Toggenburg is the name given to the upper valley of the river Thur, in the Swiss Canton of St. Gallen. Currently, it is one of the eight constituencies in which the canton is divided. Thur is a 131 km long river in north-eastern Switzerland. ... St. ...

The valley descends in a northwestern direction from the watershed between the Rhine and the Thur, and is enclosed on the northeast by the chain of the Säntis (8216 ft.) and on the southwest by that of the Churfirsten (7576 ft.) and of the Speer (6411 ft.). It is a fertile valley of about 45 kilometers in length from the source of the river to Wil on the railway line between Winterthur and St. Gallen. The upper half is traversed by an excellent carriage road, while from Kappel there is a railway to Wil (155 m.). The Rhine canyon (Ruinaulta) in Graubünden in Switzerland Length 1,320 km Elevation of the source Vorderrhein: approx. ... There are two rivers that have the name Thur: In France Thur in Alsace In Switzerland Thur, in East Switzerland This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Wil is a town in the Canton of St. ... Winterthur is a city in the Canton of Zurich in Switzerland. ... Location within Switzerland The view on the city from the nearby hills. ...

At Wildhaus, the highest village (3632 ft.), the house wherein Huldrych Zwingli, the Swiss Reformer, was born in 1484, is still shown. Other villages are Lichtensteig, Kirchberg and Wattwil. Wildhaus is a village and resort for summer and winter vacations in the Canton of St. ... Huldrych (or Ulrich) Zwingli (January 1, 1484 – October 10, 1531) was the leader of the Swiss Reformation and founder of the Swiss Reformed Churches. ... Events January 25 - Peter Arbues, chief of the Spanish Inquisition, is assassinated when he is praying in the cathedral at Saragossa, Spain July 6 - Portuguese sea captain Diogo Cão finds the mouth of Congo River December 5 - Pope Innocent VIII gives the inquisition a mission to hunt heretics and... There are communes and places that have the name Kirchberg: In Austria A subdivision of Fontanella in Vorarlberg Kirchberg in Tirol, a town in the Kitzbühel district In Luxembourg Kirchberg-Plateaau In Switzerland Kirchberg BE, in the Canton of Bern Kirchberg SG, in the Canton of St Gallen In France...

The extinction of the main line of the counts of Toggenburg (1436) led to the Old Zürich War (1440–1446) ultimately resulting in the temporary expulsion of Zurich from the Swiss confederacy. Eventually, the Toggenburg passed to the lord of Raron (in Valais), who sold it in 1468 to the abbot of St. Gall. The Counts of Toggenburg (Grafen von Toggenburg) ruled the Toggenburg region of todays Canton of St. ... Events April - Paris is recaptured by the French End of the Hussite Wars in Bohemia. ... The Old Zürich War (Alter Zürichkrieg), 1440–1446, was a conflict between the canton of Zürich and the other seven cantons of the Old Swiss Confederacy over the succession to the Count of Toggenburg. ... General view showing Grossmünster church. ... The Valais (also known in German as Wallis) is one of the 26 cantons of Switzerland in the south-western part of the country, in the Pennine Alps around the valley of the Rhone River from its springs to Lake Geneva. ... Events Baeda Maryam succeeds his father Zara Yaqob as Emperor of Ethiopia Births February 29 - Pope Paul III (died 1549) Juan del Encina, Spanish poet, dramatist and composer William Lilye, English scholar (approximate date; died 1522) Charles I of Savoy John, Elector of Saxony (died 1532) Juan de Zumárraga... The Abbey of St. ...

The Toggenburg war of 1712resulted in a balance of power between catholic and protestant cantons, ultimately leading to the formation of Switzerland as a federal state. The Battles of Villmergen (Canton of Aargau, 47°21′ N 8°15′ E) were two battles between reformed and Catholic cantons. ... // Events Treaty of Aargau signed between Catholic and Protestants. ... In 1847, a civil war broke out between the Catholic and the Protestant cantons (Sonderbundskrieg). ...

References

• This article incorporates text from the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, which is in the public domain.

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External links

• http://www.toggenburg.org tourist information in German