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12 unusual facts about Lahr


Black Forest Airport

Formerly known as Canadian Forces Base Lahr, the Canadian Forces Base was operated primarily as an air force base, and later as an army base, during the late 1960s.

Canadian Forces Base Lahr

Canadian Forces Base Lahr (IATA:LHA, ICAO: EDTL, former code EDAN) was a military owned and operated commercial airport located in Lahr, Germany.

Dommershausen

Places near Dommershausen, including unincorporated ones, are Heyweiler, Sabershausen, Lahr, Lieg, Lütz, Eveshausen, Dorweiler, Macken and Beulich.

Grohe

In 1961, by which time the company had purchased a factory in Lahr/Schwarzwald, the company set up its first subsidiary abroad in France.

Hinkender Bote

Since 1800, there has also been a Lahrer Hinkender Bote was published in Lahr, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

Jan Arp

Over the period 1976 to 1986, Lieutenant-General Arp served in three regiments of the Royal Canadian Horse Artillery, namely the 1st Regiment in Lahr, Germany, the 2nd Regiment in Petawawa, Ontario, and the 3rd Regiment in Shilo, Manitoba.

Marc Caron

As a junior officer he served with the 3rd Battalion, 1st Airborne Commando in Cyprus from April 1974, with the 1st Battalion, Royal 22e Régiment in Lahr, Germany from August 1976 and with the Royal Welch Fusiliers in Lemgo, Germany from January 1978.

Marius Grinius

After having been stationed in the Canadian Forces Base in Lahr, Germany from 1971 to 1979, Mr. Grinius joined the Canadian foreign service in 1979.

Royal 22nd Regiment

Company from the 1st Battalion, then based at CFB Lahr, West Germany as part of 4 Canadian Mechanized Brigade Group served in Doha, Qatar providing airfield security from 24 December 1990 to the end of March 1991.

Foreign cities which have granted freedom of the city to the regiment include: Werl, Germany; Lahr, Germany and Ortona, Italy.

Smartville, Hambach, France

The decision to locate the plant in French Hambach rather than the Black Forest site in Lahr (which had also been seriously evaluated) was made for several reasons.

Walther Ludwig

Walther Ludwig (17 March 1902, Bad Oeynhausen – 15 May 1981, Lahr) was a German operatic lyric tenor, particularly associated with Mozart roles and Schubert lieder.


Albert, Count of Nassau-Weilburg

They divided them: Philip received Saarbrücken and Saarland; Albert received Ottweiler, the districts Homburg and Kirchheim and the Lordships of Lahr and Mahlberg in the Black Forest.

Elektro-Mess-Technik

The production of their excellent turntable was then relocated from Wettingen to Lahr’s Gerätewerk (Germany’s labor cost was far lower than Switzerland’s, though quality was on par).

Hüttingen bei Lahr

Hüttingen bei Lahr is a municipality in the district of Bitburg-Prüm, in Rhineland-Palatinate, western Germany.

Marta Mirazón Lahr

Dr. Marta Mirazón Lahr (born 1965) is a researcher of human evolutionary biology and director of the Duckworth Laboratory at the University of Cambridge.

In 2001 Lahr, with co-founder Robert Foley, established the Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies (LCHES) at the University of Cambridge, with funding from the Wellcome Trust and the Leverhulme Trust.

Strasbourg-Ortenau Eurodistrict

A common resolution to create the Strasbourg-Ortenau Eurodistrict was signed on 24 May 2003 in Offenburg by Fabienne Keller, the mayor of Strasbourg, Robert Grossmann, the president of the Communauté urbaine de Strasbourg, the mayors of Kehl, Offenburg, Achern, Lahr and Oberkirch as well as the President (Landrat) of the Ortenau district.