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5 unusual facts about Gräfenberg


ČSA Flight 511

ČSA Flight 511 was a flight operated by an Ilyushin Il-18 that crashed in Gräfenberg near Nürnberg on March 28, 1961 during flight across West Germany.

Gräfenberg Railway

Nachdem die Strecke am 1. Mai 1908 to Eschenau verlängert worden war, bestand Anschluss an die bereits am 12. November 1886 eröffnete Sekundärbahn Erlangen–Gräfenberg, die sogenannte „Seekuh“.

Miklós Wesselényi

After serving 2 months in the casemates of the Buda castle, he started to suffer from a serious eye ailment, and he was permitted to travel to Gräfenberg (Lázně Jeseník), in Moravia with his family in order to cure his illness.

Robert O'Hara Burke

Towards the end of 1847 he suffered health problems and went to Recoaro spa in northern Italy, then Grafenberg and finally Aachen before resigning from the Austrian army in June 1848 after charges against him relating to debts and absence without leave were dropped.

Uttenreuth

Until the 1960s, Uttenreuth had its own train station which connected the cities of Erlangen and Gräfenberg


Düsseldorf-Düsseltal

Düsseltal's neighboring boroughs are, clockwise from the north: Rath, Grafenberg, Flingern, and Derendorf.

Ernst Gräfenberg

Ernst Gräfenberg (September 26, 1881 in Adelebsen near Göttingen, Germany – 28 October 1957 in New York City, United States) was a German-born physician (medical doctor) and scientist.

Heinrich Laehr

He was instrumental in the planning and development of institutions at Lengerich (1864), Eberswalde (1865), Andernach (1867), Schwerin (1874), Merzig (1876), Düren and Owinsk (1880), Berlin-Dalldorf, Grafenberg (1882) and Potsdam (1886).

Intrauterine device

Dr. Ernst Gräfenberg, another German physician after whom the G-spot is named, created the first Ring IUD, Gräfenberg's ring, made of silver filaments.

Sebastian Kneipp

In the 19th century, there was a popular revival in the application of hydrotherapy, instigated around 1829 by Vincent Priessnitz, a peasant farmer in Gräfenberg, then part of the Austrian Empire.


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