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5 unusual facts about Bregenz


Bregenz

İlber Ortaylı (* 1947) - Turkish historian - was born in Bregenz

Daniel Nazareth

In July 2002, he conducted the first performance of Gustav Mahler’s 5th Symphony in the New Critical Edition commissioned by the International Gustav Mahler Society, Vienna, at the Bregenz Festival, Austria.

Győri Keksz

Koestlin had already had a biscuit factory in Bregenz, Austria but the competition was so stiff there that he moved to Hungary and brought all his equipment for biscuit-production with him in 6 stock-cars.

Hieronymus Harder

Harder was born in Meersburg in the Lake Constance region of Germany, but part of his youth was spent in Bregenz, where his father taught from 1535 onwards.

Scheidegg, Bavaria

In 1296 abbot Wilhelm sold Scheidegg to Count Hugo of Bregenz (Montfort).


Armand Benneker

Further spells in Austria ensued with Bregenz, another with Austria Lustenau and his final playing days at Rheindorf Altach, where he retired in 2004.

Eichenberg

Eichenberg, Austria, a municipality in the district of Bregenz in the state of Vorarlberg, Austria

Eichenberg, Austria

Eichenberg is a municipality in the district of Bregenz in Vorarlberg in Austria.

Friedrich Christian, Margrave of Meissen

Later that year, the family moved via Hof and Regensburg to Bregenz, where the two youngest children had been living since 1940.

Günther Förg

Förg has had solo exhibitions at Essl Museum, Klosterneuburg, Austria, Langen Foundation, Neuss, Germany, Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland; Kunsthalle Bremen, Germany; Gemeentemuseum, Den Haag, The Netherlands; Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv; Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz; and Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin.

Innsbruck Hauptbahnhof

The station is important for commuter traffic to and from the Tyrolean provincial capital, and in providing a hub function for east-west traffic ((Budapest) – ViennaSalzburgWörgl – Innsbruck (Zürich) / Bregenz) and north-south traffic (Munich – Wörgl – Innsbruck – BolzanoVerona – (Milan / Venice / Rome )).

Johann Conrad Dorner

Johann Conrad Dorner, an Austrian painter, was born at Egg, near Bregenz, in 1810, and studied historical painting under Cornelius.

Kleinbahn

Instead, their product is available almost exclusively through company outlets located in a number of Austrian cities including Vienna where the company is headquartered, as well as Salzburg, Klagenfurt, Linz, and Bregenz, all in Austria.

Kunsthaus Bregenz

The Kunsthaus Bregenz was designed by the Swiss architect Peter Zumthor, 2009 Pritzker Architecture Prize laureate, and winner of the Mies van der Rohe Award for European Architecture in 1998.

Langen bei Bregenz

Langen bei Bregenz is a municipality in the district of Bregenz, Vorarlberg, Austria.

Mariastein Abbey

The abbey was secularised twice, in 1792, because of the French Revolution, and in 1874, as a result of a conflict between the state and the Roman Catholic Church known as Kulturkampf, after which the monks were obliged to seek refuge first in France, at Delle, and then, when in 1902 they were expelled as a result of legal changes in France, for a short time at Dürrnberg near Hallein in Austria, and finally in Bregenz, also in Austria.

Montafon Railway

The Montafon Railway (German: Montafonerbahn) is a privately owned railway company that operates services from Bregenz to Schruns, via Bludenz.

Pfänder

With good visibility, the view from the summit reaches from the Allgäu and Lech valley Alps in the east, over to the Bregenz Forest, the steep mountain peaks of Arlberg region, Silvretta, and the Rätikon to the Swiss mountains and the foothills of the Black Forest in the west.

Railjet

Operations on the routes Vienna to Graz, Ljubljana and/or Zagreb, and from Vienna to Villach and Venice and for an increased service between Vienna and Bregenz/Zurich via Salzburg and Innsbruck were also planned from the end of 2010 onwards.

Romanshorn railway station

In the same year, the Lake Constance train ferry was established, for cross-border goods traffic to and from Germany between Romanshorn and Friedrichshafen, and between Lindau and Bregenz.

SBB-CFF-FFS Ae 4/7

In 1960, four Ae 4/7 (10948–10951) got a wider pantograph compatible to ÖBB standards, so that they could run international trains from St. Margrethen via Bregenz to Lindau.


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