St. Chrischona

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]

St. Chrischona church

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

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

See also
  • Conrad Schick (1822-1901), German architect, archaeologist and evangelical missionary active in Jerusalem

References
  1. Retrieved from the Swisstopo topographic maps
  2. Raupp, Werner (27 July 2010), "Rappard, Dora", Das Historische Lexikon der Schweiz (in German), retrieved 2017-11-25
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