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 Wildhaus -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Wildhaus is a (A settlement smaller than a town) village and (A hotel located in a resort area) resort for summer and winter vacations in the (Click link for more info and facts about Canton of St. Gallen) Canton of St. Gallen, (A landlocked federal republic in central Europe) Switzerland.
The (An urban district having corporate status and powers of self-government) municipality with an area of (Click link for more info and facts about 34.43 km²;) 34.43 km²; had a population of 1258 as of 31.
The reformer (Click link for more info and facts about Huldrych Zwingli) Huldrych Zwingli was born in Wildhaus in 1484.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/w/wi/wildhaus.htm   (143 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Ulrich Zwingli
Founder of the Reformation in Switzerland, born at Wildhaus in Switzerland, 1 January, 1484; died 11 October, 1531.
His father Ulrich was a district official of the little town of Wildhaus, and a cousin of his mother, Margaret Meili, was abbot of the Benedictine monastery in Fischingen in Thurgau.
Zwingli received his early education at Wesen under the guidance of this uncle, by whom he was sent, at the age of ten, to Gregory Bunzli of Wesen who was studying at Basle and also teaching in the school of St. Theodore, which Zwingli henceforth attended.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/15772a.htm   (3234 words)

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