The museum (Das Historische Museum) focusses on the history of the town and the industrial and railway and road development of the canton Solothurn in the nineteenth and twentienth centuries. The archaeological museum is housed in the same building.
What do Utrecht, Rastatt (Baden-Württemberg) and Baden (Canton Aargau) have in common? These cities not only played a role in the constitutional history of the Netherlands, the Federal Republic of Germany and Switzerland, respectively. The most relevant (bilateral) treaties to end the War of the Spanish Succession (1701-1713) took place in these cities in 1713 … Read more » “The Peace Treaties of Utrecht, Rastatt and Baden and Catalans”
After the Celtic and Roman times, Seeland was situated at the edge of the (first) Burgundian Kingdom (443-534). The Three Lakes region (the lakes of Biel/ Bienne, Morat/Murten and Neuenburg/ Neuchâtel) was still populated by Gallo-Roman people. The German-speaking Alemanni immigrated to this region in the fifth and sixth centuries. However, it was not until … Read more » “Bilingual Biel/Bienne”
