[4]: 506  It was created in the mid-twentieth century by merger of the Einsiedler [fr] – which had been bred for centuries at the Benedictine Monastery of Einsiedeln in the Canton of Schwyz – with the Swiss Halfblood and with traditional local breeds including the Ajoie, the Erlenbacher and the Entlebucher.

[5]: 300  The Swiss Warmblood is bred at the Haras National Suisse [fr] at Avenches, in the Canton of Vaud.

The Swiss Warmblood was created in the mid-twentieth century by merger of the Einsiedler [fr] – which had been bred for centuries at the Benedictine Monastery of Einsiedeln in the Canton of Schwyz – with the Swiss Halfblood and with traditional local breeds including the Ajoie, the Erlenbacher and the Entlebucher.

[2] In the 1960s use was made of a number of foreign stallions, among them three Anglo-Normans named Ivoire, Orinate de Messil and Que d'Espair, the Holsteiners Astral and Chevalier, and a Swedish Warmblood called Aladin;[7]: 134  thereafter the stallions used were mostly Swiss.

[2] The Swiss Warmblood is usually chestnut, less often bay; black and other colours may also occur.