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24 unusual facts about Altona


1868 in Denmark

24 April – A law is adopted providing for the construction of a new port at Esbjerg, until then a tiny community, a replacement for the harbour in Altona, which had previously been Denmark's most important North Sea harbour.

2012–13 Melbourne Aces season

During the offseason, the Aces announced that they were moving their home games from the Royal Melbourne Showgrounds to the Melbourne Ballpark in Altona, Victoria.

Altona, Manitoba

It was named 'The largest painting on an easel by The Guinness Book of World Records in 1998. The painting is 'Sunflowers' and it was re-created by local artist Cameron Cross.

It is also home to the largest replica of a famous painting by Vincent van Gogh.

Altona, New York

Archeological studies have found that by 1300 CE, the St. Lawrence Iroquoians, a distinct group who spoke Laurentian, built fortified villages similar to those visited and described by explorer Jacques Cartier in the mid-16th century.

The racial makeup of the town was 82.50% White, 11.96% Black or African American, 0.35% Native American, 0.13% Asian, 4.75% from other races, and 0.32% from two or more races.

Altona, Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands

It is located on the south coast, to the west of the capital, Charlotte Amalie and the settlement of Frenchtown.

Anton Wilhelm Böhme

His collected writings of were published at Altona in 1731-2 by Johann Jakob Rambach, professor of divinity at Halle, with a preface and memoirs.

Charles Spencer, 3rd Earl of Sunderland

William III treated the matter as a trifle, wondering why everyone teased him about "that little spark Clancarty", and gave the couple permission to settle in Altona, Hamburg.

Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse

Weyse was born at Altona, which is now in the German territory of Holstein, but belonged to Denmark at the time the composer was born.

Gustav Bruemmer

In 1940 he started as a teacher in the state sector School of Watchmaking Altona, Hamburg.

Heinrich Wilhelm von Gerstenberg

From 1775 to 1783 he represented Denmark's interests as Danish Resident at Lübeck, and in 1786 received a judicial appointment at Altona, where he died in November 1823.

Hugh Mason

Their marriage was by special licence from the King of Denmark and was held at the Evangellic Reform Church, Altona in the Duchy of Holstein.

Jes Bundsen

He attended the Academy of Copenhagen in 1786, and then studied in Dresden, after which he became a teacher of drawing and a painter in Hamburg and Altona.

Johann Christoph Petzold

After a few years he gave up his position as professor and left Copenhagen, settling in Altona.

Karl Yens

Yens was born Karl Julius Heinrich Jens was born in Altona, Hamburg, Germany and trained in art with Max Koch in Berlin and Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant and Jean-Paul Laurens in Paris.

Louis-Joseph de Montmorency-Laval

During the French Revolution Montmorency-Laval left France and lived in exile in the Kingdom of Denmark–Norway, settling in the town of Altona, now a part of Germany.

Louise of Great Britain

In a dynastic marriage, Louise wed Prince Frederick of Denmark and Norway on 11 December 1743 at Altona, Holstein.

Oluf Gerhard Tychsen

As a Protestant Christian, he attended secondary school in Altona and the Rabbinic school attached to the Altona synagogue.

Otto Wilhelm von Struve

During 1843 and 1844, Struve participated in longitude measurements between Altona, Greenwich and Pulkovo, which were based on large displacement of chronometers over the Earth surface.

Portage—Lisgar

This is a rural district that include the towns of Portage la Prairie, Carman, Altona, Winkler and Morden.

Prussian T 11

But they were also used in suburban services for other cities such as Frankfurt, Hamburg and Altona.

Reemtsma

In 1923, production was moved to Altona, now part of the city of Hamburg, and that is where Reemtsma's main headquarters still are today.

Susan Headley

Born in Altona, Illinois in 1959, Headley claims to have dropped out of school in the eighth grade after a difficult childhood.


Alster Valley Railway

Just one year after the signing of the Ohlsdorf Treaty, which was the basis for the Hamburg-Altona City and Suburban Railway—the precursor of the S-Bahn—on 12 December 1905, a community group formed to promote the extension of the suburban railway through Ohlsdorf to the Alster Valley and beyond.

Bark Ranch, Colorado

Overland Road forms the northern edge of the community, leading east to Jamestown and Altona and west to State Highway 72, the Peak to Peak Highway.

Division of Gellibrand

It is located in the industrial inner western suburbs of Melbourne and includes Footscray, Sunshine, Newport, Yarraville, Altona and Williamstown.

DR Class 01.5

The latter was required for the border-crossing traffic to Bebra and Hamburg-Altona and services on the Dresden-Berlin line.

DRB Class 03.10

In autumn 1958, all 26 engines were rehomed to Bw Hagen-Eckesey, after some had previously been based in Hamburg-Altona and Paderborn.

Eliezer Löb

Subsequently he was called to the rabbinate of Ichenhausen, Bavaria, where he remained until 1873, when he was called to succeed Jacob Ettlinger as chief rabbi of Altona.

Elmshorn station

The Hamburg-Altona–Kiel railway should go through Barmstedt but as Elmshorn had more habitans the line went through it.

Flensburg–Husum–Tönning Railway Company

At the same time, an important branch line was opened from Oster-Ohrstedt via Klosterkrug (now a station in the city of Schleswig) to Rendsburg, connecting to the Neumünster–Rendsburg line—opened on 18 September 1845 by the Rendsburg-Neumünster Railway Company (Rendsburg-Neumünsterschen Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft, RNE)—which in turn connected with the Hamburg-Altona–Kiel line.

Georg Christian Adler

In 1755, he was appointed preacher (prediger) in Arnis, Schleswig; in 1758 in Sarau; and in 1759 in Altona.

Große Freiheit

At that time this district was part of the city of Altona within the county of Holstein-Pinneberg, and did not yet belong to Hamburg.

Halstenbek station

Halstenbek station is on the Hamburg-Altona–Kiel line and is a railway station serviced by the city trains of the Hamburg S-Bahn, managed by DB Station&Service for the Hamburg S-Bahn plc, overseen by the Hamburger Verkehrsverbund.

Hamburg-Altona station

According to the German newspapers Hamburger Morgenpost and Die Welt in September 2009, the Deutsche Bahn AG plans to close the long distance train station at Altona and to build a new station at the area of Diebsteich station.

Kaufmann Kohler

He received his rabbinical training at Hassfurt, Höchberg near Würzburg, Mainz, Altona, and at Frankfurt am Main (under Samson Raphael Hirsch), and his university training at Munich, Berlin, Leipsic, and Erlangen (Ph.D. 1868; his thesis, "Der Segen Jacob's", was one of the earliest Jewish essays in the field of the higher Biblical criticism, and its radical character had the effect of closing to him the Jewish pulpit in Germany).