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unusual facts about Ratingen-Homberg


Ratingen-Homberg

Georg Heidenreich grew up in Homberg and is now consultant to the European Commission.


Claudia Jung

Claudia Jung (born Ute Krummenast April 12, 1964 in Ratingen, North Rhine-Westphalia), is a German Schlager singer, actress, and politician.

Erik Surjan

Unfortunately for Erik, he sustained a serious knee injury in Ratingen, Germany in June, 2005 requiring surgery and missing the entire 2006 season, including the 2006 Melbourne Commonwealth Games.

Ida Marcussen

She competed at the international combined event meets in Götzis and Ratingen, setting new personal bests in the shot put, javelin and 800 metres.

Jenoptik

The Jenoptik Group headquarters are in Jena, with additional major sites in Germany located in Wedel near Hamburg, Monheim and Ratingen near Düsseldorf, Villingen-Schwenningen, Triptis, the Bavarian town of Altenstadt, and Essen.

Juergen Toft

Following further training in Tailfingen and Ratingen, as well as in the U.S. (ECFMG in 1975), he obtained board certification as an orthopedic surgeon in 1976.

Kappeln, Rhineland-Palatinate

According to the document, the magistrates denied Waldgrave Friedrich of Kyrburg any rights to the villages of Schweinschied, Kappeln, Löllbach, Langweiler, Käsweiler (vanished before 1500), Sulzbach, Homberg, Kirrweiler, Oberjeckenbach (cleared out in 1933 by the Nazis to make way for the Baumholder troop drilling ground) and Unterjeckenbach.

Kessock Bridge

Designed by German engineer Hellmut Homberg and built by Cleveland Bridge, it is similar to a bridge across the Rhine in Düsseldorf.

Kirrweiler, Kusel

Kirrweiler borders in the north on the municipality of Homberg (and more specifically on the Schönbornerhof, that municipality’s historic farm estate), in the northeast on the municipality of Herren-Sulzbach, in the east on the municipality of Deimberg, in the south on the municipality of Sankt Julian and in the west on the Baumholder troop drilling ground.

Langweiler, Kusel

Langweiler borders in the north on the municipality of Sien, in the northeast on the municipality of Hoppstädten, in the east on the municipality of Merzweiler, in the south on the municipality of Homberg and in the west on the municipality of Unterjeckenbach.

Larbi Bouraada

In July 2011 he sets a new African record with a total of 8302 points at the Ratingen Combined Event meeting in Germany.

LVR Industrial Museum

Ratingen: Textilfabrik Cromford (textiles factory), the first factory in continental Europe, named after the Cromford Mill

Norbert Pohlmann

Norbert Pohlmann (born 20 March 1960 in Ratingen/Germany) is a computer scientist and a professor at the Westphalia University of Applied Sciences Gelsenkirchen.

Pyrophorus

In early use, the term was applied specifically to Homberg's pyrophorus, a substance made by heating alum with lampblack, flour, starch, or sugar.

Rapperswil

The Grafschaft of Rapperswil proper passed to the house of Homberg represented by Count Ludwig († April 27, 1289) by first marriage of Elisabeth of Rapperswil.

Rapperswil Castle

The Grafschaft of Rapperswil proper passed to the house of Homberg represented by Count Ludwig († April, 27 1289) by fist marriage of Elisabeth of Rapperswil.

Ratingen

Several important international enterprises (particularly from the IT industry) as Vodafone, Sun Microsystems, Hewlett-Packard, SAP, CEMEX, Tiptel and Esprit maintain branches and/or main centers in Ratingen.

Royal Division of the Aachen-Düsseldorf-Ruhrort Railway

Ruhrort-Crefeld District Gladbach Railway Company (Ruhrort–Crefeld−Kreis Gladbach Eisenbahngesellschaft, RCG), founded in 1844, approved by the Prussian government on 21 August 1846 and granted a concession on 8 January 1847 to build the line from Homberg via Trompet, Uerdingen and Viersen to Gladbach.

Unterjeckenbach

Unterjeckenbach borders in the north on the municipality of Sien in the east on the municipality of Langweiler, in the south on the municipality of Homberg and in the west on the Baumholder troop drilling ground.


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