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Elisabetha Grossmann

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Portrait by Franz Niklaus König

Elisabetha Grossmann (1795 - 1858), was a Swiss skipper. She ferried tourists over the Lake Brienz in the early 19th-century and became herself a famous tourist attraction for her beauty, known as La belle batelière de Brienz or Die schöne Schifferin von Brienz ('The Fair Skipper of Brienz').

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  • Friedrich August Volmar: Elisabetha. Die schöne Schifferin vom Brienzersee. Das tragische Schicksal einer einst berühmten Schweizerin. Verlag Gute Schriften, Bern 1964.