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4 unusual facts about Limbach-Oberfrohna


Jürgen Fanghänel

Jürgen Fanghänel (born August 1, 1951 in Limbach-Oberfrohna, Saxony) is a retired male boxer, who won the bronze medal for East Germany in the men's heavyweight division (91 kg) at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow.

Siegfried Gottwald

Siegfried Johannes Gottwald (born 30 March 1943 in Limbach, Saxony) is a German mathematician, logician and historian of science.

Siegfried Schnabl

Siegfried Schnabl (born 27 February 1927 in Limbach, Sachsen) is a German sexologist and psychotherapist who contributed to the work of sex education in East Germany and other nations.

Uta Schmuck

Born in Limbach-Oberfrohna, Soviet Occupied Zone, she competed for East Germany in the 1968 Summer Olympics.


Ernest Valko

Ernest Valko was found dead by his daughter and ex-wife in his home in Limbach on November 8, 2010.

Gottfried Grote

Born in Oberfrohna, Grote was from 1926 to 1935 organist and choir director of the Bach-Verein (Bach association) in Wuppertal, which later was named Wupperfelder Kantorei (Wupperfeld chorale).

Limbach bei Neudau

Limbach bei Neudau is a municipality in the district of Hartberg in Styria, Austria.

Limbach Flugmotoren

Many Limbach engines are based on the Volkswagen flat-4 boxer unit with displacement of up to 2.4 litres, and up to 160 BHP in the turbocharged model.

Limbach, Slovakia

The village remained predominantly German until 1945, when most of them were expelled from Slovakia to Germany and were replaced by settlers from the regions around Myjava, Stará Turá, and Bošáca.

Silvaner

Silvaner is traditionally grown in the Limbach village in Slovakia, that is famous for its varietal Silvaner wines, and in its surroundings.

Valentin Taifun

:Later production variant with a 17 metre wingspan and a Limbach flat-four engine or can be retrofitted with a Rotax 914, hydraulically operated landing gear, double panel Schempp-Hirth type airbrakes on the upper wing surface.


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