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unusual facts about Halle, North Rhine-Westphalia



Adam Pastor

Adam Pastor was born Roelof Martens or Martin, at Dörpen, Westphalia, and was a Catholic priest at Aschendorf till 1533 when he joined the peaceful wing of the Anabaptists.

Alpen

Alpen, Germany, a municipality in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Balkenbrij

'Panhas', 'Pannas' or 'Möppkenbrot' are widely known in the whole northwest of Germany, the last variety is a speciality of middle Westphalia.

Bentheim-Tecklenburg

Bentheim-Tecklenburg was a German district based in the region around Tecklenburg in northern North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

Delta station

The main railway station, located within the same complex, encompasses two platforms and is served by the suburban services of NMBS/SNCB line 26 linking Vilvoorde with Halle via Etterbeek.

Detmold station

Buses run from the bus station on the station forecourt city to all the city’s districts and regional buses run to Augustdorf, Blomberg, Horn-Bad Meinberg and Barntrup.

Diana Sorbello

Diana Sorbello (born June 27, 1979 in Bocholt, North Rhine-Westphalia) is a German schlager singer.

Economy of North Rhine-Westphalia

These include many international global players such as 3M, BP, Ericsson, Ford, LG Electronics, QVC, Sony, Renault, Toyota, and Vodafone.

Elsdorf

It is situated approximately 5 km south-west of Bergheim and 30 km west of Cologne.

Geldern-Kapellen

The area Kapellen lies in the Niederrhein (Lower Rhine) in the northwest part of German Federal State of Nordrhein-Westfalen.

Georg Bednorz

Bednorz was born in Neuenkirchen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany to elementary-school teacher Anton and piano teacher Elisabeth Bednorz, as the youngest of four children.

Gommecourt, Pas-de-Calais

The victorious German troops who defended the village during the battle were the 52nd Infantry Division from Baden together with 2nd Guards Reserve Division from Westphalia; the British Army force taking part in the attack comprised the 56th (London) Division and the 46th (North Midland) Division.

Gottfried August Bürger

At the age of twelve, Bürger was practically adopted by his maternal grandfather, Bauer, at Aschersleben, who sent him to the Pädagogium at Halle.

Groesbeek

Groesbeek and Kranenburg are situated on the banks of the Groesbeek, a small stream in the Groesbeek valley, a large valley between the Nijmeegse heuvelrug and Reichswald.

Hafkenscheid

The family has taken its name from the former Havkenscheid castle in the hamlet of the same name near Bochum, Westphalia.

Halle–Halberstadt railway

It is an important link between the conurbation of Halle (Saale) and the northern Harz Foreland.

Halle, Bentheim

Unlike the people of the better known and bigger city of Halle in Saxony-Anhalt, who call themselves Hallenser in German, the inhabitants here call themselves simply Haller, following the usual German rule for formulating nouns denoting a particular place’s inhabitants.

Hamburger Schule

In particular, a local scene of Germanophone bands had developed in the small town of Bad Salzuflen in Eastern Westphalia, which was centered around the label Fast Weltweit.

Helga Eng

After a stay in Halle under the auspices of Ernst Meumann from 1909 to 1910, she began on a doctorate thesis, finishing it in 1912.

Herbert Westfaling

Westfaling was born in London, England, the son of Harbert Westphaling, whose family originated in Westphalia (Germany).

Herman II, Count of Winzenburg

One of the murderers was beheaded in 1156; the other, Count Henry of Bodenburg, was defeated in a trial by battle and went into Neuwerk Monastery in Halle.

Jan Westerbarkey

Westerbarkey was born in Gütersloh, in the German state of North Rhine-Westfalia, to Sturmi Westerbarkey and Karin Westerbarkey née Müller.

Jérôme Napoléon Charles Bonaparte

As the eldest son of Jérôme Bonaparte, Jérôme Napoléon had stood to inherit his titles and claims; instead his younger brother Napoléon Joseph Charles Paul Bonaparte succeeded to the Westphalia claim, and his son Napoléon Victor Bonaparte eventually became head of the House of Bonaparte.

Karl Friedrich August Kahnis

From a poor background, Kahnis was educated at the gymnasium of his native town Greiz, and after acting as private tutor for several years began the study of theology at Halle.

Kirchsahr

Kirchsahr consists of the districts Kirchsahr, Binzenbach, Burgsahr, Hürnig and Winnen, and lies near the state border of Rhineland-Palatinate and North Rhine-Westphalia.

Krombach

Kreuztal-Krombach, a locality in Kreuztal, in the Siegen-Wittgenstein district, North Rhine-Westphalia

Marl, North Rhine-Westphalia

10 Centre Party (Germany), 2 Social Democratic Party of Germany, 1 Reich Party of the German Middle Class, 4 Communist Party of Germany, 1 independent .

Martin Sturfält

Martin has appeared with the Hallé Orchestra, the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic and the Swedish Radio Symphony, collaborating with conductors such as Sir Mark Elder, Andrew Manze and Alexander Vedernikov.

Mike, der Taschengeldexperte

The comic was last produced by the advertising agency genokom from Münster in Westphalia, which also publishes the sequel comic Primax together with the DG VERLAG.

Mönchengladbach–Düsseldorf railway

The Mönchengladbach–Düsseldorf railway is a 24 km long main line on the left (western) bank of the Rhine in the Lower Rhine region of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia.

Mr. Jingeling

After Halle's closed in 1982, Mr. Jingeling moved to Santaland on the tenth floor of Higbee's Department Store.

Nic Romm

After Nic Romm finished the gymnasium in Jülich, a town in the district of Düren, in the federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia, he visited the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hannover.

North Rhine-Westphalia state election, 2012

The Red-Green coalition formed a minority government with Hannelore Kraft as Minister President after emerging one seat short of a governing majority in the previous election.

Obermarsberg

Obermarsberg, previously Eresburg, is one of seventeen quarters in the municipality of Marsberg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

Parodia leninghausii

a native of North Rhine-Westphalia who, in the 1880s, left his hometown of Ennepetal and emigrated to Porto Alegre, Brazil, where he became Guillermo Lenninghaus, and collected cacti for the German grower Haage.

Petra Hammesfahr

Petra Hammesfahr (born 10 May 1951 in Titz, North Rhine-Westphalia) is an acclaimed German crime writer, winner of several awards including the Crime Prize of Wiesbaden and Rhineland Literary Prize.

Principality of Orange-Nassau

By German Mediatisation, the county Dietz and its dependencies, and the Lordships Wehrheim and Burbach, all came under the sovereignty of the Duke of Nassau-Usingen and the Prince of Nassau-Weilburg.

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.

Roetgen

Roetgen is a municipality in the district of Aachen, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

Schmitz Cargobull

The company's head office is located in Horstmar, Germany, and its registered office is in the neighbouring city of Altenberge in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia.

Sparrenberg Castle

After some preliminary work starting in 1535, from 1556 on the Italian fortress master builder Alessandro Pasqualini and his son managed the reconstruction, which was finished in 1578 and created the largest fortress in Westphalia.

Stefan Lehmann

with Andreas E. Furtwängler (ed.s): Alexander der Große – einst in Stendal: Original – Kopie – Fälschung? Halle (Saale) 2009, ISBN 978-3-941171-29-9 (Kataloge und Schriften des Archäologischen Museums der Martin-Luther-Universität. Band 2).

Steinhagen

Steinhagen, North Rhine-Westphalia, in the district of Gütersloh, North Rhine-Westphalia

SV Schermbeck

SV Schermbeck is a German association football club from Schermbeck, North Rhine-Westphalia.

Tomáš Týn

He was allowed to study in France, and later moved to Germany to begin his novitiate with the Dominicans on 28 September 1969 in Warburg in Westphalia, where his family came to escape the dictatorship in their country.

Tredegar House

After the King's arrest and execution, he fled to the continent and married Anna Petronilla the daughter of Baron von Pöllnitz from Westphalia (Governor of Lippstadt, 20 miles east of Dortmund in Germany).

Troisdorf station

Troisdorf station is a railway junction in the town of Troisdorf in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, where the line from Cologne separates into the East Rhine Railway to Neuwied and the Sieg Railway to Siegen.

Wiehltal bridge

The Wiehltal Bridge is a highway bridge on the A 4 motorway between Cologne and Olpe over the Wiehltal valley at Engelskirchen (Oberbergischer Kreis), North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

Wolperath

Wolperath is the third largest urban subdivision (Ortsteil) of the Neunkirchen-Seelscheid municipality in North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhein-Sieg, Germany.


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