Herisau

American  

[hey-ri-zou] / ˈheɪ rɪˌzaʊ /

noun

1. a town in and the capital of Appenzell Ausser Rhoden, in NE Switzerland.

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Herisau British  

/ ˈheːrizau /

noun

1. a town in NE Switzerland, capital of Appenzell Outer Rhodes demicanton. Pop: 15 882 (2000)

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Example Sentences

It shows Watts performing with his own jazz band, The ABC and D of Boogie Woogie, at the Casino in Herisau, Switzerland in January 2010.

From BBC

After leaving Berlin, Walser, depressed by poor book sales and his relative isolation, ended up living, alone, in a series of furnished rooms back home in Switzerland and, finally, after suffering hallucinations—insanity ran in the family—in a sanatorium in Bern, and then another, in Herisau.

From The New Yorker

People weren’t getting enough iodine in their diets, and Hans Eggenberger, the chief physician of the district hospital, in the town of Herisau, knew it.

From Newsweek

HERISAU, the largest town in the entire Swiss canton of Appenzell, built on the Glatt torrent, and by light railway 7 m. south-west of St Gall or 13� m. north of Appenzell.

From Project Gutenberg

By light railways it is 12� m. from St Gall past Gais or 20� m. past Herisau.

From Project Gutenberg