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* the adjectival form of Switzerland
* Swiss people
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Rorschach Rorschach may refer to:
* Hermann Rorschach, a Swiss psychiatrist
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Kreuzlingen
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Steckborn
Steckborn is a municipality in Frauenfeld District in the canton of Thurgau in Switzerland.
It is located on the south-western arm of Lake Constance known in German as the Untersee ("Lower Lake").
History
The area around Steckborn was alrea ...
Lake Constance
Lake Constance (german: Bodensee, ) refers to three Body of water, bodies of water on the Rhine at the northern foot of the Alps: Upper Lake Constance (''Obersee''), Lower Lake Constance (''Untersee''), and a connecting stretch of the Rhine, ca ...
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History
On 15 October 1869 the section of line from Romanshorn to Rorschach was opened. Not quite two years later, on 1 July 1871, it was followed by the Romanshorn–Konstanz line. During its early years the railway belonged to the Swiss Northeastern Railway, the NOB, which was transferred in 1902 into the SBB.
In 1996, the line was taken over by '' Mittelthurgaubahn'' following a competition. They introduced half-hourly fixed-interval services and modernised both track and rolling stock. When ''Mittelthurgaubahn'' went bankrupt in 2003 the line went into the SBB subsidiary, Thurbo, which had been intended as a joint venture between the SBB and ''Mittelthurgaubahn''.