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Chienbäse is a Fasnacht tradition of Liestal, Basel-Landschaft, Switzerland. On the Sunday night after Ash Wednesday , the night before the Morgestraich in Basel city, a procession begins of people carrying burning bundles of pinewood chips (called Chienbäse , the Alemannic German for "pinewood besom") through the medieval town center along ...
Rico Freiermuth (born 1958 in Liestal), a Swiss bobsledder, bronze medallist at the 1984 Winter Olympics; Adrian Knup (born 1968 in Liestal), is a Swiss retired football striker, 273 club caps and 49 for Switzerland; David Degen (born 1983 in Liestal), a former Swiss footballer, 269 club caps and 17 for Switzerland
The event comes more than five years after a devastating fire. Notre-Dame Cathedral, which is more than 800 years old, reopens this weekend in Paris. ... much of the weekend's events will be held ...
It is composed of five districts and its capital city is Liestal. It is traditionally considered a "half-canton", the other half being Basel-Stadt, its urban counterpart. Basel-Landschaft is one of the northernmost cantons of Switzerland. It lies essentially south of the Rhine and north of the Jura Mountains.
Seven people were injured when a hot air balloon caught fire Saturday morning during takeoff from a village in central Switzerland, authorities said. Authorities in the canton of Zug said seven ...
Today the people meet in pubs at fixed times and the undisguised jesters go from pub to pub together. The commonly used forms of expression are four-liners and songs. Although the Swabian-Alemannic Fastnacht basically takes place in pubs in restaurants, there is a short period of Fastnacht sessions inside of halls after Candlemess (Lichtmess).
(only for German-speaking Switzerland; ceased on 3 June 2019) SRF info is a German-language Swiss television channel owned by Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen . The channel started trial broadcasts in May 1999 and regular broadcasts in January 2001.
There were 1,031 or 24.8% who were born in the same canton, while 1,251 or 30.0% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 1,063 or 25.5% were born outside of Switzerland. [ 9 ] In 2008 [update] there were 24 live births to Swiss citizens and 15 births to non-Swiss citizens, and in same time span there were 18 deaths of Swiss citizens and 3 ...