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3 unusual facts about Straubing


Captive bolt pistol

The captive bolt pistol was invented in 1903 by Dr. Hugo Heiss, former director of a slaughterhouse in Straubing, Germany.

Melitta Schenk Gräfin von Stauffenberg

She crash-landed the aircraft, but died from bullet wounds a couple of hours later, in Straubing.

Ursuline Nuns of the Immaculate Conception

It was founded in 1858 by Mother Salesia Reitmeier, a German nun from Straubing, for the instruction of German immigrant children.


Architecture of Munich

The architecture of the gothic Munich was still strongly influenced by the citizenry and not much different from the other ducal cities such as Landshut, Ingolstadt and Straubing.

Gérard de Dainville

As bishop of Cambrai, Gérard received permission from the Emperor Charles IV to invest Duke Albert I of Bavaria-Straubing as regent of the County of Hainaut.

Henry XVI, Duke of Bavaria

While the duchy of Bavaria-Straubing was still divided between Bavaria-Ingolstadt, Bavaria-Munich and Bavaria-Landshut after the extinction of the dukes of Straubing in 1429, Henry managed to receive the complete duchy of Bavaria-Ingolstadt in 1447.

Jacqueline

Jacqueline, Countess of Hainaut (1401–1436), Duchess of Bavaria-Straubing, Countess of Hainaut and Holland

Karl von Seinsheim

He held similar posts in the government councils of Trento in 1808, Straubing in 1809, Salzburg in 1810, and Munich in 1817.

Louis VII, Duke of Bavaria

In 1408 Louis, William II, Duke of Bavaria-Straubing and John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy defeated the citizens of Liege who revolted against William's brother John of Bavaria, the bishop of Liège on the field of Othée.

Lower Bavaria

After the reunification in 1340 Bavaria was divided again in 1349, in 1353 Bavaria-Straubing and Bavaria-Landshut were created in Lower Bavaria.

Matthew Rader

Both were reprinted in 1704 in Dillingen and Augsburg, and the former was partly published in a German translation by Father Rassler in Straubing in 1840.

Michael Buchberger

Michael Buchberger (8 June 1874, Jetzendorf - 10 June 1961, Straubing) was a Roman Catholic priest, notable as the seventy-fourth bishop of Regensburg since the diocese's foundation in 739.

William I, Duke of Bavaria

William I, Duke of Bavaria-Straubing (Frankfurt am Main, 12 May 1330 – 15 April 1389, Le Quesnoy), was the second son of the emperor Louis IV the Bavarian from his second wife Margaret of Holland and Hainaut.

William II, Duke of Bavaria

Duke William I of Bavaria-Straubing had previously sent five expeditions to conquer Friesland.

William III, Duke of Bavaria

After the extinction of the Wittelsbach dukes of Bavaria-Straubing, counts of Holland and Hainaut, William and his brother Ernest struggled with their cousins Henry and Louis but finally received half of Bavaria-Straubing in 1429.


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