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21 unusual facts about Holzminden


Altenbeken–Kreiensen railway

The Altenbeken–Kreiensen railway is part of a former long-distance route in Germany from the Ruhr area via Altenbeken, Ottbergen, Holzminden, Kreiensen and Seesen towards Berlin.

Angrivarii

Ancient Engern was a much larger district than today's community, comprising most of the country surrounding the middle Weser, including both flat land, as around Minden, and low hills (Holzminden).

Brakel, Germany

The station is served by, among others, hourly trains from the "Egge-Bahn" (Paderborn - Holzminden), run by the NordWestBahn belonging to Connex.

Carola Roloff

Born in Holzminden, Germany to a Protestant family, Roloff was active in her local Christian youth group.

Christian August Brandis

Christian August Brandis (February 13, 1790, Holzminden – July 21, 1867, Bonn), German philologist and historian of philosophy, was born at Hildesheim and educated at Kiel University.

Erwin Böhme

He was born in Holzminden, grew into an athletic sportsman and became a flying ace during the war, credited with 24 victories.

Eschershausen

It is situated approximately 20 km northeast of Holzminden, and 50 km south of Hanover.

Georg Scheffers

He was born on November 21, 1866 in the village of Altendorf near Holzminden (today incorporated into Holzminden).

Hanover school of architecture

At the first major North German building trade school in Holzminden, there was a group of Hase's admirers in the teachers' association Kunstclubb ("Art club") who sought to spread the Hanoverian school in the 1860s.

Heinrich Seeling

Seeling upon his apprenticeship received further academic training at the college for civil engineering in Holzminden in the Duchy of Brunswick and studied at the Prussian Bauakademie in Berlin, capital of the German Empire since 1871.

Holzminden internment camp

Holzminden internment camp was a large World War I detention camp (Internierungslager) located on the outskirts of Holzminden, Lower Saxony, Germany, which existed from 1914 to 1918.

Karl Baedeker

Alex W. Hinrichsen died on December 9, 2012 in Holzminden, Germany.

Meinolf Sellmann

Meinolf Sellmann, born in Holzminden, Germany, computer scientist, best known for algorithmic research in combinatorial optimization, artificial intelligence, and the hybridization thereof.

Peter Christian Bønecke

He then went abroad where he first spend several years at the building school Holzminden before working for four years as a draughman for Theophil Hansen in Vienna.

Prince Wilhelm-Karl of Prussia

Prince Wilhelm Karl Adalbert Erich Detloff of Prussia (January 30, 1922, in Potsdam – April 9, 2007, in Holzminden) was the third son of Prince Oskar of Prussia, and the last surviving grandson of Wilhelm II, the last German Emperor.

Principality of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel

In 1667 Ferdinand Albert was awarded the castle of Bevern near Holzminden.

Stiebel Eltron

Stiebel Eltron is a company based in Holzminden, Germany that manufactures central heating products such as heat pumps.

Symrise

Symrise was founded in 2003 by the merger of Haarmann & Reimer (H&R) and Dragoco, both based in Holzminden (Germany).

Uwe Schünemann

Schünemann attented Gymnasium an der Wilhelmstraße (later Campe-Gymnasium) in Holzminden, where he acquired his Abitur in 1984.

Weser

Towns along the Weser, from the confluence of Werra and Fulda to the mouth, include: Hann. Münden, Beverungen, Höxter, Holzminden, Bodenwerder, Hameln, Hessisch Oldendorf, Rinteln, Vlotho, Bad Oeynhausen, Porta Westfalica, Minden, Petershagen, Nienburg, Achim, Bremen, Brake, Nordenham, Bremerhaven.

Winnigstedt

In the 1950s railway service to East German Heudeber discontinued, nevertheless the border station remained a rail hub between the Braunschweig-Schöningen line and the railway from Helmstedt to Holzminden.


Bevern

Bevern, Lower Saxony, a municipality in the district of Holzminden, Lower Saxony

F. W. Winterbotham

He was shot down and captured on 13 July 1917, and spent the rest of the war as a PoW, for much of the time in Holzminden.

Ferdinand Tiemann

The vanillin plant Holzminden was not very successful before Karl Ludwig Reimer discovered the Reimer-Tiemann reaction which opened an alternative synthesis route to vanillin.