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Tessenberg
Tessenberg ( or ''Plateau de Diesse'') is an elevated plateau in Switzerland. It is located above Lake Biel, on the southern slopes of Chasseral, at an elevation of about 800 m. It is divided between the Swiss cantons of Bern and Neuchâtel, and three municipalities, Nods, Lignières and Plateau de Diesse. The plateau is drained by ''Twannbach'' to the east and by ' to the south-west, both emptying into Lake Biel, and as such part of the Aare basin. It can be reached by a funicular, the Vinifuni Ligerz–Prêles, from Ligerz railway station. History The area was part of the dominion of the Counts of Neuchâtel from the 12th century. It was later administered jointly by the counts of Neuchâtel and the Prince-bishopric of Basel and Bern. Tessenberg was occupied by French troops in December 1797 and partly adjoined to the French département Mont-Terrible. The territory was returned to Switzerland, as part of the canton of Bern ( Erlach District, after 1846 La N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vinifuni Ligerz–Prêles
Vinifuni Ligerz–Prêles is a funicular above Lake Biel in the Canton of Bern, Switzerland. The line leads from Ligerz/Gléresse at to Prêles at on Tessenberg, a plateau part of the Jura range. The line has a length of with a difference of elevation of and a maximum incline of 40%. The single track funicular has had only one car since 2004, when the passing loop and the second car were removed. Two intermediate stations are ''Pilgerweg'' at and ''Festi/Château'' at . The lower station is next to Ligerz railway station and a landing stage for Lake Biel passenger ships. The line opened in 1910 after the Swiss Federal Assembly granted a concession in 1906. The funicular is owned and operated by Aare Seeland mobil AG since 2003. The railway company had absorbed ''Ligerz-Tessenberg-Bahn AG (LTB)'', founded in 1910 and initially named ''Chemin de fer funiculaire Gléresse-Montagne de Diesse''. Vinifuni Ligerz-Gléresse - Préles.jpg, lower station (2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Plateau De Diesse
Plateau de Diesse () is a Municipalities of Switzerland, municipality in the Jura bernois (administrative district), Jura bernois administrative district in the Cantons of Switzerland, canton of Bern (canton), Bern in Switzerland, located in the French-speaking Bernese Jura (''Jura Bernois''). On 1 January 2014 the former municipalities of Diesse, Lamboing and Prêles merged into the municipality of Plateau de Diesse.Nomenklaturen – Amtliches Gemeindeverzeichnis der Schweiz accessed 13 December 2014 History Diesse Diesse is first mentioned in 1178 as ''Diesse''. In German it was known as ''Tess'' though this is no longer commonly used. The parish church of Diesse was first mentioned in 1185. B ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prince-bishopric Of Basel
The Prince-Bishopric of Basel () was an ecclesiastical principality within the Holy Roman Empire, ruled from 1032 by prince-bishops with their seat at Basel, and from 1528 until 1792 at Porrentruy, and thereafter at Schliengen. As an imperial estate, the prince-bishop had a seat and voting rights at the Imperial Diet. The final dissolution of the state occurred in 1803 as part of the German Mediatisation. The Prince-Bishopric comprised territories now in the Swiss cantons of Basel-Landschaft, Jura, Solothurn and Bern, besides minor territories in nearby portions of southern Germany and eastern France. The city of Basel ceased to be part of the Prince-Bishopric after it joined the Swiss Confederacy in 1501. History The Bishopric of Basel was established by the Carolingians, either by Pepin the Short or by Charlemagne himself. The first recorded bishop of Basel is one Walaus, the first entry in the list of bishops preserved in Munster Abbey. He is listed as ''archiepisco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Montagne Diesse
Montagne or Montagné may refer to: People * Camille Montagne (1784–1866), French military physician and botanist. The standard author abbreviation Mont. (of Montagne) is used to indicate this individual as the author when citing a botanical name. * Edward Montagne (1912-2003), American film and television director * Joachim Havard de la Montagne (1927–2003), French composer and organist * Gilbert Montagné (born 1957), French musician * Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592), French philosopher * Pierre de La Montagne (1755–1825), French playwright and poet * Prosper Montagné (1865-1948), French chef and author * Renée Montagne (born 1948), American radio journalist Places *Montagne, Gironde, a commune in the Gironde department, France *Montagne, Isère, a commune in the Isère department, France *Montagne, Trentino, a commune in Trentino, Italy *Montagne Center, a basketball arena in Beaumont, Texas for Lamar University See also * ''La Montagne'' (newspaper), French regional ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Landforms Of The Canton Of Neuchâtel
A landform is a land feature on the solid surface of the Earth or other planetary body. They may be natural or may be anthropogenic (caused or influenced by human activity). Landforms together make up a given terrain, and their arrangement in the landscape is known as topography. Landforms include hills, mountains, canyons, and valleys, as well as shoreline features such as bays, peninsulas, and seas, including submerged features such as mid-ocean ridges, volcanoes, and the great oceanic basins. Physical characteristics Landforms are categorized by characteristic physical attributes such as elevation, slope, orientation, structure stratification, rock exposure, and soil type. Gross physical features or landforms include intuitive elements such as berms, cliffs, hills, mounds, peninsulas, ridges, rivers, valleys, volcanoes, and numerous other structural and size-scaled (e.g. ponds vs. lakes, hills vs. mountains) elements including various kinds of inland and oceanic waterbodi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Congress Of Vienna
The Congress of Vienna of 1814–1815 was a series of international diplomatic meetings to discuss and agree upon a possible new layout of the European political and constitutional order after the downfall of the French Emperor Napoleon, Napoleon Bonaparte. Participants were representatives of all European powers (other than the Ottoman Empire) and other stakeholders. The Congress was chaired by Austrian Empire, Austrian statesman Klemens von Metternich, and was held in Vienna from September 1814 to June 1815. The objective of the Congress was to provide a long-term peace plan for Europe by settling critical issues arising from the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars through negotiation. The goal was not simply to restore old boundaries, but to resize the main powers so they could European balance of power, balance each other and remain at peace, being at the same time shepherds for the smaller powers. More generally, conservative leaders like Metternich also soug ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Neuveville District
La Neuveville District is one of three French-speaking districts of the Bernese Jura in the canton of Bern with the seat being La Neuveville, the other two being Courtelary and Moutier. It had a population of about 6,083 in 2004. From 1 January 2010, the district lost its administrative power while being replaced by the Bernese Jura administrative district, whose administrative centre is Courtelary Courtelary is a municipality of the French-speaking Bernese Jura, in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. The town is the capital of the Jura bernois administrative district. History Courtelary is first mentioned in 968 as ''Curtis Alerici'' in .... accessed 4 April 2011 Since 2010, it remains t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erlach District
Erlach District is a constitutional district in the canton of Bern, Switzerland. Its capital is Erlach. From 1 January 2010, the district lost its administrative power while being replaced by the Seeland (administrative district), whose administrative centre is Aarberg. Since 2010, it remains a fully recognised district under the law and the Constitution (Art.3 al.2) of the Canton of Berne. The district has an area of 96 km2 and consists of 12 municipalities A municipality is usually a single administrative division having municipal corporation, corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality' ...: External links ''Welcome to Erlach''Official website Former districts of the canton of Bern {{Berne-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mont-Terrible
Mont-Terrible () was a department of the First French Republic, with its seat at Porrentruy. The Mont Terrible for which the department was named is now known as , a peak of near Courgenay (now in the canton of Jura, Switzerland). The toponym of was formed by popular etymology from an earlier Frainc-Comtou ''Mont Tairi'', from "arid, dry". The department was created in 1793 with the annexation of the short-lived Rauracian Republic, which had been created in December 1792 from the imperial part of the Prince-Bishopric of Basel. In 1797, the former Württemberg-owned Principality of Montbéliard, which had previously been given to Haute-Saône, was reattached to Mont-Terrible, together with the remaining Swiss part of the Bishopric of Basel after the French attack to the Elvetic nation. The department was abolished in 1800. Its territory was annexed to the Haut-Rhin, within which it formed the two arrondissements of Delémont and Porrentruy. In 1815, the territory that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Invasion Of Switzerland
The French invasion of Switzerland () occurred from January to May 1798 as part of the French Revolutionary Wars. The independent Old Swiss Confederacy collapsed from the invasion and simultaneous internal revolts called the "Helvetic Revolution". The Swiss ''ancien régime'' institutions were abolished and replaced by the centralised Helvetic Republic, one of the sister republics of the French First Republic. Background Before 1798, the modern canton of Vaud belonged to the canton of Bern, to which it had a subject status. Moreover, the majority of the Francophone Vaudois felt oppressed by German-speaking Bern. Several Vaudois patriots such as Frédéric-César de La Harpe advocated for independence. In 1795, La Harpe called on his compatriots to rise up against the Bernese aristocrats, but his appeal fell to deaf ears, and he had to flee to Revolutionary France, where he resumed his activism. In late 1797, French general Napoleon Bonaparte, who had just successfully conq ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bern
Bern (), or Berne (), ; ; ; . is the ''de facto'' Capital city, capital of Switzerland, referred to as the "federal city".; ; ; . According to the Swiss constitution, the Swiss Confederation intentionally has no "capital", but Bern has governmental institutions such as the Federal Assembly (Switzerland), Federal Assembly and Federal Council (Switzerland), Federal Council. However, the Federal Supreme Court of Switzerland, Federal Supreme Court is in Lausanne, the Federal Criminal Court of Switzerland, Federal Criminal Court is in Bellinzona and the Federal Administrative Court (Switzerland), Federal Administrative Court and the Federal Patent Court (Switzerland), Federal Patent Court are in St. Gallen, exemplifying the federal nature of the Confederation. With a population of about 146,000 (), Bern is the List of cities in Switzerland, fifth-most populous city in Switzerland, behind Zürich, Geneva, Basel and Lausanne. The Bern agglomeration, which includes 36 municipalities ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
