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5 unusual facts about Singen


Bernhard Dietsche

Bernhard Dietsche was born on the 3 March 1912 in Singen in the south of Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany.

Maggi

In 1897, Julius Maggi founded the company Maggi GmbH in the German town of Singen, where it is still based today.

Mário Teixeira Costa

Mário Teixeira Costa (born 24 November 1970 in Singen, Germany) is a retired Portuguese professional footballer who played as a right back

Singen

This route into Switzerland was discovered by Dutch naval lieutenant Hans Larive in 1940 on his first escape attempt from an Oflag (prisoner's camp for officers) in Soest.

Larive did not forget and many prisoners later escaped using this route - that included Larive himself, Francis Steinmetz, Anthony Luteyn, Airey Neave, Pat Reid and Howard Wardle in their escapes from Colditz Castle when Colditz was used in the war as Oflag IV-C.


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Gstanzl

Hofer, Anton, Strohmayer, Wolfgang: Heut gemma nimmer hoam: im Auftrag der ARGE "Singen & Musizieren" im NÖ Bildungs- und Heimatwerk, Eigenverlag

Konstanz

Konstanz station is served by the Upper Rhine Railway running west to Singen with connections to all parts of Germany, and the Etzwilen–Konstanz line running south into Switzerland, connecting to major routes at Weinfelden.

Nagold Valley Railway

Between Calw and Horb, long-distance trains from Stuttgart also ran on the Württemberg Black Forest Railway to Singen and from there to Lake Constance or Schaffhausen.

Prussian P 10

A total of 260 of these locomotives were ultimately constructed and they worked primarily on the Main-Weser-Bahn between Frankfurt and Kassel, as well as the Eifel region, the Black Forest network until their replacement by Class 221 diesel locomotives, and the Gäubahn (Stuttgart–Singen).

Württemberg T 5

The Württemberg T 5 proved itself very well and was occasionally even used to haul expresses on the Gäubahn (Stuttgart–Singen) between Immendingen and Stuttgart.


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