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TOGGENBURG, THE

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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 1046 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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TOGGENBURG, THE , a See also:special name given to the upper valley of the See also:river Thur, in the Swiss See also:Canton of St See also:Gall. It descends in a N.W. direction from the See also:watershed between the See also:Rhine and the Thur, and is enclosed N.E. by the See also:chain of the Santis (8216 ft.) and S.W. by that of the Kurfiirsten (7576 ft.) and of the Speer (6411 ft.). It is a fertile valley of about 30 M. in length from the source of the river to Wil on the railway See also:line between See also:Winterthur and St Gall. The upper See also:half is traversed by an excellent See also:carriage road, while from Kappel there is a railway to Wil (151 m.). Its industrious See also:population numbered 34,594 in 1900, nearly equally divided between Romanists and Protestants, mostly See also:German-speaking. Those of the upper half are devoted to See also:pastoral pursuits while those of the See also:lower half are engaged in the manufacture of See also:muslin and See also:cotton. This valley is as yet frequented only by Swiss visitors, and retains many characteristics of sub-alpine See also:Switzerland before the arrival of the See also:horde of tourists. At Wildhaus, the highest See also:village (3632 ft.), the See also:house wherein Huldreich See also:Zwingli, the Swiss Reformer, was See also:born in 1484, is still shown. The See also:chief village is Lichtensteig (1387 inhab.), but those of Kirchberg (5025 inhab.) and of Wattwil (4971 inhab.) are the most populous. On the extinction of the See also:main line of the See also:local See also:counts (1436), this portion of their dominions passed to the See also:lord of Raron (in the See also:Valais), who sold it in 1468 to the See also:abbot of St Gall.

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