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2 unusual facts about Upper Swabia


Bavarian P 3/5 H

The last engine of this class, number 38 432, ran in Bavaria and Upper Swabia and was taken out of service in 1955.

Versandhaus Walz

Versandhaus Walz GmbH is a mail order company located in Bad Waldsee, Upper Swabia.


Doc Salbe PGA European Challenge

It was only held once, in 2007, and played over the New Course at the Golf & Vitalpark Bad Waldsee in Bad Waldsee, Upper Swabia, Germany.

Further Austria

Also ruled from the Habsburg residence in Ensisheim near Mühlhausen were numerous scattered territories stretching from Upper Swabia to the Allgäu region in the east, the largest being the margravate of Burgau between the cities of Augsburg and Ulm.

Jünkerath

Count Sternberg-Manderscheid acquired in the 1803 Reichsdeputationshauptschluss as the landholder, among other things, the holdings formerly belonging to the monasteries at Weissenau and Schussenried in Upper Swabia to offset his loss of Blankenheim, Jünkerath, Gerolstein and Dollendorf.

Wola massacre

Dirlewanger, who presided over and personally participated in many of the worst acts of violence, was arrested on 1 June 1945 by the French occupation troops while hiding under a false name near the town of Altshausen in Upper Swabia.


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Bartholomäus Aich

Little is known about his life: originally from the village of Uttenweiler near Biberach an der Riß in Upper Swabia, he was the organist of the convent of canonesses in Lindau/Lake Constance.