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    The Sechseläuten (Zürich German: Sächsilüüte, "The six o'clock ringing of the bells") is a traditional spring holiday in the Swiss city of Zürich celebrated...
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    Sechseläutenplatz (literally: Sechseläuten square) is the largest town square situated in Zürich, Switzerland. Its name derives from the Sechseläuten (the city's traditional...
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  • Queen's Official Birthday (Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha) Sechseläuten (Zürich, Switzerland) Administrative Professionals' Day (Hong Kong, North...
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    participate only as "guests"), the members of the Kämbel guild participate in Sechseläuten. The Kämbel riders wildly circle the Böögg at Sechseläutenplatz in fanciful...
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  • NE (only) Näfels Ride Usually the first Thursday in April GL (only) Sechseläuten Usually the third Monday in April (half-day) Zürich City, Schlieren (only)...
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    traditions. The figure is a symbol of winter and death, and in the annual Sechseläuten ceremony of Zürich, a figure of the Böögg is burnt. In Southern Switzerland...
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    World Economic Forum in Davos since 2011. In 2018, she moderated the Sechseläuten, for the SRF.  In the Blick newspaper she has been writing a bi-weekly...
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    2010 the guilds of Zürich allow to the women of the society to practice Sechseläuten, as guests of the Constaffel society, for historical reasons as until...
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    Saint John Falles, Valencia, Spain Guy Fawkes Night, United Kingdom Sechseläuten, Switzerland Up Helly Aa, Shetland, United Kingdom Guy Fawkes Night Wrestling...
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  • uniting the upper strata of old and well-to-do clans of Zürich and Ägeri. Sechseläuten History of Zürich Gesellschaft zu Fraumünster "Hochzeiten und Geburtstage...
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    Europe and in parts of France. The burning of "winter in effigy" at the Sechseläuten in Zürich (introduced in 1902) is inspired by this Alemannic tradition...
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    of the geography of old Zürich. In April, during the local holiday of Sechseläuten, the Lindenhof serves as the base of operations for whichever is the...
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    and World War II. The best known traditional holiday in Zürich is the Sechseläuten (Sächsilüüte), including a parade of the guilds and the burning of "winter"...
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  • Zurich police. They have been commercially successful; his third novel, Sechseläuten, was at the head of Swiss bestseller lists following its publication...
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    Klausjagen, parade festival on the eve of St. Nicholas Day. Schützenfest Sechseläuten, a spring fire festival. Tschäggätä, masked carnival parade. Ubersitz...
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    just as "guests" of the Constaffel, the Constaffel members practice Sechseläuten. Relief of the wolf hound, symbol of the Rüden guildhall and the Constaffel...
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    (similar custom in the Eifel) Osterfeuer (similar German custom at Easter) Sechseläuten (similar Swiss custom in Zürich) "Dåt biikebrånen önj Nordfraschlönj"...
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    1). Bellevue is situated next to the much larger Sechseläutenplatz (Sechseläuten Square) to the south of Bellevue. To the west is the Quaibrücke (Quay...
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    Relativitätstheorie" Archived 24 February 2012 at the Wayback Machine, Sechseläuten 2005. Laudatio: Katharina von Salis Archived 23 October 2013 at the Wayback...
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    cycle path added. The best-known event on the Limmatquai is the annual Sechseläuten parade which traverses the street on its way to Sechseläutenplatz. The...
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  • Kiebingen it is just known as the "Narrenmarsch" while it is called "Sechseläuten-Marsch" in Zürich. "Der Narrhallamarsch | Wissenswertes | Fastnacht"...
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  • (disambiguation) Böögg, an effigy of winter burned during the Swiss spring holiday Sechseläuten This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Boog...
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    Burning of the so-called Böögg on occasion of Sechseläuten in 2013, not the youth protests but the same site at Sechseläutenplatz....
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    Fasnacht combines the customs of the traditional Swiss Fasnacht and Sechseläuten. The Helvetia Village Historic District was listed on the National Register...
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    south. Hochschulen in its southern end also includes the Bellevue and Sechseläuten squares as well as the theater and opera house at Stadelhoferplatz and...
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    Grosser Hafner island, as well as the settlement Kleiner Hafner at the Sechseläuten square on the effluence of the Limmat on Zürichsee lake shore. The Germanic...
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    the canton of Zürich, the imminent end of winter is celebrated by the Sechseläuten festival. The name comes from Swiss dialect referring to the town crier...
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    present building of the Hauptbahnhof dates to 1871. The emergence of the Sechseläuten as the city's (more properly, the Zünfte's) most prominent traditional...
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    guild had its own stone table, and the costumed guild members met on Sechseläuten for dinner, described by Gottfried Keller in his poem Ein Festzug in...
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    Hans Waldmann monument on occasion of the Sechseläuten-Kämbel ceremony 2015...
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