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2 unusual facts about Aue


Hausneindorf

Since 1 January 2010, it is part of the municipality Selke-Aue.

Selke-Aue

It was formed on 1 January 2010 by the merger of the former municipalities Hausneindorf, Heteborn and Wedderstedt.


Bernsbach

The community stretches from the valley of the river Schwarzwasser up to the Spiegelwald (forest) at 728 m above sea level, thereby offering a good view over the Ore Mountain towns of Aue and Schwarzenberg.

"Ore Mountains’ Balcony": view from Bernsbach on Schwarzenberg, Lauter and Aue (from left to right)

Breitenbrunn

Breitenbrunn, Saxony, in the district of Aue-Schwarzenberg, Saxony, Germany

DR Class 58.30

The rebuilt locomotives were primarily stationed in Saxony and Thuringia, above all in the locomotive depots (Bahnbetriebswerk or Bw) of Aue, Döbeln, Dresden-Friedrichstadt, Gera, Gotha and Saalfeld.

Jugel

The village may be reached by railway on the ZwickauAueSchwarzenberg–Johanngeorgenstadt line and by car along Staatsstraße 272 which runs from Schwarzenberg via Johanngeorgenstadt to Wildenthal.

Lauter

Lauter, Saxony, town in the district of Aue-Schwarzenberg, Saxony, Germany

Leon Springs, Texas

Aue founded an inn which became the first stop on the Stagecoach route between San Antonio and San Diego.

Mönchengladbach–Stolberg railway

The concession for the construction and operation of the extension of the line to Hochneukirch, Jülich, Inden and Weisweiler to Eschweiler-Aue, with a total length of 48.77 km, was granted to the BME on 23 September 1870.

Portugal Olympic football team

With wins against Iceland (2–1 in Leiria and 1–0 in Reykjavík), two away defeats (1–0 in Lecce, Italy and 3–0 in Aue, East Germany) and all other games tied, they ended up in third place with eight points (five behind group winners and qualifiers Italy).

Posen speeches

In Jonathan Littell's "The Kindly Ones", the first-person narrator, Maximilian Aue, cannot remember whether Speer was present or not, but does cite Speer's remark that he (Speer) remembered many officers being terribly drunk.

Seeburger See

Also known as Auge des Eichsfelds (Eye of the Eichsfeld), the shallow 86.5-hectare (0.865 km2) lake is fed in the west by the Aue creek at Seeburg and drained to the east in Bernshausen by the same creek and lies at an elevation of 157 m AMSL.


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