.S.R.I.COM.A.SALIS..., in 1782/83. Full heraldic achievement as seen in 2009 The full heraldic achievement (arms) of Peter, as seen on the plinth of his statue in Chiavenna Peter de Salis, 3rd Count de Salis (Nobile Signor Don Pietro Podesta di Salis) (28 June 1738, parish of St. James, Westminster - 19 November 1807, Hillingdon, buried in the family vault at Harlington, Middlesex) was the second son of Jerome De Salis by his wife Mary, daughter of the first Viscount Fane. He was educated with his brothers, Charles and Henry, in the Grisons, in Chur where his tutor was Johann Heinrich Lambert, and then at Eton.
For thousands of years various peoples have used poisoned arrows (for example tipped with curare), to incapacitate animals before killing them, but the modern tranquillizer gun was invented only in the 1950s by New Zealander Colin Murdoch.NZ Edge Heroes biography of Colin Murdoch While working with colleagues who were studying introduced wild goat and deer populations in New Zealand, Murdoch had the idea that the animals would be much easier to catch, examine, and release if a dose of tranquillizer could be administered by projection from afar. Murdoch went on to develop a range of rifles, darts, and pistols. The first modern remote drug delivery system was invented by scientists at the University of Georgia in the 1950s, and was the direct predecessor to the Cap-Chur equipment used worldwide for decades.
94 – 95: Seán Ó Criomhthain describing how the feet of cattle were secured to keep them subdued in transit: Chaithfeá iad seo a leagadh agus na ceithre cosa a cheangal dá chéile, agus a fhios a bheith agat conas a cheanglófá leis iad, agus téadán maith a bheith agat. Iad a bhualadh isteach ansin sa naomhóg, agus, má chífeá aon bhogadh ag na cosa á dhéanamh, teacht agus an cupán, áras atá ag leanúint na naomhóige, a chur anuas don uisce, agus cúpla maith uisce a dhoirteadh anuas ar an téad, agus d'fháiscfeadh sé sin go maith ar a chéile iad. Use of the currach was not continuous or universal along the Atlantic coast. In the modern period it did not reach Kerry (in the southwest of Ireland) until the late 19th century (c. 1880).
Alexander's support to the Council of Florence (he even personally attended in the sessions at Basel in 1433, 1434 and 1442), brought him in December 1439 the title of Patriarch of Aquileia, while he kept the dignity of Bishop of Trento. Antipope Felix V didn't have sufficient support to implement this decision, while his opponent, Pope Eugene IV appointed to this office another candidate who actually won the power, Ludovico Trevisan. Soon after, the Council and Felix V (in order to bring the Jagiellonians and Habsburgs to their side), granted Alexander the title of Cardinal with the diocese of St. Lawrence at Damascus (12 October 1440), the Swiss Bishopric of Chur (March 1442) and finally the rectory of St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna. From all this appointments, Alexander was able to really take possession only of the St. Stephen's rectory.
In 537 King Vitiges had to cede the northern lands up to Lake Constance to the Frankish king Theudebert I in turn for his support in the Gothic War against the Byzantine Empire. Shortly afterwards, by 548, Theudebert expanded his rule over all the Churraetia lands, which finally lost the direct connection to Italy. Nevertheless, though there are only very limited historical sources for the following Merovingian period, the commercial ties with the Italian Kingdom of the Lombards south of the Alps remained vital. It also seems likely that the bishops of Chur still remained in charge as de facto rulers of what was now a remote province on the outer margins of the Frankish kingdom, until in the 740s the Carolingian campaigns against the likewise de facto independent duchy of Alemannia re-attached it to the realm.
Even before the trial, he came up with the idea of inviting selected Swiss journalists on an "information trip" to a German concentration camp and also offering them an interview with Roland Freisler (then State Secretary in the Reich Ministry of Justice). This plan worked: On 22 November 1936, four journalists set off for Börgermoor concentration camp at the expense of the Ministry of Propaganda, accompanied by members of the Ministry's press department. The Freisler interview also came off. And indeed, on November 29, the Basler Nachrichten published an article about the camp that was entirely in keeping with German intentions, praising among other things the "surprisingly low percentage of sick people" and "pretty red farmhouses".Fuhrer 2012, p. 108 ff. In Chur, as in Cairo, the Diewerge/Grimm duo was on a "paradoxical mission":Gillabert 2008, p. 83.
The original lyrics, beginning Oberst am jungen Rhein, were written in the 1850s. The song may be grouped with the German "Rhine songs", i.e. songs that celebrate the River Rhine as part of the German national patrimony, opposing the French territorial claims on the left river bank. The text is attributed to Jakob Josef Jauch (1802–1859). A Russian-born Swiss convert to Catholicism, Jauch studied theology in Switzerland during 1828-1832, and was consecrated as Catholic priest in 1833. He served as priest in London during 1837/8-1850\. During 1852-1856, he lived in Balzers, Liechtenstein, and befriended Countess Franziska, with whom he planned a model educational institution in Balzers. Due to his progressive stance, Jauch came into conflict with the church hierarchy, and the bishop of Chur ordered him to leave Liechtenstein in 1856.
The beatification process commenced in Chur in an informative process that opened as a means of collating documents and testimonies pertaining to Scherer's life and time in her institute. Such a process also had to separate her writings so that theologians could determine if her works remained in line with doctrine and approved her writings on 6 December 1942. An apostolic process was held not long after this. The formal introduction to the process came on 11 December 1949 under Pope Pius XII in which she was accorded with the posthumous title of Servant of God - the first official stage in the process. The Congregation of Rites - in Rome - validated the previous processes in 1953 and following this progress stalled for several decades until the postulation submitted the Positio to the Congregation for the Causes of Saints in 1991.
The Calanda is a mountain in the Glarus Alps with two main peaks Haldensteiner Calanda (highest) and Felsberger Calanda (2697 m), both located on the border between the cantons of St. Gallen and Graubünden in eastern Switzerland. It looms over Chur, the capital city of Graubünden. Although other peaks with 286 metres Topographic prominence (for the Felsberger Calanda) would claim to be called mountain on their own, within this massive it is commonly spoken of only one mountain with different peaks due to its sole position - cut off by an old route of the Rhine river through Tamina Valley to its northwestern face and the actual Rhine Valley to the south and east. The name Calanda derives from the Latin "calare", roughly meaning roll down, which refers to the ever- moving southern face that can be seen at Felsberg and is still an active rock slide.
Kreis joined the Mannheim coaching staff as an assistant after retiring as a player in 1997 and helped guide the team to German championships in 1998 and 1999. In November 1999, he was hired for his first head coach position, as he took over second-division side EC Bad Nauheim. After a stint as assistant coach with Kölner Haie in 2000-01, Kreis returned to Bad Nauheim and remained in the job until February 2002. He signed with HC Davos of the National League A (NLA), the top-tier of Swiss ice hockey, for the 2002-03 season, serving as assistant coach on the club’s men’s team and head coach of the junior squad. Kreis left Davos following the 2004-05 season to take over head coaching duties at Swiss second-division side EHC Chur. During the 2006 NLA playoffs, he was named head coach of HC Lugano.
The Gay Happiness Index. The very first worldwide country ranking, based on the input of 115,000 gay men Planet Romeo In 2017, the rights group Rainbow Europe ranked Switzerland three places lower after delay in updating its anti-discrimination laws to explicitly include gender identity and sexual orientation. In 2018, a Chur bishop drew controversy after claiming that 90% of victims of child sex abuse and paedophilia in the Roman Catholic Church were of "a homosexual tendency". In February 2020, the Swiss population voted, with 63.1% in favour, to extend the country's hate speech law to cover sexual orientation, thus making public incitement to hatred on account of sexual orientation a criminal offence. The results of the referendum varied significantly by linguistic region; whereas 75.3% of French-speaking Switzerland and 66.5% of Italian-speaking Switzerland supported the proposal, only 59.0% of German-speaking Switzerland did so.
The name Weesen was first mentioned on 28 August 1232, in a document that confirms an exchange of goods between members of the noble families of Kyburg and Rapperswil in the villages of Oberwesin and Niderwesin that were in the possession of Kyburg to 1264 respectively of Rapperwil to 1283, when Rudolf V, the underaged brother of Elisabeth von Rapperswil died, and the fiefs were acquired by Rudolf von Habsburg. But the nucleus of the monastic community "in den Wyden" was a so- called Clos, a community of lay women or Beguines who lived in these woods (German: Wyden) before the monastery was established. With the rapid spread of the Dominican order, brother convents emerged in Zürich and Chur. Weesen was in the middle of the road of the two brother convents, and the brothers in their migrations came in contact with the modest community of beguines.
The bishop was also temporal lord of the city, and in several cases a better warrior than pastor. In 1392 he became head of the League of Gods House (originally formed against him in 1367), one of the Three Leagues, but, in 1526, after the Reformation, lost his temporal powers, having fulfilled his historical mission (see Graubünden). The struggles of Switzerland for liberty in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, and, later, the secret preaching of Zwingli and Calvin, did great harm to the diocese, especially as the Catholic clergy neglected the instruction of the people. The Reformation was publicly proclaimed at Chur in 1524, and the two Catholic churches of St. Martin and St. Regula were given over to the Protestants, who retain possession of them to this day. The bishop fled, and his administrator, Abbot Theodore Schlegel, was publicly beheaded (1 January 1529).
Mrs Thomas Lynch, 1755, Reynolda House Museum of American Art Theus was born in the city of Chur, in the Swiss canton of Graubünden, and was the eldest child of Simeon and Anna Walser Theüs. He was nineteen when he immigrated with his family to the Province of South Carolina, whose General Assembly had provided land grants and transport funds to encourage European Protestants to settle in the colony. Simeon Theüs was given of land along the Edisto River in what was then Orangeburgh Township, today Orangeburg County. By 1740, the younger Theus was in Charleston, advertising in the South Carolina Gazette: > Notice is hereby given, that Jeremiah Theus Limner is remov’d into the > Market Square near Mr. John Laurans Sadler, where all Gentlemen and Ladies > may have their Pictures drawn, likewise Landskips of all Sizes, Crests, and > Coats of Arms for Coaches or Chaises.
Carigiet visited primary and secondary schools in Chur, as well as the "Kantonsschule", the canton's gymnasium, which he quit in 1918 in order to start an apprenticeship as a decorative designer and draftsman with master painter Martin Räth. While learning the art of graining, marbleizing, gold plating and other techniques of decorative art in Räth's atelier, Carigiet spent a lot of his spare time filling volumes of sketchbooks with drawings of rural and urban scenes, farm animals and pets, anatomical studies of heads and beaks of the birds exhibited at Chur's natural history museum, as well as with numerous caricatures of his acquaintances and family. Räth noticed the apprentice's talent as well, and one of Carigiet's appointed creations, an assembly of decorated vases for the Siebler & Co. shop windows, seems to have received particular appreciation. Carigiet finished his apprenticeship in 1923, with the highest grade in every subject.
According to the report of a monk from Reichenau Abbey the founder was believed to be Count Hunfried of Chur-Rhaetia, who was said to have promised Charlemagne to make the foundation for the worthy safekeeping of a precious reliquary cross containing a fragments of the True Cross, as well as an onyx vessel containing some of the Blood of Christ. Such evidence as is available does indicate that the abbey was founded at about that time, possibly as a daughter foundation of St. Stephan's Abbey in Strasbourg, but the foundation at Schänis soon fell into obscurity. After many years Ulrich I, Count of Lenzburg, restored the abbey to prosperity and a sound economic footing by numerous gifts of property. Also, by exchanges of land and rights of patronage he created a stable and unified ecclesiastical and parochial structure in the foundation's immediate vicinity.
Contemporary drawing showing a construction locomotive on the Gotthard Railway Before the construction of the Gotthard Railway there were no north-south rail connections to Italy. The railroad lines ended at the foot of the Alps - the VSB reached Chur in 1858, the SCB reached Lucerne and Thun in 1859, and in 1878 the Simplon Railway (part of the Western Switzerland–Simplon Company from 1881) reached Brig. The Swiss railway companies and regions competed to build a railway though various Swiss Alpine passes: the Lukmanier, the Splügen, the Gotthard and the Simplon. In view of the completion of the Brenner Railway to the east in 1867 and the commencement of construction of the Fréjus railway line in 1857 (completed in 1871) in the west, it was decided to build the Gotthard railway and contracts were signed with Swiss, German and Italian contractors in 1869.
The Calanda as seen from the southwest with the Kunkels Pass on the left and the Rhine and Chur to its right Due to the much steeper descent to the northwesterly Tamina valley most of the mountain lies on the territory of the canton of Graubünden within the municipalities of Mastrils, Untervaz, Haldenstein, Felsberg and Tamins, whereas all of the Tamina valley side north of the territory of Tamins (which reaches north across the Kunkels pass) lies in the Canton of St. Gallen and the municipality of Pfäfers. Some secondary peaks are called Rossfallenspitz and Güllenchopf, whereas the names of Berger Calanda and Taminser Calanda do refer to points that could not really be called a peak but mark the end of a respective ridge. On the northerly plateau of Felsberger Calanda there can be regularly seen Ibexes. On the Haldenstein territory there is an alpine club mountain hut Calandahütte on 2073 m.
Rätia was one of the first routes when EuroCity was introduced in 1987, but took a different route: rather than going through Dortmund and Cologne Hauptbahnhof, the service (then numbered 70/71) went down the north-south route, via Hanover and Frankfurt, picking up its current route at Mannheim. In 1989 a second pair of trains (170/171) was added on the same route. With the opening of the Hanover–Würzburg high-speed railway in 1991, ICE services came to dominate the north-south line, so Rätia (now EC 102/103) changed its route - its northern terminus became Berlin, running via Magdeburg and Hanover to Dortmund, where it picked up its current route. In 1996, it changed again, running from Leipzig to Magdeburg instead. In 1998 Rätia settled into its current route, from Hamburg to Chur via Cologne, and in 2002 it took on the numbers 6/7, before losing its name in 2004.
As a Vicus, Turicum was not secured by town walls, but the buildings grouped around the customs station (Quadragesima Galliarum) where the clearance of goods and travelers prior to transfer between the provinces of Gallia Belgica and Raetia took place, mainly on the water route (from and to the Roman heartland over the mountain passes of the Swiss Alps) Walensee-Obersee-Zürichsee passing Centum Prata (Kempraten) towards the Limmat, Aare and Rhine. Goods and travelers, probably also towards Vitudurum (Winterthur), were handled at the Vicus before crossing the Roman provinces of Gallia Belgica and Germania Superior, and transferred on the Roman road between Vindonissa (Windisch) probably via Irgenhausen Castrum and Curia Raetorum (Chur). In Turicum a duty of 2.5% (Quadragesima Galliarum) was levied. In 70/75 AD a harbor district rose on the newly acquired lands on the Limmat riverbank at the foot of Lindenhof (Schipfe–Weinplatz), and the settlement area was extended on the right bank of the Limmat at the present Limmatquai.
Centum Prata was founded around 40 AD at the intersection of the roads between Zürich (Turicum) and assumably via Irgenhausen Castrum towards Winterthur (Vitudurum), on the waterway over Obersee, the present Linth canal and Walensee towards Chur (Curia Raetorum), and on the alpine route towards the Roman heartland in northern Italy. Hence, the Vicus became a commercial center for the surrounding area where artisans, traders, sailors and teamsters lived. Following the prehistorical lake crossings at the present Seedamm isthmus, a wide wooden bridge under Empire Marcus Aurelius was built around 161–180. Centum Prata became an important Roman settlement which besides its regional and transport hub functions also may have served to secure the province borders from the 1st to the 4th century AD. Following the withdrawal of Roman troops to Italy around 400 AD, the settlement was continuesly used by the Gallo-Roman population, and remained even after the invasion of the Alemanni up to the present time inhabited.
The castle was built in the 13th century for the Freiherr von Aspermont and was originally known as Maienfeld Castle. In 1282 Heinrich von Aspermont specified in his will that upon his death his brother, Egilolf, was to inherit the castle and the Herrschaft of Maienfeld. With his death only two years later, Egilolf inherited the castle in 1284. In 1295 he hosted a peace conference between the Bishop of Chur and the Freiherr von Vaz at the castle. In 1338 the Freiherr von Aspermont sold most of his estates in Graubünden, but retained Maienfeld. However, in 1342 it was owned by the Lord von Windegg. In 1355 they sold the castle to the Counts of Toggenburg for 5600 gulden. Oddly, four years later they paid the same price to buy Maienfeld from the Counts of Werdenburg-Sargans. After 1359 the Toggenburg Counts began expanding the fortified tower into a larger residence castle.
The former Sand depot On 29 November 1997, the electrification system of the Arosa Railway was made compatible with the Rhaetian Railway's main network with the conversion of the overhead wire voltage to 11 kilovolts AC, the extensive rehabilitation of the line, the renewal of the power supply and the modification of the rolling stock used. While for the previous 83 years, the line's power supply had, been sourced from Arosa Energie (Lüen power station), it was now fed via a new supply line from the RhB substation in Reichenau- Tamins to Chur station and the city line. The Sand substation, which feeds the contact wire between Sassal and Arosa, is also supplied via a cable in the river bed of the Plessur. As a result of a newly developed system of overhead wire, suspension and power supply, costly construction measures in tunnels and cuttings—in particular the lowering of the track—were kept to a minimum.
The beatification process opened in Ivrea on 6 April 1937 which granted her the title Servant of God (theologians also approved of her writings in a decree issued on 28 May 1941); this local process closed on 20 March 1939 and received validation from the Congregation for the Causes of Saints on 10 July 1992. The Positio dossier – documentation attesting to her reputation for holiness – was submitted to the C.C.S. in Rome in 1999. Historians approved the cause on 23 May 2000 as did theologians on 20 February 2009 and the C.C.S. members several months later on 17 November. Pope Benedict XVI – in a decree – confirmed that Verna had lived a model life of heroic virtue on 19 December 2009 and proclaimed her to be Venerable. The miracle needed for her beatification was investigated in Chur from 24 May to 1 June 1966 and received formal validation from the C.C.S. on 27 May 1994.
In the '77-78 season, Pesut signed contracts in the European Leagues, where for three seasons, he played for HC Davos, EHC Dubendorf, EHC Chur in the Swiss and German Elite Pro Leagues. In the 1980-81 season, he resurfaced back in North America on the comeback trail, being offered a tryout from the NHL's Edmonton Oilers. After producing an excellent showing at a solid Oilers training camp, Pesut was faced with a numbers game of good available defensemen, and the Oilers' overall depth on the blueline with the likes of top players such as Paul Coffey, Lee Fogolin and Kevin Lowe shoring up the defensive corps. As a result, Pesut eventually signed a one-year contract with the Oilers' farm team, the Wichita Wind, in the Central Hockey League where back in old form, he put up 3 goals and 21 assists with the Wind, for a total of 27 points.
Traces of settlements from the Neolithic, the Celtic and Romans era have been found. Alamannic graves prove the existence of three settlements in the area of the city during the migration period. Although the first written mention of Kirchheim dates only to the year 960, the town certainly existed during the Alemannic era of the 6th and 7th century. Perhaps the current settlement was founded during the Christianization when several older villages were merged and a church was built and dedicated to St. Martin. In 960, Kirchheim came in the possession of Emperor Otto I in an exchange for the diocese Chur. The Market and the royal mint date back to the mid-11th Century. The place was owned by the Dukes of Zähringen and was inherited in 1186 by a lateral line, the Duke of Teck. The Dukes of Teck are known since 1252, but the title of duke more a family name than a proper title.
Switzerland during the Roman era In 58 BCE, the Helvetii tried to evade migratory pressure from Germanic tribes by moving into Gaul, but were stopped and defeated at Bibracte (near modern-day Autun) by Julius Caesar's armies and then sent back. In 15 BCE, Tiberius and Drusus conquered the Alps, and the region became integrated into the Roman Empire:Encyclopædia Britannica Online: Roman Switzerland accessed November 13, 2008 the Helvetii settlement area became part first of Gallia Belgica and later of the province of Germania Superior, while the eastern part was integrated into the Roman province of Raetia. The following 300 years saw extensive Roman settlement, including the construction of a road network and the founding of many settlements and cities. The center of Roman occupation was at Aventicum (Avenches), other cities were founded at Arbor Felix (Arbon), Augusta Raurica (Kaiseraugst near Basel), Basilea (Basel), Curia (Chur), Genava (Genève), Lousanna (Lausanne), Octodurum (Martigny, controlling the pass of the Great St. Bernard), Salodurum (Solothurn), Turicum (Zürich) and other places.
The spectacular Albula Railway did indeed provide, for the first time, a reliable year-round transport connection towards Chur, but it also enabled the well-heeled to travel directly to higher and better promoted resorts further south in Graubunden, notably St.Moritz and Pontresina, without needing to pause at Bergün/Bravuogn. Despite bitter resistance from some of the canton's conservative elements, the ban on private motor car usage was grudgingly lifted in the mid 1920s, and during the ensuing decades the more prosperous guests for whom the hotel had been designed increasingly used cars, which highlighted the fact that the village had never acquired reliable year- round road links, especially upriver, to the south. The Kurhaus had come on- stream in 1906 with substantial debts, set in one source at an initial level of 73,000 Francs, and revenues never justified the size of the initial investment.Roland Flückiger-Seiler: Kurhaus Bergün, Historisches Hotel des Jahres 2012.
Not all of the names of those present at the Synod have been passed down. The following 33 participants are known and arranged among various Anabaptist groups. The largest group was associated with Hans Hut: :Eukarius Binder of Coburg, Burkhard Braun of Ofen, Leonhard Dorfbrunner of Weißenburg, Hans Gulden of Biberach, Sigmund Hofer, Hans Hut, Marx Meir of Altenerlangen, Joachim Mertz of Bamberg, Hans Mittermaier of Ingolstadt, Georg Nespitzer of Passau, Leonhard Schiemer of Judenburg, Hans Schlaffer, Leonhard Spörle of Briderichingen, Ulrich Trechsel of Franken, Thomas Walhauser and Jakob Wiedemann of Memmingen The second largest group were members of one of the Augsburg Anabaptist groups: : Jakob Dachser, Matheis Finder, Gall Fischer, Laux Fischer, Konrad Huber, Hans Kießling, Hans Leupold, Bartholomäus Nußfelder, Siegmund Salminger and Peter Scheppach The Swiss Anabaptists sent three representatives: : Hans Beck of Basel, Jakob Groß and Gregor Maler of Chur. Three participants were associated with Hans Denck: : Hans Denck, Ludwig Hätzer und Jakob Kautz of Worms.
He attended the Gymnasium in Halle and in 1717 entered into Spanish military service. In 1728 he was appointed as the Military commissioner in Lombardy. In 1736 he entered the Regiment von Schauenstein, and, in 1743, he received command of his own regiment in the service of Maria Theresa. After the Siege of Genoa, he was sent to Como, where he commanded the garrison from 1751–1757.Andreas Behr, Diplomatie als Familiengeschäft: Die Casati als spanisch-mailändische Gesandte in Luzern und Chur (1660–1700), Chronos Verlag, 2016, p. 164.Neue genealogisch-historische Nachrichten von den vornehmsten ..., Volume 10 Heinsius, 1759, pp. 468–470. In 1754 he was appointed lieutenant field marshal. In the Seven Years' War, Sprecher was distinguished during the Siege of Prague, by leading an assault on thePrussian lineHerbert J. Redman, Frederick the Great and the Seven Years' War, 1756–1763, McFarland, 2014, p. 70. whereupon he was appointed general of the artillery in 1757. Breslau was heavily fortified when Sprecher commanded it during the 1757 siege.
One of it is Zuoz (), which is a village of typical Engadine houses, with large, thick stone and masonry walls, funnel-shaped windows, and wall paintings called sgraffito. These houses are large and are traditionally shared by two or more families, and they may have what used to be a stable or livestock area underneath. In a typical Engadine village, there are numerous fountains, free- flowing all year round, which were formerly used for drinking water, washing, and for watering livestock. The red trains by Rhaetian Railways (RhB) connects St. Moritz with Samedan and runs mainly on a north–south axis via the Albula Tunnel to the north and connects the Upper Engadine via Filisur and Thusis with Chur, the capital of the canton and consequently with the rest of Switzerland, and to the south via the Bernina Pass (, the highest traverse of a train in Europe) through the Val Bernina on its northern side and the Swiss but Italian spoken Val Poschiavo on its southern side with Tirano in Italy.
The Rütland bridge under construction in 2012 On Good Friday, 29 March 2013, rocks fell on the railway again at the east portal of the Lüener Rüfe tunnel over a length of about 100 metres. Of the approximately 20,000 cubic metres of rock, which had slid from about 500 metres above the line, about 100 cubic metres crashed onto the line, damaging the rails, sleepers, electricity pylons and the overhead line. Railway services were closed until 24 April 2013 and public transport to Schanfigg was replaced by buses. In addition to clearing, the extensive safety measures included the demolition of two unstable rock spires in the area affected. The costs incurred by the rockfall amounted to about CHF 750,000. A connection with the 2002 event could apparently be ruled out. The line had to be closed again after a rock fall occurred in the same place on 16 October 2013. As rock continued to break off over the following days, a bus replacement traffic was established between Chur and St. Peter-Molinis. In order to stabilise the situation at the site, two rocks containing a total of 2,300 cubic metres of material were demolished on 8 November 2013.
In the early 1870s Florian Stoppany returned to Pontresina, hoping to apply the commercial knowledge he had acquired to the tourism business which was by this time expanding rapidly, supported by the railway boom and a surge in middle class incomes, notably in Great Britain and Germany. Florian Stoppany's cousin, Florian Zambail, had opened the Hotel Roseg in Pontresina in 1870. Stoppany became co-owner of this hotel, of which he would remain a director for many years.J. M. Ludwig: Pontresina und seine Umgebung., Jost & Albin Chur 1878 p. 94. Their two families were already closely connected: Florian's aunt, Chiatarina Stoppany, had married Barnard Zambail in 1813, as a result of which the two Florians were first cousins. Family connections were reinforced in 1867 when Florian's elder sister, Ursina Henriette Stoppany, married another cousin, Barnard Zambail junior, who was Florian Zambail's brother. It was also in 1867 that the closeness of the two families was confirmed, following the death of Florian Stoppany's father, when their family home, the "Chesa Stuppaun", was sold to the Zambail family. In 1871 Florian Stoppany married Betty Stiffler whose family ran the Hotel Steinbock and the Maison Stiffler, a restaurant with 25 guest beds.

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