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13 unusual facts about Bückeburg


August Eberhard Müller

He then studied under Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach at Bückeburg, where Müller served as organist at the Ulrichskirche until 1788.

Bückeburg

The cupola is adorned by an impressive gold mosaic, the second largest of its kind after the one in the Hagia Sophia.

Iwan Müller

Ivan Müller, sometimes spelled Iwan Mueller (1786 Reval, Estonia–1854 Bückeburg), was a clarinetist, composer and inventor who at the beginning of the 19th century was responsible for a major step forward in the development of the clarinet, the air-tight pad.

Jagdschloss Baum

These early Baroque portals were installed in 1758 and were probably created between 1604 and 1606 for the Bückeburg Palace's first-floor great hall.

The former Jagdschloss Baum (Baum Hunting Lodge) is a small Schloss near Bückeburg along the road to Lahde in the Schaumburg Forest.

Pholidosaurus

The type species of Pholidosaurus is P. schaumburgensis, named in 1841 from the Wealden, or Hastings Sand, of Bückeburg, Germany.

Princess Feodora of Denmark

Princess Feodora died on 17 March the following year in Bückeburg, Lower Saxony, Germany.

State Institute for Music Research

In 1917, an Institute for Musicological Research was also founded under the patronage of Prince Adolf of Schaumburg-Lippe in Bückeburg.

In 1935 a new National Institute for German Music Research was founded in Berlin, led by Max Seiffert, incorporating the old Royal College and the Bückeburg Institute.

Stenopelix

In 1855, in a sandstone quarry near Bückeburg on the Harrl heights, a fossil was found of a small dinosaur.

VFW-Fokker H3

Both aircraft have survived, D-9543 is currently on display at the Hubschrauber Museum, Bückeburg with the other H3 thought to be in a private collection in Germany.

Wittekindsberg

The Wittekindsberg is surrounded by the eastern areas of the North Teutoburg Forest-Wiehen Hills Nature Park that extends from just in front of Bückeburg into the Wesergebirge.

X-Perience

Lack of current comparisons in the German pop music and only the synth-pop band Crown of Creation, which grossed in 1993 with Rick J. Jordan from Scooter the CD "Real Life" in Hanover and Bückeburg, has musical parallels.


Bückeburg Air Base

The airfield was built in 1946 as a RAF Station, RAF Bückeburg, serving the headquarters of the Royal Air Force Germany in Bad Eilsen.

The first training school, of this newly established branch of the German Army, the School of Army Aviation, was established in 1959 in Mendig but moved to its current location in Bückeburg in January 1960 and has been there ever since.

Hanover–Minden railway

More connections and access routes are (or were) provided by the Stadthagen–Stolzenau Railway, the Weser–Aller Railway to Rotenburg an der Wümme, the Cologne-Minden trunk line, which continues the line to the Rhineland, the Rinteln–Stadthagen Railway, the Minden District Railway and the Bad Eilsen Light Railway from Bückeburg to Bad Eilsen and briefly via Meissen to Minden.

Melchior Goldast

In 1611 he was appointed councillor at the court of Saxe-Weimar, and in 1615 he entered the service of Graf Ernst von Schaumburg at Buckeburg.

Princess Ida of Schaumburg-Lippe

Princess Ida Matilda Adelaide of Schaumburg-Lippe (Bückeburg, 28 July 1852 – Schleiz, 28 September 1891) was the consort of Heinrich XXII, Prince Reuss of Greiz from 1872 until her death.

Road of Weser Renaissance

Some of the most striking of the many sights along this route are the castles of Hämelschenburg, Bückeburg, Detmold, Brake, Neuhaus, Bevern, Stadthagen, Celle and Hann. Münden.

Schaumburg Land

Historically it consisted of the former states of Schaumburg-Lippe in the area of Bückeburg - Obernkirchen and Stadthagen and the County of Schaumburg in the area of Rinteln.

Wesergebirge

Nördlich vom Mittelteil des Wesergebirges befindet sich die Stadt Bückeburg, south of davon die Stadt Rinteln, and southwest of des Gebirges liegt die Stadt Vlotho.