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13 unusual facts about Karlsruhe


2013 in robotics

IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation is scheduled to be organized in Karlsruhe, Germany in May.

Carlsruhe

Karlsruhe, a city in Germany (Karlsruhe was formerly Carlsruhe)

Franz Sales Meyer

In 1873, he accepted to the faculty of the Grand Ducal School of Applied Arts in Karlsruhe and, in 1878, he was appointed as a teacher.

Götz Adriani

Since 1985, Adriani holds the title of an honorary professor at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe.

Harold von Mickwitz

In 1886, he began teaching piano at the Karlsruhe Conservatory of Music, and from 1893 to 1895, he taught piano at the Wiesbaden Conservatory of Music.

I Am Nemesis

Caliban promoted the album through their "Get Infected" Tour 2012 with support of Winds Of Plague, We Butter The Bread With Butter, Eyes Set To Kill and Attila which started off on February 2 in Karlsruhe, Germany.

Karlsruhe-class cruiser

Rostock served as a torpedo boat flotilla leader with the High Seas Fleet following her commissioning; her flotilla frequently screened for the battlecruisers in the I Scouting Group, including during the Battle of Dogger Bank in January 1915 and operations off the British coast in early 1916.

Karlsruhe, North Dakota

Peter and Paul Catholic Church in Karlsruhe features works by the artist Count Berthold von Imhoff.

Kurchatov Center for Synchrotron Radiation and Nanotechnology

The magnetic structure is very similar to that of the ANKA symchrotron in Karlsruhe.

Luise Neumann

At the age of 16 she made her debut in a performance of the "Deutschen Hausfrau" in Karlsruhe and in 1839 she joined the Burgtheater in Vienna, which she was a member of until 1856.

RijnGouweLijn

It will be the first system in the Netherlands where light rail vehicles will share heavy rail tracks with heavy rail trains, similar to the tram-train systems around Karlsruhe and Saarbrücken, Germany.

Theodore Schaffer

His father, Mathias F. Shaffer, is a native of Karlsruhe, Germany, and came to the States as a young man, in 1847.

Tom Høyem

Høyem served as headmaster of the European School Culham (1987-1994), then moved to Germany, where he became the principal of the European School Munich (1994-2000) and, thereafter, the European School Karlsruhe (see below).


Andreas Duhm

He also won at Karlsruhe 1911, Kitzingen 1913 (triangular), and Heidelberg 1913 (followed by Solomon Rosenthal, Dietrich Duhm, etc.), and tied for 4-5th with Alexander Ilyin-Genevsky at Montreux 1914 (SUI-ch, D. Duhm and Moriz Henneberger won), and took 4th at Baden-Baden 1921 (the 3rd Badischen Kongress, quadrangular, D. Duhm won).

Apollonius von Maltitz

He was successively attache in the Russian legations in Karlsruhe, Stuttgart, Vienna, Berlin, and Rio de Janeiro; in 1836 he became a secretary (Legationsrat and Gesandtschaftssekretär) in Munich.

Bombing of Ludwigshafen and Oppau in World War II

Ludwigshafen also refined "30-50 tons/day of crude oil...brought in from Brücksel, near Karlsruhe...to products including lube oils." About 2.5 miles away from Ludwigshafen, an Oppau plant produced fertilizer and up to "800 T/day nitrogen as ammonia and a considerable part of this was exported as liquid ammonia to Hochst, Wolfen and Bittefeld." A separate Oppau plant produced up to 60 T/day of urea.

Carl Johann Steinhauser

Today he is best known for his Bremen memorials to Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus Olbers and Johann Smidt, his Weimer sculpture of Goethe mit der Psyche, and his Hermann and Dorothea in Karlsruhe.

Christopher of Baden-Durlach

Christopher of Baden-Durlach (9 October 1684, Karlsburg Castle, Durlach – 2 May 1723, Karlsruhe) was Prince and (titular) Margrave of Baden-Durlach.

Countess Amalie Henriette of Solms-Baruth

Countess Amalie Henriette Charlotte of Solms-Baruth (Kliczków, 30 January 1768 – Karlsruhe, 31 October 1847) was a countess by birth of Solms-Baruth.

Deutsche Waffen und Munitionsfabriken

In 1896 Loewe founded Deutsche Waffen- und Munitionsfabriken with a munitions plant in Karlsruhe (Baden), formerly Deutsche Metallpatronenfabrik Lorenz, and the weapons plant in Berlin.

Georg Hajdu

In 1996, following residencies at IRCAM and the ZKM, Karlsruhe, he co-founded the Ensemble WireWorks with his wife, pianist Jennifer Hymer—a group specializing in the performance of mixed-media composition.

Gregor von Feinaigle

Obligated to flee the monastery with the other monks due to the Napoleonic invasions, he became an itinerant professor in Karlsruhe, Paris, London, Glasgow and Dublin.

Hep-Hep riots

The riots swept through other Bavarian towns and villages, then spread to Bamberg, Bayreuth, Darmstadt, Karlsruhe, Mannheim, Frankfurt, Koblenz, Cologne and other cities along the Rhine, and as far north as Bremen, Hamburg, and Lübeck.

Hermann Becht

Hermann Becht (19 March 1939, Karlsruhe – 12 February 2009, Marxzell) was a German operatic bass-baritone.

Hilchenbach

Johann Heinrich Jung (known as Jung-Stilling) (born 12 September 1740 in Grund; died 2 April 1817 in Karlsruhe), taylor, teacher, eye specialist, economist (kameralist), writer, consultat of the Count of Baden.

Ispringen

To the south of the town is a thin isthmus of forest and the A8 Munich to Karlsruhe autobahn that separates the town from Pforzheim's shopping district.

James Fitz-James Stuart, 2nd Duke of Berwick

He inherited titles in the Jacobite and Spanish nobility on the death of his father in battle in 1734 at Philippsburg, (near Karlsruhe, presently located in the German "Bundesland" of Baden-Württemberg), during the War of the Polish Succession.

Jan Harlan

Jan Harlan (born in Karlsruhe, Germany on May 5, 1937) is a film producer and the brother of Christiane Kubrick, director Stanley Kubrick's widow.

Joachim Zahn

His time at the top was noteworthy, among other things, for the building of Europe's largest truck factory, at Wörth (between Karlsruhe and the frontier with France at Wissembourg).

Joel John

In July 1989 the Canadian National team, consisting of Andra Sack, John Palitti, Alvin Brown, Heather Alonzo, Tony Consiglio, Kees Kukins, Don James (four times world Tae Kwon Do champion) and several others, entered the World Games held in Karlsruhe, Germany.

Joint Research Centre

The JRC has seven scientific institutes, located at six different sites in Belgium (Brussels and Geel), Germany (Karlsruhe), Italy (Ispra), the Netherlands (Petten) and Spain (Seville), with a wide range of laboratories and unique research facilities.

Joseph Koerner

While writing the latter book, Koerner collaborated with Bruno Latour and Peter Weibel on the 2002 exhibition Iconoclash at the ZKM in Karlsruhe.

Joseph von Radowitz

In 1836, Radowitz went as Prussian military plenipotentiary to the federal diet at Frankfurt, and in 1842 was appointed envoy to the courts of Karlsruhe, Darmstadt and Nassau.

Karlsruhe Nuclide Chart

The Karlsruhe Nuclide Chart was first published in 1958 with the work of Walter Seelmann-Eggebert and Gerda Pfennig from what is today the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.

Karlsruhe–Mühlacker railway

Baden saw the line has having two important tasks: on the one hand, connecting the industrial town of Pforzheim to the rail network, on the other hand, the creation of a possible direct connection between France, southern Germany and the Austrian Empire.

Karmen

KARMEN (Karlsruhe Rutherford Medium Energy Neutrino experiment), accelerator neutrino experiment

Ludwig Nohl

In 1875 he was a Dozent at the polytechnic in Karlsruhe (predecessor to the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) and became a full professor in 1880.

Manchán of Min Droichit

This anonymous work is uniquely preserved in a manuscript now held at Karlsruhe (Germany), but once in the possession of the Reichenau monastery.

Marek Krejčí

Bundesliga and sharing the position of the league's second best goalscorer with Karlsruhe's Giovanni Federico.

Marie Luise Neunecker

Volker David Kirchner dedicated his Orfeo for baritone, horn and piano on poems from Rilke's Sonnets to Orpheus to her, premiered on 6 May 1988 in Karlsruhe with Hermann Becht and Nina Tichman.

Monster of Aramberri

As the Museum of Natural History of Karlsruhe could not accept any more remains because it was at its maximum capacity, new remains were sent to the Museo del Desierto in Saltillo, Coahuila, also in Mexico, where the specialist in marine reptiles, Dra.

P.I.F.

They made their tour in December and destinations included Paris, Cologne, Bohum, Karlsruhe, Viens and others.

Peter Emelieze

His personal best times are 6.60 seconds in the 60 metres (indoor), achieved in February 2009 in Karlsruhe; 10.18 seconds in the 100 metres, achieved in August 2008 in Bottrop; and 21.35 seconds in the 200 metres (indoor), achieved in February 2009 in Eaubonne.

Princess Sophie of Sweden

During the revolution of 1848, she was forced to flee from Karlsruhe with her family to Strasburg.

Rudolf Louis

He studied in Geneva, where he was a pupil of Friedrich Klose, and continued his studies in Vienna and then Karlsruhe under Felix Mottl before becoming conductor of the theatre orchestras in Landshut and Lübeck.

SAP Arena

A tram line (number 6) connects the SAP Arena to Mannheim city center and a newly built road connection to the B 38a highway connects it to the A 656 Autobahn, leading to the A656/A 6 interchange, connecting eastbound Mannheim to Heidelberg (A656), and north/southbound to Frankfurt, Karlsruhe and Stuttgart (A6), as well as a little north on the A6 to Kaiserlautern (westbound).

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.

T Visionarium

T Visionarium is an art installation by Neil Brown, Dennis Del Favero, Matthew McGinity and Jeffrey Shaw and Peter Weibel developed through the iCinema Centre for Interactive Cinema Research at The University of New South Wales in co-operation with ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe.

Wiesloch-Walldorf station

The Karlsruhe—Heidelberg section of the Rhine Valley Railway was opened on 15 April 1843 as part of the construction of the Baden Mainline from Mannheim via Heidelberg, Karlsruhe, Baden-Baden and Freiburg to Basel, which was initially built to 1600 mm broad gauge.

William Purvis

Purvis has taught at Columbia University, Juilliard, Yale University, SUNY Stonybrook, SUNY Purchase and Hochschule für Musik in Karlsruhe, Germany.