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unusual facts about Munster, Moselle



Antonius Hilfrich

Amid 1941 Catholic protests over Nazi euthanasia led by Bishop August von Galen of Munster, Hilfrich wrote to Franz Gürtner, the German Minister for Justice, to denounce the murders, calling them an "injustice that cries out to heaven".

Born, Luxembourg

The Romans became firmly established in nearby Trier or Augusta Treverorum, a prosperous regional capital, but they also developed communities in the Moselle and Sauer valleys, especially at Wasserbillig (Biliacum), the bridge over the Sauer on the Roman road from Trier to Reims (Civitas Remorum), and Echternach, the bridge on the road from Arlon (Orolaunum), to Bitburg (Vicus Beda).

Butch Patrick

In addition to his music, Patrick returned to occasional film and television work, including making cameo appearances as "Himself" on episodes of the Fox animated television series The Simpsons and the 2003 comedy film Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star, as well as appearing as a grown-up Eddie Munster in a Little Caesars Pizza commercial.

Contz-les-Bains

The commune is located in the Pays de Sierck at the confluence of the Sauer (known in French as the Sûre) and the Moselle, which form the borders with Luxembourg and Germany.

Cormac mac Airt

Cormac marched to Munster and made camp on the hill of Druim Dámhgaire (Knocklong, County Limerick).

Corn Uí Mhuirí

Corn Uí Mhuirí is the cup presented to the winners of the Munster colleges senior football "A" championship, the top level Gaelic football championship for secondary schools in Munster.

Donnubán mac Cathail

Regardless of oral tradition, it has been argued that Donovan's mother was also Norse based on his father's other associations, by the 3rd Earl of Dunraven, who argued that his father Cathal's association through marriage with "Amlaf, king of the Danes of Munster" officially created the alliance between them.

Ekkehart Malotki

He studied with philosopher and linguist Helmut Gipper at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität at Münster and his early work was a continuation of his mentor's.

Erckmann-Chatrian

Both Erckmann and Chatrian were born in the département of Moselle, in the Lorraine region in the extreme north-east of France.

Flaithbertach mac Inmainén

Flaithbertach is first mentioned by the Irish annals in 907, when he is recorded, along with the then-King of Munster Cormac mac Cuilennáin, leading an expedition by the Munstermen against Connacht and the Uí Néill.

Fláithrí Ó Corcrán

Ó Corcrán bore a surname held by at least two unrelated clans; one was a Brehon family from County Fermanagh, a second was situated in Munster.

Florence MacCarthy

The Queen's principal secretary, Lord Burghley, backed him, and he obtained protection against his creditors and permission to recover an old fine of £500 due to the Crown from Lord Barry, a neighbour and rival of his in Munster, whom he blamed for his arrest; Barry was later to accuse him of disloyalty as this suit was prosecuted.

François Nau

François Nau (May 13, 1864 at Thil – September 2, 1931 at Paris) was a French Catholic priest, mathematician, Syriacist, and specialist in oriental languages.

Frank Kelleher

That year he won his first Munster winners' medal following a provincial final defeat of Limerick.

Gaston Féry

Born in Longwy, Meurthe-et-Moselle he competed for France in the 1920 Summer Olympics held in Antwerp, Belgium where he won the bronze medal with his team mates Géo André, Maurice Delvart and André Devaux in the men's 4 x 400 metre relay event.

German town law

Town laws were more or less entirely copied from neighboring towns, such as the Westphalian towns of Soest, Dortmund, Minden, and Münster.

Goodfellow Air Force Base

On 14 September 1918, 1st Lieutenant John J. Goodfellow, Jr., of San Angelo, Texas, boarded his Salmson 2A2 observation plane at Gondreville Airfield in France to conduct visual reconnaissance behind enemy lines.

History of rugby union matches between Munster and New Zealand

Munster R. Spring, P. Parfrey, L. Moloney, J. Coleman, P. Lavery, B.J. McGann, D. Canniffe, O. Waldron, P. Whelan, P.O'Callaghan, J. Madigan, M. Keane, C. Tucker, T. Moore, S. Deering.

I. German/Dutch Corps

Due to its role as a NATO High Readiness Forces Headquarters, soldiers from other NATO member states, the United States, Denmark, Norway, Spain, Italy, the United Kingdom amongst others, are also stationed at Münster.

Isaac Leeser

Born as Isaak Leeser in Neuenkirchen/Rheine, Westphalia, Isaac Leeser received his education at the primary school of nearby Dülmen and thereupon at a gymnasium in Münster.

Jean I de Croÿ

Jean I de Croÿ, Seigneur de Croÿ et d'Araines, Baron de Renty et de Seneghem (around 1365 – Agincourt on October 25, 1415) was the founder of the House of Croÿ .

Jennifer Hymer

In 1996, she co-founded the ensemble WireWorks in the German city of Münster as well, in 2008, the Hymer-Fograscher piano duo, based in Hamburg, Germany.

John III Potho of Pothenstein

He originally supported the Popes in Avignon, however, after King Wenceslaus proposed him as the next Bishop of Münster, he changed sides and support Pope Urban VI in Rome.

Joseph Bodin de Boismortier

The Boismortier family moved from the composer's birthplace in Thionville (in Lorraine) to the town of Metz where he received his musical education from Joseph Valette de Montigny, a well-known composer of motets.

Keltenmuseum

There are two immediate parallels to this jug, the pair of jugs in the British Museum from a probable burial at Basse-Yutz in the French Moselle Valle .

Kernmünsterland

Kernmünsterland includes the city of Münster (less the northeast part) to the north, the district of Coesfeld (less the extreme west with Coesfeld and Billerbeck) to the west, the district of Warendorf (less the north with Sassenberg, Warendorf-Nord, Telgte and Ostbevern) to the east the centre of the historic Münsterland.

Landolin Ohmacht

His principal works are: “The Judgment of Paris,” in the royal garden at Munich; the statue of Neptune at Münster, and that of Desaix between Kehl and Strasburg; the mausoleum of the emperor Rudolph in the cathedral of Spa; the statue of Luther at Weissenburg, and that of “Venus leaving her Bath,” which is regarded as his masterpiece.

Le prophète

Jean de Leyde (based on the historical John of Leiden), whose beloved, Berthe, is coveted by Count Oberthal, ruler of Dordrecht, is persuaded by a trio of sinister Anabaptists to proclaim himself king in Münster.

Leonard Goffiné

This book was ready in 1687, and in 1688 it received the imprimatur of the Vicar-General of Münster, and in 1690 the approbation of Rev. William Heimbach, Norbertine prior of Meer, and of Rev. John Dirking, Rector of the Jesuit college of Hildesheim.

Ludwig Freiherr Roth von Schreckenstein

Ludwig Johann Karl Gregor Eusebius Freiherr Roth von Schreckenstein (16 November 1789, in Immendingen – 30 May 1858, in Münster) was a Prussian General of the cavalry and Minister of War.

Manus O'Donnell

Supported by Munster and Connacht, and assisted also by English contingents and by the MacDonnells of Antrim, O'Neill took the castle of Ballyshannon, and after devastating a large part of Tyrconnell he encamped at Knockavoe, near Strabane.

Melchers

Franz Melchers (Münster 1868 - Antwerp 1944), painter of German origin, he studied arts in Brussels and La Haye.

Mike, der Taschengeldexperte

The comic was last produced by the advertising agency genokom from Münster in Westphalia, which also publishes the sequel comic Primax together with the DG VERLAG.

Munster Senior League Senior Premier Division

The Munster Senior League Senior Premier Division is the top tier of football in the Munster Senior League, and is part of the third tier of the Republic of Ireland football league system along with the Leinster Senior League Premier Division and Ulster Senior League Senior Division.

Munster, Lower Saxony

Munster is often called the "showcase of the German Army" due to the training centre, the many training demonstrations - some open to the public - and the testing of new equipment and new tactics.

Munster, Ontario

Munster has a convenience store, a restaurant, and is the site of Saunders Farm, which has outdoor mazes and a Halloween theme park.

Ó Dálaigh

The Ó Dálaigh who settled in Munster seem to have been given an alternative descent from the Eóganacht kings of Cashel, in particular from Aenghus the king of Cashel who was baptised by St. Patrick.

Philip Perceval

Holding, in this connection, the offices of general feodary of Ireland, escheator of Munster, and (1637) commissioner of survey into land titles in County Tipperary and County Cork, he took a prominent share in the discovery of technical defects in Irish titles; and obtained enormous transfers of forfeited lands to himself.

Rembercourt

Rembercourt-sur-Mad, a commune in the Meurthe-et-Moselle department of Lorraine, France

Renault Master

The van was manufactured at Renault's then new SoVAB Batilly plant in northeastern France.

Rhein-class monitor

In the aftermath of the Franco-Prussian War of 1870–71, the Imperial German Navy decided that it needed to build river gunboats for service on the Rhine and Moselle to defend the German border.

Royal Westphalian Railway Company

The Royal Westphalian Railway was initially established only to fill the 32 km-long gap between Hamm and Lippstadt, connecting the Münster–Hamm line of the Munster–Hamm Railway Company (Münster-Hammer Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft) opened in 1848 with the line being constructed at the same time by the Cologne-Minden-Thuringian Connection Railway Company (Köln-Minden-Thüringischen-Verbindungs-Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft, KMTVEG).

Sébastien Briat

Sébastien Briat was an anti-nuclear activist from Meuse, France who gained international media attention in 2004 when he was struck and killed by a train carrying nuclear waste near Avricourt, France, after chaining himself to the tracks while participating in a protest against nuclear power.

The Detroit Cobras

The Original Recordings (Singles and Unreleased 1995-1997) (2008, Munster Records)

Tydeus munsteri

It has been recorded from various plants in the vicinity of Munster in South Africa including Citrus limonia, Erythrina caffra and Psidium guajava.

UAS7

75,000 students, 2,200 full-time faculty members and several thousand part-time lecturers from industry and business study, teach, and do research in Berlin, Bremen, Cologne, Hamburg, Munich, Münster, and Osnabrück.

Velaine

Velaine-en-Haye, a commune in the department of Meurthe-et-Moselle

Wasserbillig

On the opposite side of the Moselle and linked by a ferry lies Oberbillig, Germany; on the opposite side of the Sauer and linked by vehicle and rail bridges lies Wasserbilligerbrück, Germany.

WestBam

WestBam, real name Maximilian Lenz (born 4 March 1965, Münster, Westphalia, Germany), is a techno DJ from Germany.

Willie Griffin

After a period in the wilderness the Cork team bounced back in 1952 with Griffin capturing a Munster winners' medal following a defeat of three-in-a-row All-Ireland champions Tipperary in the provincial decider.


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