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unusual facts about Karlovy Vary–Johanngeorgenstadt railway


Karlovy Vary–Johanngeorgenstadt railway

The Karlovy Vary–Johanngeorgenstadt railway connects Karlovy Vary in the Czech Republic with Johanngeorgenstadt in Saxony, Germany.


Andělská Hora Castle

Andělská Hora, originally called Engelsburg, is a castle located above the village of Andělská Hora, about 7 km southeast of Karlovy Vary, in the Karlovy Vary Region of the Czech Republic.

Anghel Demetriescu

Anghel Demetriescu (Alexandria, Teleorman; October 5, 1847 - Karlovy Vary; July 18, 1903) was a Romanian historian, writer and literary critic, who became a member of the Romanian Academy in 1902.

Anthony Joseph Drexel

Drexel died of a heart attack on June 30, 1893 in Karlsbad (in the German-speaking part of Bohemia, Austrian Empire) today Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic at the age of 66, and was buried in The Woodlands Cemetery in Philadelphia.

As Burgas

The waters are similar to those of Carlsbad, and gush from granite rock to the west of the town at almost the boiling point.

Barbara of Brandenburg-Ansbach-Kulmbach

Barbara of Brandenburg-Ansbach-Kulmbach (24 September 1495 in Ansbach – 23 September 1552 in Karlovy Vary) was a princess of Brandenburg-Ansbach by birth and marriage Landgravine of Leuchtenberg.

Buziaș

The only two other similar promenades in Europe are found in Karlovy Vary and Baden-Baden.

Carlsbad Caverns National Park

The town of Carlsbad, which lends its name to the Cavern and National Park, is in turn named after the Czech town formerly known by the German name Karlsbad (English spelling Carlsbad) and now known by the Czech name Karlovy Vary, both of which mean "Charles' Baths."

Carlsbad Springs, Ontario

As a marketing device the village was in 1906 renamed Carlsbad Springs after the most fashionable aristocratic resort in central Europe (now Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic,) where King Edward VII regularly took holidays.

Carlsbad, Texas

When the Post Office required the community to be renamed, residents chose the name of the spa town of Karlsbad in Bohemia, after local wells were discovered to yield mineral water.

Dorothea von Medem

Because her husband was preoccupied with political difficulties at home involving his overlord the King of Poland and the Courland nobility, he frequently sent her on diplomatic missions to Warsaw, lasting months at a time, and to Berlin, Karlovy Vary, and Saint Petersburg for shorter periods.

Doug Bruno

Because many team members were still playing in the WNBA until just prior to the event, the team had only one day of practice with the entire team before leaving for Ostrava and Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic.

Franz Allers

Franz Allers (August 6, 1905, Carlsbad, Austria-Hungary (now Czech Republic) – January 26, 1995, Paradise, Nevada, U.S.A.) was a European-American conductor of ballet, opera, Broadway musicals, film scores, and symphony orchestras.

Franz Planer

Franz Planer, A.S.C. (March 29, 1894 - January 10, 1963) was a cinematographer born in Karlsbad, Austria-Hungary (now Czech Republic),

Frederick Yates

His victory against Alexander Alekhine at Karlsbad in 1923 won the brilliancy prize, while his win against Milan Vidmar at San Remo in 1930 was described by Alekhine as the finest game played since the war.

Fundiciòn Richard Gans

Founder, Richard Gans was the son of a doctor from Karlsbad, Austria who emigrated to Spain in 1874 where he founded the business in 1888.

Grandi Stazioni

Grandi Stazioni also operates beyond Italy's national borders: since December 2003, the company has adopted a position in the Czech Republic for the upgrading and management of three major railway stations: Praha hlavní nádraží, Karlovy Vary upper station (horní nádraží) and Marianske Lazne.

Isaac Erter

Their titles are: "Mozne Mishqal"; "Ha-Tzofeh be-Shubo mi-Karlsbad"; "Gilgul ha-Nefesh"; "Tashlikh"; "Telunat Sani we-Sansani we-Samangaluf"; "Ḥasidut we-Ḥokmah."

Jean-François de Bourgoing

Jean-François, baron de Bourgoing (20 November 1748, Nevers - 20 July 1811, Karlovy Vary) was a French diplomat, writer and translator.

Johann Samuel Beyer

Johann Samuel Beyer (Gotha 1669 - Karlsbad, 9 May 1744) was a German composer and writer of a manual on singing (1703).

Josef Rösch

They would meet in 1963 at the Czechoslovak Radiologic Congress in Karlovy Vary, where Dotter gave his infamous lecture on angiography, effectively creating the field of interventional radiology.

Khadija Ismayilova

Another investigative report came in October 2012 as part of the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project, for which Khadija Ismayilova cooperated with two Czech journalists and in which claimed that high-ranking officials of Azerbaijan and their family members have companies registered in their names in the Czech Republic and through those companies own luxury real estate in Karlovy Vary.

Leokadia Makarska-Cermak

After graduation, Leokadia married Jiří Čermák and moved to Ostrov a town not far from Karlovy Vary.

Letov Š-32

On 26 June 1934, one of these (registered OK-ADB) crashed during final approach to Karlovy Vary, killing all three on board, most notably the famous Austrian actor Max Pallenberg.

Lovisa Åhrberg

This contemporary book reports, that Årberg's own health had become so damaged by hard work that she on several occasions had to take leave and rest in the resort of Carlsbad.

Ludmila Peterková

Ludmila Peterková (born September 16, 1967 in Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic) is a Czech clarinetist.

Maral Rahmanzadeh

At that time Maral Rahmanzade worked on autolithographs dedicated to Czechoslovakia, among which were distinguished such landscapes as “A winter day of Karlovy Vary”, “A street in Cheb city”, “Central square of Cheb city”, “Richmond sanatorium” and others.

Marja Liisa Portin

In Karlovy Vary 1991 she took 8th place in short distance, 11th in Classic Distance and 5th place in relay event together with Mari Lukkarinen, Kirsi Tiira and Eija Koskivaara.

Milk River Bath

The waters are 9 times as radioactive as those at Bath, England, and three times those at Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic.

Ottokar Domma

Ottokar Domma (pseudonym; properly Otto Häuser) (20 May 1924, Karlovy Vary, Czechoslovakia - 15 July 2007, Woltersdorf) was a German journalist and writer specialising in satire.

Pavel Poc

Member of ČSSD (Czech Social Democratic Party) (since 1997); Vice-Chairman of the Mariánské Lázně ČSSD local association (since 1998); member of the ČSSD Central Executive Committee (since 2000); member of the ČSSD Bureau (since 2001); guarantor, central informatics commission (2004–2005); guarantor, central ecological commission (2005–2006); chairman of the Regional Executive Committee of the Karlovy Vary Region (2005–2010).

Pernink

The economic situation was bolstered by opening of a railway line Karlovy VaryJohanngeorgenstadt in 1899.

Rick Lanz

Richard Roman Lanz (born September 16, 1961 in Karlovy Vary, Czechoslovakia) is a former professional ice hockey defenceman who spent 10 seasons in the National Hockey League and is best known for his time with the Vancouver Canucks.

S. B. Komaiko

In 1935, Komaiko was a representative at the 13th World Zionist Congress, which was held in Carlsbad, Czechoslovakia.

Socialist Workers' Sport International

Discussions lingered on within the Lucerne International, but after communist sportsmen had made a public protest at a German Workers Sports Festival in Karlsbad in 1924, it was decided that the Sportintern would be barred from the Workers Olympiad.

Sudeten German Party

At a convention in Carlsbad on April 24, the majority of the party advocated the demand for the recognition of the Sudeten Germans as an autonomous ethnic group, the separation of a self-governing German settlement area, and the freedom to decide for an affiliation with the German nationhood, which implied the Anschluss to Nazi Germany.

Sylvia Fowles

In 2010, Fowles was named to the national team which competed in the World Championships in Ostrava, and Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic.

Ulrike von Levetzow

The seventeen-year old girl first met Goethe in 1821 at Marienbad and again at Carlsbad in 1822 and 1823.

Vhrsti

He graduated from technical high school in Carlsbad, ceramic (porcelain visual processing) and the Faculty of Education at the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen (field of visual culture).

Zdeňka Málková

Málková won five singles (including a $50,000 tournament in Karlovy Vary as a 16-year old) and six doubles titles on the ITF tour during her career.

Zita Szabó

Before her triathlon career ended, Szabó had won the bronze medal at the 2009 ITU Triathlon European Cup in Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic, and silver at the ITU Triathlon African Cup in Pretoria, South Africa.


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