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Encyclopedia > Gotthard
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Devil's bridge (Teufelsbrücke) across the Schoellen

St. Gotthard Pass is a pass in Switzerland at 2108m, between Airolo, Ticino, and Andermatt, Canton of Uri, connecting the northern (German speaking) part of Switzerland with the Italian speaking part Ticino.Though the pass was locally known in Antiquity, it was not generally used until the early 13th century. In a mountain range, a pass (also gap, notch, col, saddle, or bealach) is a lower point that allows easier access through the range. ... metre or meter, see meter (disambiguation) The metre is the basic unit of length in the International System of Units. ... Categories: Switzerland geography stubs ... Ticino is the southernmost canton of Switzerland, and almost entirely Italian-speaking (except the German-speaking municipality of Bosco/Gurin). ... Andermatt is a central Swiss village in Uri, 18 miles south of Altorf. ... Uri is one of the 26 cantons of Switzerland. ...


The pass was dedicated to the Bavarian Saint Gotthard (Godehard of Hildesheim) ca 960 – May 4, 1038, Abbot of Hersfeld, later Bishop of Hildesheim (1022). The son of Archbishop Frederick of Salzburg, Gotthard became abbot of the Benedictine monastery of Nieder Altaich (996) and reformed other monasteries, under the patronage of Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor. His hospice for travellers at Saint-Moritz, near Hildesheim, became famous. With an area of 70,553 km² (27,241 square miles) and 12. ... May 4 is the 124th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (125th in leap years). ... Events Births Deaths Aethelnoth, Archbishop of Canterbury Alhazen, Arabian mathematician August 15 - Hungary Categories: 1038 ... Hildesheim is a city in Lower Saxony, Germany. ... This page is for the city of Salzburg. ... Henry II of Germany (972 - 13 July 1024), was the fifth and last Holy Roman Emperor of the Saxon or Ottonian dynasty. ... Palliative care is any form of medical care or treatment that concentrates on reducing the severity of the symptoms of a disease or slows its progress rather than providing a cure. ... St. ...


Today the St. Gotthard Tunnel, opened in 1881 for railway traffic, replaces the pass road. The St. ...


External links

  • [http://www.saintpatrickdc.org/ss/0504.htm Brief notes on Saint Godehard

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Gotthard was also influential as a mare sire and he was responsible for 26 States Premium mares.
Gotthard has also been influential as a broodmare sire, another World Cup winner, The Natural (by Diskus) is out of a Gotthard mare, and Voltaire, the hugely influential Dutch based Hanoverian jumping sire, is similarly out of a Gotthard dam.
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