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unusual facts about Schwandorf–Furth im Wald railway


Schwandorf–Furth im Wald railway

Since December 2007 the services from Munich have been operated as the Arriva-Länderbahn-Express (brand named ALEX) by Vogtlandbahn.


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.

At Irrenlohe station—situated 4 km north of Schwandorf on the line to Nuremberg—the 40 km line to Weiden was started, which ran along the Naab valley.

Johann Goldfuß

When he was released, in 1949, he found out that his family had been expelled from Czechoslovakia and had moved to Schwandorf, Bavaria.

Marian Dobmayer

Marian Dobmayer (born 24 October 1753, at Schwandorf, Bavaria; died 21 December 1805, at Amberg, Bavaria) was a German Benedictine theologian.

Nuremberg–Schwandorf railway

The Nuremberg–Schwandorf railway is a 93.7 km long railway from Nuremberg, running along the Pegnitz river, to Hersbruck and continuing via Neukirchen bei Sulzbach-Rosenberg and Amberg to Schwandorf in the German state of Bavaria.

Schwandorf

Kreuzberg Church: Catholic parish, monastic and pilgrimage church of Mary Help of Christians on the Kreuzberg

Schwandorf station

Just under four years later, on 1 October 1863, the Schwandorf–Weiden line was opened and, in 1865, it was extended to Eger.

Solingen arson attack of 1993

In December 1988, a German ultra right militant named Josef Seller set fire to the "Habermeier Haus" building in Schwandorf, Bavaria killing the Turkish couple Fatma and Osman Can, together with their son Mehmet; the arson attack also took the life of German citizen Jürgen Hübner.


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