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6 unusual facts about Kleve


Carnival in Germany, Switzerland and Austria

Cologne, Düsseldorf and Mainz are held in the public media to be Germany's three carnival "strongholds," but carnival celebrations are also widespread elsewhere in the Rhineland, in places such as Wattenscheid, Hagen, Krefeld, Aachen, Mönchengladbach, Duisburg, Bonn, Eschweiler, Bocholt and Kleve.

Kleve

One example of this is Govert Flinck, although born in Kleve, established himself as a Dutch artist.

Sizeable Dutch communities exist in the area around Kranenburg to the west of Kleve.

Nijmegen Heyendaal railway station

Up until 1991 there was a line into Germany from here to Kleve.

Nijmegen railway station

Until 1991 there was a line into Germany from here to Kleve.

Rainer Rauffmann

Born in Kleve, North-Rhine Westphalia, Rauffmann moved at the age of 16 to FC Amberg, a local team playing in the German third division, but only managed to stay a season there, before moving to the seventh level.


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Ellen Key

Mathilda Malling's Pyrrhus-segrar (Pyrrhic Victories), published in 1886 under the pseudonym Stella Kleve, was very controversial among Scandinavian intellectuals.

Luca Kleve-Ruud

NOTOC Luca Kleve-Ruud (born 27 April 1978 in Pescara, Italy) is a Norwegian press photographer, based in Oslo.

Provinces of Sweden

At the funeral of Charles X Gustav more flags were added to the procession, namely the coats of arms for Estonia, Livonia, Ingria, Narva, Pomerania, Bremen and Verden, as well as coat of arms for the German territories Kleve, Sponheim, Jülich, Ravensberg and Bayern.

Rhine-Waal University of Applied Sciences

The applicants were Kleve and the "We-4"-cities (Kamp-Lintfort, Moers, Neukirchen and Rheinberg), but the concept of separate universities was discarded.

Wernigerode Armorial

The arms of the territories and noble families of the kingdom of Spain, of the high nobility of the Holy Roman Empire, Burgundy, Savoy, Milan and Naples (ff. 20-29); the higher nobility of the Holy Roman Empire in the duchies of Kleve, Geldern, Liegnitz, Werdenberg, Württemberg, the Habsburg territories, and the arms of various counts (foll. 29-85).


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