Even Switzerland, with its many (dissolved or still-functioning) monasteries and monumental (Reformed and Catholic) churches, will not formally be a Christian country in the foreseeable future. In the foreseeable future, most of its citizens will be ‘without religion’. However, in terms of symbolism, a country cannot be more Christian than Switzerland. The Swiss cross in … Read more » “The well-kept Christian Heritage of Switzerland”
The city of Aarau (Canton of Aargau) takes its name from the river Aare, the largest supplier to the Rhine. A few kilometres away, the Aare flows into the Rhine at the Swiss town of Koblenz, continuing its journey to Rotterdam. The Aare and the hydropower plant near Aarau Aarau is not just any town … Read more » “Aarau, or the emergence of a capital”
The stream Ergolz in canton Basel-Landschaft has a length of about 30 Kilometres. It originates at an altitude of 830 metres at the Geissflue on the cantonal border of Basel-Landschaft and Solothurn. It then flows through, among others, the villages of Anwil, Oltingen, Rothenfluh and Ormalingen on its way to the Rhine. Anwil The Ergolz … Read more » “The Cave Bear of Wenslingen, Grossholz near Ormalingen and the Ergolz in Oltingen”
