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    Laupen is a municipality in the Bern-Mittelland administrative district and its district capital, situated in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. Laupen...
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  • There are places that have the name Laupen: In Switzerland: Laupen, Bern, a municipality in the Canton of Bern Laupen (district), the administrative district...
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    The Battle of Laupen was fought in June 1339, between Bern and its allies on one side, and Freiburg together with feudal landholders from the County of...
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    Laupen Castle (German: Schloss Laupen) is a castle in the municipality of Laupen of the Canton of Bern in Switzerland. It is a Swiss heritage site of national...
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    Swiss Confederation in 1353. In 1310 Emperor Henry VII pledged Laupen Castle, Laupen and the surrounding lands as collateral for a loan. In 1324, Bern...
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    Laupen District is one of the 26 administrative districts in the canton of Bern, Switzerland. Its capital, while having administrative power, was the municipality...
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    Laupen BE railway station (German: Bahnhof Laupen BE) is a railway station in the municipality of Laupen, in the Swiss canton of Bern. It is the western...
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    The Flamatt–Laupen–Gümmenen railway line is a line in Switzerland that was built and formerly operated by the Sense Valley Railway (German: Sensetalbahn...
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    army while the Englishmen were crossing a narrow bridge. At the Battle of Laupen (1339), Bernese pikemen overwhelmed the infantry forces of the opposing...
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    knight and commander of the Swiss Confederation forces at the Battle of Laupen. He was the son of Ulrich, a knight and steward, and Mechtilde of Rheinfelden...
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    Poitiers and Agincourt, while at Gisors (1188), Bannockburn (1314), and Laupen (1339), foot-soldiers proved they could resist cavalry charges as long as...
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    the pike square against mounted knights (as at the battles of Crécy and Laupen) ended this tradition in the 14th century, although it was continued away...
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    expansion against the dukes of Savoy and the Habsburgs in the Battle of Laupen in 1339. In 1353, Bern entered an "eternal" alliance with the confederation...
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  • with capital Interlaken Konolfingen with capital Konolfingen Laupen with capital Laupen Moutier with capital Moutier La Neuveville with capital La Neuveville...
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    541,011 Basel (CH) Laufenburg h[citation needed] Laufenburg AG 3,659 – Laupen h[citation needed] Bern-Mittelland BE 3,230 410,894 Bern Lausanne h[citation...
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    by Fotorotar (1985), Grolimund (Coloroffset R. Grolimund, Bern. M. Rhyn, Laupen), SwissCard (Toffen near Berne, 1997), Carlit (Carlit + Ravensburger AG...
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    troops of the Old Swiss Confederacy is first attested in the Battle of Laupen (1339), where it was sewn on combatants' clothing as two stripes of textile...
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    Oberhasli). When the Fribourg forces laid siege to the Bernese border town of Laupen, the Bernese army marched out to raise the siege. While outnumbered two...
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    participated alongside the Habsburgs and the County of Burgundy in the Battle of Laupen against Bern and its Swiss Confederacy allies. The treaty with Bern was...
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    the Schiffenensee reservoir at 532 m (built 1963), and is then taken to Laupen in a channel, where it is joined by the Sense. Flowing north for another...
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    the Achtörtige Eidgenossenschaft following the battles of Morgarten and Laupen: Lucerne, city canton, since 1332 Zürich, city canton, since 1351 Glarus...
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    Further commemorative 5 francs coins in silver were issued in 1939 (Battle of Laupen), 1941 (Rütli oath, 650th anniversary of the Federal Charter), 1944 (Battle...
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    northern terminus of the standard gauge Flamatt–Laupen–Gümmenen line to Flamatt, but service beyond Laupen ended in 1993. As of the December 2023 timetable...
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    Bern Europaplatz – Bern – Bern Wankdorf – Gümligen – Münsingen – Thun S2 Laupen BE – Flamatt – Bern Europaplatz – Bern – Bern Wankdorf – Gümligen –Konolfingen...
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    The Battle of Laupen (1339) between Swiss forces and an army of the Dukes of Savoy (Diebold Schilling the Elder, 1480s)....
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  • 1250 they founded Sursee, Weesen and the fortified towns of Kyburg and Laupen. The last two were Richensee and Huttwil which they lost shortly thereafter...
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    down the feudal order over the time, including victories at Morgarten, Laupen, Sempach, and Grandson. In some engagements the Swiss phalanx included crossbowmen...
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  • on an army on the march rather than an open field battle. The Battle of Laupen of 1339 is an early battle that can be seen as indicating the trend of the...
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    all or part of the former districts of Bern, Fraubrunnen, Konolfingen, Laupen, Schwarzenburg and Seftigen Biel/Bienne with capital Biel/Bienne, made up...
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  • Ernst Wilczek (12 January 1867 in Laupen – 30 September 1948 in Lausanne) was a Swiss botanist and pharmacist. In 1892 he obtained his PhD from the University...
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