Local history in Switzerland.
10 December 2023
The town of Rheinfelden (Kanton Aargau) was founded in 1130 by the Dukes of Zähringen. In 1218, the town received the status of a free imperial city, the imperial immediacy. Ten towns donated a commemorative plaque in the town hall for the town’s 850th anniversary in 1980. The city was Austrian until 1803. The new … Read more » “850 Years Rheinfelden”
29 November 2023
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15 November 2023
In 1919, at the end of the First World War (1914-1918), strict peace conditions were imposed on the defeated states in Versailles. In addition to territorial losses and the demilitarisation of the Rhineland, high reparation payments were imposed on the Weimar Republic. Locarno, 1925. The participants in the conference hall It caused tensions which culminated … Read more » “Locarno and Ascona, Cities of Peace”
