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16 unusual facts about Oldenburg


Bockhorn, Lower Saxony

It is situated approximately 15 km southwest of Wilhelmshaven, and 30 km northwest of Oldenburg.

DRG Class 81

After their collection, the ten engines were allocated to the locomotive depots (Bahnbetriebswerken or Bw) of Goslar (81 001–005) and Oldenburg (81 006–010).

Gerhard Markson

Having worked as an opera and symphony conductor at the opera houses in Augsburg, Oldenburg and Freiburg, he became music director at Hagen Theatre from 1991 to 1998.

Helvig of Schauenburg

Gerhard (1430–1500); when his eldest brother had become king, he was given the county of Oldenburg, and from his other brother's heirs he also inherited Delmenhorst in about 1483.

Christian (1426–1481), who succeeded his father as Count of Oldenburg and Delmenhorst.

Helvig of Schauenburg (1398–1436), also known as Hedwig of Schauenburg, was a duchess of Schleswig and a countess of Holstein from the family of Schauenburg, and ancestor of the Danish Royal houses of Oldenburg and Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg.

Joseph Christian Freiherr von Zedlitz

He was sent as representative of the Austrian imperial court to the principalities of Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach, Nassau, Braunschweig, Oldenburg and Reuss.

Mock turtle soup

In the Oldenburg and Ammerland regions of Germany, Mockturtlesuppe—the English designation "mock turtle" retained—is a traditional meal, dating from the time of the personal union between the Kingdom of Hanover and the Kingdom of Great Britain.

Oldenburg

The Jade University of Applied Sciences (Jade-Hochschule) The former Fachhochschule Oldenburg (until 1999) was founded in 1971, a merger of the previous engineering academy with the nautical college in Elsfleth.

Oldenburg S 10

The express train locomotives of Oldenburg Class S 10 were built for the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg State Railways for duties on the BremenOldenburgWilhelmshaven line, which was the most important express route in Oldenburg.

Oldenburg, Indiana

In 1851, Mother Theresa Hackelmeier (1827-1860) founded the Sisters of St. Francis of Oldenburg who would open numerous schools in the Midwest.

Ovelgönne

It is situated approximately 27 km northeast of Oldenburg, and 40 km northwest of Bremen.

Princess Amalia of Sweden

Amalia Maria Charlotta of Sweden (22 February 1805 in Stockholm – 31 August 1853 in Oldenburg) was a Swedish princess, daughter of King Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden and Frederica of Baden.

Rudolf van Diepholt

Rudolf was the son of Johann III, Lord of Diepholz (died 1422), and Countess Kunigunde von Oldenburg; he was brother of Konrad IX, Lord of Diepholz (died 1426), and uncle of Otto IV, Lord of Diepholz (died 1481).

Wiefelstede

It is situated approximately 15 km northwest of Oldenburg.

Wilhelm Kleinschmidt

A native of Oldenburg, Kleinschmidt joined the German Navy in 1932 and was given two years seniority on account of having formerly served for seven years in the merchant service.


Alina Treiger

She works primarily with the native Russian speakers in the city of Oldenburg and nearby town of Delmenhorst.

Ameli, Duchess of Oldenburg

Duke Anton-Günther is a grandson of the last Grand Duke of Oldenburg, Frederick Augustus II.

Anthony I, Count of Oldenburg

Anthony I, Count of Oldenburg and Delmenhorst (1505 – 22 January 1573 in Oldenburg) was a member of the House of Oldenburg and was the Imperial Count of the Counties of Oldenburg and Delmenhorst within the Holy Roman Empire of German Nation.

Augustus, Grand Duke of Oldenburg

Augustus was born on 13 July 1783 at Schloss Rastede near Oldenburg, to the then Prince Peter Frederick Louis of Holstein-Gottorp and his wife Duchess Frederica of Württemberg, a daughter of Frederick II Eugene, Duke of Württemberg.

Battle of Detern

In the course of the battle an East Frisian peasant army under Focko Ukena and Sibet of Rüstringen defeated the Oldenburg troops called by Chieftain Ocko II tom Brok to assist him, the Archbishop of Bremen and the counts of Hoya, Diepholz and Tecklenburg, who had besieged Detern.

Burghart Schmidt

Burghart Schmidt (born November 30, 1942 in Wildeshausen, Oldenburg) is a German philosopher.

Cadet branch

Also, marriage to cadet males of the Houses of Oldenburg (Holstein-Gottorp), Polignac, and Bourbon-Parma brought those dynasties patrilineally to the thrones of Russia, Monaco, and Luxembourg, respectively.

Christian II, Count of Oldenburg

Christian II managed to end the sovereignty of the Archbishopric of Bremen over Oldenburg; in return he assisted Bremen against the rebellious farmers in Stedingen.

Christian Vater

His surviving organs are at Bockhorn, Oldenburg (1722); Oude Kerk, Amsterdam (1726); Wiefelstede, Oldenburg (c.1729); St Nikolai, Gifhorn (1748) and Hohenrode, Bad Hersfeld (1749); remnants such as cases and pipework survive elsewhere.

Christine Charlotte of Württemberg

Her major foreign policy success was a border treaty with Oldenburg on 22 December 1666.

Coat of arms of Oldenburg

The coat of arms of Oldenburg is the coat associated with the state of Oldenburg, a county, duchy and grand duchy, that existed between 1180 and 1918, and the associated with the parts of the House of Oldenburg that ruled the state.

Duchy of Oldenburg

At this time, the county of Delmenhorst formed part of the dominions of the counts of Oldenburg, but afterwards it was on several occasions separated from them to form an appanage for younger branches of the family.

Duke Christian of Oldenburg

Christian is a great-grandson of the last Grand Duke of Oldenburg, Frederick Augustus II and through his mother he is related to the Princes of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Freudenberg, who belong to a morganatic branch of the House of Wittelsbach descending from Frederick I, Elector Palatine.

Duke Elimar of Oldenburg

Anton Gunther Friedrich Elimar (January 23, 1844 Oldenburg– October 17, 1895 Erlau) was a duke of Oldenburg.

Duke of Holstein-Gottorp

In 1773 she agreed to cede the territorial claims of her son to the Holstein-Gottorp lands still held by Denmark, obtaining in exchange the German countships of Oldenburg and Delmenhorst, elevated in 1776 into the duchy of Oldenburg within the Holy Roman Empire.

East Frisian peninsula

By contrast, Ost-Friesland includes, as a rule, the other traditionally Frisian parts of the peninsula: the town of Wilhelmshaven and the Oldenburg district of Friesland (Jeverland and Friesische Wehde).

Edzard II, Count of East Frisia

Maria of Jever, the last baroness, died and left her territory to the Counts of Oldenburg.

Emilie of Oldenburg-Delmenhorst

Emilie Antonia of Oldenburg-Delmenhorst (15 June 1614 in Delmenhorst – 4 December 1670 in Rudolstadt), was regent of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt from 1646 to 1662.

Flora Danica

The original plan was to cover all plants, including bryophytes, lichens and fungi native to crown lands of the Danish king, that is Denmark, Schleswig-Holstein, Oldenburg-Delmenhorst and Norway with its North Atlantic dependencies Iceland, the Faroe Islands and Greenland.

Frederick Augustus II, Grand Duke of Oldenburg

Frederick Augustus II (16 November 1852, Oldenburg – 24 February 1931, Rastede) was the last ruling Grand Duke of Oldenburg.

Frederick Augustus, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst

The dominion of Jever (which was anexed to Zerbst by the marriage of Prince Rudolph with Magdalene of Oldenburg, heiress of that land) was ruled under the Semi-Salic Law; for this, was given to the Empress Catherine II of Russia, born Princess Sophie Auguste Fredericka of Anhalt-Zerbst and Frederick Augustus's only surviving sibling.

Grand Duchy of Oldenburg

The Grand Duchy of Oldenburg (German: Großherzogtum Oldenburg) (also known as Holstein-Oldenburg) was a Grand Duchy within the German Confederation, North German Confederation, and German Empire, which consisted of three widely separated territories: Oldenburg, Eutin and Birkenfeld.

Grand Duchy of Oldenburg State Railways

The Grand Duchy of Oldenburg gained an important link to the south in 1876 with the so-called Southern Railway from Oldenburg via Quakenbrück as far as Eversburg on the Osnabrück–Rheine line.

The Oldenburg staff were transferred to the Reichsbahn divisions of Hannover, Hamburg und Münster/Westfalia after the disbandment of the railway division in Oldenburg town.

Jasmine Chen

In 2006 Jasmine Chen competed in the Asian Games with her horse, an Oldenburg named Comodoro, placing 2nd in the singles and 7th place in the team competition.

John II, Count of Oldenburg

John II of Oldenburg is also the male-line ancestor of Queen Margrethe II of Denmark, Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, and thus of Charles, Prince of Wales and Prince William, Duke of Cambridge.

LSV Ahlhorn

Lufttwaffensportverein Ahlhorn was a short-lived German football club from the town of Ahlhorn near Oldenburg, Lower Saxony.

Maria of Jever

A servant is said to have secretly eaten the food, so no suspicion would arise, until Maria's rightful heir, Count John VII of Oldenburg, had arrived.

Osenberge

The rolling dunes of the Osenberge are located in the northwest of the Wildeshausen Geest Nature Park, on average about 14 km (as the crow flies) south of Oldenburg, directly south of Sandkrug and immediately northwest of Sandhatten, both of which lie within the municipality of Hatten.

Prince Heinrich Julius of Hanover

On 30 April 1999, Heinrich Julius married Thyra Sixtina Donata von Westernhagen (born 14 August 1973 in Oldenburg) in Teistungen, Thuringia.

Rena Niehaus

Born in Oldenburg, Rena Niehaus was a minor star in 1970s Italian genre cinema, also appearing in several important "auteur" films as Alberto Lattuada's Cuore di cane and Eriprando Visconti's La Orca.

Rudolf Bultmann

Bultmann was born in Wiefelstede, Oldenburg, the son of Arthur Kennedy Bultmann, a Lutheran minister.

Schulschiff Deutschland

Between trips Elsfleth was the ship's base as owing to the draft of the ship its registered home port of Oldenburg could not be used.

Third place

In his influential book The Great Good Place, Ray Oldenburg (1989, 1991) argues that third places are important for civil society, democracy, civic engagement, and establishing feelings of a sense of place.

Wilbrand van Oldenburg

Wilbrands older brothers Burchard of Wildenbrug and Henry III, Count of Oldenburg were killed in a crusade against the Stedingers.