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unusual facts about Duisburg–Quakenbrück railway



Carnival in Germany, Switzerland and Austria

Cologne, Düsseldorf and Mainz are held in the public media to be Germany's three carnival "strongholds," but carnival celebrations are also widespread elsewhere in the Rhineland, in places such as Wattenscheid, Hagen, Krefeld, Aachen, Mönchengladbach, Duisburg, Bonn, Eschweiler, Bocholt and Kleve.

Cologne-Minden Railway Company

On 18 December 1843, the Prussian government granted a concession to the CME for the line from Deutz (now a suburb of Cologne) through Mülheim am Rhein, Düsseldorf, Duisburg, Oberhausen, Altenessen, Gelsenkirchen, Wanne, Herne and Castrop-Rauxel to Dortmund and on to Hamm, Oelde, Rheda, Bielefeld and Herford to Minden.

Crime in Germany

Nevertheless, crimes such as drug trafficking, weapon trafficking, extortion, prostitution, money laundering and contract killing are present in most less well-maintained areas of urban centres such as Berlin, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Duisburg, Cologne or Düsseldorf.

Cristina Dorcioman

She also refereed the semi-final first leg between Duisburg and Turbine Potsdam in the 2010–11 UEFA Women's Champions League season, and other three same competition quarter-finals.

Dornier Rs.III

Delivery of the Rs.III was planned to follow the river Rhine after crossing the Black Forest, with a fighter escort between Rottweil and Duisburg due to the proximity of Allied forces, as well as a guide aircraft to prevent it inadvertently crossing the Dutch border.

Duisburg Zoo

In the summer of 2004, the beluga Ferdinand and the Commerson's dolphin Yogi, the last animals of their kind in Duisburg, were flown to SeaWorld in San Diego, California, where they are spending their twilight years in species-appropriate tanks with their others of their kind.

Duisburg-Ruhrort–Dortmund railway

Upon taking office, the transport minister Oliver Wittke called for all such proposals to be re-evaluated.

Duisburg–Dortmund railway

The Oberhausen Station was also at the beginning of a line opened on 20 October 1856 to Arnhem via Wesel and Emmerich am Rhein, popularly known as the Holland line.

Edgar Lissel

The work of Edgar Lissel is represented in, amongst others, the following collections: National Gallery of Canada, Federal Collection of the Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Museum Küppersmühle Duisburg, Victoria & Albert Museum London, Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Musa – City of Vienna Collection of Modern Art.

Franck Moutsinga

He was part of the German Sevens side at the World Games 2005 in Duisburg, where Germany finished 8th and played two tournaments of the IRB Sevens Series in 2006 in Paris (France) and London (England).

Friedrich Voss

Besides the viaducts over the Kiel Canal, Voss designed numeral other bridges, for example the Rendsburg Swing Bridge over the Kiel Canal that was closed 1961, a road bridge over the Eider at Friedrichstadt as well as a bascule bridge over the Eider at Lexfähre, a bascule bridge in Duisburg, a combined road and railroad bridge over the Rethe in Hamburg and a bridge over the Rhine in Krefeld-Uerdingen.

Gottfried Daniel Krummacher

He studied theology at Duisburg and became pastor in Bärl (today part of Duisburg; 1798), Wülfrath (1801) and Elberfeld (1816), was the leader of the pietists of Wupperthal.

Heinz Neukirchen

Heinz Neukirchen (* January 13, 1915 in Duisburg, Germany † December 8, 1986 in Rostock, Germany) was officer in the World War II Kriegsmarine, Vice Admiral in the People's Navy (Volksmarine) of the German Democratic Republic as well as President of the East German Directorate of Maritime and Port Industries.

Joachim Kroll

Afterwards he worked for Thyssen Industries and went to 24 Friesen street, Laar, a district of Duisburg.

Johannes Linßen

On 23 January 1971, while playing for MSV Duisburg against Rot-Weiß Oberhausen, Linßen received the first ever yellow card to be awarded in the Bundesliga, although the card should in fact have been awarded to his teammate Đorđe Pavlić, the referee having confused the two players.

Karl A. Lamers

Karl A. Lamers (born 12 February 1951 in Duisburg) is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), currently serving as Deputy Chairman of the Defence Committee of the German Parliament.

Lothar Fischer

During the rest of the 1960s he continued to exhibit his work in Kassel, Amsterdam, Duisburg, Darmstadt and Wiesbaden.

Miljana Knežević

She won a bronze medal in the K-4 200 m event at the 2007 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Duisburg.

Münster–Rheine railway

In 1879, the Rhenish Railway Company (Rheinische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft, RhE) opened its own North Sea route from Duisburg via Rheine to Quakenbrück and so made the station one of the major railway junctions in north-western Germany.

Oberhausen–Arnhem railway

As a result it was proposed the new railway would run from Amsterdam via Amersfoort, Isselburg, Hamminkeln, Wesel and Duisburg to Cologne, avoiding large cities such as Utrecht and Arnhem in order to minimise the risk of floods disrupting the line.

Pascal Lefèvre

He set his personal best (82.56 m) on August 28, 1989 in Duisburg.

Peter Gloystein

Peter Gloystein is also active in various cultural institutions: Chairman of the Board of the Association supporting the Cultural Project Hombroich, Neuss; General Manager of the Urban Planning Corporation Raumortlabor Hombroich gemeinnützige Stiftungs GmbH, Neuss; Chairman of the Friends Association of the Teatro La Fenice, Berlin and Member of the Board of the Friends Association of the Deutsche Oper am Rhein, Düsseldorf/Duisburg.

Peter of Dusburg

Initially it was thought he was from Duisburg, Germany, and in some texts he is referred to as "Peter of Duisburg".

Ratnadeep Adivrekar

He has participated in many group exhibitions like Pictures of Asia, Larasati, Singapore, ‘Indian contemporary art’, Chelsea Art College, U.K., Uneo Royal Museum, Japan, Ao~rta Project, BBK Kunst Forum, Düsseldorf and Ausstellungshalle Innenhafen, Duisburg, Germany.

Rauf Ceylan

Between 2007 and 2009, Ceylan was a research associate in the Department of the Mayor of the City of Duisburg.

Rhein-Niers-Bahn

Duisburg-Ruhrort–Mönchengladbach railway, opened from Duisburg to Uerdingen by the Rhenish Railway Company on 23 December 1873, from Uerdingen to northern Viersen by the Aachen-Düsseldorf-Ruhrort Railway on 15 October 1849 and from northern Viersen to Mönchengladbach by the Prussian state railways in 1917; and

Rhine-Ruhr Stadtbahn

The cities of Bochum, Castrop-Rauxel, Dortmund, Duisburg, Essen, Gelsenkirchen, Herne, Mülheim an der Ruhr, Oberhausen, Recklinghausen and Wattenscheid founded the Stadtbahngesellschaft Ruhr in 1969 for coordinating the plans to transform tram routes into Stadtbahn routes.

Robert Kurnicki

His personal best time is 20.46 seconds, achieved in July 1993 in Duisburg.

Róbert Rideg

He won a silver medal in the C-2 10000 m event at the 1987 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Duisburg with Pál Pétervári.

Royal Division of the Aachen-Düsseldorf-Ruhrort Railway

The Ruhrort-Crefeld District Gladbach Railway Company built the Homberg am Rhein via Krefeld to Viersen with a length of 33.6 kilometres and opened it on 15 October 1849.

Ruhrort–Homberg train ferry

While the Cologne-Minden Railway Company (Cöln-Mindener Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft, CME) was building its trunk line between Cologne and Minden via Duisburg between 1843 and 1847, the shareholders of the Ruhrort-Crefeld District Gladbach Railway Company (Ruhrort–Crefeld−Kreis Gladbach Eisenbahngesellschaft, RCG) were looking for a way to bring coal from the Ruhr to industries on the western bank of the Rhine cheaply.

The CME completed its branch line from Oberhausen to Ruhrort on 14 October 1848.

Sachtleben Chemie

In September 2008, Rockwood Holdings, Inc. entered into a joint venture with Kemira Oyj, of Finland, combining Rockwood's titanium dioxide and functional additives activities (with production based in Duisburg, Germany) and Kemira's titanium dioxide business (with production at Pori, Finland).

Stadtbahnwagen B

Eventually it was decided that the type "A" LRV was too unwieldy and type "B" LRVs were ordered by Essen, Mülheim, Düsseldorf, Duisburg and Dortmund.

Stein Jorgensen

He won a gold medal in the K-2 200 m event at the 1995 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Duisburg.

Stig Tøfting

He played on for Duisburg without any repercussions from manager Friedhelm Funkel.

Thomas Rentmeister

Rentmeister's work is in numerous collections including the Arp Museum Bahnhof Rolandseck, Remagen, Germany; Kolumba, Cologne, Germany; MARTa Herford, Germany; Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands; Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main, Germany; Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany; Museum Ostwall, Dortmund, Germany; Abteiberg Museum, Mönchengladbach, Germany; Lehmbruck-Museum, Duisburg, Germany

Wuhan Foreign Languages School

WFLS also has regular exchange programs with a number of high schools and universities in Australia, Austria, France, Germany, Japan, New Zealand, the United States, and the United Kingdom; they include the Shady Side Academy in Pittsburgh, USA, Lycée Montaigne in Bordeaux, France, and the Max-Planck middleschool in Duisburg, Germany.


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