St. Moritz 15 m) to the Lake St. Moritz shoreline provides excellent heart of the action viewing for the audience. Thanks to its favorable location, St. Moritz enjoys over 300 days of sunshine a year. Every winter it hosts the "White Turf" horse race on the frozen Lake St. Moritz attended by the international upper class. Popular pastimes include skiing, snowboarding, and hiking, and nearby there is also the world-famous Cresta Run toboggan course. The year-round population is 5,600, with some 3,000 seasonal employees supporting hotels and rental units with a total of 13,000 beds. St Moritz has a subarctic climate only
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