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2 unusual facts about Rheine-Bentlage Air Base


Rheine-Bentlage Air Base

Since then helicopters from Rheine saw action in as different places as Italy, Greece and the Pyrenees mainly by offering help and logistic support after natural disasters.

Rheine-Bentlage Air Base (German: Heeresflugplatz Rheine-Bentlage, IATA: ZPQ, ICAO: ETHE) is located near the village of Bentlage, 2 km northwest of the city of Rheine, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.


Isaac Leeser

Born as Isaak Leeser in Neuenkirchen/Rheine, Westphalia, Isaac Leeser received his education at the primary school of nearby Dülmen and thereupon at a gymnasium in Münster.

Löhne–Rheine railway

Just six months later the next section was put into operation, closing the gap from Osnabrück to Papenburg via Rheine and Salzbergen.

Medisch Spectrum Twente

The hospital does not have its own trauma helicopter, but an ADAC helicopter from the neighboring German town of Rheine frequently crosses the border when the local (Dutch) ambulance control center requests it.

Merkur XR4Ti

The cars were hand assembled and built entirely by Karmann Coachworks in Rheine, Germany.

Münster–Rheine railway

In 1879, the Rhenish Railway Company (Rheinische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft, RhE) opened its own North Sea route from Duisburg via Rheine to Quakenbrück and so made the station one of the major railway junctions in north-western Germany.

Orest Romashyna

Orest Romashyna (born October 27, 1946 in Rheine, West Germany) is a German-Canadian former ice hockey left winger.

Robert Weiß

/JG 54 were ordered up against RAF fighter-bombers in the Osnabrück, Münster and Rheine areas.

Royal Hanoverian State Railways

In the end they agreed upon the present-day route from von Löhne via Osnabrück to Prussian Rheine, that at the same time provided a junction at Münster to the Royal Westphalian Railway Company (Königlich-Westfälische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft) and from there a link via Salzbergen to Leer and Emden.

Royal Westphalian Railway Company

The network eventually extended about 315 km from Rheine via Hamm to Warburg and from Welver (near Hamm) to Oberhausen.


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