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2 unusual facts about Marienberg


Friedewald train collision

Twelve severely damaged carriages are being repaired in the SDG's workshops in Marienberg.

Marienberg

The B 174 federal highway from Chemnitz runs through the town towards Reitzenhain (border of Czechia) as does the B 171 from Wolkenstein to Dippoldiswalde.


Hahn bei Marienberg

Hahn bei Marienberg belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Bad Marienberg, a kind of collective municipality.

Hof, Rhineland-Palatinate

Marienberg counted, on the other hand, only 388 inhabitants that same year.

Ruins of the Reich

In August 1999 the crew discovered several lost sites in Poland such as the ruins of the Tannenberg Memorial and Hindenburg's Neudeck estate as well as several well-known locations like Ordensburg Marienberg (Malbork Castle).

Saxon Siberia

Apart from a few otherwise very bleak places (such as Jöhstadt, Satzungen, Kuhnheyde, Neudorf, Joh. Georgenstadt, Wiesenthal etc.) where potatoes, cabbages, turnips and oats are grown (albeit the latter hardly ripens but is at least used to produce the necessary straw for cattle), not a single potato grows, let alone a kernel of corn.


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