Burgdorf, Switzerland
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Burgdorf is the largest city in the Emmental in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. It was the capital of the district of the same name until 2010, when it became part of the new Emmental district.
Old city of Burgdorf
The Burgdorf castle, first built in 1175, now contains a museum founded in 1886.
Burgdorf castle in 1895
Kronenplatz in Burgdorf, part of the old city
John Sutter
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John Augustus Sutter, born Johann August Sutter and known in Spanish as Don Juan Sutter, was a Swiss immigrant who became a Mexican and later an American citizen, known for establishing Sutter's Fort
Burgdorf, Switzerland
…Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi (1746–1827) used to live and teach in Burgdorf Castle. Johann August Sutter (1803–1880), Californian pioneer, left Burgdorf for America in 1834 Karl Eduard Aeschlimann (1808 in Burgdorf – 1893), an architect, court architect…
Sutter's birthplace in Kandern, Germany
Portrait of John Sutter by Frank Buchser, painted in 1866.
Contemporaneous illustration of Sutter's Fort
Sutter's Mill in 1850.