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Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library is an American estate and museum in Winterthur, Delaware. Winterthur houses one of the richest collections of Americana in the United States. [1] [2] The museum and estate were the home of Henry Francis du Pont (1880–1969), Winterthur's founder and a prominent antiques collector and horticulturist.
Winterthur (German pronunciation: [ˈvɪntɐtuːɐ̯] ⓘ; French: Winterthour) is a city in the canton of Zurich in northern Switzerland. With over 120,000 residents, it is the country's sixth-largest city by population, as well as its ninth-largest agglomeration with about 140,000 inhabitants. [3]
The Kunst Museum Winterthur (The Winterthur Museum of Art) is an art museum in Winterthur, Switzerland run by the local Kunstverein.From its beginnings, the activities of the Kunstverein Winterthur were focused on contemporary art – first Impressionism, then Post-Impressionism and especially Les Nabis, through post-World War II and recently created works by Richard Hamilton, Mario Merz and ...
The original company named Winterthur was founded in Winterthur, Switzerland, in 1875. From 1997 to June 2006, Winterthur was a Credit Suisse (CS) subsidiary. [ 1 ] Paris -based Axa Insurance entered into a definitive agreement to purchase Winterthur group from CS for approximately CHF 12 billion.
The Winterthur trolleybus system was operated initially by conventional length, two-axle vehicles. In 1957, the first five articulated trolleybuses were ordered. They entered service in 1959. In 1997, Stadtbus Winterthur sold a few trolleybuses to the Romanian city of Timișoara.
Winterthur District is one of the twelve districts of the German-speaking canton of Zürich, Switzerland It has a population of 173,053 (as of 31 December 2020). Its capital is the city of Winterthur .
Winterthur is a through station with five platforms and nine tracks. Tracks 1 and 2 terminate on the east side of the station, while the remaining tracks run through. The platform nearest the station is a side platform serving track 1 only, while the next nearest platform faces both the terminating track 2 and the through-running track 3.
Paul Reinhart Ltd. (German: Paul Reinhart AG) is a Swiss merchant firm headquartered in Winterthur, Switzerland, that is primarily involved in agricultural trading. Founded in 1788 as collective partnership Geilinger & Blum it is today among the most important cotton merchants worldwide and one of the oldest companies in Winterthur. [1] [2] [3]