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Vollenweider
Vollenweider
is a
Swiss
surname:
A
topographic name
for someone who
lives
by a
field
named as being a
pasture
reserved
for
foals
, from
Middle High German
vole
‘foal’ +
weide
‘meadow’, ‘pasture’.
Andreas Vollenweider, Swiss
musician
Richard Vollenweider, Swiss-born Canadian
limnologist
Hans Vollenweider,
criminal
and last
person
to be
sentenced to death
and
executed
in
Switzerland