Green County - Welcome to SWISS-consin

Home to picturesque communities like New Glarus and Monroe, Green County is known for its cheese factories, breweries, and Swiss heritage. In this episode of Discover Wisconsin, hosts Mariah Haberman and Eric Paulsen learn about Green County's history when it comes to cheesemaking, and see firsthand how business owners and community members are carrying on traditions today. Among other things, we visit a 125-year-old tavern, taste a Limburger cheese sandwich, meet father and son master cheesemakers who are carrying on Swiss traditions, and attend one of the state's most anticipated events, Cheese Days. Visitors to Green County will love the Swiss-chalet style buildings, great shopping and authentic Swiss cuisine, but it's the welcoming spirit and hometown pride of Green County's communities that make it what it is - a uniquely Wisconsin destination that you are sure to love.

[@Seanonflo]

Greetings from Switzerland. Gruess us de Schwiiz.

[@oneumbrella]

it's fun to see the new New Glarus
when i live in old glarus (switzerland)

[@Albanian_traveller]

Hey! I'm Swiss and I liked this video a lot. They may have forgotten their language but not their roots. ❤ wish you all the best!

[@Ian-dn6ld]

It was forced out of our families during WW1 and the Rest squeezed out by 1945 but it’s still around particularly in the older people

[@Albanian_traveller]

@@Ian-dn6ld oh that's kind of sad 🙁

[@Ian-dn6ld]

Lele Haha Yeah :/ it’s one of those histories that the US hasn’t been able to politicize yet but the stories are gruesome. Kkk crosses were sometimes known to burn on german American lawns, tar and feathering weren’t unheard of. Really wretched stuff. Our families have stories that we’re able to pass down but they haven’t been worthy of school history books yet for whatever reason. Even concentration camps of a sort were used throughout the US for some but those were nothing compared to Nazi Germany but yeah. Tons of European languages which had been spoken over here even since the first Dutch colonies and French fur traders disappeared during this time. It was literally the time where the “speak English this is america” mindset was pushed to be at “true american.” But all throughout the Midwest there are still people here and there in the small towns who remember or who can still speak their town’s/family’s German/Swiss/ what have you dialect a bit. Mostly older but ya. Lots of stuff I’ve heard that isn’t used over in Europe anymore.

[@Albanian_traveller]

@@Ian-dn6ld thank you. I learnt something new today. I always thought that there was a simple assimilation and they gradually lost their language but it seems that there was a lot of pressure and violence behind that process :( I'm sorry to hear that.

[@Schnabeltassentier]

Ian That‘s so sad, especially because Swiss-German dialects got preserved wo well BECAUSE of WW2 (during that time, standart german fell out of fashing to set us apart from Germany)

[@johnmurphy7674]

I'm from Green County, so proud of my Swiss roots

[@LuckyDogDave]

beer and cheese... yes!

[@greg3935]

Great place to grow up!

[@benigarrido8759]

Gruass Vu Graubünda! 🙂

[@jimgall3725]

Thanks for the vid. I went to Monroe, WI to compete at a Swiss Turner competition with the Milwaukee branch in c. 1964. I liked the Swiss building touches and the small town. They turned to dairying and cheese making because the soil was played out for grain crops. My own great great grandfather emigrated from Sankt Gallen in 1842 to the Swiss colonies along the Mississippi in Illinois.

[@MariahHaberman]

Such a fun county to explore here in Wisconsin!

[@MiBaer]

So cool and Grüezi from Switzerland.

[@p.j.s-8394]

Verstönd er das wo ich da schribä? (Swiss German)

[@Phaios95]

Äuäää

[@Ian-dn6ld]

Welche 𝐯𝐨𝐧 𝐝𝐞𝐧 älteren 𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐧 können noch die alte Dialekte. Aber die die wo deutsch und allgemeine Dialekte sprechen konnten sind Anfang dem ersten Weltkrieg alle bedroht worden wegen anti-German Gesetze.