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3 unusual facts about Sauerland


12th Regiment Royal Artillery

12 Regt RA, searching for enemy aircraft, during an exercise, over the hills of the Sauerland, Germany.

Dhardo Rimpoche

Portions of Dhardo Rinpoche's relics, the ashes from his cremation, have been installed in several stupas in the West: at Sudarshanaloka Retreat Centre (near Thames, New Zealand), at Padmaloka Buddhist Retreat Centre (near Norwich, England), at Guhyaloka Retreat Centre, (near Alicante, Spain), at Tiratanaloka Retreat Centre in Wales and at Vimaladhatu Retreat Centre in Sauerland, Germany.

Langstrumpf Records

The T-Shirt Mein Freund ist Sauerländer (My Friend is coming from Sauerland), a promotion for a sampler under the same name, became well known in Germany.


Homert

The Homert rises in the southwestern part of the county of Hochsauerlandkreis, roughly in the centre of the triangle formed by Meinkenbracht, in the borough of Sundern, and Obersalwey in the south-southwest and Niedersalwey in the southeast, both in the borough of Eslohe.

Karl-Heinz Wiesemann

He later served as a priest in Bösperde, a suburb of Menden and provost of St. Petrus and Andreas in Brilon.

Lenne Mountains

They is located north and northeast of the middle reaches of the Lenne between Hemer and Iserlohn to the northwest, Sundern to the north, Eslohe to the east, Finnentrop to the south, Plettenberg and Werdohl to the southwest and Altena to the west.

Mennekes

MENNEKES Elektrotechnik GmbH & Co. KG is a leading manufacturer of industrial plugs and connectors with headquarters in Kirchhundem/Sauerland region and in Neudorf/Erzgebirge.

Olsberg

Olsberg, Germany, a town in Sauerland, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Sorpe Dam

The Sorpe Dam is situated to the north of the Homert natural park, south-west of the city of Arnsberg in an area belonging to the borough of Sundern (Sauerland) between the villages of Langscheid (at the dam) and Amecke.

Süderbergland

It corresponds roughly to the historic regions of the Sauerland, Bergisches Land, Siegerland and Wittgenstein Land in NRW as well as the Upland and the extreme northwest of the Hinterland in Hesse.

Walram of Jülich

In 1344 he entirely rebuilt with improved defences the town of Menden after it was destroyed by Count Adolph II of the Marck, having granted it municipal rights earlier in his reign.


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