Canton of St. Gallen (redirect from Canton of Saint Gall)
St. Gallen or St Gall (‹See Tfd›German: Kanton St. Gallen [saŋkt ˈɡalən] ; Romansh: Chantun Son Gagl; French: Canton de Saint-Gall; Italian: Canton San...
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St. Gallen (redirect from St. Gall (Switzerland))
capital of the canton of St. Gallen. It evolved from the hermitage of Saint Gall, founded in the 7th century. Today, it is a large urban agglomeration...
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Beda Angehrn (category Abbots of Saint Gall)
Amriswil; died 19 May 1796 in St. Gallen) was prince-abbot of the Abbey of Saint Gall from 1767 until 1796. Johann Konrad Angehrn was the son of the surgeon...
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Georg von Wildenstein (category Abbots of Saint Gall)
Georg von Wildenstein (died 31 March 1379) was abbot of the Abbey of Saint Gall from 1360 to 1379. Georg von Wildenstein descended from the House of Fürstenberg...
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Joseph von Rudolphi (category Abbots of Saint Gall)
and seven fire engines, arrived in Saint Gall on 5 May 1721. Von Rudolphi founded new parishes and divided Gossau and Oberriet. He introduced a new registry...
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Gotthard Giel von Glattburg (category Abbots of Saint Gall)
April 1504) was abbot of the Abbey of Saint Gall from 1491 to 1504. Gotthard descended from the ancient Saint Gall ministerial family Giel. His father was...
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Diethelm Blarer von Wartensee (category Abbots of Saint Gall)
Rorschach; died 18 December 1564 in Rorschach) was abbot of the Abbey of Saint Gall from 1530 to 1564. Diethelm's father, Jakob von Wartensee, was chief bailiff...
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Rorschacher Klosterbruch (category Abbey of Saint Gall)
Rorschacher Klosterbruch or St. Gallerkrieg was a war between the Abbey of Saint Gall, Zürich, Lucerne, Schwyz and Glarus against the city of St. Gallen and...
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Pankraz Vorster (category Abbots of Saint Gall)
1829) was a Swiss abbot. He served as the last abbot of the Abbey of Saint Gall, from 1796 to 1805. Pankraz Vorster was born in Naples to an old family...
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Appenzell Wars (category Abbey of Saint Gall)
represented by the House of Habsburg and the Prince-Abbot of the Abbey of St. Gall. The conflict was one of a number of popular revolts in late-medieval Europe...
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– Zurich (–Zurich Airport) IR (Hourly service) Lucerne – Zurich HB (–Saint-Gall – Sargans) IR48 (Half-hourly service Zürich HB-Schaffahausen, hourly service...
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Hunichinwilari, in a donation made by Beata and Landolt to the Abbey of Saint Gall. Hinwil was part of an Alamannic colony comprising also adjoining villages...
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Hanny Johanna Hermina Thalmann (26 July 1916 in Gossau, canton of St. Gallen – 11 May 2000 in St. Gallen) was a Swiss women's rights activist and politician...
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1217–1222. Around 1230, Grüningen passed from Einsiedeln to the Abbey of Saint Gall and was at first given as a fief to the counts of Kyburg, and in 1253...
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