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86 unusual facts about Nuremberg


A Matter of Honour

Göring wanted Scott's father (one of his jailers at Nuremberg) to have it in token of his kind treatment and because Göring realized Scott's father would be unfairly blamed for his pre-execution suicide.

Adoration of the Trinity

The work was commissioned by the rich merchant Matthäus Landauer of Nuremberg for a chapel dedicated to the Holy Trinity and All the Saints in the Zwölfbrüderhaus ("House of Twelve Brothers"), which he had founded with Erasmus Schiltkrot in 1501.

Aero-Dienst

On 7 June 1993, an Aero-Dienst Learjet 35A (registered D-COCO) crashed shortly after takeoff from Cologne Bonn Airport on a chartered flight to Nuremberg, killing the two passengers and two crew members on board.

Albrecht Dürer's House

The House lies in the extreme north-west of Nuremberg's Altstadt, near the Kaiserburg section of the Nuremberg Castle and the Tiergartentor of Nuremberg's city walls.

Alexander Awdijan

In hindsight the right decision, because the Franconian metropolis was in need of a "Lokalmatador", a role into which Awdijan fits perfectly.

Algimantas Liubinskas

Famous results during his second tenure include a 1-1 draw against Germany in Nuremberg, a 1-0 victory over Scotland in Kaunas, and a 1-1 draw in Naples against Italy.

Andrzej Dobber

Andrzej Dobber studied singing under Prof. Helena Lazarska at the Academy of Music in Krakow and continued his training at the Nuremberg Conservatory.

Baselard

One early attestations of the German form pasler altogether (1341) is from a court document of Nuremberg recording a case against a man who had injured a woman by striking her on the head with this weapon.

Bavarian Ludwig Railway

The Königlich privilegirte Ludwigs-Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft ("Royal Privileged Ludwig Railway Company", later called the Ludwigs-Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft) received a concession to build a railway from Nuremberg to Fürth in the state of Bavaria on 19 February 1834.

Benjamin Le Fevre

He was a member of the Ohio House of Representatives in 1865, was nominated a Democrat for Secretary of State of Ohio in 1866 and was United States consul in Nuremberg, Bavaria from 1867 to 1869.

Bingola Records

The records were produced for the Bing Corporation of New York, the U.S. branch of the German Bing Werke company of Nuremberg, which in 1925 had introduced its own line of phohographs called "Bingophone".

Bugatti EB110

Dauer Racing GmbH of Nuremberg, Germany, bought the semi-finished EB 110 cars in the assembly plant plus the parts inventory through the bankruptcy trustee.

Catharina Regina von Greiffenberg

Catharina Regina von Greiffenberg (7 September 1633, Viehdorf — 10 April 1694, Nuremberg) was an Austrian poet of the Baroque era.

Cesare Vecellio

The crude woodcuts for book assembling contemporary fashion from across the world, De gli Habiti Antichi e Modérni di Diversi Parti di Mondo published in Venice in 1590 by Cesare as if they were his works, may in fact belong to Christopher Krieger from Nuremberg.

Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor

Lauf (Wenzelsburg) - built on the way connecting Prague and Nuremberg in Bohemian Palatinate, inside survived 112 coats of arms of the Czech Kingdom

Christof Perick

Since 2006, Perick has been Music Director at the Bayerisches Staatstheater Nuremberg, including the post of principal conductor of the Nürnberg Philharmonic.

Claus Berg

Born in Lübeck in the north of Germany, Berg possibly first worked as a sculptor in Veit Stoss's workshop in Nuremberg.

Clemens Krauss

Krauss made the rounds of regional centers, conducting in Riga (1913-1914), Nuremberg (1915) and Stettin (1916-1921) (formerly part of Pomerania in Germany; now part of Poland).

Curt Haase

Then he was transferred to act as commander of the 17th Infantry Division in Nuremberg where he stayed until October 1937.

Dart Group

In 1985 a third Dart Herald aircraft was bought, which flew an overnight parcels service from Birmingham International Airport to Nuremberg and Hanover.

Diogo Cão

That Cão, on his second voyage of 1484-1486, was accompanied by Martin Behaim (as alleged on the latter's Nuremberg globe of 1492) is very doubtful.

Eberhard Faber

Eberhard Faber GmbH was founded in 1922 in Neumarkt, near Nuremberg, Germany, as a pencil factory.

Edward Y. Hartshorne

On this assignment he was shot in the evening of August 28 while driving north on the Autobahn to Nuremberg.

Eleanor Bontecou

In 1947, Bontecou visited Nuremberg to investigate and report on war crimes that took place in Germany.

Elias Hutter

Elias Hutter (Gorlitz or Ulm 1553-Nuremberg or Frankfurt,

Erba-Odescalchi

Lucrative economic transactions were established with clients in the major Italian and European cities, such as Nuremberg, Milan, Kraków, and Rome.

Fondaco dei Tedeschi

Like the Fondaco dei Turchi, the Fondaco dei Tedeschi combined the functions of a palace, warehouse, market and restricted living quarters for its population, in this case mainly Germanic merchants from cities such as Nuremberg, Judenburg and Augsburg.

Francis Steinmetz

At Leisnig Steinmetz and Larive took a train to Nuremberg where they waited for their next train in a nearby park.

Glockendon

In particular, the Glockendons were a family of 15th-16th-century German artists from Nuremberg.

Godesberg Memorandum

10 September 1938 — In a speech at Nuremberg, Hermann Göring calls the Czechs a "miserable pygmy race" who are "harassing the human race".

Gustav Bischof

Karl Gustav Bischof (January 18, 1792 – November 30, 1870) was a German chemist, born in Nuremberg, Bavaria.

Heinrich Stuhlfauth

From 1916 to 1933 he played in 606 games for 1. FC Nuremberg, then a dominating team in German football, winning five national championships (1920, 1921, 1924, 1925, 1927).

Henri François Lambert

Lambert was conducting a reconnaissance at Menstadt, a small town near Nuremberg, when he was mortally wounded by the explosion of a bomb.

Henrike Lähnemann

Lähnemann is the daughter of the theologian Johannes Lähnemann, and the granddaughter of the German medievalist Eleonore Dörner (née Benary) and the archeologist Friedrich Karl Dörner; she grew up in Lüneburg and Nuremberg, Germany.

Herbert Backe

Backe was held in American custody and was due to be tried for war crimes at Nuremberg in the Ministries Trial.

Jock D. Mackinlay

Jock Mackinlay was born in Nuremberg, Germany and received his BA in Mathematics and Computer Science from UC Berkeley in 1975 and his PhD in computer science from Stanford University in 1986, where he pioneered the automatic design of graphical presentations of relational information.

Johann F. C. Hessel

He was a student at the Realschule in Nuremberg and subsequently studied science and medicine at Erlangen and Würzburg.

Johann Philipp von Wurzelbauer

A native of Nuremberg, Wurzelbauer was a merchant who became an astronomer.

By 1700, Wurzelbauer had become the most well-known astronomer in Nuremberg.

Kevin Hanus

Kevin Hanus (born 6 September 1993 in Nuremberg) is a German Grand Prix motorcycle racer.

Konrad Henlein

From 12 September 1938, forward, he helped organise hundreds of terrorist attacks and two coup attempts by the Sudetendeutsches Freikorps paramilitary organisation affiliated with the SS-Totenkopfverbände, immediately after Hitler's threatening speech in Nuremberg at the Nazi Party's annual rally.

LaToya Pringle

Born LaToya Antoinette Pringle on September 11, 1986, in Nuremberg, Germany, where her parents were stationed in the Army.

Lotte Strauss

Lotte Strauss, born 15 April 1913 in Nuremberg, Germany, died 4 July 1985, was an American pathologist.

LOVE Park

The Christmas Village is modeled after 16th-century German Christmas Markets, the most famous one being in Nuremberg.

Madeleine Giske

Giske is the daughter of Anders Giske, a former professional footballer who captained the Norwegian National Football Team, as well as playing for clubs such as SK Brann, FC Nuremberg, Bayer Leverkusen and 1. FC Köln.

Manfred Niekisch

Manfred Niekisch (* 14 July 1951 in Nuremberg, Germany) is a German biologist, expert in international nature conservation, director of Frankfurt Zoo, and president of the Society for Tropical Ecology.

Marie Anne Lenormand

The 36 card Lenormand deck is modelled on a deck of cards published c1799 as part of Das Spiel der Hoffnung (The Game of Hope), a game of chance designed by Johann Kaspar Hechtel of Nuremberg.

Maritza Sáenz Ryan

Sáenz Ryan was assigned to the 1st Armored Division Artillery in Nuremberg, West Germany.

Matthew McCaslin

Most recently, the artist has had solo exhibitions in Paris, Cologne, Madrid and Nuremberg.

Max Lange

He took an extended sabbatical from tournament chess from 1868 until his final appearance in the third DSB-Congress at Nuremberg 1883.

Nils Brahe

Brahe took part in the long duel between Gustavus and Wallenstein around Nuremberg as general of infantry, and commanded the left wing at Lützen on November 6, 1632, where he was the only Swedish general officer present.

Nostradamus

Nostradamus, Michel::Orus Apollo, 1545 (?), unpublished ms; Almanachs, Presages and Pronostications, 1550–1567; Ein Erschrecklich und Wunderbarlich Zeychen..., Nuremberg, 1554; Les Propheties, Lyon, 1555, 1557, 1568; Traite des fardemens et des confitures, 1555, 1556, 1557; Paraphrase de C. Galen sus l'exhortation de Menodote, 1557; Lettre de Maistre Michel Nostradamus, de Salon de Craux en Provence, A la Royne mere du Roy, 1566

Nürnberger Versicherungscup

The Nürnberger Versicheringscup is a professional women's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts in Nuremberg, Germany.

Obsessed by Cruelty

The second version was recorded in Nuremberg, and was released by Steamhammer Records in their home country of Germany in the same year.

Oscar Milani

Oscar Milani has been teaching harpsichord, chamber music and continuo at the Hochschule in Nuremberg since 1981 and at the Fachakademie für Kirchenmusik in Bayreuth since 1993.

Otto Brendel

Otto J. Brendel (born 1901 Nuremberg, Germany; died New York City September 1973) was an art historian and scholar of Etruscan art and archaeology.

Paumgartner altarpiece

The Paumgartner altarpiece (c. 1500) is an early tryptich painting by Albrecht Dürer, commissioned by the Paumgartner family of Nuremberg.

Pentacon Six

The Exakta 66 is based on the Pentacon Six but was made in West Germany by Exakta GmbH, Nuremberg.

Peter Niers

Peter Niers (or Niersch) was a German bandit, and reputed serial killer who was executed 16 September 1581 in Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz, some 40 km distant from Nuremberg.

Philip Burke King

He was attending the International Geological Congress meeting in Prague in August, 1968, when the Soviets invaded; he was evacuated to Nuremberg.

Pierre Drieu La Rochelle

As late as 1931, in "L'Europe contre les patries" ("Europe Against the Nations"), Drieu was writing as an anti-Hitlerian, but by 1934, especially after the 6 February 1934 riots organized by far right leagues before the Palais Bourbon, and then a visit to Nazi Germany in September 1935 (where he witnessed the Reichsparteitag rally in Nuremberg), he embraced Nazism as an antidote to the "mediocrity" of liberal democracy.

Portrait Diptych of Dürer's Parents

Their son was around 18 and had just completed his apprenticeship with Michael Wolgemut, and would soon leave for Nuremberg to travel as a journeyman painter.

Portrait of Dürer's Father at 70

Dürer painted two portraits of his father, one from April 1490 -the month before he left on his travels as a journeyman painter- and Portrait at 70 just after his return home to Nuremberg.

Portrait of Hieronymus Holzschuher

The work was executed in Nuremberg, the same year in which the German artist portrayed Johann Kleberger and Jakob Muffel.

Portrait of Jakob Fugger

Here the artist was part of delegation of his home city, Nuremberg, and met numerous personalities, including the Fugger with whom he was in good relationships since his second trip to Venice (1506-1507).

Roland Cantzler

He then worked as a public prosecutor in Weiden in der Oberpfalz, Ansbach and Nuremberg, was a judge from 1961 to 1970 at the Nuremberg Social Security Court, before becoming President of the Bayreuth Social Security Court in 1978.

Rosslyn Hill Unitarian Chapel

It was during the 45-year-long ministry of Thomas Sadler (1822-1891), who arrived at the Chapel in 1846 aged 24, just two years after being awarded his doctorate from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in Bavaria, that the current Chapel building was constructed.

Rudy Horn

Rudy Horn (born 14 February 1933 in Nuremberg) was a well-regarded juggler.

Saint Michael Fighting the Dragon

Another major influence on Durer’s works was the rise of Nuremberg as an intellectual center and as a leader in engravings.

Sally Falk Moore

Moore was trained as a lawyer at Columbia Law school and, after working on Wall Street, became a staff attorney at the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg during the investigation of Nazi war criminals.

Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor

His attempts at the diet of Nuremberg in 1422 to raise a mercenary army were foiled by the resistance of the towns; and in 1424 the electors, among whom was Sigismund's former ally, Frederick I of Hohenzollern, sought to strengthen their own authority at the expense of the king.

Also, Sigismund granted control of the Margraviate of Brandenburg (which he had received back after Jobst's death) to Frederick I of Hohenzollern, burgrave of Nuremberg (1415).

Born in Nuremberg, Sigismund was the son of the Holy Roman Emperor, Charles IV, and of his fourth wife, Elizabeth of Pomerania, the granddaughter of King Casimir III of Poland, and the great-granddaughter of the Grand Duke of Lithuania, Gediminas.

ST-Ericsson

Their main development centers were situated in Lund, Sweden and with other three developments centers in Basingstoke (UK) and Research Triangle Park, North Carolina (US), and Nuremberg (Germany).

Swedish Empire

France and Sweden, moreover, became joint guarantors of the treaty with the Holy Roman Emperor and were entrusted with carrying out its provisions, as enacted by the executive congress of Nuremberg in 1650.

Terrie Moffitt

Terrie Edith Moffitt (born March 9, 1955, Nuremberg, Germany) is an American clinical psychologist who is best known for her pioneering research on the development of antisocial behavior and for her collaboration with colleague and partner Avshalom Caspi in research on gene-environment interactions in mental disorders.

The Christmas Village in Philadelphia

For children there is a Santa's house and more special themed events including a lantern parade; for adults there are daily live performances from local artists such as string and brass bands, soloists and school choirs at a central stage, and an opening ceremony with the original Christkind from Christkindlesmarkt Nuremberg, the City of Philadelphia's Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony and a German American weekend.

Christmas Market events such as the famous Christkindlesmarkt in Nuremberg, which dates back to the 16th century, are part of a long tradition of farmers' markets in Germany's inner cities.

The Glory of the Duchy of Carniola

Written in German, The Glory of the Duchy of Carniola was published in 1689 in Nuremberg in 15 volumes.

Thomas Mor Timotheos

In 1986 he left for Germany for higher studies and joined the Erlangen-Nuremberg University.

Thomas Sabo Ice Tigers

The Thomas Sabo Ice Tigers Nürnberg are a professional ice hockey club located in Nuremberg, Germany.

Tim Schleicher

Tim Schleicher (born 30 December 1988 in Nuremberg) is a German freestyle wrestler.

Triumph Motor Company

The marque had its origins in 1885 when Siegfried Bettmann (1863–1951) of Nuremberg initiated S. Bettmann & Co and started importing bicycles from Europe and selling them with his own trade-name in London.

Ulman Stromer

Ulman Stromer (6 January 1329 – 3 April 1407) was a German long-distance trader, factory owner and councillor of Nuremberg, then a free imperial city of the Holy Roman Empire.

Werner projection

Stab-Werner refers to two originators: Johannes Werner (1466–1528), a parish priest in Nuremberg, refined and promoted this projection that had been developed earlier by Johannes Stabius (Stab) of Vienna around 1500.

Wes Gallagher

In 1946 Gallagher covered the Nazi war crime trials at Nuremberg.


Aryan Games

The Aryan Games were a proposed replacement for the Olympic Games by the National Socialist (Nazi) government of the Third Reich, to be housed permanently in Nuremberg at the German Stadium that was designed, but never built, by Albert Speer.

Baron Russell of Liverpool

As Deputy Judge Advocate General to the British Army of the Rhine he was one of the chief legal advisers during the war crimes trials held in Nuremberg and Tokyo at the end of the Second World War.

Berlin–Halle railway

On the new long-distance tracks of the Anhalt railway, which were put into service on 28 May 2006, ICE trains travel to Leipzig, Nuremberg, and Munich, and several Regional-Express trains also use the line.

DB Regio Oberfranken

On the Hof / BayreuthMarktredwitzNuremberg line they alternated with VT 610 trains from Nuremberg depot until the timetable change in December 2007.

Dietenhofen

This small village is located in the Franconian Heights about 28 km west of Nuremberg, 14 km north east of Ansbach and 38 km east of Rothenburg o.d. Tauber.

DRG Class E 19

The locomotives were stationed at the Nuremberg depot and mainly used between Nuremberg on Frankenwald and Probstzella in the DDR, as well as between Nuremberg and Regensburg.

E51

European route E51, a road connecting Berlin and Nuremberg in Germany

Ernest Medina

Medina is mentioned by name in the first stanza of Pete Seeger's Vietnam protest song "Last Train to Nuremberg" (1970).

Fancy pigeon

The largest pigeon show is held in Nuremberg: the German National Pigeon Show, which had over 33,500 pigeons at the 2006 show.

Flying wedge

At the Battle of Pillenreuth in 1450, both the armies of Albrecht Achilles and Nuremberg fought in wedge formation.

Frank Leder

Frank Leder ( born September 25, 1974 in Nuremberg, Germany ) is a German fashion designer.

Franz Ludwig Güssefeld

He is noted for his highly accurate maps which were mostly published by Homannsche Erben ("Homann Heirs") in Nuremberg.

Frauenkirche, Nuremberg

In Triumph of the Will, Leni Riefenstahl's 1935 propaganda film about the 1934 Nuremberg Rally, the final scene consists of a military parade through downtown Nuremberg, with Adolf Hitler shown receiving salutes from Nazi troops with the Nuremberg Frauenkirche in the background.

Frederick V, Burgrave of Nuremberg

From the death of his father in 1357, Frederick bore the title of Burgrave and so was responsible for the protection of the strategically significant imperial castle of Nuremberg.

# Margaret (d. 1406, Gudensberg), married in Kulmbach 1383 Landgrave Hermann II of Hesse.

Frewsburg, New York

Robert H. Jackson (1892–1954): The boyhood home of this future lawyer, New Deal official, U.S. Attorney General, U.S. Supreme Court justice and chief prosecutor at Nuremberg of Nazi war criminals following World War II is located on the main street in Frewsburg.

German National Library

After the failure of the revolution the library was abandoned and the stock of books already in existence was stored at the Germanisches Nationalmuseum in Nuremberg.

Gestad

There is also a ”dopfat” made in Nuremberg, Germany at the end of the 15th century, donated to the church by General Roos´ family.

Haller Madonna

The coat of arms in the left lower conrer allowed to identify the commission of the work from the rich Haller family of Nuremberg.

Hans Magnus Enzensberger

Enzensberger studied literature and philosophy at the universities of Erlangen, Freiburg and Hamburg, and at the Sorbonne in Paris, receiving his doctorate in 1955 for a thesis about Clemens Brentano's poetry.

Historical coat of arms of Transylvania

He published it in his work "Chronologia", issued in Nuremberg the same year.

Jenny Erpenbeck

As a freelance director, she directed in 1998 different opera houses in Germany and Austria, including Monteverdi's L'Orfeo in Aachen, Acis and Galatea at the Berlin State Opera and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Zaide in Nuremberg/Erlangen.

Jenny Scheinman

She is the niece of robotics pioneer Victor Scheinman, and the granddaughter of Telford Taylor, Chief Prosecutor at the United States war crimes trials at Nuremberg.

Käte Strobel

She also served 27 February 1958 to 26 January 1967 in the European Parliament, where she became the leader of the Socialist Group from 1964 to 1967 (to this day, the only female leader other than Pauline Green) and from 1972 to 1978 in the city council of Nuremberg.

Kraichgau Railway

In 1888 the Bretten–Eppingen–Heilbronn section of the line was duplicated as part of a military supply route from central Germany via Nuremberg, Crailsheim, Heilbronn, Bretten, Bruchsal, Zweibrücken in the Saarland to Lorraine.

Krakow gingerbread

Since the 14th century, when Kraków was the capital of Poland, the city was known for its gingerbreads, popular across the land at least as much as the gingerbreads of Toruń and Nuremberg.

Ludwig Scholz

Ludwig Scholz (30 June 1937 in Juliusberg, Landkreis Oels, Lower Silesia, now Dobroszyce, Oleśnica County, Poland, – 20 September 2005 in Nuremberg, Bavaria) was a German politician of the CSU and the mayor of Nuremberg.

Lyle Bouck

Bouck and his men were finally imprisoned in Stalag XIII-D in Nuremberg and later in Stalag XIII-C in Hammelburg, where the non-commissioned and enlisted men were split, with the officers sent to Oflag XIII-B.

Nicolas Stemann

The first time he received national attention was through the production of his Trilogy of Terror in 1997 at Kampnagel in Hamburg and Hoftheater Gostner in Nuremberg (Antigone by Sophocles, The Seagull by Anton Chekhov, Leonce and Lena by Georg Büchner).

Peter Šťastný

Peter is the father of Yan Stastny, who made his NHL debut in 2005–06 with the Edmonton Oilers and is currently playing in Nuremberg, Germany, and Paul Stastny, who began his career with the Colorado Avalanche (the same franchise as the Quebec Nordiques, Peter's first NHL team) in 2006–07 and wears the same number (#26).

Portrait Diptych of Dürer's Parents

Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg|Albrecht Dürer the Elder with a Rosary, 1490.

Rainer Hertrich

He was born December 6, 1949 and studied business administration at the Technical University of Berlin and the University of Nuremberg after an apprenticeship at Siemens.

Regional-Express

Since late 2006, Regional-Express services between Munich and Nuremberg that operate on the Nuremberg–Ingolstadt high-speed railway reach top speeds of 200 km/h.

Rudolf Charousek

He was one of a few players who had a plus record against Emanuel Lasker, having defeated the world champion at Nuremberg 1896.

Sellbytel Group

In 1988 Michael Raum founded the SELLBYTEL Group GmbH with headquarters in Nuremberg, Germany.

Siemens-Schuckert

Siemens-Schuckert (or Siemens-Schuckertwerke) was a German electrical engineering company headquartered in Berlin, Erlangen and Nuremberg that was incorporated into the Siemens AG in 1966.

Tsotne Bakuria

He received an MA in international relations from University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in 1998, and was a 2005 visiting scholar at George Washington University, Washington, D.C.