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69 unusual facts about Brno


12 cm Luftminenwerfer M 16

It was developed by Austria Metal Works in Brno from their earlier, rejected, 8 cm project.

2006–07 A1 Grand Prix of Nations, Czech Republic

The 2006–07 A1 Grand Prix of Nations, Czech Republic was an A1 Grand Prix race, held on October 8, 2006 at Masaryk Circuit near Brno, Czech Republic.

2010 Brno Formula Two round

It will be held on July 31, 2010 and August 1, 2010 at Masaryk Circuit, Brno, Czech Republic.

2011 Auto GP season

Luca Filippi who missed Oshersleben's round due to GP2 Series commitments finished season as runner-up with one win at Brno.

Aleš Schuster

Aleš Schuster (born 26 October 1981) is a Czech football defender who currently plays for FC Zbrojovka Brno.

Alexandru Penciu

His first game was at Brno on 20 April 1955, a 3-0 win over Czechoslovakia in a friendly match.

Arnošt Goldflam

Arnošt Goldflam (born 1 November 1949 in Brno) is a Czech playwright, writer, director, screenwriter, and actor.

Aveko VL-3 Sprint

The Aveko VL-3 Sprint also called the VL-3 Evolution is a Czech ultralight aircraft, designed and initially produced by Aveko of Brno.

Barbara Lauwers

Barbara Lauwers was born Božena Hauserová in 1914 in Brno, then Austro-Hungarian Monarchy.

Brno-Slatina

It neighbours with Černovická terasa – a zone for industrial development where many companies have facilities (such as Honeywell, Daikin and others).

Centrope

CENTROPE is a joint initiative of the Austrian Federal Provinces of Vienna, Lower Austria and Burgenland, the Czech Region of South Moravia, the Slovak Regions of Bratislava and Trnava, the Hungarian Counties of Győr-Moson-Sopron and Vas as well as the Cities of Bratislava, Brno, Eisenstadt, Győr, Sopron, St. Pölten, Szombathely and Trnava.

Četnické humoresky

Četnické humoresky (Policeman's Humoresques) is a Czech crime television series about a police station in the city of Brno.

Chronica Hungarorum

This work (Brno, 1488, Augusburg, 1488) presents events as seen by an educated nobleman.

ČSA Flight 001

Surviving passenger Jaromír Kratochvíl later claimed in an interview that flight captain requested emergency landing in Brno but it was rejected because of the Vietnamese delegation visiting the city and an emergency landing would harm the image of the country.

David J. Buch

He has published numerous scholarly studies on a range of topics in music, having explored archives and libraries in many European cities: Berlin, Brno, Budapest, Český Krumlov, Dresden, Florence, Hamburg, Karlsruhe, Kroměříž, Linz, Munich, Nová Říše, Paris, Prague and Vienna.

Deaf Theatre Network Europe Vienna

Deaf Theatre for children presented in cooperation with the deaf theatre of the Janaček Academy for Performing Arts in Brno VDN-DIFA-JAMU(Czech Republic), "Teatr 3" Szczecin, Quest:arts for everyone(USA) and ARBOS- Company for Music and Theatre(Austria).

Faculty of Regional Development and International Studies at MENDELU in Brno

Faculty of Regional Development and International Studies (in Czech: Fakulta regionálního rozvoje a mezinárodních studií, abbreviation: FRRMS) is the fifth of five faculties at Mendel University Brno.

Fedor Glushchenko

From 1990 to 1991 Glushchenko became Istanbul State Opera conductor with which he performed in such European capitals as Berlin, Prague, Bratislava, Copenhagen, as well as Brno, in Italy.

FEI Company

The company has research and development centers in Hillsboro, Oregon; Eindhoven, The Netherlands; Shanghai, China PRC;Tokyo, Japan; Brno, Czech Republic; and Brisbane, Australia.

Flying Spaghetti Monster

In July 2013, a member of the Czech Pirate Party from Brno in the Czech Republic was given permission to wear a pasta strainer on his head for the photograph on his official ID card.

Francisc Panet

In the early 1930s, he studied at the Deutsche Technische Hochschule in Brno, Czechoslovakia, where he met other two Romanian communist activists, Valter Roman and Gabriel Mureşan.

Franz Josef Popp

Popp was born in Vienna in 1886 and in 1901 his family moved to Brno where he completed his university entrance qualification at the local grammar school.

Gauntlet track

In addition, they are used in various places in Prague and Brno where interlacing is used to shift the switches away from high-traffic intersections, in order to improve traffic flow.

German submarine U-209

Brno municipality received as a gift a model of the submarine (photos exist) but the model itself was probably lost after the end of WWII.

Hannan Majid

These have been exhibited at several international film festivals, Emirates, Brno, Cambridge, Bite The Mango, Cape Town, Durban and Leeds among them.

Highways in the Czech Republic

The first modern highways in the Czech Republic was the motorway from Prague to the Slovak border through Brno whose construction was started on May 2, 1939.

Hugh Iltis

Hugh Hellmut Iltis (born April 7, 1925 in Brno, Czechoslovakia) is Professor Emeritus of Botany at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and is best known for his discoveries in the domestication of corn (maize).

Hugo Iltis

He was professor of biology at the Deutsches Gymnasium in Brünn (Brno) from 1905 to 1938, and Privatdozent of botany and genetics in the Deutsche Technische-Hochschule (German Polytechnical Institute) from 1911-1938.

Indies Records

Indies Records is a record label based in Brno, Czech Republic.

Interhelpo

Trains from railway stations Žilina and Brno transported 1078 persons (including mainly Czechs and Slovaks, but also Hungarians, Ruthenians and other nationalities, and including both direct members and their families) to Kyrgyzstan.

Irena Kočí

She took her matura exam at the secondary in Moravský Krumlov and continued at an economic secondary school in Brno.

Jan Beránek

He studied physics at the Univerzity of Jan Evangelista Purkyně in Brno from 1988 to 1990.

Jan Malík

Jan Malík (born 7 April 1992) is a professional Czech football player currently playing for FC Zbrojovka Brno.

José Manuel Villa Castillo

In 1986 he was one of the selected artists for the XII Biennale of Graphic Design, Brno, held at the Moravian Gallery, Brno, Czechoslovakia.

Josef Fahringer

He then taught at Brüx from 1907 to 1910, at Brünn from 1910 to 1913 and again at Vienna from 1918 to 1936.

Josef Karlík

Josef Karlík (19 March 1928 in Kroměříž – 30 October 2009 in Brno) was a Czech actor.

Joseph Gungl

In 1853 he became bandmaster to the 23rd Infantry Regiment at Brno, but in 1864 he moved to Munich, and in 1876 at Frankfurt, after having conducted with great success a series of promenade concerts at the Covent Garden in London in 1873.

Kojál radio transmitter

The Transmitter Kojál (also known as Morava transmitter) is a facility for FM- and TV-transmission at Kojál Hill near Brno in the Czech Republic.

Kubicek Balloons

But in 2005 their production moved to a completely new factory facility in Jarní 2a in Brno-Maloměřice, currently the most modern balloon factory in the World.

Its headquarters is on Francouzská 81 in Brno city centre, where balloons were originally made.

Labyrinth of the World and Paradise of the Heart

The new Moravian Library building which was opened in Brno on 2 April 2001 has a stone relief of the Labyrinth on its front wall.

Lada Jelínková

Lada Jelínková (18 November 1974 in Brno), (sometimes as Lada Jelínek) is Czech television and stage actress.

Missa sopra Ecco sì beato giorno

Leaving Florence in December 1566, he visited Mantua, and then made the difficult winter trek over the Brenner Pass, visiting Vienna, Brno, Munich, and Paris.

Oul

The Czech mutual aid, or self-help, movement spread outside of Prague and was also established in the Brno and Liberec areas.

Oxford Youth Theatre

1995 – International youth exchange project between OYT and Studio Dum in Brno.

Paul Mauffray

He has studied at the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts, Louisiana State University, Justus Liebig University (Giessen), Masaryk University (Brno), and was an Associate Instructor / Assistant Conductor at Indiana University's Jacobs School of Music.

Peter Paul Fuchs

In 1936 Fuchs was engaged as conductor and repetiteur for the German Theater in Brno, Czechoslovakia.

Peter van Mensch

Peter van Mensch has been guest lecturer at many international museology programmes, such as the museology programme of the University of São Paulo (Brazil), the International Summer School of Museology at Brno (Czech Republic), the Baltic Museology School (Latvia) and the International School of Museology at Celje (Slovenia).

Petra Špalková

Petra Špalková (born 21 February 1975 in Brno) is a Czech actress.

Piet Vermeylen

When armies of the Warsaw pact invaded Czechoslovakia in August 1968, Vermeylen, who was secretly visiting Brno as a simple tourist, barely managed to escape to Austria.

Prague 11

The district is split into two parts, mainly from the perspective of pedestrians, by the south-eastern highway to Brno.

Prague 4

The district is also well connected to the motorway to Brno.

Robert Balzar

Robert Balzar studied bass at academy of music in Brno.

Rodion Malinovsky

Continuing his drive westward, Malinovsky routed Germans in Slovakia, liberated Bratislava, on 4 April 1945 captured Vienna, and finally, on 26 April 1945 freed Brno, second largest city in Czechoslovakia.

Malinovsky ended his campaign in Europe with the liberation of Brno in the Czech lands, observing a jubilant meeting of his and American advance forces.

Šakvice train disaster

A local train was standing at the Šakvice station near Brno, when the Prague-Bratislava express ran into it, resulting in 103 deaths and a further 83 injured.

Sôvä nad Sŕním

It is told that Torchwood 4 disappeared and reappeared on 3 places Praha, Brno and Sôvä nad Sŕním.

Stanislava Nopova

After graduating from secondary school in Zlin and then Nursing High School in Brno, she worked as a Physiotherapy specialist in Prostejov, Luhacovice and Hradec Kralove .

Ster-Kinekor

In 1999, Ster Century continued its expansion opening multiplex cinemas in Dublin, Ireland; Brno, Czech Republic; Wroclaw and Warsaw, Poland; and two sites in Budapest, Hungary.

The Man Without Qualities

Elsa (Berta) von Czuber, whom Musil met while he studied in Brno between 1889 and 1901, inspired him with the image of Ulrich's sister Agathe.

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

The second Czech edition was published in October 2006, in Brno, Czech Republic, some eighteen years after the Velvet Revolution, because Kundera did not approve it earlier.

VFU

Veterinární a farmaceutická univerzita Brno, a veterinary and pharmacy university in the Czech Republic

Vladimir Tomilovsky

They are also part of some private collections around the world: in Irkutsk, Moscow, Saint-Petersburg (Russia), Almaty (Kazakhstan), Paris (France), Athens (Greece), Ashkelon, Ashdod (Israel), Zurich (Switzerland), London (UK), Brno (Czech Republic).

Vlastimil Picek

From 1976 to 1981 he studied at Military Academy in Brno.

In 1993, Picek finished his postgraduate degree from Czech Technical University in Prague and in 1997 he finished the follow-on academic course of the General Staff at the Military Academy in Brno.

Webnode

Webnode is an online Website Builder system developed by Westcom, s.r.o, a company based in Brno, Czech Republic.

Wenceslaus Linck

Born in Bohemia (now part of the Czech Republic), he entered the Jesuit order at age 18 and studied at Brno and Prague.

Wien Praterstern railway station

In the days of Austria-Hungary, the station was one of the most significant stations in Europe and Vienna's primary railway stations, connecting Vienna with Brno, Prague and Warsaw.

YSoft SafeQ

YSoft SafeQ hardware are developed and manufactured in Y Soft headquarters in Brno and Prague, Czech Republic.


1963–64 FIBA European Champions Cup

Real defeated Spartak Brno in the two legged final, after losing the first in Brno 110–99 and winning at Madrid 84–64.

Bendl

Ignaz Bendl (died c.1730), Bohemian painter, sculptor, medalist and ivory engraver, who worked mainly in Vienna and Brno

Bohumír Matal

Bohumír Matal (13 February 1922 Brno – 7 July 1988 Prudká at Doubravník) was a Czech painter, one of the youngest members of Group 42.

Brno chair

The Brno chair was selected by Dan Cruickshank as one of his 80 man-made "treasures" in the 2005 BBC series, Around the World in 80 Treasures.

Brno Exhibition Centre

The Rolling Stones chose the Brno Exhibition Centre for the 2007 A Bigger Bang European Tour.

Heinrich Blum

Heinrich Blum (name sometimes written in Czechized form Jindřich Blum) (January 16, 1884, in Soběšice, today part of Brno – 1942) was a Czech architect.

House of Kabužić

Bernard (Brno) Vlaho Maroje Dživo Marijan Kabužić, born on 21 April 1863 in Dubrovnik, died on 10 May 1922 in Waltendorf near Graz, Austria, he married Marie Valerie Freiin v. Locatelli, * 4 June 1870 Angoris.

Hugh Iltis

His father, Hugo Iltis, was a teacher at the Brno Gymnasium, a botanist and geneticist, and a vocal opponent of Nazi eugenics.

Jan Firbas

Born in Brno, in the Czech Republic, he studied English, German and philosophy at the Faculty of Arts of Masaryk University.

Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts

Honorary doctorates have been awarded to the pianist Rudolf Firkušný (a native of Brno), the poet Ludvík Kundera, the playwright Václav Havel and the poet and actor Jiří Suchý, with the most recent going to the Czech-born British playwright Tom Stoppard.

Jiří Matoušek

Jiří Matoušek, chairman of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons Scientific Advisory Board and professor of environmental chemistry and toxicology at Masaryk University, Brno

Johann Ignaz Cimbal

He decorated many churches and monasteries for the Hospitaller Order of St. John of God in Brno and Feldberg, working alongside other painters Johann Jablonský and Ignaz Mayer the Elder.

Laa an der Thaya

It had remained a sedate county town, when Napoleon marched through in 1809 during the War of the Fifth Coalition; however, Laa's development was decisively promtoted by the opening of a railway connection to Austria's capital Vienna in 1869, a branch line of the Eastern Railway, which further led to Hevlín and Brno (Brünn) in Moravia.

Ladislav Mucina

He completed post-doctoral studies at the University of Nijmegen in the Netherlands, and later served as visiting fellow and professor in Trieste, Camerino, Perugia, and Rome, all in Italy, Uppsala in Sweden, Brno in the Czech Republic, Perth in Australia and Pretoria and Stellenbosch, both in South Africa.

Mannheim 1914 chess tournament

The second winner group was won by Nikoly Rudnev (Kharkov, Ukraine), 7 (out of 8) points, followed by Józef Dominik (Cracow, Poland, 6), Max Lange (Berlin, Germany), 5) − not related to Max Lange −, Asch (4½) (Austria), M. Gargulak (Husovice near Brno, Moravia), and Heinrich Wagner (both 4), A.N. Hallgarten (3), K. Pahl (2) (all from Germany), and Anton Olson (½) (Sweden).

Marek Vorel

He currently plays for HC Košice after signing on 23 October until the end of the season from his hometown club Brno.

Maurice Peress

Maurice Peress has also extensively conducted orchestras internationally, including the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra in 1980, the Vienna State Opera in 1981, the Santa Cecilia Orchestra of Rome in 1988, the Brno Orkester of the Czech Republic in 1997, the FOK Orkester at the Prague Spring Festival in 1988, the Shanghai Radio and Television Orchestra in 1996-97, the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra in 1998, and the Barbican Centre Orchestra in London in 1999.

PdfTeX

The computer program pdfTeX is an extension of Knuth's typesetting program TeX, and was originally written and developed into a publicly usable product by Hàn Thế Thành as a part of the work for his PhD thesis at the Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic.

Petra Feriancova

Her work has been exhibited extensively, solo at ISCP (New York, 2011), House of Arts Brno (2012), Slovak National Gallery (Bratislava, 2011), Moravian Gallery (Brno, 2008), and within group institutional exhibitions at BWA (Wroclaw, 2011), Sztuki Museum Lodz (2011), Secession (Vienna, 2010), Museum of Modern Art of Saint-Etienne (2008) and many others.

Polák

Jan Polák (born 1981, Brno), a Czech international footballer

Radoslav Večerka

Radoslav Večerka (born April 18, 1928 in Brno) is a Czech linguist, university professor, journalist, editor and literary scholar active in the field of Slavic studies with a focus on paleography, comparative studies of Slavic languages and Slavic history.

RC Bystrc

The club played in the Řečkovice, Pisárky, Tuřany, and Kníničky areas of Brno as well as the town of Šlapanice and the village of Troubsko, before finally managing to secure their present home ground, the Sportovní areá Ondreje Sekory, at Bystrc.

Richárd Erdős

Richárd Erdős (Brno, 18 May 1881 - Frankfurt, 9 June 1912) was a Jewish Hungarian bass opera singer who was father of the American children's author Richard Erdoes.

SANET

International connectivity is provided through cross-border dark fibres at 10 Gbit/s to the ACOnet node in Vienna, the CESNET node in Brno and the PIONIER node in Bielsko-Biała, as well as local links in Bratislava to the points of presence of GÉANT (1 Gbit/s) and of GTS (2Gbit/s).

Stefan Kanchev

After leaving the National Academy of Arts shortly before graduation, Kanchev took part in exhibitions and biennales in Bulgaria and abroad over the next 22 years, including Belgrade, Budapest, Berlin, Moscow, Warsaw, Brno, Ljubljana and New York City.