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8 unusual facts about Heilbronn


31st Engineer Battalion

It encountered its toughest fighting of the war on 4–8 April as it sought to bridge the Neckar River near Heilbronn.

Fiat 1300/1500

Both the saloon and the coupé were also manufactured by Fiat's German subsidiary, Neckar Automobil AG, formerly known as NSU-Fiat, located in Heilbronn (unlike regular Fiat 1300/1500).

Ford Taunus G93A

In 1949 Ford added a Taunus version with body panels fitted only as far back as the A-pillars, and several alternative body shapes became available, added by traditional coach-builders such as and Karmann of Osnabrück, Drauz of Heilbronn and Plasswilm in Cologne.

Gopalswamy Doraiswamy Naidu

Naidu's 'Rasant' razor incorporated a small motor operated by dry cells, was made at a factory in the German town called Heilbronn.

Joachim Schlör

Joachim Schlör (born 1960 in Heilbronn) is a culture scientist and professor at the Parkes Institute for Jewish/non-Jewish Relations at the University of Southampton.

Klett

August Klett (Pseudonym: August Klotz) (1866 - 1928), German schizophrenic outsider artist, born in Heilbronn

South Franconian German

South Franconian (Südfränkisch) is a High Franconian dialect which is spoken in the northernmost part of Baden-Württemberg in Germany, around Karlsruhe, Mosbach and Heilbronn.

Volvo Buses

Drögmöller Karosserien GmbH & Co. KG, Heilbronn, Germany (1994, later known as Volvo Busse Industries (Deutschland) GmbH, plant closed in 2005)


824th Tank Destroyer Battalion

Once Heilbronn had been secured, the 100th Division, and the 824th with it, moved south towards Stuttgart.

Augsburg Confession

During the diet, the cities of Weißenburg in Bayern, Heilbronn, Kempten, and Windesheim also expressed their concurrence with the confession.

August Klotz

August Klett (Pseudonym: August Klotz) (1866 in Heilbronn-1928) was a German schizophrenic outsider artist and one of the "schizophrenic masters" profiled by Hans Prinzhorn in his field-defining work Artistry of the Mentally Ill.

Bruhrain Railway

From the early 1990s until the introduction of the Rhine-Neckar S-Bahn there were services on the Bruchsal–Germersheim–Ludwigshafen–Mannheim–HeidelbergNeckargemündMeckenheimSinsheimSteinsfurtEppingen/Heilbronn route, operated with locomotives of class 218 hauling Silberling carriages.

Ernst Jansen Steur

The Netherlands was shocked on 4 January 2013 when the NOS evening news led with the story that Jansen Steur had found another job as a neurologist in the Klinik am Gesundbrunnen hospital in Heilbronn.

Eugen Klöpfer

He subsequently attended the Lateinschule (Latin School) in Lauffen and then the Karlsgymnasium in Heilbronn.

Flein

Public transport in the PTE HNV is ensured by buses, besides Flein is the only municipality in the district to be connected with the city bus network of Heilbronn.

Gilles Elseneer

This was arguably the strongest year of his career, in which he reached the second rounds of the French Open (l. to Gustavo Kuerten) and Wimbledon (l. to Ivo Karlović), and won the challengers of Heilbronn and Sarajevo.

Gustav Rümelin

After studying theology at Tübingen, he devoted himself to teaching, became rector of a Latin school in 1845, and professor at the gymnasium of Heilbronn in 1849, having in the meanwhile been a delegate to the Frankfurt Parliament in 1848.

Heilbronn League

The Heilbronn League was an alliance between Sweden, France, and the Protestant princes of Western Germany against the Catholic League during the Thirty Years' War.

Herrieden

It lies along the upper Altmühl river, about 9 km (6 mi) southwest of the city of Ansbach, 47 km southwest of the city of Nürnberg, 95 km east of Heilbronn and 144 km northwest of Munich.

Kraichgau Railway

In 1888 the Bretten–Eppingen–Heilbronn section of the line was duplicated as part of a military supply route from central Germany via Nuremberg, Crailsheim, Heilbronn, Bretten, Bruchsal, Zweibrücken in the Saarland to Lorraine.

Military Counseling Network

Through trainings in cooperation with the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors (CCCO), the network expanded and included counselors in Berlin, Frankfurt, Mutlangen, Heilbronn, Tübingen, and Hunsrück.

Olnhausen, Germany

Olnhausen (alternative name: Ohlhausen; historical variants: Olnhausen, Ohlhausen, Olhausen, Ohlhaussen, Ahlhausen, Aalhausen, Aalhaus) is a village in Baden-Wurttemberg with an area of 4.57 km², in the district of Heilbronn, near Jagsthausen.

Sonja Christ

Sonja Christ-Brendemühl (née Christ; born 1984), from the German wine region of Mosel ("Moselle"), was chosen as the 61st German Wine Queen on 9 Oct 2009 in the city of Heilbronn, as the successor to Marlies Dumbsky from the Franconian wine region.

Stadel bei Herrieden

Stadel is about 11 km (7 mi) southwest of the city of Ansbach, 49 km southwest of the city of Nürnberg, 93 km east of Heilbronn and 143 km northwest of Munich.

Susanne Lautenbacher

She also made numerous concert appearances, especially with the Württemberg Chamber Orchestra, Heilbronn, conducted by Jörg Faerber.

Tomislav Marić

He was born to Bosnian Croat parents in Heilbronn, Baden-Württemberg and started his first-team career in 1992 at amateur side SpVgg 07 Ludwigsburg from the nearby Ludwigsburg in then third-division Oberliga Baden-Württemberg.

Von Gemmingen

Gemmingen is a town in the district of Heilbronn in Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany.

WKO

Württemberg Chamber Orchestra Heilbronn (Württembergisches Kammerorchester Heilbronn), a German orchestra


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