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unusual facts about Regensburg–Hof railway


Regensburg–Hof railway

Four years later, on 1 October 1863, the section opened to Weiden.


26th Tactical Reconnaissance Wing

On 30 October 1943, the 5th flew its first mission to Germany, photographing targets in Munich, Augsburg, Regensburg and Stuttgart.

450th Bombardment Group

The 450th contributed to the intensive Allied campaign against the enemy aircraft industry during Big Week (20–25 February 1944) by attacking factories at Steyr and Regensburg, being awarded a Distinguished Unit Citation (DUC) for braving the hazards of bad weather, enemy fighters, and flak to bombard a Messerschmitt aircraft manufacturing factory at Regensburg on 25 February.

452d Operations Group

Throughout combat, engaged primarily in bombardment of strategic targets, including marshalling yards at Frankfurt, aircraft assembly plants at Regensburg, aircraft component works at Kassel, the ball-bearing industry at Schweinfurt, a synthetic rubber plant at Hanover, and oil installations at Bohlen.

Abrogans

The best, albeit mangled handwriting is the direct copy of the archetype that was made around 810 in Murbach for Charlemagne (Baesecke) or in Regensburg under Bishop Baturich (Bernhard Bischoff).

Ankaran

In 1818 a book was published in Regensburg by Heinrich Hoppe and Friederich Hornschuh praising the local climate as being effective for recovery from injuries and illnesses.

Bamberg–Hof railway

In addition, direct hourly trains are planned from Weiden via Bayreuth and Lichtenfels to Bad Rodach.

Its expansion into a double-tracked railway followed in 1891 and the line was electrified from Bamberg to Lichtenfels and beyond that via the Franconian Forest Railway to Saalfeld on 10 May 1939.

In 2007, InterCityExpress trains working the Munich–Nuremberg–LeipzigBerlinHamburg route run hourly between Bamberg and Lichtenfels.

Battle of Ratisbon

Robert Browning's poem "Incident of the French Camp" is set during the Napoleonic Wars Battle Of Ratisbon/Regensburg.

Bavarian Eastern Railway Company

From Geiselhöring a branch also ran in the direction of Regensburg and on through the Upper Palatinate via Schwandorf, Amberg and Neukirchen to Hersbruck (left of the Pegnitz River)—a total of 133 km of line.

Christian Schaller

From 2003 to 2012, Christian Schaller was the theological collaborator of Gerhard Ludwig Müller, Bishop of Regensburg, and at the same time, since 2008, Deputy Director (vicar) of the Institut Papst Benedikt XVI, which is responsible for the edition of the publication complete works of Joseph Ratzinger, the establishment of a specialized library and an archive for scientific research work of the theological Papa Emeritus.

Count Johann Bernhard von Rechberg und Rothenlöwen

Born at Regensburg the second son of the Bavarian statesman Count Aloys von Rechberg und Rothenlöwen (1766–1849), Johann Bernhard was destined for the Bavarian public service, his elder brother being a hereditary member of the Upper House in the parliament of Württemberg.

Detachment R

Detachment R (also known as the U.S. Army Russian Area School) was a special U.S. Army School initially located in a former Wehrmacht garrison in Oberammergau and later moved to Regensburg, Germany, where it remained from 1950 to 1954, when it was moved back to Oberammergau.

DRG Class E 19

The locomotives were stationed at the Nuremberg depot and mainly used between Nuremberg on Frankenwald and Probstzella in the DDR, as well as between Nuremberg and Regensburg.

Ergoldsbach

A large proportion of the population travel every day to Landshut, Munich, Dingolfing and Regensburg.

Erhard Weigel

He followed Jakob Ellrod to the Imperial Diet in Regensburg to advocate the use of the Mittel-Calendar or New Gregorian calendar.

Ferdinand Janner

Thereafter, he served first as the chaplain at Weiden, then in 1863, he became the perfect of the Regensburg seminary.

Four Provinces Flag of Ireland

The arms of the Regensburg Schottenklöster, which date from at least the 14th century, combined the arms of the Holy Roman Emperor (from whom the abbey received protection) dimidiated with a symbol that may be linked with the crest of the O'Brien dynasty arms (an 11th-century O'Brien is listed as the "fundator" of the abbey).

Franz Michael Permaneder

He studied theology and jurisprudence at Landshut and in 1818 was ordained to the priesthood at Regensburg.

Franz Seraph von Pfistermeister

Councillor Georg Klindworth from Brussels and Baron Franz Josef von Gruben from Regensburg, the Thurn und Taxis estate manager and a prominent figure in the Bavarian Catholic Party, offered Wagner capital in the form of bonus share in the recently formed bank to finance his plans.

Franz Xaver Schwarz

Schwarz died in an Allied internment camp near Regensburg on 2 December 1947, due to recurring gastric troubles.

Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht

Born οn June 15, 1948 in Würzburg, Germany, Gumbrecht received his education in Paris, Munich, Regensburg, Salamanca, Pavia and Konstanz, receiving his Ph.D. at the University of Konstanz in 1971 where he was also an assistant professor from 1971 to 1974.

Heinrich Vogt

Heinrich Vogt (23 April 1875, Regensburg – 1936, Bad Pyrmont) was a German neurologist.

Humanic

Two years later Humanic opens its first store in Regensburg, Germany, and, in the same year, the first two stores in Bratislava, Slovakia.

Irene Eber

Eber's book is a psychological analysis of coping with the destructive forces that engulfed her young life at Halle, Mielec, Brünnlitz (Brněnec), Krakau, Prag, Regensburg, Cham, München, Frankfurt am Main and Zeilsheim.

Jakob Miller

In 1592 he was made the first mitred provost of Regensburg, since the bishop Philipp of Bavaria was still in his minority.

Johann Cochlaeus

Cochlaeus accompanied Lorenzo Campeggio, the papal nuncio in Holy Roman Empire, to the Convention of Regensburg as interpreter and member of the commission which discussed the reform of the clergy.

Johann Maier

On 22 April 1945, Reich Defence Commissar Ludwig Ruckdeschel took city defence to the extreme in Regensburg when United States Army tanks had already reached the Danube.

Kullman Building Corporation

A franchise in Germany affiliated with Kullman was established in 1997, and since has opened a number of restaurants in a number of cities such as Berlin, Kaiserslautern, Ludwigsburg and Regensburg.

Leder und Schuh

In spring 2002 Humanic opens its first store in Regensburg, Germany, and, in the same year, the first two stores in Bratislava, Slovakia.

Leipzig–Hof railway

At Schönberg after connecting with the line to Schleiz and the closed line to Hirschberg, it turns south and three times crosses into very short sections of Thuringian territory.

The construction of the final section between Reichenbach and the Bavarian border was more difficult and required two large viaducts to cross the Göltzsch and Elster valleys.

Lichtenfels station

Lichtenfels station is 31.9 km from Bamberg on the Bamberg–Hof railway and 150.9 from Eisenach on the Werra Railway at a height of 262.4 metres above sea level and is located west of the town centre and east of the Main river.

Marek Štryncl

He has appeared in prestigious festivals such as the Prague Spring International Music Festival, Rezonanzen in Vienna, the Festival van Vlaanderen in Brugge, the Tage alter Musik in Sopron, in Regensburg, Strings of Autumn, and Concentus Moraviae.

Ottonian art

Other important monastic scriptoria that flourished during the Ottonian age include those at Corvey, Hildesheim, Regensburg, Echternach, and Cologne.

Petrus Apianus

When the plague broke out in Vienna in 1521, he completed his studies with a B.A. and moved to Regensburg and then to Landshut.

Regensburg Congress of 1459

The nineteen masters in attendance included those in charge of cathedrals in Regensburg, Vienna (Lorenz Spenning), Basel, Bern, Passau, Salzburg, Konstanz, Weissenau, Landshut, Ingolstadt, Weißenberg, Esslingen, Amberg, Hassfurt, Ochsenfurt and Cologne.

Regensburg Hauptbahnhof

Regensburg was connected to the railway network relatively late; although the first line in Bavaria opened in 1835, it took until 1859 for the Bavarian Eastern Railway (Königlich privilegirte Actiengesellschaft der bayerischen Ostbahnen) to link this east Bavarian metropolis with Nuremberg and Munich, the first line to be built going via Amberg.

Regensburg today sees about 200 trains per day, most of them operated by Deutsche Bahn AG, though some regional services are operated by Vogtlandbahn.

Regensburg–Passau railway

From Sünching the line swung away to Geiselhöring in the valley of the Kleinen Laaber, where trains continued on to Landshut and Munich.

Rock of Cashel

The Irish Abbot of Regensburg, Dirmicius of Regensburg, sent two of his carpenters to help in the work and the twin towers on either side of the junction of the nave and chancel are strongly suggestive of their Germanic influence, as this feature is otherwise unknown in Ireland.

Rolling highway

In Italy, Trenitalia and Trasposervizi signed an agreement between Italy, Austria and Germany for a new rolling road that connects the inland of Roncafort (north of Trento) with Regensburg (north of Munich) and previously managed by the Austrian Ökombi.

Schottenkirche, Vienna

The famous Scottish Monastery of St. Jacob at Ratisbon was built around 1090 by Burgrave Otto of Ratisbon in Ratisbon became the mother-house of a series of other Scots Monasteries, among which the Our Blessed Lady at Vienna built in 1158.

Tadeusz Sobolewicz

Sobolewicz endured the entire rest of the war in six concentration camps, first and longest in Auschwitz (until March 10, 1943), and then in Buchenwald, Leipzig (subcamp of Buchenwald), Mülsen (subcamp of Flossenbürg), Flossenbürg, and Regensburg (subcamp of Flossenbürg).

Valhalla

Examples of the latter include the Walhalla temple built by Leo von Klenze for Ludwig I of Bavaria between 1830–1847 near Regensburg, Germany, and the Tresco Abbey Gardens Valhalla museum built by August Smith around 1830 to house ship figureheads from shipwrecks that occurred at the Isles of Scilly, England, where the museum is located.

Waldsassen Abbey

As the number of monks increased, several important foundations were made at Sedlitz and Ossegg in Bohemia, at Walderbach, near Regensburg, and in other places.

Wolfgang Julius, Count of Hohenlohe-Neuenstein

He was the son of Kraft III of Hohenlohe-Neuenstein (14 November 1582, Langenburg - 11 September 1641, Regensburg) and Sophie of Birkenfeld (29 March 1593, Ansbach - 16 November 1676, Neuenstein).


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