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2 unusual facts about Erfurt–Leipzig/Halle high-speed railway


Erfurt–Leipzig/Halle high-speed railway

The new line runs north of the existing Erfurt-Weissenfels-Leipzig route in the Thuringian Basin past Buttstädt, crosses the Finn hills between Rastenberg and Bad Bibra and crosses the Unstrut near Karsdorf.

The six km-long Saale-Elster viaduct crosses some meadows in the Saale and the Weiße Elster valleys between Schkopau and Halle that are part of a protected area under the European Union’s Habitats Directive.


Abū Muhammad al-Hasan al-Hamdānī

For other works said to have been written by al-Hamdānī see G. L. Flügel's Die grammatischen Schulen der Araber (Leipzig, 1862), pp.

Alf Ward

He joined the "Saints" 1908 summer tour of Europe; at Leipzig, in the final match of the tour, Ward displaced the cartilage of his right knee.

Am Mellensee

They will provide the bread for the Communion wafers during the Eucharist for Papal Masses at Erfurt's Cathedral and in Berlin's Olympic Stadium to be celebrated by Pope Benedict XVI for his September 2011 visit- his third as Pope- to Germany.

Anton Philipp Reclam

Reclam established his company in Leipzig in 1828 as "Philipp Reclam jun." to distinguish it from his father's company.

Atmospheric thermodynamics

In 1911 von Alfred Wegener published a book "Thermodynamik der Atmosphäre", Leipzig, J. A. Barth.

Audi Tunnel

The Audi Tunnel is a twin-tracked railway tunnel on the Nuremberg–Ingolstadt–Munich high-speed railway just north of Ingolstadt in Bavaria, Germany.

Bulgarians in Germany

In the 16th century, Bulgarian Orthodox clerics were known to have been in contact with the German Lutherans and by the 18th century Bulgarian merchants in Leipzig were distinguished from other Balkan Christian merchants.

Carl Reinhardt

Carl August Reinhardt (also referred to as Karl Reinhardt; born 25. April 1818 in Leipzig, Germany; died 11. August 1877 in Radebeul, Germany) was a German author, painter, graphic artist, and caricaturist.

Carl Ritschl

In 1804, still too young for a spiritual appointment, he began tutoring at their home the children of Johann Joachim Bellermann, the director of Erfurt's Gymansium zum Grauen Kloster.

Christian Liebe

He studied in Leipzig, then was a private teacher in Dresden and from 1684 Rektor and organist in Frauenstein, then from 1690 Rektor in Zschopau till his death.

Christmas market

Famous Christmas markets are held in the cities of Augsburg, Dresden, Erfurt, Frankfurt, Nuremberg and Stuttgart, making them popular tourist attractions during Christmas holiday season.

Dana Ranga

The documentary film Story (2003), about astronaut Story Musgrave received awards at the film festivals in Marseille (2003), Leipzig (2003) and Houston (2004).

Daniel Frahn

His sixth goal of the season came ten seconds into a home-match against VfB Stuttgart II: seven Leipzig players stormed the Stuttgart half immediately after kick-off; the ball was played back then a long-ball was hit forward to Matthias Morys, who crossed for Frahn to score.

Elfriede Rinkel

Elfriede Lina Rinkel (née Huth, born July 14, 1922, Leipzig, Germany) was a guard at the Ravensbrück concentration camp from June 1944 until April 1945 handling an SS-trained guard dog.

Franz Metzner

A famous work is the 1913 Völkerschlachtdenkmal (People's Battle Monument), designed by the architect Bruno Schmitz in Leipzig.

Funds for Endangered Parrots

The venue in 2000 was the bird show at Achern, in 2001 the DEU-BE-LUX bird show at Bitburg, in 2002 the bird show at Bielefeld-Senne, in 2003 the bird show at Coburg, in 2004 the Walsrode Bird Park, in 2005 the Ornithea bird show in the Porz suburb of Cologne, in 2006 the NiederRheinPark Plantaria at Kevelaer and in 2007 Leipzig Zoo.

Georg Steindorff

He also brought larger finds from excavations back to Leipzig with him (for example the limestone head of Queen Nefertiti) with the permission of the then French-run Antiquities Service.

Hannjo Hasse

Later, he also worked in theaters in Eisleben, Burg bei Magdeburg and Schwerin, before settling in the Hans Otto Theater in Leipzig, in which he was a member of the regular cast between 1954 to 1962.

Hayk Gyulikekhvyan

He studied at Leipzig and Zurich universities, then finished the department of philosophy of Heidelberg University.

Helius Eobanus Hessus

Through the influence of Camerarius and Melanchthon, he obtained a post at Nuremberg (1526), but, finding a regular life distasteful, he again went back to Erfurt (1533).

Herzburg

The River Wied flows around this hilltop which is strategically located between the old "Cologne-Frankfurt Road" (now the B 8) and the old Cologne-Leipzig road (now the B 414).

Hüon und Amande

It was published in "Flensburg, Schleswig and Leipzig" in 1789 (the same year as Seyler's death), and was dedicated to the actor Friedrich Ludwig Schröder, a long-time friend and collaborator of Seyler and her husband Abel Seyler, the founder of the Seyler theatrical company (see also Seyler family).

Ignaz Kuranda

With the assistance of Minister Nothomb and the author Hendrik Conscience he founded in 1841 the periodical Die Grenzboten; but on account of the obstacles which the Prussian government placed in the way of its circulation in Germany, Kuranda removed the headquarters of the paper to Leipzig, where it soon became an important factor in Austrian politics.

Irakli Modebadze

He fouled on 14 July 2012 in an friendly game with his club FC Dila Gori, in the game against FC Rot-Weiss Erfurt the Libanese footballer Joan Oumari and provokes the breakup of the game.

Johann Christian Lossius

Johann Christian Lossius (1743, Liebstadt near Weimar – 1813, Erfurt) was a German materialist philosopher.

Johann Friedrich Rochlitz

Her previous husband had been the Leipzig businessman Daniel Winkler and brought Winkler's precious art collection (including a Rembrandt painting) with her on her marriage to Rochlitz.

Johann Hieronymus Schröter

Johann Hieronymus Schröter (August 30, 1745, Erfurt – August 29, 1816, Lilienthal) was a German astronomer.

Johann Martin Steindorff

In 1722 he applied for the vacant post of Thomaskantor in Leipzig, but did not succeed and remained in Zwickau for the rest of his life.

Karl Sudhoff

He retired in 1925, and was succeeded in his position at Leipzig by Henry E. Sigerist.

Karl von Trier

On March 12, 1318 Karl accepted the position of Grand Master again during a general meeting in Erfurt, although he did not return to Prussia.

Kevin Möhwald

He made his debut for the club in December 2011, as a substitute for Nils Pfingsten-Reddig in a Thuringia derby against Carl Zeiss Jena which Erfurt lost 1–0.

Lawrence Amos McLouth

He served as principal of the Danville, Illinois High School for three years, then proceeded to Europe for additional training, studying for two years at Leipzig, Heidelberg, and Munich.

Line of contact

The completed line of contact between Canadian/US/British forces and Soviet forces began at Wismar on the Baltic coast and proceeded south, passing along Schwerin; Magdeburg; an area east of Leipzig; and on to the Czech town of Pilsen; and towards Linz in Austria.

Louis Adolf Gölsdorf

Louis Adolf Gölsdorf was born in Plaue, Austria, on 16 February 1837 and educated in Chemnitz and Dresden in neighbouring Germany at various technical schools before taking up technical work for the Leipzig-Dresden Railway.

Maria Gloriosa

Maria Gloriosa, or the Erfurt Bell, is a well-known bell of Erfurt Cathedral, cast by Geert van Wou in 1497.

New states of Germany

The Federal Transport Infrastructure Plan 2003 includes plans for the extension of the A14 from Magdeburg to Schwerin and construction of the A72 from Chemnitz to Leipzig.

Otto Bettmann

Otto Ludwig Bettmann (October 15, 1903 in Leipzig, Germany - May 3, 1998), known as "The Picture Man," was the founder of the Bettmann Archive.

Regional-Express

Since late 2006, Regional-Express services between Munich and Nuremberg that operate on the Nuremberg–Ingolstadt high-speed railway reach top speeds of 200 km/h.

Reinhard Keiser

Keiser was born in Teuchern (in present-day Saxony-Anhalt), son of the organist and teacher Gottfried Keiser (born about 1650), and educated by other organists in the town and then from age eleven at the Thomasschule in Leipzig, where his teachers included Johann Schelle and Johann Kuhnau, direct predecessors of Johann Sebastian Bach.

Richard Oehler

Richard Oehler (27 February 1878, Heckholzhausen, Hesse-Nassau - 13 November 1948) was a German Nietzsche scholar – an early editor of the philosopher's works, and author of Friedrich Nietzsche und die deutsche Zukunft (Leipzig: Armanen-Verlag, 1935), which has been characterized by Walter Kaufmann as "one of the first Nazi books on Nietzsche" (Basic Writings of Nietzsche, New York: The Modern Library, 2000, p. 387, n. 27).

Rodryg Dunin

He was a student at Maria Magdalena Gymnasium (high school) in Poznań, where he participated actively in a secret Polish educational-social youth movement, and later studied at academies in Tetschen (Děčín), Bohemia, and Leipzig, Saxony.

S-Bahn Mitteldeutschland

At the end of 2013, the ongoing full electrification of the railway line Leipzig-Hof (as part of Saxony-Franken-Magistrale) south of Reichenbach im Vogtland was completed.

Schiphol–Antwerp high-speed railway

The Schiphol - Antwerp High-Speed Line is a high-speed rail line connecting Schiphol Airport, 9 km southwest of Amsterdam, to Antwerp, Belgium.

Simon Bedwell

He has shown work internationally in many exhibitions including solo show “The Furnishers” at White Columns in New York, “Galleon and Other Stories” at the Saatchi Gallery in London, “England Their England” at Laden fur Nichts in Leipzig, “Beck's Futures 2004” at the ICA in London and the CCA in Glasgow, and Studio Voltaire London.

U80701

It was manufactured by VEB Mikroelektronik "Karl Marx" Erfurt (MME) in NMOS technology and encased in a CQFP-68 package.

Vladimir Rebikov

Rebikov taught and played in concerts in various parts of the Russian Empire: Moscow, Odessa, Kishinev, Yalta, as well as in Berlin, Vienna, Prague, Leipzig, Florence and Paris, where met Claude Debussy, Oscar Nedbal, Zdenek Needly, and others.

Wathiq Naji

In 1967, he awarded a Higher Diploma in Football and Sport Science from the German University of physical culture and sport, which is better known as Deutsche Hochschule für Körperkultur und Sport (DHfK) in Leipzig, This university is attached later to the University of Leipzig after the German reunification on 3 October 1990.

Wolfgang Hirschbach

Christian Gottlieb Jöcher: General Scholars Lexicon, Leipzig 1750, Part 2, p.

X chromosome

It was first noted that the X chromosome was special in 1890 by Hermann Henking in Leipzig.


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