Toggenburg is the name given to the upper valley of the river Thur, Switzerland, in the Switzerland Canton of St. Gallen. Currently, it is one of the eight constituencies in which the canton is divided. The valley descends in a northwestern direction from the watershed between the Rhine and the Thur, and is enclosed on the northeast by the chain of the Sntis (8216 ft.) and on the southwest by that of the Churfirsten (7576 ft.) and of the Speer (mountain) (6411 ft.). It is a fertile valley of about 45 kilometers in length from the source of the river to Wil on the railway line between Winterthur and St. Gallen. The upper half is traversed by an excellent carriage road, while from Ebnat-Kappel there is a railway to Wil (155 m.). At Wildhaus, the highest village (3632 ft.), the house wherein Huldrych Zwingli, the Swiss Reformer, was born in 1484, is still shown. Other villages are Lichtensteig, Kirchberg and Wattwil. The extinction of the main line of the counts of Toggenburg (1436) led to the Old Zrich War (14401446) ultimately resulting in the temporary expulsion of Zurich from the Swiss confederacy. Eventually, the Toggenburg passed to the lord of Raron (in Valais), who sold it in 1468 to the abbot of St. Gall. ==References== * ==External links== *http://www.toggenburg.org tourist information in German Regions of Switzerland
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Toggenburg is the name given to the upper valley of the river Thur, Switzerland, in the Switzerland Canton of St. Gallen. Currently, it is one of the eight constituencies in which the canton is divided. The valley descends in a northwestern direction from the watershed between the Rhine and the Thur, and is enclosed on the northeast by the chain of the Sntis (8216 ft.) and on the southwest by that of the Churfirsten (7576 ft.) and of the Speer (mountain) (6411 ft.). It is a fertile valley of about 45 kilometers in length from the source of the river to Wil on the railway line between Winterthur and St. Gallen. The upper half is traversed by an excellent carriage road, while from Ebnat-Kappel there is a railway to Wil (155 m.). At Wildhaus, the highest village (3632 ft.), the house wherein Huldrych Zwingli, the Swiss Reformer, was born in 1484, is still shown. Other villages are Lichtensteig, Kirchberg and Wattwil. The extinction of the main line of the counts of Toggenburg (1436) led to the Old Zrich War (14401446) ultimately resulting in the temporary expulsion of Zurich from the Swiss confederacy. Eventually, the Toggenburg passed to the lord of Raron (in Valais), who sold it in 1468 to the abbot of St. Gall. ==References== * ==External links== *http://www.toggenburg.org tourist information in German Regions of Switzerland
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