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ID: 7007350
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7007350
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Einsiedeln (inhabited place)  Einsiedeln (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 47 07 41 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 47.1280  decimal degrees
Long: 008 44 35 E  degrees minutes   Long: 8.7432  decimal degrees

Note: Located on Alp Stream; developed around Benedictine abbey; principality of Holy Roman Empire from 1274; ruled by Schwyz from 1386; was pilgrimage center for "Black Virgin" statue; home of 15th-cen. religious reformer Ulrich Zwingli & physician Paracelsus.

Names:
Einsiedeln (preferred,C,V,German,U)
Notre-Dame-des-Ermites (C,V)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Europe (continent)  ....  Europe (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Switzerland (nation)  ........  Switzerland (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Schwyz (canton)  ............  Schwyz (canton) (P)
Hierarchy of Einsiedeln (inhabited place)  ................  Einsiedeln (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  town grew up around abbey that was founded in 10th cen.
town (C)
monastic center (C)  ............  Benedictine abbey was founded in 934
pilgrimage center (H)

Sources and Contributors:
Einsiedeln..........  [BHA, VP Preferred]
.......................  Knaurs: Schweiz (1982)
.......................  Michelin
.......................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.......................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 61
Notre-Dame-des-Ermites..........  [VP]
.........................................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 269
Subject: .....  [BHA, VP]
..................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 269
..................  Knaurs: Schweiz (1982)
..................  Michelin
..................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -2551870
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 61
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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