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45 unusual facts about Amberg


Battle of Gefrees

Junot's pursuit was not only stopped, but he was forced to retreat to Amberg.

Battle of Pfaffenhofen

Amberg and Vilshofen were taken and the Bavarian army under Törring and its French, Hessian and Palatinate allies were pushed on the defensive.

Bavarian Eastern Railway Company

From Geiselhöring a branch also ran in the direction of Regensburg and on through the Upper Palatinate via Schwandorf, Amberg and Neukirchen to Hersbruck (left of the Pegnitz River)—a total of 133 km of line.

Bavarian State Archaeological Collection

Amberg: The Archäologisches Museum der Oberpfalz Amberg (Amberg Archaeological Museum of the Upper Palatinate), founded in 1991 and now housed within the city museum, portrays the history of the Upper Palatinate from the Stone Age to the Middle Ages.

Bundesautobahn 6

The direct motorway connection between Prague and Paris was completed when the last missing section between junction Amberg-Ost and interchange Oberpfälzer Wald was inaugurated on 10 September 2008.

Caspar de Crayer

But he was equally respected beyond his native country; and some important pictures of his composition are to be found as far south as Aix en Provence and as far east as Amberg in the Upper Palatinate.

Cheb

In 1954, the town of Amberg in Germany adopted the expelled Sudeten German population from Cheb and the surrounding districts.

Cosmas Damian Asam

Amberg—Pilgrimage Church of Maria-Hilf (ceiling frescoes of Amberg pilgrimage) (1718)

Dientzenhofer

Wolfgang Dinzenhofer (1678-1747) from Plankenhäusel in Au near Aibling, did probably learn at another Wolfgang Dientzenhofer in Amberg, according to documents of the local Salesian monastery.

Eh'häusl

The Eh'häusl is an eight-foot wide hotel in the city of Amberg, in the Upper Palatinate of Bavaria in Germany.

Eleonore Marie of Anhalt-Bernburg

Eleanor Marie of Anhalt-Bernburg (7 August 1600 in Amberg - 17 July 1657 in Strelitz) was a princess of Anhalt-Bernburg by birth and by marriage Duchess of Mecklenburg-Güstrow.

Elisabeth of Oettingen

Elisabeth's son Landgrave Leopold of Leuchtenberg (d. 1463) was a Palatinate governor of Amberg and was later raised to Prince of Leuchtenberg.

Ernst-von-Bergmann-Kaserne

Disbanded users were the Medical Instruction Battalion 851, the Reserve Hospital Group 7609 and a branch of the former Military Hospital Amberg.

Ferdinand Janner

Janner completed his schooling at the Latin school of Amberg.

Franz Seraph von Pfistermeister

Franz Seraph Freiherr von Pfistermeister was born on 14 December 1820 in Amberg, Germany.

Frederick IV, Elector Palatine

Born in Amberg, his father died in October 1583 and Frederick came under the guardianship of his uncle John Casimir, an ardent Calvinist.

Freudenberg, Bavaria

It is situated approximately 10 km north-east of Amberg.

Friedrich Gollwitzer

In 1964 the public prosecutor's office in Amberg (West Germany) started an inquiry against Gollwitzer over his alleged involvement in war crimes.

Friedrich Spanheim

Friedrich Spanheim the elder (January 1, 1600, Amberg – May 14, 1649, Leiden) was a Calvinistic theology professor at the University of Leiden.

Gregor-Mendel-Gymnasium Amberg

The Gregor-Mendel-Gymnasium (GMG, Gregor Mendel High School) is a national, public gymnasium in Amberg, Bavaria.

Hans Aumeier

Aumeier was born on August 20, 1906 in the small town of Amberg, Germany, where he attended elementary school for four years and then secondary school for just three years.

Imre Hercz

After being hospitalized in Amberg for five and a half years, he recovered and emigrated to Norway in 1952 as one of several Jewish Holocaust-survivors of lesser health accepted to Norway with substantial grants from Joint to the Norwegian government.

Jakob Balde

He remained in Munich till 1650, when he went to live at Landshut and afterwards at Amberg.

Johann Nepomuk von Triva

In 1779 he married Floriana von Velhorn, a daughter of the Privy Councillor in Amberg Johann Wolfgang Alois von Velhorn (1734–1789) and his wife Sybilla née von Loefen zu Diepoltsdorf.

John, Count Palatine of Neumarkt

He came into conflict with his brother Louis, the Elector Palatine, who ruled some territories of the Upper Palatinate around Amberg.

Karl Addicks

Karl Addicks (born 31 December 1950 in Amberg, Bavaria) is a German politician and member of the FDP.

Kastl Abbey

Kastl Abbey (Kloster Kastl) is a former Benedictine monastery in Kastl in the Upper Palatinate, Bavaria.

Marian Dobmayer

Marian Dobmayer (born 24 October 1753, at Schwandorf, Bavaria; died 21 December 1805, at Amberg, Bavaria) was a German Benedictine theologian.

Maurus von Schenkl

Maurus von Schenkl (b. at Auerbach in Bavaria, 4 January 1749; d. at Amberg, 14 June 1816) was a German Benedictine theologian and canonist.

Maximilian Willibald of Waldburg-Wolfegg

As he lacked the funds for an immediate repair, he moved to Amberg, where he accepted the job as a governor of Upper Palatinate.

Michael Mathias Prechtl

Michael Mathias Prechtl (April 26, 1926, Amberg – March 19, 2003, Nuremberg) was a German artist, illustrator and cartoonist.

Mildred Scheel

The family left the bombed-out Cologne in 1944, and moved to Amberg.

Nuremberg–Schwandorf railway

The Nuremberg–Schwandorf railway is a 93.7 km long railway from Nuremberg, running along the Pegnitz river, to Hersbruck and continuing via Neukirchen bei Sulzbach-Rosenberg and Amberg to Schwandorf in the German state of Bavaria.

Peter Tregloan

In 2001 a bad bench press led to a third place finish in Cape Town although in December of that year in Amberg he set the world record for the Masters age category in Deadlift, Squat and Total.

Regensburg Congress of 1459

The nineteen masters in attendance included those in charge of cathedrals in Regensburg, Vienna (Lorenz Spenning), Basel, Bern, Passau, Salzburg, Konstanz, Weissenau, Landshut, Ingolstadt, Weißenberg, Esslingen, Amberg, Hassfurt, Ochsenfurt and Cologne.

Regensburg Hauptbahnhof

Regensburg was connected to the railway network relatively late; although the first line in Bavaria opened in 1835, it took until 1859 for the Bavarian Eastern Railway (Königlich privilegirte Actiengesellschaft der bayerischen Ostbahnen) to link this east Bavarian metropolis with Nuremberg and Munich, the first line to be built going via Amberg.

Schmidgaden

Schmidgaden belonged to the bursary Amberg as well as to the district court of the Bavarian electorate.

Stepan Shukhevych

Stepan Shukhevych (born 1877 in Serafanivka, near Horodenka, Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria - died in 1945 in Amberg, Germany) was a Ukrainian lawyer and military figure.

Sulzbach-Rosenberg

It is situated approximately 14 km northwest of Amberg, and 50 km east of Nuremberg.

Theodor Kaes

Theodor Joseph Martin Kaes (November 7, 1852 – December 22, 1913) was a German neurologist who was a native of Amberg.

Timo Kahlen

His installation at the Aviation Museum in Amberg in 2010 was disrupted when a cleaner mistakenly vacuumed up the two dead hornets he had placed on a loudspeaker: the installation was titled Tanz für Insekten (dance for insects) and the intention was for the dead insects to "dance" as a result of the vibrations.

Upper Palatinate

Cadet branches of the Wittelsbach also ruled over smaller territories in Neuburg and Sulzbach.

Ursensollen

Ursensollen is in the region Upper Palatinate-North about 10 km to the west of Amberg.

Veit Arnpeck

He was educated at Amberg and Vienna and later became parish priest of St. Martin's Church, Landshut and chaplain to Bishop Sixtus.

Wolfgang of the Palatinate

In 1544, he was appointed governor of the Upper Palatinate at Amberg.


Amberg–Schmidmühlen railway

From time to time heavy goods trains, which needed three DB Class 211 diesel locomotives, ran to the kiln.

Amberg–Schnaittenbach railway

The line leaves Amberg and initially follows the River Vils uphill before bending eastwards and reaching its terminal station at Schnaittenbach via the village of Hirschau.

Ensdorf

Ensdorf, Bavaria, a village in the Amberg-Sulzbach district, Bavaria, Germany

Königstein, Bavaria

Königstein, also referred to as Königstein (Oberpfalz) to distinguish it from other places named Königstein, is a market town in the Amberg-Sulzbach district, Bavaria, Germany.