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9 unusual facts about Oder


Festungsfront Oder-Warthe-Bogen

The Festungsfront Oder-Warthe-Bogen (Fortified Front Oder-Warthe-Bogen), also called the Festung im Oder-Warthe-Bogen or Ostwall (East Wall), and in Polish the Międzyrzecki Rejon Umocniony (Międzyrzecz Fortification Region), was a fortified military defence line of Nazi Germany between the Oder and Warta rivers.

Friedrich-August Schack

On 26 March 1945 Schack was assigned to lead the XXXII Army corps, on the Oder near Stettin.

Hermann Weingärtner

He drowned trying to rescue a person from drowning in the Oder.

Köpenick

The Oder-Spree Canal links the Dahme, at nearby Schmöckwitz, with the Oder river, at Eisenhüttenstadt, thus providing a navigable connection between Köpenick and the Oder.

Lehrgeschwader 1

Later, just prior to the Battle of Berlin, the Geschwader took part in Operation Eisenhammer, striking at the Oder bridges to prevent their use by the Red Army.

National redoubt

In the six months following the D-Day landings in Normandy in June 1944, the American and British armies advanced to the Rhine and seemed poised to strike into the heart of Germany, while the Soviet Army, advancing from the east through Poland, reached the Oder.

Odo I, Margrave of the Saxon Ostmark

The margrave, intending to compel Mieszko to pay tribute for the Pomeranian territory between the Oder and Warta rivers, invaded that region.

Sonderkommando Elbe

The largest targets that Germans were able to hit with ramming tactics were Allied four-engined bombers and some strategic bridges over the Oder, with their Mistel composite attack aircraft.

Stalag Luft 7

They crossed a bridge over the river Oder on 21 January, reached Goldberg on 5 February, and were loaded onto a train.


1614 in literature

Johannes Valentinus Andreae – Fama fraternitatis Roseae Crucis oder Die Bruderschaft des Ordens der Rosenkreuzer (at Kassel)

1830 in birding and ornithology

Jacob Ernst von Reider and Carl Wilhelm Hahn begin Fauna Boica, oder gemeinnützige Naturgeschichte der Thiere Bayerns

1st Belorussian Front

Marshal Georgy Zhukov concentrated 1BF, which had been deployed along the Oder river from Frankfurt in the south to the Baltic, into an area in front of the Seelow Heights.

Army Detachment Steiner

The Nederland Division was sent south-west of Frankfurt (Oder) and assigned to the V SS Mountain Corps, where it was destined to be destroyed in the Battle of Halbe.

Austrian Silesia

The territory west of the Oder river stretching from the town of Opava up to Bílá Voda was confined by the Jeseník mountain range of the eastern Sudetes in the south, separating it from Moravia, and the Opava river in the north.

Battle of Frankfurt an der Oder

In January 1631, Swedish forces garrisoned in the Pomeranian bridgehead proceeded southwards, and sacked the Pomeranian towns of Gartz (Oder) and Greifenhagen (now Gryfino) near Pomerania's border with Brandenburg.

Bishopric of Lebus

In view of the pressure exerted by Brandenburg, the bishops in 1276 moved the episcopal seat to Göritz (Górzyca) east of the Oder.

Bogislav Friedrich Emanuel von Tauentzien

In 1813 Tauentzien was named Military Governor between the Oder and the Vistula Rivers, and he succeeded in the siege of Stettin.

Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland

The most widely known of his many writings is the treatise entitled Makrobiotik oder Die Kunst, das menschliche Leben zu verlängern (1796), which was translated into many languages, including in Serbian by Dr. Jovan Stejić in Vienna in 1828.

CroisiEurope

In France, CroisiEurope sail on the Seine, the Rhône, the Saône, the Gironde, the Meuse, and the Rhine; in Italy, on the Po; in Spain, on the Guadalquivir; in Portugal, on the Guadiana and the Douro; in Germany, Belgium, and the Netherlands, on the Rhine; in Germany, Austria, Hungary, Serbia, and Romania, on the Danube; and in Germany, on the Havel and the Oder.

Dębczyn culture

In the second half of the third century, the Dębczyn (Denzin) culture (or group) succeeded the Wielbark culture between the Persante and Drage rivers, and a local, not yet classified culture between the lower Oder and Persante rivers.

Dnieper–Bug Canal

The waterways from the German-Polish border (Oder River, through the Warta, Brda and Noteć rivers, Bydgoszcz Canal, Vistula River, Narew River, Bug River) once used to link the Belarus and Ukrainian inland waterways via Mukhavets River, Dnieper–Bug Canal, Pripyat River and Dnieper River), thus connecting north-western Europe with the Black Sea.

Fall of Berlin – 1945

The narrator lists the names of the rivers that the Red Army crosses as they march west: Volga, Don, Desna, Dnieper, Bug, Dvina, Neman, Vistula, and finally, Oder.

First Solar

This restructuring process included phasing out operations in Frankfurt (Oder), Germany and idling four production lines in Kulim, Malaysia.

Franz Johann Joseph Bock

Baldachin-Altäre aus St. Stephan in Wien und aus der Teinkirche zu Prag; oder: wie ist es mit dem Neubaue von Altären zu halten?, In: Organ für christliche Kunst, 7 (1857), Nr. 21, 241–243 u.

Friedrich August Wilhelm von Brause

General der Infanterie Friedrich August Wilhelm von Brause (10 September 1769 in Zeitz – 23 December 1836 in Frankfurt (Oder)) was a Prussian officer who fought in the Napoleonic Wars.

Hammer into Anvil

Number Two quotes Goethe: Du mußt Amboß oder Hammer sein ("You must be Anvil or Hammer").

Heinrich von Kleist

The Earthquake in Chile (Das Erdbeben in Chili) and St. Cecilia, or the Power of Music (Die heilige Cäcilie oder die Gewalt der Musik) are also fine examples of Kleist's story telling as is The Marquise of O (Die Marquise von O.).

Itz oder Nie

Itz oder Nie (Now or Never) is the debut album by Swiss hip hop group 6er Gascho.

Johannes Böttner

Johannes Böttner (b September 3, 1861 in Greußen, Germany - d April 28, 1919 in Frankfurt (Oder)) was a German horticulturist.

Joseph Schipfer

In the letter from February 20, 1840, titled "General Call to the Compassionate Humanity", Schipfer describes the suffering of the French inhabitants near the rivers Rhône and Saône and also provides a brochure on his "General Communication or World language (in German: Allgemeine Communications- oder Weltsprache)".

Kamid al lawz

Hachmann, Rolf., “Kāmid el-Lōz und die Amarna-Zeit oder vom Sinn und Unsinn der Kulturgeschichte und ihrer Erforschung” Saarbrücken 1972.

Kłopot, Lubusz Voivodeship

Plans to connect the village to the Lusatian town of Fürstenberg west of the Oder (today part of Eisenhüttenstadt) similar to Frankfurt/Oder - Słubice had existed since Charles IV of Luxembourg became the sole ruler of both territories in 1373.

Lubusz Land

The Lebus bishops tried to maintain their affiliation with Poland and in 1276 therefore moved their residence east of the Oder river to Górzyca (Göritz upon Oder), an episcopal fief.

Lusatian Neisse

The Lusatian Neisse is a left-bank tributary of the river Oder, into which it flows between Neißemünde-Ratzdorf and Kosarzyn north of the towns of Guben and Gubin.

Marie-Luise Marjan

She was the heroine in Wolfgang Petersen's drama Smog and has also played in films by Werner Schroeter (Palermo oder Wolfsburg, Tag der Idioten) and Rainer Werner Fassbinder (Berlin Alexanderplatz).

Max Schautzer

He has been known for hosting the show Spaß muß sein with Hans Rosenthal, Die schönsten Melodien der Welt with Carolin Reiber, Immer wieder sonntags and Alles oder nichts.

Międzyodrze

Międzyodrze area also includes islands located between the Oder and Dąbie Lake, as well as part of Szczecin.

Mieszko III the Old

For unknown reasons, Bolesław and Mieszko did not try to defend the traditional frontier on the Oder River, but instead burned the castles of Głogów and Bytom and began their retreat into the depths of Greater Poland, where Bolesław's forces finally had to surrender to the Imperial troops at Krzyszkowo near Poznań.

Moritz Balthasar Borkhausen

He took part in the production of "Teutsche Ornithologie oder Naturgeschichte aller Vögel Teutschlands in naturgetreuen Abbildungen und Beschreibungen" by Johann Conrad Susemihl.

Nessaja

"Nessaja" is the title of a song written by Peter Maffay and Rolf Zuckowski from the musical Tabaluga released in 1983 on the album Tabaluga oder die Reise zur Vernunft.

Neuzelle

The monks were granted large estates, up to Fürstenberg in the north and Szydłów (Schiedlo) beyond the Oder River in the east.

Operation Solstice

Zhukov at the Oder: the decisive battle for Berlin, Greenwood Publishing Group, 1996, p.

Philipp Christoph Zeller

Then he became an instructor at the secondary school in Frankfurt (Oder) and in 1860 he was appointed as the senior instructor of the highest technical high school in Meseritz.

Rudolf Pannwitz

Rudolf Pannwitz (27 May 1881, Crossen/Oder, Silesia, Prussia - 23 March 1969, Astano, Ticino, Switzerland) was a German writer, poet and philosopher.

Schmendrick

Shmendrik oder Die komishe Chaseneh (Schmendrik or The Comical Wedding), a play

The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum

-- Title Case not used for subtitle in authoritative English translations -->(original German title: Die verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum oder: Wie Gewalt entstehen und wohin sie führen kann) is a 1974 novel by Heinrich Böll.

Vineta

A thesis formulated by Goldmann und Wermusch placed Vineta near Barth, pointing to a possiblly different course of the Oder in the Middle Ages and a creative reading of the primary sources outlined above.

Vogelsang

Vogelsang, Brandenburg, a municipality in the Oder-Spree district, Brandenburg, Germany

Wellington's Victory

Wellington's Victory, or, the Battle of Vitoria, Op. 91 (Wellingtons Sieg oder die Schlacht bei Vittoria) is a minor 15-minute long orchestral work composed by Ludwig van Beethoven to commemorate the Duke of Wellington's victory over Joseph Bonaparte at the Battle of Vitoria in Spain on 21 June 1813.

Werner Zillig

Karsten Kruschel: “Wird die Science Fiction geplündert? oder Wie man Science Fiction benutzen und trotzdem ein ‘anständiger’ Author bleiben kann. Einige Anmerkungen zu den Romanen ‘Der neue Duft’ von Werner Zillig, ‘Die Rättin’ von Günter Grass und ‘Sein und Bleiben’ von Gottfried Meinhold.”


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