Cresta Run Cresta Run The Cresta Run is a natural ice skeleton racing toboggan track in eastern Switzerland. Located in the winter sports town of St. Moritz, the run is one of the few in the world dedicated entirely to skeleton. It was built in 1884 near the hamlet of Cresta in the municipality of Celerina/Schlarigna by the Outdoor Amusement Committee of the Kulm Hotel and the people of St. Moritz. The committee members were Major William Henry Bulpett (eventual founder of the St. Moritz Tobogganing Club (SMTC)), George Robertson, Charles Digby Jones (Robertson and Digby Jones planned the proposed course), C.
Moritz Hartmann Moritz Hartmann Moritz Hartmann (15 October 1821 - 13 May 1872) was a German poet, politician and author. Hartmann was born of Jewish parentage at Duschnik (, also known as "Trhové Dušníky") in Bohemia. As a young man, Hartmann abandoned Judaism although he never formally converted to Christianity. Having studied philosophy at Prague and Vienna, he travelled in south Germany, Switzerland and Italy, and became tutor in a family at Vienna. In 1845, he proceeded to Leipzig and there published a volume of patriotic poems, "Kelch und Schwert" (1845). Fearing in consequence prosecution at the hands of the authorities, he