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2 unusual facts about Oschersleben–Jerxheim railway


Oschersleben–Jerxheim railway

After the opening of the Berlin–Lehrte railway in 1871 and the direct Brunswick–Magdeburg line (via Helmstedt) in 1872, it was mainly used for freight.

To the west it connected with the Wolfenbüttel–Helmstedt line at Jerxheim.


2002 Formula Renault 2000 Eurocup season

Series veteran Eric Salignon scored four victories at Magny-Cours, Silverstone, Oschersleben and Imola during the season, he took the championship at the wheel of his Graff Racing-run car, giving team their first Eurocup championship.

354th Operations Group

During that same period, Colonel James H. Howard won the Medal of Honor for his single-handed efforts defending a bomber formation that was attacked by a large force of enemy planes while on a mission to Oschersleben, Germany on 11 January 1944.

Am Großen Bruch

The railway line from Oschersleben to Jerxheim in Lower Saxony was closed in 1992.

Brunswick Southern Railway

All railways between Helmstedt (Brunswick–Magdeburg railway) and Walkenried (South Harz Railway) were disrupted at the Inner-German border, including the Jerxheim crossing on the line from Magdeburg via Eilsleben and Oschersleben.

FIA WTCC Race of Germany

The race was run at Oschersleben every year since the return of the series in 2005 season to 2011.

Gustav Breddin

Gustav Breddin (25 February 1864, Magdeburg - 22 December 1909, Oschersleben) was a German entomologist who specialised in Hemiptera.

Motorsport Arena Oschersleben

Motorsport Arena Oschersleben was a venue for FIA's European Touring Car Championship from 2001 to 2004 and the World Touring Car Championship from 2005 to 2011.

Opened on 25 July 1997 as Motopark Oschersleben, it was Germany's third permanent racecourse, after Nürburgring and Hockenheimring.

Oschersleben

In the years previous to World War II Oschersleben expanded due to the airplane manufactory (AGO Flugzeugwerke) that was founded there and needed numerous workers.

In 1992, a potato processing plant of the company Agrarfrost was built, that produces French fries and potato chips.

Rosemarie Hein

She spent the next five years working at the extended secondary school in Oschersleben

Wolfenbüttel–Helmstedt railway

On 10 July 1843 a line was opened by the Duchy of Brunswick State Railway from Wolfenbüttel to the Magdeburg–Halberstadt line at Oschersleben via Schöppenstedt, Jerxheim and Gunsleben.


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