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lv: Vintertūra lt: Vintertūras
el: Βίντερτουρ
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Winterthur is situated at an elevation of 439 m in a basin south and east of the Töss river in the canton Zürich in northern Switzeland. At a population of about 108,000 (2015), it is Switzerland’s sixth most populous city and the second in the canton. Winterthur is also the seat of the administration of the district of the same name.

Vitudurum was a vicus in what is now Oberwinterthur during the Roman era (1st century BC to 3rd century AD), fortified into a castrum at the end of the 3rd century, apparently in reaction to the incipient Alamannic invasion. An Alamannic settlement was present at the site in the 7th century. The counts of Winterthur, a cadet branch of the counts of Bregenz, built Kyburg castle in the 10th century. With the extinction of the counts of Winterthur in 1053, the castle passed to the counts of Dillingen. Winterthur as a city (presumably on the site of a pre-existing village) was founded in 1180. From 1180 to 1263, Winterthur was ruled by the cadet line of the House of Kyburg. When the counts of Kyburg were in turn extinct in the male line in 1263, Winterthur passed to the House of Habsburg, who established a comital line of Neu-Kyburg in 1264 and granted city rights to Winterthur in the same year. From 1415 until 1442 Winterthur became reichsfrei or subject only to the Holy Roman Emperor. However, in the Old Zürich War they lost this freedom and came back under the control of the Austrian Habsburgs. Needing money, in 1467, the Habsburgs sold Winterthur to the city of Zürich. In the 19th century, Winterthur became an industrial town. Today, the city of Winterthur is mainly known as a centre for services, education, culture and leisure activities.

In 1989 the city of Winterthur was awarded the Wakker Prize of the Swiss Heritage Society for the development and preservation of its architectural heritage. Other cities that have been awarded this prize and which are depicted on glasses of this collection are: Altdorf (2007), Basel (1996), Bern (1997), Genève (2000), La Chaux-de-Fonds (2011), Lausanne West (Bussigny-près-Lausanne, Chavannes-près-Renens, Crissier, Ecublens, Lausanne, Prilly, Renens, Saint-Sulpice, Villars-Sainte-Croix) (2011), Montreux (1990), Sankt Gallen (1992), Solothurn (1980), Stein am Rhein (1972), Wil (1984).

[https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winterthur, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winterthur]