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14 unusual facts about Emden


Abraham van Linge

Abraham van Linge (fl. 1625-41) and his oldest brother Bernard van Linge (1598-c.1644), were window painters from Emden, East Frisia, where their father and grandfather already had been glaziers.

Bloeme Evers-Emden

For the filming of the 1995 BBC documentary Anne Frank Remembered, Bloeme recalled that Anne, Margot, and their mother, Edith, also planned to join the transport, but Anne was prohibited from joining because she had developed scabies.

DB Class 82

The engines were predominantly employed in the marshalling yards at Bremen and Hamm as well as on the harbour lines of Emden and Hamburg.

Emden-Pewsum-Greetsiel Light Railway

Within its catchment area the railway was also known as "Jan Klein".

Hanoverian Western Railway

The Hanoverian Western Railway was a line from the Löhne to Emden, built by the Royal Hanoverian State Railways in the mid-19th century in the west of the Kingdom of Hanover in the modern German states of Lower Saxony and North Rhine-Westphalia.

Hans van Steenwinckel the Elder

The family fled to Emden, East Frisia, where his father, Lourens van Steenwinckel, became master builder.

John Scory

He soon, however, left England and went to Emden in Friesland, where he became superintendent of the English congregation.

Joseph S. Freedman

He was a fellow at the University of Leiden from 2003 to 2004 and at the Johannes a Lasko Bibliothek in Emden in 2005.

Milton Johnson

On July 16, 1983, Patricia Payne and her boyfriend, Anthony Hackett, drove from their hometown of Emden, Illinois, and spent the day at Six Flags Great America Amusement Park in Gurnee, Illinois.

Nieuport VI

In July, a Nieuport VI-G was chosen by Julien Levasseur for a 2,500 kilometre long-distance flight around the North Sea, which he and his passenger achieved in six days, flying from Paris to London, Dunkirk, Rotterdam, Amsterdam, Emden, Ostend, Rouen, and back to Paris, a trip which also included brief detention in London for having overflown sensitive areas of the city on arrival.

OLT Express Germany

OLT was founded on 1 November 1958 by Martin Dekker and Jan Janssen as Ostfriesische Lufttaxi - Dekker und Janssen OHG, initially operating air taxi flights to islands in the North Sea from Emden.

Therefore only the ´islands hopping´ services from Emden to Heligoland and Borkum with small aircraft would have remained.

RAF Knettishall

The unit attacked many other significant targets, including aircraft factories in Kassel, Reims, and Brunswick; airfields in Bordeaux, Paris, and Berlin; naval works at La Pallice, Emden, and Kiel; chemical industries in Ludwigshafen; ball-bearing plants in Schweinfurt; and marshalling yards in Brussels, Osnabrück, and Bielefeld.

Simon of Utrecht

From 1432 until 1433, he commandeered the Hanseatic fleet fighting Frisian looters, culminating in the destruction of the Frisian pirate base Sebaldusburg and occupation of their capital Emden.


Adam Forster

Adam Forster aka Carl August von Wiarda (5 April 1848 Emden, East Frisia - 11 April 1928 Sydney), was a botanical illustrator and naturalist, who after a lengthy stay in South Africa, eventually emigrated to Australia.

Albert III, Duke of Saxony

Groningen was captured, but soon afterwards the duke died at Emden.

Ampsivarii

In fact at least two modern cities are names after the Ems there: Emden (German) and Emmen (Dutch).

German submarine U-331

The submarine was laid down on 26 January 1940 at the Nordseewerke yard at Emden, launched on 20 December 1940, and commissioned on 31 March 1941 under the command of Oberleutnant zur See Freiherr Hans-Diedrich von Tiesenhausen.

International Filmfest Emden

International Filmfestival Emden-Norderney is the largest international film festival in Lower Saxony, Germany and takes place in Emden and Norderney every year in June.

Jan Łaski

In 1542, he became pastor of a Protestant church at Emden, East Frisia shortly after went to England, where in 1550 he was superintendent of the Strangers' Church of London and had some influence on ecclesiastical affairs in the reign of Edward VI.

Johann Heinrich Alting

Johann Heinrich Alting (1583–1644), German divine, was born at Emden, where his father, Menso Alting (1541–1612), was minister.

Löhne station

In Löhne, line branch off to Rheine via Osnabrück (part of the Hanoverian Western Railway to Emden) and to Elze via Hamelin (continuing to Hildesheim) and, as a result, the station was long an important junction in northwestern Germany as an interchange station with its own marshalling yard.

Royal Hanoverian State Railways

In the end they agreed upon the present-day route from von Löhne via Osnabrück to Prussian Rheine, that at the same time provided a junction at Münster to the Royal Westphalian Railway Company (Königlich-Westfälische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft) and from there a link via Salzbergen to Leer and Emden.

Terry Rodgers

Abroad, his work has been exhibited at the Stedelijk Museum - 's-Hertogenbosch, the Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung in Munich, the Museum Franz Gertsch in Burgdorf, the Museum Folkwang in Essen, the Gemeentemuseum Helmond, the Scheringa Museum of Realist Art in Spanbroek, the Kunsthal Rotterdam, the Kunsthalle Emden, the Kunsthalle Krems, the Galerie Rudolfinum and the Zentrum Paul Klee in Bern.

Type 206 submarine

Subsequently, the Type 206 was designed by IKL in 1964-65 and a production order was placed on 7 June 1969 for eight from HDW in Kiel and ten from Nordseewerke in Emden.

Walter Deloenus

Deelen settled in Emden, Germany, where he worked with Jan Utenhove of Ghent on a translation of the New Testament into Dutch and edited the Dutch translation of reformation historian Johannes Sleidanus' De statu religionis commentarii.