Local history in Switzerland.
16 November 2020
The castle of Neu-Bechburg was built in the 11th and 12th centuries. The castle still defines the skyline of Oensingen. More than one thousand years earlier, in the Roman period, this place was an important traffic junction. The Great St. Bernhard pass was of great importance. Emperor Claudius (10 BC – 54 AD) made this … Read more » “The Romans, Alemanni and Swiss-Italians in Oensingen”
14 November 2020
Celts and their predecessors and successors (Romans, Burgunder, Alemanni, Franks) inhabited the Berner Seeland in the Three Lakes Region (Drei-Seenland/Pays des Trois Lacs). The area experienced the two Burgundian kingdoms (443-534 and 888-1032), in between the Frankish and Carolingian domination and afterwards the rule of the local rulers of the Holy Roman Empire. After the … Read more » “Berner Seeland”
5 November 2020
The inhabitants of La Chaux-des-Tallières did not suspect in 1604 that their village would be called La Brévine three centuries later. In 1604 the (Protestant) inhabitants still had to go to Môtiers, Le Locle, or Travers for their church services. Catherine de Gonzague de Nevers (1568-1629), wife of Henri I d’Orléans-Longueville (1568-1591), and the Council … Read more » “La Brévine, Siberia of Switzerland”
