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2 unusual facts about Celle–Wittingen railway


Celle–Wittingen railway

The extension of the Bismark-Gardelegen-Wittingen Light Railway from Diesdorf was also laid into this station on 1 August 1909.

In 1999 the line was re-routed in the area north of Lachendorf, to make way for the expansion of an industrial concern and a new station Lachendorf Nord was built.


Adolphus von Dalberg

Adolphus von Dalberg, born into a long-established noble family of southern Germany, after holding the office of provost at Celle in Hanover for some years, was elected Prince-Abbot of the Benedictine Fulda Abbey in 1724.

Anja von Rekowski

Anja von Rekowski (born 13 December 1975 in Celle) is a German former judoka who competed in the 1996 Summer Olympics and in the 2000 Summer Olympics.

Bettina Hohls

Bettina Hohls (born June 26, 1947 in Celle) is a German artist and designer.

Celle Hole

Celle prison is situated close to the bank of river Aller.

Celle massacre

The Celle massacre (euphemistically called "Celler Hasenjagd", "hare chase of Celle") was a massacre of concentration camp inmates

Château de Beauregard, La Celle-Saint-Cloud

The château was built on a top of a hill between La Celle-Saint-Cloud and Le Chesnay.

Château de la Celle

The château de La Celle, also named château de La Celle Saint-Cloud or the petit château, is located in the commune of La Celle-Saint-Cloud, in the French département of Yvelines (France), south-west suburbs of Paris, six kilometers north of Versailles.

Clara Elisabeth von Platen

Paul Morand: Sophie Dorothea von Celle. Die Geschichte eines Lebens und einer Liebe. Christian Wegner Verlag 1968, ISBN 3-9800226-0-9

Dirk-Ulrich Mende

Dirk-Ulrich Mende (born 1957) is a German SPD politician and Lord Mayor (Oberbürgermeister) of the town of Celle in North Germany.

Fassberg

Faßberg – a municipality in the district of Celle, in Lower Saxony, Germany

Giuseppe Arighini

He built the castle theatre (Schloßtheater) (1670–1674) in Celle Castle in the town of Celle in the German state of Lower Saxony for Duke George William of Brunswick-Lüneburg.

Große Kreisstadt

In some German states other terms are used, for example Große selbständige Stadt in Lower Saxony, conclusively assigned by law to the towns of Celle, Cuxhaven, Goslar, Hameln, Hildesheim, Lingen and Lüneburg in the course of the 1970s administrative reform.

Hanover–Brunswick railway

This was used for passenger trains between Hannover and Hamburg until the opening of the direct "Hare Railway" between Langenhagen (north of Hanover) and Celle in 1938 and its duplication and electrification in 1965.

Hanover–Hamburg railway

It formed a junction with the so-called Kreuzbahn from Lehrte, then the most important railway hub in the Hanover region, to Celle.

The link from Langenhagen on the Heath Railway to Celle, also called the Hare Railway (Hasenbahn), which had been started in 1913, was not opened until 15 May 1938.

Heidegeist

Originally manufactured by C.W. Baland & Langebartels from Celle, Heidegeist is now produced, like its sister spirit, Ratzeputz, by Schwarz & Schlichte in Oelde.

Herta Bothe

On January 21, 1945, the 24-years old Bothe accompanied a death march of women prisoners from central Poland to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp near Celle.

Johann Georg Kühnhausen

From 1660 his name is registered to the court of Duchy of Brunswick-Lüneburg in Celle where he spent the rest of his life and was buried.

Johannes Poeppel

In 1947-49, he studied at the Pedagogic Institute in Celle, including a semester at the University of Manchester.

Kohlenbach

Lying on the Old Celle Military Road (Alten Celler Heerstraße) that runs past Kohlenbach, coming from Hanover and Celle and heading towards Lüneburg, it served originally as an inn until the end of the 18th century.

La Celle-Saint-Cloud

French actress and model Ludivine Sagnier (of Mesrine: Part 2's fame) is also a native of La Celle-Saint-Cloud.

Moeck Musikinstrumente + Verlag

The company was founded in 1925 by Hermann Moeck in Celle.

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.

Rudolf Bockelmann

Bockelmann, the son of a village schoolmaster, was born at Bodenteich near Celle.

Scharnhorst

Scharnhorst, Lower Saxony, a municipality in the district of Celle, Lower Saxony, Germany

Unser Lehrer Doktor Specht

In the five seasons Specht is added again and to experience the quiet town of Celle, a boarding school on an island (crow Werder), the political situation shortly after the Wende in Potsdam and Berlin, and at the end of the series, the Bavarian countryside, again in a boarding school.

Urbanus Rhegius

Urbanus Henricus Rhegius or Urban Rieger (May 1489, Langenargen – 23 May 1541, Celle) was a Protestant Reformer who was active both in Northern and Southern Germany in order to promote Lutheran unity in the Holy Roman Empire.

Wasabröd

It started exporting bread in the 1940s, with the first foreign subsidiary founded in Denmark in 1965 and the first foreign bakery built in Celle in Germany in 1967.

Westercelle

The Deutsche Bahn (DB)'s S-Bahn line from Celle via Burgdorf and Lehrte to Hanover runs towards the west through this part of Celle.

Winsen

Winsen an der Aller, a municipality in the district of Celle, Lower Saxony, Germany.


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