St. Chrischona

Last updated February 23, 2019

St. Chrischona is a hamlet in the Swiss canton of Basel-Stadt. It is part of the municipality of Bettingen. The centre of the village is located on the highest point of the canton, at 522 metres above sea level.^[1]

Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a country situated in western, central and southern Europe. It consists of 26 cantons, and the city of Bern is the seat of the federal authorities. The sovereign state is a federal republic bordered by Italy to the south, France to the west, Germany to the north, and Austria and Liechtenstein to the east. Switzerland is a landlocked country geographically divided between the Alps, the Swiss Plateau and the Jura, spanning a total area of 41,285 km² (15,940 sq mi). While the Alps occupy the greater part of the territory, the Swiss population of approximately 8.5 million people is concentrated mostly on the plateau, where the largest cities are to be found: among them are the two global cities and economic centres Zürich and Geneva.

Bettingen Place in Basel-Stadt, Switzerland

Bettingen is a municipality in the canton of Basel-Stadt in Switzerland.

East of St. Chrischona, near the German border, is located a 250 m high communication tower.

Swisscom-Sendeturm St. Chrischona is a communications tower built in 1980–1984 near Basel, Switzerland, on the territory of the municipality Bettingen, Basel-Stadt.

St. Chrischona was the home of the St. Chrischona Pilgrim Mission, an evangelical training school for home and foreign missions, led by Karl Heinrich Rappard (1837–1909) and his wife Dora Rappard.^[2]

Dora Rappard was a Swiss missionary and hymn writer. For many years she taught and gave spiritual guidance at the St. Chrischona Pilgrim Mission, a training school for evangelical missionaries near Basel, Switzerland. Many of her hymns are included in modern hymnals.

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References

↑ Retrieved from the Swisstopo topographic maps
↑ Raupp, Werner (27 July 2010), "Rappard, Dora", Historischen Lexikon der Schweiz (in German), retrieved 2017-11-25

External links

St. Chrischona, mythische-orte.eu

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Coordinates: 47°34′24″N7°40′49″E / 47.57333°N 7.68028°E / 47.57333; 7.68028

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[1] Retrieved from the Swisstopo topographic maps

[2] Raupp, Werner (27 July 2010), "Rappard, Dora", Historischen Lexikon der Schweiz (in German), retrieved 2017-11-25