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5 unusual facts about Bamberg–Hof railway


Bamberg–Hof railway

In addition, direct hourly trains are planned from Weiden via Bayreuth and Lichtenfels to Bad Rodach.

Its expansion into a double-tracked railway followed in 1891 and the line was electrified from Bamberg to Lichtenfels and beyond that via the Franconian Forest Railway to Saalfeld on 10 May 1939.

In 2007, InterCityExpress trains working the Munich–Nuremberg–LeipzigBerlinHamburg route run hourly between Bamberg and Lichtenfels.

In Hochstadt-Marktzeuln the Franconian Forest Railway to Ludwigsstadt and Saalfeld turns off; and at Kulmbach the railway from Thurnau and Bayreuth branches off only a few metres away from where the Schlömener curve link line meets it.

RegionalExpress trains on the Nuremberg–Bamberg–Lichtenfels–Sonneberg and WürzburgSchweinfurt–Bamberg– Lichtenfels–Hof/Bayreuth routes also shuttle hourly on the Bamberg–Lichtenfels section.


2010 Bamberg Super Cup

The tournament was held from August 13 until August 15 in Bamberg, Germany.

Anne Theresa Bickerton Lyons

Anne (or Annie as she was more commonly known), Baroness von Würtzburg died June 11, 1894 in Bamberg, Bavaria and was buried in the village graveyard in Mitwitz, Bavaria.

Bamberg Symphony

The Bamberg Symphony (German: Bamberger Symphoniker - Bayerische Staatsphilharmonie) is a German orchestra based in Bamberg and well known for its artistic excellence and frequent international touring.

Banz Abbey

Banz Abbey (German: Kloster Banz), now known as Banz Castle (German: Schloss Banz), is a former Benedictine monastery, since 1978 a part of the town of Bad Staffelstein north of Bamberg, Bavaria, southern Germany.

Blackville, South Carolina

Education facilities in Blackville include Macedonia Elementary School, Blackville-Hilda Junior High School, Blackville-Hilda High School, Jefferson Davis Academy, Calvary Fellowship Mennonite, Bamberg/Barnwell County Adult Education, and Barnwell Christian School.

Christoph Franz von Buseck

In 1796, when Bamberg was invaded by the French, von Buseck fled to Prague and when the French invaded Prague in 1799, he fled to Saalfeld.

Council of Sutri

Suidger became the new pope, taking the title Clement II, but insisting on retaining the See of Bamberg, which was a source of financial support beyond the reach of Roman factions.

Cryptogram

A manuscript found at Bamberg states that Irish visitors to the court of Merfyn Frych ap Gwriad (died 844), king of Gwynedd in Wales were given a cryptogram which could only be solved by transposing the letters from Latin into Greek.

Daria Semegen

Born in Bamberg, West Germany of Ukrainian heritage, Semegen pursued an academic career in music, earning her MA from Yale University in 1971; she has studied at the Eastman School of Music and the Rochester Institute of Technology.

Derrick Zimmerman

On December 2006 he signed a one-month contract with Brose Baskets Bamberg in the German Basketball Bundesliga.

Duchess Charlotte Georgine of Mecklenburg-Strelitz

# Princess Katharina Charlotte of Saxe-Hildburghausen (b. Hildburghausen, 17 June 1787 - d. Bamberg, 12 December 1847), married on 28 September 1805 to Prince Paul of Württemberg.

East Franconian German

East Franconian (Ostfränkisch) is a dialect which is spoken in northern Bavaria and other areas in Germany around Nuremberg, Bamberg, Coburg, Würzburg, Hof, Bayreuth, Meiningen, Bad Mergentheim, and Crailsheim.

Ernst Hartwig

Carl Ernst Albrecht Hartwig (January 14, 1851 in Frankfurt – May 3, 1923 in Bamberg) was a German astronomer.

Ernst Zinner

He was appointed director of Remeis-Observatory in Bamberg, Germany, in 1926 and retired in 1956.

Franconian Forest Railway

The Franconian Forest Railway leaves the Ludwig South-North Railway, which runs through the Main Valley from Bamberg to Kulmbach, at Marktzeuln and heads into the Rodach Valley to Kronach.

Georg Karl Mayer

He studied philosophy and theology in Bamberg, then continued his education at the Universities of Munich and Vienna.

Heinrich Paulus

He spent time in Bamberg, Nürnberg and Ansbach before becoming professor of exegesis and church history at the University of Heidelberg (1811–44), where he was instrumental in hiring Hegel in 1816.

Hep-Hep riots

The riots swept through other Bavarian towns and villages, then spread to Bamberg, Bayreuth, Darmstadt, Karlsruhe, Mannheim, Frankfurt, Koblenz, Cologne and other cities along the Rhine, and as far north as Bremen, Hamburg, and Lübeck.

Here I Am, Here I Stay

Filming took place from 16 October to 11 November 1958 in Bamberg and Schloss Seehof in Franconia, as well as at the CCC-Studios in Berlin.

Ignaz Döllinger

He commenced his studies in his native town (where he took a doctorate in 1794), continuing them in Würzburg, Pavia and Vienna before returning to Bamberg.

Joseph Fil

Upon completion of the Command and General Staff College in 1989, he served as the Operations Officer and later as Executive Officer 3d Battalion, 35th Armor, 1st Armored Division in Bamberg, Germany.

Lauter

Lauter, Bavaria, village in the district of Bamberg, Bavaria, Germany

Leipzig–Hof railway

At Schönberg after connecting with the line to Schleiz and the closed line to Hirschberg, it turns south and three times crosses into very short sections of Thuringian territory.

The construction of the final section between Reichenbach and the Bavarian border was more difficult and required two large viaducts to cross the Göltzsch and Elster valleys.

Lichtenfels station

Lichtenfels station is 31.9 km from Bamberg on the Bamberg–Hof railway and 150.9 from Eisenach on the Werra Railway at a height of 262.4 metres above sea level and is located west of the town centre and east of the Main river.

Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst

Other museums and institutions bearing the name Ludwig are located in Bamberg, Basel, Budapest, Koblenz, Cologne, Oberhausen, Saarlouis, Beijing, St. Petersburg, Vienna and Havana.

Mark Kosower

He has recorded for Ambitus, Delos, Naxos, and VAI including a 2011 Naxos release of the Ginastera Cello Concertos with Lothar Zagrosek and the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra.

Merfyn Frych

It was discovered at Bamberg, Germany and it contains characters that must be translated from Greek numerals to Latin text using a key in order to read the message (a form of cryptogram), hence the document's name.

Paul Johann Anselm Ritter von Feuerbach

In 1814 Feuerbach was appointed second president of the court of appeal at Bamberg, and three years later he became first president of the court of appeal at Anspach.

Princess Charlotte of Saxe-Hildburghausen

Princess Charlotte of Saxe-Hildburghausen (17 June 1787 Hildburghausen - 12 December 1847 Bamberg) was the child of Frederick, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg and his wife, Duchess Charlotte Georgine of Mecklenburg-Strelitz.

Princess Elisabeth Marie of Bavaria

She married, 2 November 1893, at Genoa, Italy, Otto Ludwig Philipp von Seefried auf Buttenheim, (* 26. September 1870 in Bamberg; † 5. September 1951 at Stiebar Palace in Gresten), Freiherr zu Hagenbach.

Regensburg–Hof railway

Four years later, on 1 October 1863, the section opened to Weiden.

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Bamberg

Henry wanted the celebrated monkish rigour and studiousness of the Hildesheim cathedral chapter - Henry himself was educated there - linked together with the churches under his control, including his favourite diocese of Bamberg.

Scheßlitz

Today the railway embankment is used mainly as a cycle path, or is underneath the A 70/A 73 Bamberg Autobahn cloverleaf.

Scheßlitz lies right on Bundesstraße 22, the former Rottendorf–Weiden Imperial Road (Reichsstraße) which runs from Rottendorf near Würzburg to Cham in the Upper Palatinate and has a connection with the A 70, which runs from Bamberg to Bayreuth.

Sieglinde Hartmann

She has been visiting professor at the University of Graz (Austria), as well as lecturer at the Universities of Paris IV (Sorbonne - France), Mainz (Germany), Gießen (Germany), Kassel (Germany), Bamberg, and the J.W. Goethe-University in Frankfurt (Germany).

Sonnefeld Monastery

Beginning with the former Bamberger fiefs of Sonnefeld, Frohnlach and Ebersdorf, the Monastery multiplied its possessions with other properties from Bamberg, the Banz Abbey and the Benedictine abbey of Saalfeld.

Stauffenberg

Over the course of the years further estates were added to the family’s possessions, such as Schloss Greifenstein and Schloss Burggrub in Heiligenstadt near Bamberg, the Lautlingen castle near Ebingen on the southern slopes of the Schwäbische Alb, Ristissen some twenty kilometers south of Ulm and the Straßberg and Wildentierberg estates in Lautlingen near Albstadt.


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