The Local Switzerland

Swiss church turns off bells because of nesting storks

Tue, 19 Mar 2019 11:35:33 +0100

The bells of a church in northern Switzerland have been switched off indefinitely so as not to disturb a pair of mating storks.

Sleepless in Switzerland: could quieter church bells be the answer?

Tue, 10 Apr 2018 11:15:01 +0200

When it comes to hot button topics in Switzerland, noisy church bells are right up at the top of the list, along with rubbish collection and late trains.

Residents of ‘noisiest city in Switzerland’ asked to record din

Thu, 02 Feb 2017 13:06:55 +0100

Federal technology institute EPFL has developed a new app for residents of the city and canton of Geneva to record the sounds they hear around them in order to help evaluate the region’s quality of life.

Court sides with chickens in dispute over noisy henhouse

Wed, 31 Aug 2016 14:31:08 +0200

A court in the canton of Vaud has ordered a man to pay more than 36,000 francs in court costs after it rejected his complaint that his neighbours’ chickens made too much noise.

Farmer loses appeal in row over noisy cow bells

Thu, 12 May 2016 14:13:48 +0200

A farmer in the Zurich Oberland has lost his latest appeal against neighbours who demanded he remove the bells from his cows because they made too much noise.

'Oh God — I'm coming': noise row goes public

Mon, 22 Jun 2015 14:35:32 +0200

A neighbour in a housing complex in the canton of Aargau was so annoyed by a couple’s noisy love-making he went public with his discontent in a bid to embarrass them into making less of a racket at night.

German-Swiss deal on Zurich airport noise

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 10:18:00 +0100

Switzerland and Germany on Saturday paved the way for an agreement on a long-standing dispute over flight noise from Zurich airport.