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unusual facts about Lichtenau, Bavaria



Ackerlspitze

On fine days there is an attractive and extensive panoramic view from the summit of the Ackerlspitze over the neighbouring mountain groups and as far as the Chiemsee lake in Bavaria as well as the Großvenediger.

Al Gromer Khan

Né Alois Gromer, Al Gromer Khan was born on April 8, 1946 at Frauenzell (municipality Altusried/Allgäu) in alpine foothills of Bavaria between Lake Constance and Munich.

Alte Pinakothek

After the reunion of Bavaria and the Electorate of the Palatinate in 1777, the galleries of Mannheim, Düsseldorf and Zweibrücken were moved to Munich, in part to protect the collections during the wars which followed the French revolution.

Anglo-Bavarian Brewery

It has been asserted that this was in reference to the employment, by the new owners, of some brewers from Bavaria in order to produce a German-style beer, and that what is now called lager was brewed from that year.

Apostolic Nuncio to Bavaria

When the streamlining Nazi Gleichschaltung did formally away with statehood of the German states and established a centralised dictatorship in 1934, Bavaria was not to hold diplomatic ties of its own any more.

Arzberg

Arzberg porcelain, a manufacturer of porcelain, originally located in Arzberg, Bavaria

Attic helmet

The closest surviving Imperial Roman helmet to the type illustrated in relief sculpture dates to the 2nd century AD, and was found in Bavaria.

Audi Tunnel

The Audi Tunnel is a twin-tracked railway tunnel on the Nuremberg–Ingolstadt–Munich high-speed railway just north of Ingolstadt in Bavaria, Germany.

Banz Abbey

Banz Abbey (German: Kloster Banz), now known as Banz Castle (German: Schloss Banz), is a former Benedictine monastery, since 1978 a part of the town of Bad Staffelstein north of Bamberg, Bavaria, southern Germany.

Bavaria-Ingolstadt

Louis reigned until his own son, Louis VIII, usurped his throne in 1443 and delivered him to their enemy, Henry XVI, duke of Bavaria-Landshut.

Bavarian Localbahn Society

The Bavarian Localbahn Society (Bayerischer Localbahnverein e.V. or BLV), with its headquarters in Tegernsee, is a society that is concerned with the history of the railways in Bavaria.

Central German football championship

The number of small states in the Thuringia region formed the new state of that name, with the exception of Coburg, which joined Bavaria.

Christoph Wilhelm von Aach

Christoph Wilhelm von Aach was a German metal caster, active in the mid-18th century in Nuremberg in Bavaria.

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.

Cryptocephalus virens

These beetles can be found in Southern and Central Europe from Italian Alps and Bavaria to Southern Poland, Russia, Turkey, East Palearctic ecozone and the Near East.

Dorygnathus

The first remains of Dorygnathus, isolated bones and jaw fragments from the Schwarzjura, the Posidonia Shale dating from the Toarcian, were discovered near Banz, Bavaria and in 1830 described by Carl Theodori as Ornithocephalus banthensis, the specific name referring to Banz.

Elkan Naumburg

Naumburg was born in Treuchtlingen, Bavaria, in 1835, and emigrated with his parents to the United States at age 15 to escape the growing anti-Semitism of his native land.

Fabienne Kohlmann

Fabienne Kohlmann (born November 6, 1989 in Würzburg, Bavaria) is a German track and field athlete who specialises in the 400 metres hurdles.

Gasparo Duiffopruggar

It is believed that Duiffopruggar was born near Füssen in Bavaria, Germany, and had moved to Lyon, France, where he did most of his work, by 1553.

Gau Bayreuth

Gau Bayreuth (until 1942, Gau Bayerische Ostmark (English: Bavarian Eastern March)) was an administrative division of Nazi Germany in Lower Bavaria, Upper Palatinate and Upper Franconia, Bavaria, from 1933 to 1945.

George, Duke of Bavaria

The most southern districts of Bavaria-Landshut Kufstein, Kitzbühel and Rattenberg passed to Emperor Maximilian and were united with Tyrol.

Giebelstadt Army Airfield

Giebelstadt Army Airfield is a closed military airfield located in Germany southwest of Giebelstadt (Bavaria); approximately 250 miles southwest of Berlin.

Grän

Grän lies in the Tannheim valley, a high mountain valley on the border with Bavaria.

Hermann AVA

Stone Hill's cellars were constructed in 1847, the Hermanhoff Winery was founded in 1852 and in 1855, the Adam Puchta Winery was founded by immigrants from Oberkotzau, Bavaria who had struck gold during the California Gold Rush before returning to Hermann.

History of the Jews in Pittsburgh

There are no reliable records of the beginnings of the Jewish community; but it has been ascertained that between 1838 and 1844 a small number of Jews, mostly from Baden, Bavaria, and Württemberg, settled in and around Pittsburgh.

Jayaque

These churches are sponsored by the Lutheran Church of Penzberg, Bavaria, Germany as well as through relationships with churches in the Greater Milwaukee Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, in southeast Wisconsin, USA.

Jock Hamilton-Baillie

NOTE Tittmoning is in Bavaria, not Czech Republic as stated in the Telegraph obituary Tittmoning

Johann Halbig

He created 18 colossal statues representing the leading German provinces for the Befreiungshalle at Kelheim; 60 busts for the Pinakothek (Munich); a statue of King Maximilian II for Lindau (1854); a monument of Count Platen at Ansbach (1858); the monument of Marshal Cachahiba d'Argolo in Bahía, Brazil; a statue of King Ludwig I of Bavaria for Kelheim.

Johann Stegner

From 19 March 1920 until the election on 7 November 1920, initially in an advisory capacity, he represented the Coburger Land with Hermann Mämpel and Hans Woldemar Schack in the Landtag of Bavaria.

Józef Padewski

He was moved to Tittmoning, Bavaria, where the future Roman Catholic Pope Benedict XVI had lived ten years previously as a small child.

Karl Addicks

Karl Addicks (born 31 December 1950 in Amberg, Bavaria) is a German politician and member of the FDP.

Langenprozelten Pumped Storage Station

The Langenprozelten Pumped Storage Station is a pumped storage power power station near Gemünden am Main at the Main in the under-Frankish district Main Spessart (Bavaria), which went in service in 1976.

Leonhard Reichartinger

Leonhard Reichartinger (?? - 1396) was a Crusader of Bavarian nobility, who may have come from the vicinity of Trostberg.

Louis IX, Duke of Bavaria

Louis IX (also known as Louis the Rich; 23 February 1417, Burghausen, Bavaria – 18 January 1479, Landshut), (German: Ludwig IX, Herzog von Bayern-Landshut) was Duke of Bavaria-Landshut from 1450.

Marek Krejčí

He died in a road accident near Maitenbeth in Bavaria in the early morning of 26 May 2007, around 5:40 CEST.

Maria Mandl

In May 1945, Mandl fled from Mühldorf into the mountains of southern Bavaria to her birthplace of Münzkirchen, Austria.

Maria Renata Saenger von Mossau

Renata was inducted in the convent of Unter-Zell in Bavaria in 1699, were she made herself known for her great piety and was appointed Sub Prioress in 1740.

Mathias Loras

His connections and influence in Europe had enabled him to secure necessary financial assistance from the Society for the Propagation of the Faith of Lyons, France, the Leopoldine Society of Vienna, Austria, and the Foreign Mission Society of Munich, Bavaria.

Matthias Klotz

Matthias Klotz did not really build his instruments according to the classical Italian style but rather made them similar to those of masters from Fussen (a town in Bavaria) and Swabian (Southern Germany).

Odilo, Duke of Bavaria

He ruled Thurgau until 736, when with the death of Hugbert of Bavaria the older line of the Agilofing became extinct and he inherited the rulership of Bavaria, which he held until his death in 748.

Osterburg

Osterberg, a municipality in the district of Neu-Ulm, Bavaria, Germany

Plankstetten Abbey

Plankstetten Abbey (Kloster Plankstetten) is a monastery of the Benedictines located between Berching and Beilngries in Bavaria, Germany.

Sonja Bertram

She spent most of her childhood in DießenBavaria, the second of four children born to Josef and Gabi Bertram.

Sophie Charlotte

Duchess Sophie Charlotte in Bavaria (1847–1897), Duchess of Alençon and born Duchess in Bavaria

Thomas Bonacum

He studied at St. Vincent's College, Cape Girardeau, Missouri, and at the University of Würzburg, Bavaria, after which he was ordained priest at St. Louis, 18 June 1870.

Thule Society

The Thule Society attracted about 250 followers in Munich and about 1,500 in greater Bavaria.

Tooheys Pils

Originally brewed with Saaz hops, however due to production and supply issues is now brewed with Hallertau hops from Bavaria, Germany and is described as a light, refreshing beer with a crisp, hoppy finish without a lingering aftertaste.

Trimberg

Trimberg is a town in the Elfershausen municipality in Bavaria, Germany.

Trudering-Riem

Trudering-Riem is the 15th borough of Munich, Bavaria, consisting of the districts Trudering and Riem.

Waldsassen Abbey

Waldsassen Abbey is a Cistercian nunnery, formerly a Cistercian monastery, located on the River Wondreb at Waldsassen near Tirschenreuth, Oberpfalz in Bavaria, Germany, close to the border with the Czech Republic.


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