Riehen (Switzerland)

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Information for Authority record

Name (Hebrew)
ריהן (שווייץ)
Name (Latin)
Riehen (Switzerland)
Coordinates
7.65117 7.65117 47.57942 47.57942 (gooearth )
Associated country
Switzerland
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 159481817
Wikidata: Q5262
Library of congress: n 83038617
Sources of Information
  • BGN 3-23-83(Riehen, popl., 47°37ʹN, 7°38ʹE)
  • Adressbuch der Stadt Basel, 1918.
  • BGN 3-23-83(Riehen, popl., 47p0s37ʹN, 7p0s38ʹE)

Wikipedia description:

Riehen (Swiss Standard German pronunciation: [ˈriːən] ; Swiss German: Rieche) is a municipality in the canton of Basel-Stadt in Switzerland. Together with the city of Basel and Bettingen, Riehen is one of three municipalities in the canton. Riehen hosts the Fondation Beyeler (a privately owned art gallery) as well as a toy museum and several parks. Riehen was the first municipality in Switzerland to elect a woman, Trudy Späth-Schweizer to political office, in 1958. The mathematician Leonhard Euler and the tennis player Roger Federer lived in Riehen during their childhood years.

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