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unusual facts about Innsbruck, ich muss dich lassen


Ann Callaway

American Composers' Alliance at 50 (Opus One 143) contains Paraphrasis (1981), an organ fantasy on the tune INNSBRUCK, played by Haskell Thomson


1980 Winter Olympics medal table

Having won her country's first Olympic medal in Innsbruck, four years before, alpine skier Hanni Wenzel won Liechtenstein's only two gold medals in the country's history, at Lake Placid.

Alexander Colyn

In 1563 he went, at the invitation of the emperor Ferdinand I, to Innsbruck, to work on the magnificent monument which was being erected to Maximilian I in the nave of the Franciscan church.

Alexander Utendal

After Ferdinand was made Archduke of Further Austria in 1564 after his father's death, he moved his court from Prague (he was the governor of Bohemia) to Innsbruck.

Alois Walde

In 1895, he was awarded his Habilitation and became a Professor in 1904 at the University of Innsbruck.

Andrés Ortiz-Osés

He studied theology in Comillas and Rome and then moved to The Institute of Philosophy in Innsbruck where he earned a Ph.D in hermeneutics.

Anna de Amicis

In Innsbruck she sang the female title role in Romolo ed Ersilia, the marriage celebration opera written by Johann Adolf Hasse for the marriage of Leopold of Habsburg and Spanish Infanta Maria Ludovica.

Antanas Baranauskas

Between 1863-1864, he studied at Munich's, Rome's, Innsbruck's and Louvain’s Catholic universities.

Antoine Béthouart

In June 2003, amid pomp and ceremony, a bridge was named for him in Innsbruck.

Barbara Warren

Born Barbara Mueller in St. Johann in Tirol, Austria to Hans and Ingrid Mueller, she and her identical twin sister, Angelika Drake, left their farmhouse at 14 for high school in Innsbruck and then, at age 17, went on to study art history at the Accademia di Belle Arti Firenze in Florence, Italy.

Bat-El Gatterer

In 2007, she won a gold medal in the under-55 kg class at the Austrian Open in Innsbruck, Austria, and bronze medals at the Trelleborg Open in Trelleborg, Sweden, and the Belgian Open in Herentals, Belgium.

Battles of Bergisel

The Battles of Bergisel were four battles fought between the forces of Emperor Napoleon I of France and the Kingdom of Bavaria against Tyrolean militiamen and a contingent of Austrian regular soldiers at the Bergisel hill near Innsbruck.

Counts of Andechs

The noble family originally resided in southwestern Bavaria at the castle of Ambras near Innsbruck, controlling the road to the March of Verona across the Brenner Pass, at Dießen am Ammersee and Wolfratshausen.

Donald Walter Trautman

He was ordained to the priesthood in Innsbruck on April 7, 1962, for the Diocese of Buffalo.

Edmund Hay

Sent to Innsbruck in 1564, he became confessor to the archduchesses of Austria, and gained such favour that he was with difficulty removed to Paris to become rector of Clermont College.

Elisabeth of Brandenburg, Duchess of Brunswick-Calenberg-Göttingen

Elisabeth died a year later, in 1558, in Ilmenau, apparently completely exhausted and with a "broken heart." Her children commissioned an epitaph with her portrait by the sculptor Sigmund Linger from Innsbruck, which was erected in 1566 in the St. Giles Chapel of the St. John's Church in Schleusingen.

Franz Eichhorst

Franz Eichhorst (b. September 7, 1885 in Berlin, died April 30, 1948, Innsbruck) was a German painter, engraver and illustrator, one of a number of German artists known for his war paintings supporting the Nazi regime.

Franz Senn Hut

By train: to Innsbruck from there to Fulpmes (on the Stubai Valley railway) and from there by bus

Gustav Peichl

1969–82 ORF regional studios, in Dornbirn, Eisenstadt, Graz, Innsbruck, Linz, Salzburg

Hannibal Brooks

So he sends Brooks along with hostile German soldier Kurt (Peter Carsten), a friendly German soldier named Willy (Helmut Lohner) and Vronia, a female cook to accompany the elephant to Innsbruck Zoo via train.

Heinrich Ritter von Zeissberg

In 1871 he removed to Innsbruck; in 1873 he was appointed professor at the university of Vienna, and here he was historical tutor to the crown prince Rudolph.

Henry Taaffe, 12th Viscount Taaffe

He was born at Innsbruck, the son of Eduard Graf von Taaffe, 11th Viscount Taaffe, who had served as Minister-President of Austria from 1879 to 1893.

Herbert Sausgruber

After the Matura (general qualification for university entrance), Sausgruber he studied law and Catholic theology at the University of Innsbruck and become a member of the fraternity “AKV Tirolia”.

Jakša Račić

He was employed in Innsbruck as an assistant at the Institute for General and Experimental Pathology, undertook further training in Ljubljana and became Director of his own surgical sanatorium in Split in 1904, the Račić Sanatorium.

Joseph Ennemoser

In 1819 he became professor of medicine in Bonn, leaving in 1837 for Innsbruck and then in 1841 settling in Munich, where he earned a great reputation as a "magnetic physician."

Judoc

In Austria, there is a fine representation of St. Judoc on the mausoleum of Maximilian at Innsbruck.

Karl Heinz Klee

He was also Secretary General of the Organizing Committee of the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck and a member of the International Court of Arbitration for Sport in Lausanne and President of the Tyrolean Bar Association.

Lanser Bach

The Lanserbach - also called Mühlbach - flows from Lans alongside the Paschberg to Aldrans and merges with the Inn river after 17 km at the eastern edge of Innsbruck.

Lincoln Village, Milwaukee

The stained glass windows, imported from Innsbruck, Austria portray Polish as well as traditional Biblical themes.

Liv Jagge-Christiansen

She participated at the 1960 Winter Olympics in Squaw Valley and at the 1964 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, competing in downhill, slalom and giant slalom.

Lucas Holstenius

The popes sent him on various honorable missions, such as bearing the cardinal's hat to the nuncio at Warsaw in 1629, and Alexander VII sent him to Innsbruck to receive abjuration of Protestantism by the mercurial and tiresome Christina, former Queen of Sweden.

Ludwig von Sarnthein

He obtained his education in Innsbruck, later serving as a government offfial in Brixen and Trieste (from 1892), Innsbruck (1905) and Ampezzo (1906), where he ultimately attained the rank of Bezirkshauptmann (district governor).

Margherita Spiluttini

Born in Schwarzach im Pongau, Spiluttini was trained as a medical assistant in Innsbruck where she also gained a background in medical imaging.

Maria Stocker

On January the 18th 1945, an order arrived at the prison of Innsbruck which said that all occupants – among them also these two Jewish girls - should be moved to the KZ Bergen-Belsen.

Music of Innsbruck

The city is also well-known to music-lovers as the subject of 15th-century composer Heinrich Isaac's tenorlied Innsbruck, ich muss dich lassen, with a text about his sorrow at having to leave his post at court.

Nico Dostal

After participating in World War I, Dostal worked as the theatre Kapellmeister in Innsbruck, St. Pölten, Vienna, Chernivtsi and Salzburg, before moving to Berlin in 1924, where he turned his hand to secular music.

Ötztal

The only railway station of the valley, Ötztal railway station, is located here and connects the Ötztal with the Arlberg railway (Innsbruck-Bludenz) and also a motorway interchange to the A12 (E60).

Prince Ludwig Gaston of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha

On May 1, 1896, Ludwig was given the rank of First lieutenant, and, on March 29, 1900, he was given leadership of the First Tiroler Jäger-Regiment in Innsbruck.

Railjet

Operations on the routes Vienna to Graz, Ljubljana and/or Zagreb, and from Vienna to Villach and Venice and for an increased service between Vienna and Bregenz/Zurich via Salzburg and Innsbruck were also planned from the end of 2010 onwards.

Romolo ed Ersilia

Romolo ed Ersilia ("Romulus and Ersilia") is an 18th-century Italian opera in 3 acts by the Czech composer Josef Mysliveček composed to a libretto by the Italian poet Metastasio first produced in Innsbruck in 1765 with music by Johann Adolf Hasse.

Rudolf Kattnigg

In 1928 he assumed the post of Director of the Innsbruck Conservatorium, as well as becoming the conductor of the symphony orchestra there.

Sachertorte

Hotel Sacher's "Original Sacher Torte" is sold at the Vienna and Salzburg locations of the Hotel Sacher, at Cafe Sacher branches in Innsbruck and Graz, at the Sacher Shop in Bolzano, in the Duty Free area of Vienna airport and via the Hotel Sacher's online shop.

Sepp Straffner

Between 1899 and 1907 he was an official with the Tyrol and Salzburg service of the State Railways at Innsbruck.

Steve Asheim

On 25 January 2007, when making a trip to a bank in Innsbruck, Austria to make a deposit from Deicide merchandise sales, he was arrested on suspicion of connection with a recent bank robbery.

The Jump

The show is broadcast live on public service broadcaster Channel 4, from Innsbruck in Austria.

Tiroler MuseumsBahnen

The Localbahn Museum is located in the old Stubaital station at the foot of the Bergisel hill, next to the present-day depot of the Innsbruck Transport Company (Innsbrucker Verkehrsbetriebe).

Tommy Brunner

Tommy Brunner (born 1970 in Innsbruck; died 21 April 2006 in Bella Coola, British Columbia, Canada) was an Austrian big mountain snowboarding legend.

Versuch einer gründlichen Violinschule

:Put together 12 copies of the Violinschule, and send them to Joseph Wolf's bookshop, in Insprugg ...

William MacKendree

Exhibitions in Vienna, Innsbruck, and Rome were held in 1986, and he also began a long-running collaboration with Michael Woolworth publications, creating numerous prints and artist’s books in the intervening years.


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