Winterthur (Delaware)
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Location in Delaware
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| State : | United States | ||
| State : | Delaware | ||
| County : | New Castle County | ||
| Coordinates : | 39 ° 48 ′ N , 75 ° 35 ′ W | ||
| Time zone : | Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 ) | ||
| Height : | 82 m | ||
| Postal code : | 19735 | ||
| FIPS : | 10-79010 | ||
| GNIS ID : | 216254 | ||
Winterthur is an unincorporated area in New Castle County in the US state of Delaware .
Surname
The area is named after the museum of the same name, which in turn takes its name from Winterthur , the sixth largest city in Switzerland .
Jacques-Antoine Biderman (* 1790) was the first Swiss to move to this area. He was the son of Jacques Bidermann (1751–1817), whose uncle Jakob Bidermann moved from Winterthur to Geneva in 1720 to set up a business there. The father himself had close business relationships with Winterthur during his time in Paris and rose to "Directeur des subsistances générales de la République pour le service du ministre de la guerre" in the course of the French Revolution , before taking up this position in the first crisis of the new one Republic lost again.
geography
The place is located at Brandywine Creek State Park on Brandywine Creek , which rises in Pennsylvania . Winterthur is north of Wilmington near the Pennsylvania border at the intersection of the two Delaware Routes 92 and 100 .
traffic
Winterthur is served by the Delaware Transit Corporation (DART) bus route 10 . The community is approximately 15 minutes by car from Wilmington Railway Station and 40 minutes from Philadelphia International Airport .
Culture and leisure
Winterthur owns an art museum on the large country estate of the DuPont family with more than 85,000 sculptures and an attached park , the Winterthur Museum and Country Estate . The museum houses one of the most important collections of Americana in the United States.
The Wilmington Country Club and Bidermann Golf Course are also close to the community.
Individual evidence
- ^ Alfred Häberle: Biedermann [Bidermann], Jacques. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- ^ Alfred Häberle: Biedermann [Bidermann]. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- ^ Werner Ganz : History of the City of Winterthur . Introduction to its history from the beginning to 1798. In: 292nd New Year's sheet of the Winterthur City Library . Winterthur 1960, p. 130 .