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2 unusual facts about Torgau-Oschatz


Mügeln railway network

This had been formed in 1993 as the result of an initiative by the district of Torgau-Oschatz and the passenger association, Pro Bahn.

Nordsachsen

The district was established by merging the former districts of Delitzsch and Torgau-Oschatz as part of the district reform of August 2008.


Architecture of Germany

Some princes, however, promoted modern art, for example in Torgau and Aschaffenburg, and Landshut, where the renaissance era originated.

Arzberg

Arzberg, Saxony, a municipality in the district of Torgau-Oschatz in Saxony, Germany

Duke Frederick of Saxe-Altenburg

Frederick of Saxe-Altenburg (12 February 1599, Torgau – in battle: 24 October 1625, Seelze) was a member of the Ernestine branche of the House of Wettin and a Duke of Saxe-Altenburg and Duke of Jülich-Cleves-Berg.

Ezra Laderman

The Battle of the Bulge, crossing the Rhine at Remagen, liberating Leipzig, meeting the Russians at Torgau on the bank of the Elbe were the points in this constellation that was filled with tension and waiting, victory and grief.

Hans Daubmann

Hans Daubmann (born, in Torgau, died in 1573 in Königsberg) was a German printer, active in Nuremberg and then Königsberg, Ducal Prussia (at the time a fief of Kingdom of Poland).

Heinrich Schütz

He wrote what is traditionally considered to be the first German opera, Dafne (Opitz-Schütz), performed at Torgau in 1627, the music of which has since been lost.

Johann Adolf I, Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels

The conflict could only be settled with the Contract of Torgau (12 May 1681) and two other contracts signed in Dresden in 1682 and 1688; with these pacts, Johann Adolf secured his rule over Querfurt and his seat in the Upper-Saxonian Council (Kreistag).

Karl Christian Erdmann von Le Coq

Charles Christian Erdmann Ritter and Edler von Le Coq (Torgau, 28 October 1767 – Brig, 30 June 1830) was a Saxon officer who rose to rank Lieutenant-General and was the commanding officer of the Royal Saxon army.

Orli Wald

Wald was born Aurelia Torgau in Bourell, near Maubeuge, France, the sixth child of a German couple, Maria and August Torgau.

Paul Luther

While in Torgau, on 5 February 1553, at the age of twenty, Luther married Anna, daughter of the translator Veit Warbeck (c. 1490–1534).

Pretzsch, Wittenberg

It is about 20 km southeast of Wittenberg and is the intersection of Federal Highway (Bundesstraße) B 182 between Torgau and Wittenberg, and state road (Landesstraße) L 128 between Bad Schmiedeberg and Jessen.

Saxon IV K

Even in the 1980s these engines were handling all the traffic on the WolkensteinJöhstadt und OschatzMügeln–Kemmlitz lines.

Sibylle of Cleves

John Frederick II, Duke of Saxony (b. Torgau, 8 January 1529 – d. as imperial prisoner at Schloss Steyr, Upper Austria, 19 May 1595);

Torgau

According to journalist Andy Rooney, who was a correspondent in Europe at the time, the Red Army raided the Hohner accordion and harmonica factory at Torgau at the time.


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