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6 unusual facts about Pforzheim


Battle of Wimpfen

The story of the 400 citizens of Pforzheim who sacrificed themselves for their prince after the battle has been shown by modern research to be a myth.

Dimitrije Popović

The Liberty Gallery and Universal Fine Arts of Washington prepared in 1982 a combined exhibition of prints and other graphic works of Dalí and Popović in Pforzheim.

Konrad Öttinger

Konrad Öttinger (born 1530, Pforzheim, Germany; date and place of death unknown) was a Reformation era German Protestant theologian.

Pforzheim University of Applied Sciences

The Pforzheim University of Applied Science (Hochschule Pforzheim – Hochschule fuer Gestaltung, Technik und Wirtschaft) is a public university for applied science in Pforzheim, Germany.

Stephan Loboué

Loboué played in the youth of the Pforzheimer clubs SV Königsbach und VfR Pforzheim before joining Stuttgarter Kickers in 1996.

Ulryk Hozjusz

Born in Pforzheim, he lived most of his life in Poland, at the court of the Polish kings and Grand Dukes of Lithuania.


1. FC Pforzheim

This put Pforzheim into the national playoff rounds where they defeated favoured side Cologne FC 99 4–2 in a quarter final match, before eliminating defending champions Berlin TuFC Union 4–0 in the semi-finals.

C. Lorenz AG

During the 1950s, Lorenz recovered strongly and had several branches: Berlin-Tempelhof (radio communications and broadcasting research); Esslingen am Neckar (radio tubes); Landshut (electrical machines, broadcasting equipment, and signal systems); Pforzheim I (research and model workshop for small-scale transmitting equipment); Pforzheim II (telex factory); and Schaub Pforzheim (radio and television receivers).

Elisabeth of Brandenburg-Ansbach-Kulmbach

Elizabeth of Brandenburg-Ansbach-Kulmbach (25 March 1494 in Ansbach – 31 May 1518 in Pforzheim) was a princess of Brandenburg-Ansbach by birth and by marriage Margravine of Baden.

Ispringen

To the south of the town is a thin isthmus of forest and the A8 Munich to Karlsruhe autobahn that separates the town from Pforzheim's shopping district.

Johann Heynlin

Born in Stein near Pforzheim (from Stein, meaning "stone" in German, are derived his translated Latinized surname Lapideus and Gallicized surnames La Pierre or à Lapide), Heynlin may have been of Swabian origin.

Karlsruhe–Mühlacker railway

Baden saw the line has having two important tasks: on the one hand, connecting the industrial town of Pforzheim to the rail network, on the other hand, the creation of a possible direct connection between France, southern Germany and the Austrian Empire.

Konrad Pellikan

Pellikan became a priest in 1501 and continued to serve his order at Rouffach, Pforzheim, and Basel until 1526.

Ralph Bany

In 1989 he changed for a transfer fee of 50,000 German Mark together with his Pforzheim colleague Eberhard Carl to the Bundesliga club Karlsruher SC.


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