Larger Switzerland

[Max Sinister]

People in Southern Baden did not like being part of Baden-Württemberg. If they wanted to join Switzerland, and they let them... mprobable but not impossible.

 

[Clandango]

Maybe the southern shore of Lake Geneva gets added?

 

[Clandango]

People in Southern Baden did not like being part of Baden-Württemberg. If they wanted to join Switzerland, and they let them... mprobable but not impossible.

Baden-Wurttemberg didn't come around until after WWII. Most of southern Baden also used to be Habsburg held lands. Come to think of, somehow getting a Habsburg to stay in charge in Switzerland and unifying it with Breisgau, Sundgau, Further Austria, Voralburg, and Tyrol might work

 

[LutzBrux]

Even simpler then

That's not going to work at all for a big reason: Switzerland is just coming out of the Sonderbund War. The German cantons are somewhat divided by religion, and in any case the Swiss by this point viewed themselves as very separate from the German states. And finally the results of that was the emergence of the current federal structure in 1848. Switzerland is really too focused on internal issues at this point, and frankly didn't care about what was going on in Frankfurt.

The Sonderbundskrieg makes things even simpler. Imagine the Swiss not creating the new Eidgenosschenschaft of 1848, because af their internal strife.
The liberals won the Sonderbundskrieg, exactly like north of the border. And the opponents were not of the same confession either. The majority was Calvinist, but Glarus, Basel, Appenzell, Graubünden und St Gallen (?) were catholic.
You make my TL even more likely.

 

[Alex Richards]

The Sonderbundskrieg makes things even simpler. Imagine the Swiss not creating the new Eidgenosschenschaft of 1848, because af their internal strife.
The liberals won the Sonderbundskrieg, exactly like north of the border. And the opponents were not of the same confession either. The majority was Calvinist, but Glarus, Basel, Appenzell, Graubünden und St Gallen (?) were catholic.
You make my TL even more likely.

No, it does not. Switzerland fundamentally did not care what went on in the rest of Germany. They were done with Germany, they didn't want anything to do with them. The only reason Switzerland didn't gain the Vorarlberg after WWI was because they didn't want to upset the internal balance. They're not going to absorb so many Germans that even the Swiss Germans would be a minority in their own state.

 

[Grey Wolf]

hey, all. i want to explore a possibility for both Anglo-American Rivalry and for my ASB ATL. everyone here knows about the Swiss AH cliches, about how its never any larger or smaller than it is IOTL and how it is never invaded or involved on the world scale

i'd like to explore some possibilities about Switzerland being at least slightly larger than it is IOTL. with a POD no earlier than 1783, is there any possibility that Switzerland could become slightly larger or more influential? the POD can take place at any time after that, even up into the 20th century with a Swiss Nazi party if you want (though i'd like to avoid that )

Well in my game of Victoria II, Switzerland just liberated Flanders from the Dutch and incorporated it in the federal state, thus giving it a coastline

Best Regards
Grey Wolf