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3 unusual facts about Essen-Hügel station


Essen-Hügel station

The owner of the property is DB Station&Service, which classified it as a category 5 station.

In 1890, it was opened directly next to Hügel Park, the estate of the industrialist Friedrich Alfred Krupp and the location of the Villa Hügel, which had been built twenty years earlier.

During the occupation of the Ruhr in 1923, members of the Organization Heinz of Albert Leo Schlageter carried out attacks with bombs, including at Hügel station, to obstruct the transport of coal to France.


Abellio Deutschland

Abellio Deutschland operates several regional railway lines in Northrhine-Westfalia, notably the line between Essen and Siegen / Iserlohn along the Ruhr and Lenne rivers.

Angelique Seriese

Other medals include eight European championship victories, bronze at the 1987 World Championships in Essen and silver at the 1993 World Championships in Hamilton.

Beatrix von Holte

Beatrix von Holte (born 1250; died in Essen on 4 December 1327) was an abbess of Essen Abbey.

Bertram Huppert

In 1984, Huppert founded, together with Gerhard Michler, the first Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft priority programme in Mathematics at the German universities of Aachen, Bielefeld, Essen and Mainz.

Boris Kerner

In 2011 Boris Kerner was awarded with the degree Professor at the University of Duisburg-Essen in Germany.

Botanischer Garten der Universität Duisburg-Essen

The garden contains about 170 species of carnivorous plants, one of the largest such collections in Germany, as well as good collections of Euphorbia (300 species), Mediterranean plants (250 species), Haworthia and Aloe (65 species), as well as Aeonium, Conophyllum (40 species), Rhipsalis, and rare plants from Socotra.

Carl Schuricht

In 1906 he heard Frederick Delius's Sea Drift in Essen with the composer present, and promised to Delius that when he had his own orchestra he would conduct it himself, which he did in Frankfurt with Delius again in the audience.

China Nepstar

Mr. Qian received a bachelor's degree in economics from Shandong University in 1983, a master's degree in economics from University of Essen in Germany in 1992, and studied in the doctoral program in economics in University of Duisburg-Essen from 1992 to 1994.

Christopher Becker

At the University of Duisburg-Essen he was a lecturer and had 2011 a cameo in the movie Eine Insel namens Udo.

Clemens Weiss

Clemens Weiss has works in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, Folkwang Museum (Essen), Hamburger Bahnhof (Berlin), New York Public Library (The Spencer Collection), Pushkin Museum (Moscow), Palace of Nations (Geneva), University of South Florida (Art Museum), Von der Heydt Museum (Wuppertal, Germany) and Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford (USA).

Collegiate Church of Saint Gertrude, Nivelles

Claudine Ronnay-Docmans writes in the Patrimoine majeur de Wallonie that the interior dimensions recall: "the splendour of the Ottonian liturgy, as people is able to know it for the abbey of Essen (Germany)".

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.

Der letzte Bulle

Thus making him a unique officer in the today's city of Essen police headquarters in the center of the Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan region.

Eric Von Essen

Among the other musicians Von Essen played with are Frank Morgan, Jimmy Rowles, Vinny Golia, and Mike Campbell.

Essen Stadtbahn

Line U11 is an important fast connection between the northern district of Altenessen and the exhibition ground (Messe) and Gruga Park in the southern suburbs.

Fantasy General

The game's music featured original settings of Strife is O'er, the Dies Irae, the Easter sequence Victimae Paschali Laudes, Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence, Dona Nobis Pacem and two works by Johann Sebastian Bach, Komm, süßer Tod, komm selge Ruh and Wir essen und leben.

Fort de Lantin

The large weapons were all German products, made by Krupp in Essen, but the armor was by Cockerill (Belgium), Ateliers de Creusot (France) or Grüson (Germany).

Gisela!

It was first performed in the Maschinenhalle Zeche Zweckel, Gladbeck, Germany, on 25 September 2010 as part of the Ruhrtriennale music and arts festival by the contemporary music ensemble musikFabrik in collaboration with local youth groups and students of the Folkwang University, Essen.

Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will

There is a limited edition including a bonus CD featuring a 23:23 minute long piece called "Music for a Forgotten Future (The Singing Mountain)" recorded for an art installation by Douglas Gordon and Olaf Nicolai in Essen, Germany.

Helga Niessen Masthoff

Helga Niessen Masthoff (born 11 November 1941 in Essen, Germany) is a former tennis player from West Germany.

Hugo Kükelhaus

In 1919 Hugo Kükelhaus finished his Abitur in Essen, began an apprenticeship as a carpenter in Essen and, as a travelling journeyman (Geselle), travelled through Germany, Scandinavia and the Baltics.

Jenoptik

The Jenoptik Group headquarters are in Jena, with additional major sites in Germany located in Wedel near Hamburg, Monheim and Ratingen near Düsseldorf, Villingen-Schwenningen, Triptis, the Bavarian town of Altenstadt, and Essen.

Johann Julius Hecker

After completing the gymnasium in Essen, he studied theology, ancient languages, medicine, and natural sciences at the University of Halle.

Kurt Edelhagen

After studying clarinet and piano in Essen, he set up his multicultural big band, which over the years would include many jazz musicians who were well known in Europe, including Francy Boland (who would later set up his own), Ron Simmonds Charly Antolini, Jiggs Whigham, Claus Ogerman, Jimmy Deuchar, Duško Gojković, Rick Kiefer, Ronnie Stephenson, Gerd Dudek, Wilton Gaynair, Derek Humble, Shake Keane and Tubby Hayes.

Lars Schwander

His artistic work is represented in international collections such as those of Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris, the Musée de la photographie in Belgium, the Royal Danish Library in Copenhagen, the Brandts Museum of Photographic Art, Louis Vuitton Foundation in Paris, the Lenono Photo Archive in New York and the extensive German Olbricht Collection in Essen.

Ludwig Wullstein

Ludwig Wullstein (22 April 1864, Leopoldshall - 11 October 1930, Essen) was a German surgeon.

Mike de Vries

De Vries achieved two university degrees; the first as a fencing master at the Academy of Fencing of Germany in Essen and Tauberbischofsheim, his second as a graduate sports teacher at the German Sport University Cologne.

Mother's Finest

In 1978, the band set out for Europe and took part in the Rockpalast concert series at the Grugahalle in Essen, produced by Germany's WDR television and broadcast to various countries.

Offener Kanal Essen

Offener Kanal Essen (Open Channel Essen) is a public television station based in Zeche Carl, Essen, Germany.

Paintings by Adolf Hitler

This painting, along with twelve other paintings by Hitler, was discovered by Company Sergeant Major Willie J. McKenna in 1945 in Essen, Germany.

Peter Kirillovich Essen

In August 1800, Essen was appointed military governor of Vyborg, Finland, and chief of the garrison of the Gorchakov Vyborg regiment.

Regionalliga West

Sascha Mölders of Rot-Weiss Essen was by far the best scorer in the league scoring 28 times during the season, nine times more than the second-best, Christopher Kullmann.

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.

Silvia Sorina Munteanu

Aside from her native country, she has performed in Frankfurt, Essen, Sofia, Varna, Prague, Bratislava, and Budapest, as well as at festivals in other European countries, Thailand, and the United States.

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.

Sword of Saints Cosmas and Damian

It was a gift from Otto III, Holy Roman Emperor to the convent in Essen in 993 AD and symbolises the martyrdom of Saints Cosmas and Damian, the patron saints of that city.

TeleKommando

TeleKommando Scherz is actually formed by Nacho Durán (Oviedo, Spain), Mariana Rillo (Bahía Blanca, Argentina), George Queiroz (Belo Horizonte, Brazil), Dirk Böll (Essen, Germany), Alessandra Cestac (São Paulo, Brazil) and Camilla Ribas (Sao Paulo, Brazil), working with video, design, photography, programming, vjing, djing, performance and urban intervention.

Tomasz Bajer

The artist has been a two-time grant holder of the Ministry of Culture and an artist-in-residence in Carrara, Essen, Strassbourg, Munich and Newcastle (UK); nominated for the Europaeisches Kolleg der Bildenden Kuenste in Berlin.

Trans-European Transport Networks

At its meeting in Essen in 1994, the European Council endorsed a list of 14 TEN-T ‘specific’ projects, drawn up by a group chaired by then Commission Vice-President Henning Christophersen.

Walter Heiman

Walter J. Heiman (Essen, Germany, March 12, 1901 – University City, Missouri, United States, March 18, 2007) was a Jewish American man who at the time of his death had become one of the last surviving veterans of the First World War.

Wilfried Loth

Since 1986 he has been Professor of Modern History at the University of Essen.

Zeynep Korkmaz

She worked as a visiting scholar there from 1954 to 1955 and studied Old Turkish Language with A. von Gabain, O. Pritsak and O. Von Essen.


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