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unusual facts about Nordrhein-Westfalen



Annegret Kroniger

Annegret ("Anne") Kroniger (born September 24, 1952 in Bochum, Nordrhein-Westfalen) is a female German athlete, who mainly competed in the 100 metres.

Franz Felix Adalbert Kuhn

Inspired by Jakob Grimm's Deutsche Mythologie, he first devoted himself to German stories and legends, and published Märkische Sagen und Märchen (1842), Norddeutsche Sagen, Märchen und Gebräuche (1848), and Sagen, Gebräuche und Märchen aus Westfalen (1859).

Frieder Gröger

Pilzkundliche Arbeitsgemeinschaft in Westfalen 1968.
(the concerning taxon: Lactarius deterrimus)

Gau Westfalen-Nord

The Gau Westphalia-North (German: Gau Westfalen-Nord) was an administrative division of Nazi Germany encompassing the Free State of Lippe, Free State of Schaumburg-Lippe and the northern half of the Prussian province of Westphalia between 1933 and 1945.

Geldern-Kapellen

The area Kapellen lies in the Niederrhein (Lower Rhine) in the northwest part of German Federal State of Nordrhein-Westfalen.

Gillian Wearing

The exhibition was organised with Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf and supported by Maja Hoffmann, Vicky Hughes and John Smith, and Dr Naomi Milgrom AO.

Gotthart A. Eichhorn

His father, a Baltic German refugee from Estonia, was an architect and university lecturer, who moved after being released from a prisoner of war camp with his family to Hagen (Westfalen).

Hagen–Hamm railway

The Hagen–Hamm railway is a continuous two-track, electrified main line in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, connecting Hagen via Schwerte, Holzwickede and Unna to Hamm.

Hermann Landois

In 1871 he founded the Westfälischen Vereins für Vogelschutz, Geflügel- und Singvögelzucht (Westphalian Association for bird protection, poultry and songbird breeding), and during the following year founded the Zoologischen sektion für Westfalen und Lippe (Zoologist Division of Westphalia and Lippe).

Joachim Milberg

Joachim Milberg (born 10 April 1943 in Verl (Westfalen)) is a German Professor of Production Engineering and past CEO of BMW AG.

Kelz Airfield

It was located about 2 miles north of Vettweiß (Nordrhein-Westfalen); approximately 315 miles southwest of Berlin.

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.

Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen

The collection of postwar American art includes works by Jackson Pollock and Frank Stella and by Pop artists Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, and Andy Warhol; other high points of the collection are works by Joseph Beuys, Gerhard Richter, Tony Cragg, Emil Schumacher, Sarah Morris, Katharina Fritsch, Nam June Paik, Wolf Vostell and Imi Knoebel.

Contributing to the new and more emphatic public presence of the Kunstsammlung - which is now able to display the art collections of this federal state more comprehensively than ever before - is the large-scale mosaic mural "Hornet", composed of colorful tiles and the work of American artist Sarah Morris.

Laurenz Meyer

He was then employed at Vereinigte Elektrizitätswerke Westfalen, or VEW AG (which was later taken over by the RWE group) in Dortmund.

Lippstadt Airfield

Lippstadt Airfield is a former military airfield located in Germany, located in the southeast part of Lippstadt (Nordrhein-Westfalen); approximately 222 miles west-southwest of Berlin.

Lothar Mohn

After studying church music at the Hochschule für Kirchenmusik der Evangelischen Kirche von Westfalen (University of Protestant Church Music) in Herford, he was the cantor of the Petrikirche in Melle and regional cantor from 1982 to 1991.

Marion Hellmann

Marion Hellmann (née Goldkamp; born 6 April 1967 in Linnich, Nordrhein-Westfalen) is a retired German high jumper, who competed for her native country at the 1992 Summer Olympics.

MediaPark

Among the corporate firms at MediaPark are EMI Music Germany, Radio Köln and Westdeutscher Rundfunk studios of 1LIVE; among the cultural institutions are a large multiplex cinema (Cinedom), the Filmbüro Nordrhein-Westfalen, the Fresenius University of Applied Sciences, the musikFabrik and SK Stiftung Köln with the Akademie för uns Kölsche Sproch (Academy for our Kölsch language).

Olmert

Karl Ollmert (born 1874, Herten in Westfalen - 1965, Frankfurt am Main), a German politician (de)

Paul Nieder-Westermann

On 1 April Nieder-Westermann was appointed to the leader from the upper relay Westfalen (South) of the NSKK.

Paweł Przytocki

He conducted Budapest Concert Orchestra, Orchestra Sinfonica de Xalapa in Mexico, Real Filharmonia de Galicia in Spain, Capella Istropolitana in Bratislava, Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Halle, Neue Philharmonie Westfalen, Bilkent Symphony Orchestra Ankara, Everett Symphony Orchestra in the United States and Janáček Philharmonic Orchestra in Ostrava.

Royal Hanoverian State Railways

In the end they agreed upon the present-day route from von Löhne via Osnabrück to Prussian Rheine, that at the same time provided a junction at Münster to the Royal Westphalian Railway Company (Königlich-Westfälische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft) and from there a link via Salzbergen to Leer and Emden.

SC Herford

They returned to the Oberliga Westfalen (IV) for a couple of seasons at the turn of the millennium, but fell back to Verbandsliga, and in 2005 descended to play in the Landesliga Westfalen Ost (VI).

SMS Westfalen

Westfalen also conducted several deployments to the Baltic Sea against the Russian Navy.

SS Westfalen

SS Westfalen (1912) was built as the 170 ton minesweeper FM-29 in 1919, by Nobiskrug in Rendsburg, Germany.

SS Westfalen (1900) was a 2,384 ton cargo ship completed in March 1901, by Neptun Werft in Rostock, Germany.

Verbandsliga

Nordrhein-Westfalen, Rheinland-Pfalz and Baden-Württemberg are divided into two or three state member associations, each running their own league system.

Vogelsang Airfield

Vogelsang Airfield (Fliegerhorst Vogelsang) is an abandoned World War II military airfield located approximately 3 miles northwest of Schleiden (Nordrhein-Westfalen); approximately 330 miles southwest of Berlin.


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