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unusual facts about Mannheim-Stuttgart high-speed rail line



Alexander Spengler

Spengler was born as the eldest son of Johann Philipp Spengler, a teacher at a school in Mannheim.

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.

American Gramaphone

American Gramaphone has also released solo albums by Mannheim Steamroller musicians Jackson Berkey and Ron Cooley, as well as by the bands Checkfield and America.

August von Platen-Hallermünde

With them he took part in the short campaign in France of 1815, being in bivouac for several months near Mannheim and in the department of the Yonne.

Bahman Maghsoudlou

The Suitors, selected for the Cannes in 1988; Manhattan by Numbers (by Amir Naderi), selected for Venice and Toronto 1993; Seven Servants by Daryush Shokof, selected for Berlin, Toronto and Locarno 1996, and Silence of the Sea, selected for the Mannheim Film Festival 2003.

Béla Tomka

He has been invited by several research institutes and universities in Europe and North-America as research fellow and visiting professor, including Amsterdam, Mannheim, Berlin, Oxford, Edinburgh, Portland (OR) and Jena.

Bill Lochead

He continued to score goals, but at a slower rate as Mannheim also featured scorers such as Manfred Wolf and Doug Berry and he was voted by the Mannheim fans as the team's MVP for 1982-83.

Bruhrain Railway

From the early 1990s until the introduction of the Rhine-Neckar S-Bahn there were services on the Bruchsal–Germersheim–Ludwigshafen–Mannheim–HeidelbergNeckargemündMeckenheimSinsheimSteinsfurtEppingen/Heilbronn route, operated with locomotives of class 218 hauling Silberling carriages.

DB Class V 90

This method was used in large computer controlled marshalling yards such as Mannheim marshalling yard (German:Mannheim rbf), Seelze, Maschen, Munich, Kornwestheim Rbf and Nuremberg.

E-class Melbourne tram

They are being built at Bombardier's Dandenong factory with local design input, with propulsion systems and bogies coming from Bombardier’s German factories in Mannheim and Siegen respectively.

Elisabeth Altmann-Gottheiner

Elisabeth Altmann-Gottheiner (March 26, 1874 in Berlin, Germany – October 21, 1930 in Mannheim) was the first woman to become a university lecturer in Germany.

Emily Molnar

She has created and performed several works as a choreographer and solo artist, including commissions for Alberta Ballet, Ballet Mannheim, Ballet Augsburg, Ballet BC, Cedar Lake Dance, Pro Arte Danza, and Morphoses/The Wheeldon Company.

Erdesbach

Today, the village is almost purely a residential community for those who commute to jobs in Kusel, Kaiserslautern, Ramstein, Baumholder and even as far away as Mannheim and Ludwigshafen.

Fireless locomotive

One example is the large coal-fired power station in Mannheim where coal is delivered by rail in long trains of self-discharging hopper wagons.

Floß

Nowadays Floß is on the Castle Route from Mannheim to Prague and the Golden Route from Nuremberg to Prague as well it is one station of the 1570 km Paneuropa-Bike Path from Prague in the Czech Republic to Paris in France.

Franz Kneisel

In 1938, she married retired banker and business executive Felix E. Kahn (b Mannheim, Germany, 25 January 1873; d Blue Hill, Maine, 25 July 1950), who had been a director of the Paramount Pictures Corporation and was a noted collector of violins, as well as a brother of banker and philanthropist Otto H. Kahn and composer Robert Kahn

Friedrich Ramm

Ramm was principal oboist in the orchestra of Charles Theodore, Elector of Bavaria in Munich and in Mannheim, where Mozart first met him in 1777.

Georg Unger

He made his singing debut aged 37, going on to make appearances at Cassel, Zurich, Bremen, Neustrelitz, Brunn, Elberfeld and Mannheim.

Giuseppe Quaglio

Giuseppe Quaglio (1747 – 1828) was an Italian painter and stage designer, active in scene painting in Mannheim, Frankfurt, and Ludwigsburg.

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.

Ignaz Holzbauer

Its success led to a job offer from the court at Mannheim, Germany, where he stayed for the rest of his life, continuing to compose and to teach, his students including Johann Anton Friedrich Fleischmann (1766-1798), the pianist, and Carl Stamitz.

Interregio-Express

In the meantime IRE trains with former IR coaches ran on the SaarbrückenKaiserslauternLudwigshafenMannheim route for a year, a route now worked by the more usual Regional-Express services.

Jim McBride

Mannheim-Heidelberg International Filmfestival: Grand Prize; for David Holzman's Diary; 1967.

Juan Carlos Echeverry

Later he studied Piano and voice at the University of the Andes, Colombia (Universidad de los Andes), in Bogotá then at the Musikhochschule in Mannheim, Germany, where he was also studying vocal technique.

Karlsberg Castle

Before French troops could arrest him, he was warned by a nearby farmer and was able to escape to Mannheim, to live in his castles of Mannheim and Rohrbach near Heidelberg.

Klaus Servene

As a result of the "International Short Story Competition 2007 of the city of Mannheim" - Topic: Migration and Europe.

Köln-Dellbrück station

In 1950, the Preußen Dellbrück football club advanced all the way to the semifinals of the German championship and on Sundays several special trains ran to Dellbrück from Reutlingen, Mannheim and Offenbach.

Köln–Frankfurt high-speed rail line

The 1973 federal transport plan included a high-speed line between Cologne and Groß-Gerau (near Frankfurt), as well as between Hanover and Würzburg and between Mannheim and Stuttgart.

In Rhineland-Palatinate, DB decided that a station would be built north of Montabaur only 21 km north of Limburg Sud, partly to serve Koblenz via the A48, and to reroute a local railway through it.

The line's grades of up to four percent require trains with a high power-to-weight ratio which is currently only met by third-generation InterCityExpress trains.

Lenel

Richard Lenel (1869–1950), chairman of the chamber of commerce and honorary citizen of the city of Mannheim, Germany

Madrid–Barcelona high-speed rail line

Originally planned to open in 2009, the extension to Figueres Vilafant railway station, via Girona, where there is an end-on connection with the LGV Perpignan-Figueres, opened on 7 January 2013.

Madrid–Levante high-speed rail line

The Madrid–Levante high-speed line connects Madrid with the Mediterranean coast of the Levante Region, specifically with Castile–La Mancha, the Valencian Community and the Murcia Region autonomous communities.

Mathias Herrmann

After this, he had lots of engagements at theatres in Bremen, Bonn, Mannheim and Basel, where he played lots of leads in which he excited the audience, a.o. Prinz von Homburg, Clavigo, Der Stellvertreter and Ghetto.

Max Bruch

Bruch had a long career as a teacher, conductor and composer, moving among musical posts in Germany: Mannheim (1862–1864), Koblenz (1865–1867), Sondershausen, (1867–1870), Berlin (1870–1872), and Bonn, where he spent 1873–78 working privately.

Mommenheim

The nearest railway stations are each some 7 km away from Mommenheim: Nackenheim and Nierstein on the Mainz–Mannheim railway line, and Nieder-Olm on the Mainz–Alzey line.

Review of International Organizations

Its current editors are Axel Dreher (Editor-in-Chief, University of Heidelberg), James Vreeland (Associate Editor, Georgetown University), Roland Vaubel (Associate Editor, University of Mannheim) and Todd Sandler (Associate Editor, University of Texas at Dallas).

Riedstadt-Goddelau station

Goddelau-Riedstadt station is served hourly by Regional-Express line RE 70 en route from Mannheim via Biblis and Gernsheim to Frankfurt Central Station.

Said Atabekov

2011: 42nd Photo Festival Mannheim-Ludwigshafen-Heidelberg The eye is a lonely hunter: images of humankind

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).

Schiphol–Antwerp high-speed railway

The Schiphol - Antwerp High-Speed Line is a high-speed rail line connecting Schiphol Airport, 9 km southwest of Amsterdam, to Antwerp, Belgium.

Variobahn

In 1996, six trams were delivered to serve on the light rail between Mannheim, Heidelberg and Weinheim, Germany, operated by Oberrheinischen Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft.

Walnut

However, an investigation of a fatal Boeing CH-47 Chinook crash which occurred on September 11, 1982 in Mannheim, Germany, revealed that the accident was caused by an oil port clogged with walnut grit, leading to the discontinuation of walnut shells as a cleaning agent.

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.

Willi Graf

In 1938, he was arrested along with other members of the Grauer Orden and charged by a court in Mannheim with illegal youth league activities–the Bünde having been banned–in relation with his unlawful field trips, camping excursions and other meetings with the Grauer Orden.

William Hamilton, 11th Duke of Hamilton

In 1843 at the Mannheim Palace, he married Princess Marie Amélie of Baden, daughter of the Grand Duke Charles of Baden and Stéphanie de Beauharnais, the adopted daughter of Napoleon I.

Winfried Nachtwei

Namibia : Von der antikolonialen Revolte zum nationalen Befreiungskampf; Geschichte der ehemaligen deutschen Kolonie Südwestafrikas, Mannheim: Sendler, 1976 (Book series Nationale Befreiung; 7) ISBN 3-88048-029-X


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