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unusual facts about Burg, Aargau



Act of Mediation

Two of the new cantons (St Gallen and Graubünden or Grisons) were formerly "associates", while the four others were made up of subject lands (i.e. controlled by other cantons) that had been conquered at different times — Aargau (1415), Thurgau (1460), Ticino (1440, 1500, 1512), and Vaud (1536).

Adolf III of Holstein

He is particularly remembered for his establishment of a new settlement for traders on the banks of the Alster near the Neue Burg in Hamburg.

Albert IV, Count of Habsburg

Albert IV (or Albert the Wise) (ca. 1188 – December 13, 1239) was Count of Habsburg in the Aargau and a progenitor of the royal House of Habsburg.

Burg Gutenfels

The Burg Gutenfels (also known as castle Caub) is a castle 110m above the town of Kaub in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

Burg, Aargau

It was part of the Oberamt or district of Lenzburg, and the court of Reinach.

Burg, Dithmarschen

It lies at the rim of the Heide-Itzehoe Geest with parts of the village in the marshland below.

Can't Get Over

The song was written by Anoo Bhagavan, Jonas von der Burg and Niklas von der Burg for September's third album Dancing Shoes (2007).

Cenovis

On 29 February 2008, the three entrepreneurs transferred the brand, acquired in 1999, to the Gustav Gerig AG, an Aargau company, and the product thereby returned to its canton of origin.

Chocolat Frey

In 1967 the manufacturing base of Frey relocated from Aarau to the newly built factory in Buchs in the Canton of Aargau.

In 1963 the construction of the present headquarters began and the plant was relocated from Aarau to Buchs in the Canton of Aargau.

Clang of the Yankee Reaper

Track 10, listed as Pachelbel's Canon in D is in actuality Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott by Martin Luther, or as it is known in English, A Mighty Fortress is Our God.

Conservative Democratic Party of Switzerland

Eleven other cantonal branches have been founded, predominantly in German-speaking Switzerland: Aargau, Basel-Landschaft, Fribourg, Glarus, Lucerne, Schwyz, Solothurn, St. Gallen, Thurgau, Valais, and Zürich.

Counter-World Experience

After many concerts at such prestigious locations as the Burg Herzburg Festival, the Frankfurt Music Fair, the Freakshow Artrock Festival, or as support for Matthias IA Eklundh, Counter-World Experience had the backing of a solid and ever-expanding fan-base.

County of Baden

Upon the merging of the canton of Baden into Aargau in 1803, the district gained the municipalities of Würenlingen, Bellikon, Künten, Remetschwil, Stetten, Mellingen, Wohlenschwil and Mägenwil (from neighbouring districts of the canton of Baden) but had to give up Hüttikon, Oetwil an der Limmat, Dietikon and Schlieren to the Canton of Zurich.

Dietwil

In 1863 a decision of the Cantonal Council of Aargau naturalized all the gypsies who had settled in Dietwil after fleeing Napoleon's armies in Belarus.

Gable stone

For instance the "Batenburg" stone from Prinsengracht, Amsterdam, shown here puns on the words baten (to profit) and burg (castle), which together make up the name of a village near Nijmegen.

Gloor

Gloor is a family name from Aargau, a canton in northern Switzerland.

Gnandstein Castle

Burg Gnandstein or Gnandstein Castle is located in Gnandstein, part of the city of Kohren-Sahlis in the Leipziger Land district of Saxony, Germany.

Gottfried Mind

Mind, in his eighth year, was placed at the academy for poor children, which Pestalozzi had previously instituted at Neuenhof, near Bern, Aargau.

Hanstein Castle

The chronicler Lambert of Hersfeld mentioned the destruction of Burg Hanenstein, then in possession of Saxon Count Otto von Northeim, by King Henry IV in 1070.

Heimburg in Niederheimbach

The Heimburg (also known as Burg Hohneck or Burg Hoheneck) is a castle in the village of Niederheimbach in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

Helm's Deep

When Cirion, Steward of Gondor, gave Calenardhon to the Éothéod, Aglarond was transferred into the care of the Rohirrim, who named it Súthburg (southern burg in their language).

Herzog Blaubarts Burg

Herzog Blaubarts Burg ("Duke Bluebeard's Castle") (1963) is a film of the opera Bluebeard's Castle by the Hungarian composer Béla Bartók, written in 1911 to a symbolist libretto by the poet and later film theorist Béla Balázs.

Hürlimann Brewery

Hürlimann Brewery is a former brewery in Zürich, Switzerland, now owned by the Rheinfelden, Aargau based brewery Feldschlösschen, which is owned by Carlsberg.

Islek

Today the region houses numerous wind energy projects and is a tourist area with ancient cities like Clervaux, Prüm, Burg Reuland and Vianden.

Joachim Walter

Walter's footballing career began in 1947 in Burg bei Magdeburg where he played for BSG Lokomotive Burg (until 1954) and BSG Einheit Burg.

Johann von Schönenberg

Johann von Schönenberg was born in Burg Hartelstein in Schwirzheim in 1525.

Larry Winget

"A Year Of Success" with fellow experts, Mark Sanborn, Bob Burg and Sally Hogshead, a 52 week video series for personal development.

Lys Assia

Lys Assia (born Rosa Mina Schärer, 3 March 1924, Rupperswil, Aargau, Switzerland) is a Swiss singer who won the first Eurovision Song Contest in 1956.

Magdeburg Hauptbahnhof

On 15 May 1873 the first train ran between the new station and the town of Burg.

Michael J. Burg

Burg's career finally gained momentum when he was cast as Truman Capote opposite Jennifer Love Hewitt in The Audrey Hepburn Story.

After his father's death, when he was still in high school, Burg inherited his paternal families 6th generation farmland located in Atchison County, Missouri, which now doubles as a wind farm.

MkLinux

The effort was spearheaded by Brett Halle at Apple, and development was later split between two main people: Michael Burg on device drivers and distribution at Apple in Cupertino, California; and Nick Stephen on Mach porting and development at the OSF in Grenoble, France.

Pepe el Ferreiro

He participated as lecturer in various conferences about Ethnography, in Canarias, Galicia, Navarra, Asturias; and in the Swiss cities of Zurich and Basel and in Aargau for the Federation of Asturian Societies in Switzerland.

Regulating Dam Port, Seeland, Switzerland

This dam ensures the level control of the three lakes of Neuchâtel, Morat and Bienne, an area so called the "Seeland”,as well as the outflow of the Aare river downstream toward Solothurn, Aargau and the junction with Emme River down to the merging with the Rhine River.

Rudolph II, Count of Habsburg

Rudolph II (or Rudolph the Kind) (died 10 April 1232) was Count of Habsburg in the Aargau and a progenitor of the royal House of Habsburg.

Schaumburg Castle, Lower Saxony

Schaumburg Castle (German: Burg Schaumburg) is a castle in the town of Rinteln in the district of Schaumburg in Lower Saxony, Germany.

Schenkenberg Castle

Finally, the Council of the City of Bern, give up the castle, and the Governor moved in 1720 to the nearby Castle Wildenstein in Veltheim.

Swiss nobility

The ancient noble families of Aargau were maintained in different cantons, and around the World, such Mülinen and Hallwyl in Bern, or abroad such Reinach in Alsace.

Swiss Northern Railway

In 1836 Friedrich Hünerwadel of Lenzburg pointed out to the government of the canton of Aargau—through which the line had to pass—the importance of the route of a railway from Zurich to Basel for Aargau's commerce and industry.

Theodore Beza

When the edition of the acts of the colloquy, as prepared by Jakob Andrea, was published, Samuel Huber, of Burg near Bern, who belonged to the Lutheranizing faction of the Swiss clergy, took so great offense at the supralapsarian doctrine of predestination propounded at Mömpelgard by Beza and Musculus that he felt it to be his duty to denounce Musculus to the magistrates of Bern as an innovator in doctrine.

Torremaggiore

The history of Torremaggiore is strictly connected to that ot the burg of Fiorentino (also Castel Fiorentino), a Byzantine frontier stronghold founded by the catepan Basil Boioannes in 1018.

Ulrich Zasius

After studying at Tübingen he first became episcopal notary at Constance, then town clerk at Baden in Aargau in 1489, and at Freiburg in 1493.

Yarbrough

In English it originated as a habitational or topographic name from Yarborough and Yarburgh in Lincolnshire, named with Old English eorðburg ‘earthworks’, ‘fortifications’, (a compound of eorðe/eorethe ‘earth’, ‘soil’ + burg ‘fortress’, ‘burrow’).

Zinna Abbey

The monastery was built on the northern rim of the Fläming hill range in the marshes of the Nuthe river by Cistercian monks, descending from the monastery on the site of Burg Berge, otherwise Altenberg Abbey, in the County of Berg near Cologne.


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