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67 unusual facts about Württemberg


2011–12 Fußball-Oberliga Baden-Württemberg

The 2011–12 season of the Oberliga Baden-Württemberg, the highest association football league in Baden-Württemberg, was the fourth season of the league at tier five (V) of the German football league system and the 35th season overall since establishment of the league in 1978.

29214 Apitzsch

It is named for Rolf Apitzsch, a German amateur astronomer at the Observatorium Wildberg in Wildberg, Baden-Württemberg.

Aach, Baden-Württemberg

The first record of Jews in Aach is dated to 1518, in which a Jewish family is accused of murdering a Christian child, an incident that can be considered a Blood libel.

Alec Issigonis

Alec's mother, Hulda Prokopp, could trace her origins back to Württemberg (now part of Germany).

Andrea Berg

They currently live together with her daughter in Aspach, Baden-Württemberg.

Antonio Isopi

The ambassador to the Vatican of Württemberg’s Duke Carl Eugen, Gaetano Marini, recommended Isopi to the duke as an ornament designer and animal sculptor.

Antonio Isopi (5 February 1758 – 3 October 1833) was a Roman sculptor of Classicism mainly working at the court of the Dukes (later Kings) of Württemberg.

When, in 1806, Württemberg became a kingdom King Friedrich I commissioned his royal sculptor Isopi, who had been raised to knighthood, to create monmental sculptures of the two heraldic animals, stag and lion.

Aspach, Baden-Württemberg

The main village, Großaspach, is the birthplace of Hans Werner Aufrecht, co-founder of AMG Engine Production and Development, more commonly known as AMG, as well as the meaning of the "G" in the name.

Bezirksliga Bayern

In its second season, the league started to incooperate clubs from the city of Ulm, Württemberg, which lays right across the border from Bavaria.

Breitling

Wilhelm August von Breitling (1835–1914), German lawyer; from 1901 to 1906 he was the minister-president of the German state of Württemberg (President of the state ministry)

Charles H. Wacker

His father was Frederick Wacker, a brewer, who was born in Württemberg Germany.

Clarence Peacock

In the war's last days Peacock again distinguished himself again in battle at Buchen in Baden-Württemberg on 1 May 1945.

Consulate General of the United States, Frankfurt

The Frankfurt Consular district covers the German states of Hesse, Rhineland-Palatinate, Baden-Württemberg, and Saarland.

Deutsch-Amerikanisches Zentrum/James F. Byrnes Institute

The DAZ is a non-profit, bi-national institution, supported by the State Government of Baden-Württemberg and the City of Stuttgart, provides information on social, cultural, political, and economic issues in both countries.

Edith Soterius von Sachsenheim

In 1998, the Transylvanian Museum from Gundelsheim, Germany staged a retrospective exhibition and bought 50 of her paintings, some of which are on permanent display in the museum.

Eugen von Boeck

She was the daughter of a Cavalry Master in Württemberg and was traveling with a one-year-old son named Adolf.

Film Academy Baden-Württemberg

The animation institute at the Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg was listed as second in the 3D World ranking in 2007, a global "Ivy League" table of the world‘s top animation schools.

Recent proof of the Film Academy's philosophy of teaching are the Golden Leopard awarded to "Das Verlangen/The Longing" at the Locarno International Film Festival (2002), an Oscar nomination for "Das Rad" in the category "Best Animated Short Film" (2003), the Student Oscar at the Student Academy Awards for "Nimmermeer/Nevermore" in the category "Best Foreign Film" (2007).

The Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg (German: Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg) was founded in 1991 as a publicly funded film school in Ludwigsburg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

Film Review Office

The Munich Office was given jurisdiction over the states of Bavaria, Württemberg, Baden, and Hessia.

Francis Tanfield

He was knighted in July 1603 and, in September, accompanied the new ambassador, Lord Spencer, to the court of the Duke of Württemberg, now part of Germany.

Franz Schädle

He was born in Westerheim, Baden-Württemberg and after trade school he worked as a construction technician.

Franz Xaver von Linsenmann

However, he died before his consecration during a curative stay in the Black Forest spa town of Lauterbach.

Gayton, Northamptonshire

He was born in 1565 and was knighted in July 1603 and, in September, accompanied the new ambassador, Lord Spencer, to the court of the Duke of Württemberg, now part of southern Germany.

Gottlieb Schuler

Schuler was born in Heimertingen, Württemberg, the son of Jacob Friderich Schüler and his wife Christine Catharine, née Frey.

Grafenau

Grafenau, Württemberg, a municipality in the district of Böblingen, Baden-Württemberg

History of Baden-Württemberg

The new king, William I (reigned 1816–1864), at once took up the constitutional question and, after much discussion, granted a new constitution in September 1819.

This latter prince, who had served in the army of Frederick the Great, to whom he was related by marriage, and then managed his family's estates around Montbéliard, educated his children in the Protestant faith as francophones.

Having quadrupled the area of Baden, Charles Frederick died in June 1811, and was succeeded by his grandson, Charles, Grand Duke of Baden, who was married to Stéphanie de Beauharnais (1789–1860), a cousin of Empress Josephine's first husband who had been adopted by Napoleon I.

History of the Jews in Pittsburgh

There are no reliable records of the beginnings of the Jewish community; but it has been ascertained that between 1838 and 1844 a small number of Jews, mostly from Baden, Bavaria, and Württemberg, settled in and around Pittsburgh.

Izidor Kürschner

There he stayed for two years and won in 1921 the championship of Württemberg, which qualified the club for the Southern German Championship.

Jakob Heine

Jakob (or Jacob) Heine (April 16, 1800, Lauterbach, Black Forest, Germany – November 12, 1879, Cannstatt, Germany) was a German orthopaedist.

Johann Christoph von Freyberg-Allmendingen

Johann Christoph von Freyberg-Allmendingen was born in Altheim (Ehingen) on September 28, 1616, the son of Kaspar von Freyberg zu Altheim und Worndorf and his wife Anna Regina von Rechberg.

Kulturpreis Baden-Württemberg

In 2005, in the field of the performing arts, the Hauptpreis was shared by the action theater PAN.OPTIKUM and the Balthasar Neumann Chor & Ensemble, choreographer Marco Goecke won the Förderpreis.

Kurt Hahn

Kurt Matthias Robert Martin Hahn (5 June 1886, Berlin – 14 December 1974, Salem) was a German educator whose philosophies are considered internationally influential.

Landesbank Baden-Württemberg

Landesbank Baden-Württemberg (LBBW) is a parent company of three commercial banks and the Landesbank for some Federal States of Germany.

Landesmuseum Württemberg

It emerged from the 16th-century “Kunstkammer” (art chamber) of the dukes, later kings, of Württemberg who resided in Stuttgart.

history of art and cultural history: modern era glass, Württemberg crown jewels, medieval art, art chamber of the Württemberg rulers, modern glass painting, musical instruments (located in the granary), clocks and scientific instruments

The Landesmuseum Württemberg (Württemberg State Museum) is the main historical museum of the Württemberg part of the German state of Baden-Württemberg.

Long Range Surveillance

It was established in 1979, and first called the International Long Range Reconnaissance Patrol School (ILRRPS) formerly located in Weingarten, Germany and later move to Pfullendorf, Germany.

Lucian Truscott

When the Seventh Army was deactivated in March 1946, Truscott's Third Army took over the Western Military District (the U.S.-occupied parts of Baden, Württemberg and Hesse-Darmstadt).

Murg

Murg, Baden-Württemberg, a municipality in the district of Waldshut in Baden-Württemberg, Germany

Nehren

Nehren, Baden-Württemberg, located in the district of Tübingen, Baden-Württemberg

Neuenstadt am Kocher

In the 17th and 18th century the Württemberg-Neuenstadt branch line of the ducal house of Württemberg took up residence in Neuenstadt castle until the male lineage of dukes died out in 1742.

Paul Steiner

Born in Waldbrunn, Baden-Württemberg, Steiner started his career in his hometown, playing for TSV Strümpfelbrunn.

Peter P. Straub

Peter P. Straub (Born 28 June 1850 in Felldorf Starzach, Baden-Württemberg, Germany) is the founder of the Straub Brewery in St. Mary's, Pennsylvania.

Postal card

By the end of 1870, Great Britain, Finland, Switzerland and Württemberg joined the countries issuing postal cards.

Puy

Other volcanic hills more or less like those of Auvergne are also known to geologists as puys; examples may be found in the Eifel and in the small cones on the Bay of Naples, whilst the relics of puys denuded by erosion are numerous in the Swabian Alps of Württemberg, as pointed out by W. Branco.

Radiodiffusion-Télévision Française

In an attempt to counter the spread in Alsace of the viewing of programmes from regional television in the neighbouring German Land of Baden-Württemberg – the inhabitants of Strasbourg had, for example, been able to watch the coronation in June 1953 of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom only on West German television – Télé-Strasbourg began broadcasting on 15 October 1953.

Salem, Baden-Württemberg

Currently the grounds are home to the middle school campus of the boarding school Schule Schloss Salem, founded in 1920 by Kurt Hahn and Prince Max of Baden.

Schairer

Schairer is a German surname primarily from the Baden-Württemberg region.

Schutzberg, Bosnia

The village of Schutzberg was founded in 1895 by a mixture of Danube Swabians and German settlers coming from Slavonia, Galicia, Bukowina, Hungary and Württemberg.

Sebastian Kronenwetter

Born in Württemberg, Germany, Kronenwetter and his family emigrated to the United States settling in Pennsylvania.

SWR Fernsehen

SWR Fernsehen is a German regional television channel targeting the states of Baden-Württemberg and Rhineland-Palatinate.

Under 15 Bayernliga

After a lengthy debate, 86 of 131 delegates voted for the new league which will include five clubs from Bavaria, alongside clubs from Hesse and Baden-Württemberg.

Universal Investment

The company's two parent companies are Berenberg Bank and Bankhaus Lampe, which own 50% of the company each, after having bought out Hauck & Aufhäuser and Landesbank Baden-Württemberg.

Verbandsliga

Nordrhein-Westfalen, Rheinland-Pfalz and Baden-Württemberg are divided into two or three state member associations, each running their own league system.

Waldburg-Friedburg-Scheer

Waldburg-Friedburg-Scheer was a County located in southeastern Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

Waldburg-Scheer

Waldburg-Scheer was a County located in southeastern Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

Waldburg-Wolfegg

Waldburg-Wolfegg was a County located in southeastern Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

Waldenburg, Baden-Württemberg

In April 1945 at the end of World War II the town had been occupied for a last-ditch stand by the Wehrmacht against the advancing United States 3rd army, and was almost completely destroyed by American artillery.

Wehr, Baden-Württemberg

Two of the leaders of the movement were Frans Joseph Trefzger and Hecker.

Wildberg

Wildberg, Baden-Württemberg, a town in the district of Calw, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

Wildberg, Baden-Württemberg

The asteroid 117506 Wildberg was named in its honour by its discoverer, the Observatorium Wildberg.

Württemberg

Particular importance attached to iron and steel goods, locomotives (for which Esslingen enjoyed a good reputation), machinery, cars, bicycles, small arms (in the Mauser factory at Oberndorf), all kinds of scientific and artistic appliances, pianos (at Stuttgart), organs and other musical instruments, photographic apparatus, clocks (in the Black Forest), electrical apparatus, and gold- and silver-goods.

Württemberg T 3

They were deployed on the lines from Schiltach to Schramberg and from Waldenburg to Künzelsau, but proved to have very high maintenance costs, with the result that three of them were retired by the Württemberg State Railways.


Abtsteinach

As part of the Überwald, Abtsteinach borders in the north on the community of Mörlenbach, in the east on the community of Wald-Michelbach, in the south on the community of Heiligkreuzsteinach (Rhein-Neckar-Kreis in Baden-Württemberg) and in the west on the communities of Gorxheimertal and Birkenau.

Adolf Pfister

In 1838 he obtained civic rights in Württemberg, and as a priest of the Diocese of Rottenburg, he was pastor first in Dotternhausen; 31 January 1839, at Rosawangen; 11 May 1841, at Risstissen; from 1851 also school inspector in Ehingen.

Altheim

Altheim, Biberach, a municipality in the district of Biberach, Baden-Württemberg

Baki Davrak

Baki Davrak (born 1971 in Bad Säckingen, Baden-Württemberg) is a Turkish-German actor who is known for his leading role in the film The Edge of Heaven (Auf der anderen Seite) which won the Prix du scénario at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival.

Bergstraße

Bergstraße Route, "Mountain Road" in the Odenwald of Baden-Württemberg and Hesse, Germany

Bernhard Dietsche

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

Beuren

Beuren, Esslingen, a municipality in the district of Esslingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

BSV 07 Schwenningen

BSV 07 Schwenningen is a German association football club that plays in Schwenningen, Baden-Württemberg.

Coat of arms of Württemberg

On a red field, two gold fishes addorsed (two animals depicted back-to-back), haurient ("breathing" − a fish shown palewise (vertical) and head upwards), and embowed (shown bent, flexed, or curved) – County of Mompelgard, an exclave property that passed by marriage to the Württemberg royal family in 1397; now modern-day Montbéliard, Franche-Comté, France.

DRG Class 99.19

They were based on a Saxon VI K prototype that already ran on Württemberg's 750mm routes and replaced some ancient Klose locomotives that worked the metre gauge route between Altensteig and Nagold.

Duchess Amelia of Württemberg

Amalie Therese Louise Wilhelmina Philippine of Württemberg (June 28, 1799, Wolany – November 28, 1848, Altenburg) was a Duchess of Württemberg and an ancestor of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, Queen Sofía of Spain and five Kings of Greece.

Duchess Sabine of Württemberg

Sabine of Württemberg (2 July, 1549, Montbéliard – 17 August 1581, Rotenburg an der Fulda) was a princess of Württemberg by birth and by marriage, the first Landgravine of Hesse-Kassel.

Efraasia

Material now known under Efraasia first came to light after Albert Burrer, Hofsteinmetzmeister ("Court master stonemason") at Maulbronn, in 1902 began to exploit the Weiße Steinbruch, a quarry near Pfaffenhofen in Württemberg.

Elisabeth of Brandenburg, Duchess of Württemberg

Elizabeth of Brandenburg-Ansbach (29 November 1451, Ansbach – 28 March 1524, Nürtingen) was a princess of Brandenburg by birth and by marriage Duchess of Württemberg.

Freiburg–Colmar railway

The Freiburg–Colmar railway was an international railway that formerly connected Freiburg im Breisgau, in the German state of Baden-Württemberg, with Colmar, in the French department of Alsace.

Friedrich Order

It was instituted on the first of January 1830 by the second king of Württemberg, Wilhelm I in remembrance of his father, King Friedrich I.

Henry Barron

Sir Henry Barron, 2nd Baronet (1824–1900), British diplomat and Minister-Resident to Wurttemberg, of the Barron baronets

Henry de Bury

Count Robert Visart de Bury, of Bury in Péruwelz, Belgium and St. John, New Brunswick, a civil engineer, studied at the Episcopal College of Mecheln, in Belgium, at the University of Zurich and at the Polytechnic School of Stuttgart in Württemberg.

Hochdorf Chieftain's Grave

The Hochdorf Chieftain's Grave is a richly-furnished Celtic burial chamber dating from 530 BC, Halstatt D. An amateur archaeologist discovered it in 1977 near Hochdorf an der Enz (municipality of Eberdingen) in Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

Hohenfels

Hohenfels, Konstanz municipality in Landkreis Konstanz in Baden-Württemberg, near Stockach

James Fitz-James Stuart, 2nd Duke of Berwick

He inherited titles in the Jacobite and Spanish nobility on the death of his father in battle in 1734 at Philippsburg, (near Karlsruhe, presently located in the German "Bundesland" of Baden-Württemberg), during the War of the Polish Succession.

Karoline Kaulla

She later was a co-founder of the Royal Württemberg Court Bank, which, after many fusions, resulted in the Deutsche Bank in the 1920s.

Kramer Company

Kramer-Werke GmbH is a manufacturer of compact construction machines, such as wheel loaders, tele wheel loaders and telehandlers located in Pfullendorf (Baden-Württemberg), Germany.

Kurt-Heinz Stolze

In 1968 he appeared as harpsichordist with the Württemberg Chamber Orchestra conducted by Jörg Faerber in the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London.

Landesmuseum Württemberg

Dominican museum, Rottweil: archeological collection on arae flaviae (Rottweil), oldest town (AD 73)in Baden-Württemberg; medieval religious art collection; contemporary art collection of the Rottweil area

Leopold Eberhard, Duke of Württemberg-Montbéliard

Leopold Eberhard of Württemberg-Montbéliard (21 May 1670, Montbéliard - 25 March 1723, Montbéliard), was the last ruler of the Duchy of Württemberg-Montbéliard from 1699 until his death.

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.

Oberhofen

Oberhöfen, part of Warthausen, in western Baden-Württemberg

Oleśnica

When the Podiebrad family became extinct in 1647, town and duchy were inherited by the Swabian dukes of Württemberg, and in 1792 by the Welf dukes of Brunswick-Lüneburg.

Ravenstein

Ravenstein, Germany in the district Neckar-Odenwald, Baden-Württemberg

Rems Railway

This was after the line crossing the border at Ulm/Neu-Ulm (now part of the Ulm–Augsburg railway), the second link built between the railways of Württemberg and Bavaria.

Stemmer

Walburga Stemmer (1892 – 1928), German fruit-seller living in Weingarten (Württemberg) who allegedly had an affair with Erwin Rommel and gave birth to his daughter, Gertrud Stemmer (later Mrs. Gertrud Pan), on December 8, 1913.

Stuttgart Neuwirtshaus station

Deutsche Reichsbahn built a station on the Württemberg Black Forest line for the approximately 1,500 residents southeast of the settlement on Schwieberdinger Straße, the former route of national route (Reichsstraße) 10 (now federal highway 10).

Stuttgart North station

Between 1941 and 1945 the loading tracks of the inner North Station freight yard were used for the deportation of more than 2,200 Jews from all over Württemberg to Theresienstadt, Auschwitz, Riga and Izbica.

Stuttgarter Zeitung

With northern and central Württemberg being part of the American occupation zone from 1945 to 1949, it was the U.S. Information Control Division that issued the first publishing licence to the editors Josef Eberle, Karl Ackermann and Henry Bernhard during the first years of the paper's existence.

Von Gemmingen

Gemmingen is a town in the district of Heilbronn in Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany.

Wolfgang Fürniß

After Roman Herzog moved to the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany (“Bundesverfassungsgericht”), Fuerniss continued to worked under Lothar Spaeth in the State of Baden-Württemberg.

Wolfgang Julius, Count of Hohenlohe-Neuenstein

He was the son of Kraft III of Hohenlohe-Neuenstein (14 November 1582, Langenburg - 11 September 1641, Regensburg) and Sophie of Birkenfeld (29 March 1593, Ansbach - 16 November 1676, Neuenstein).

Württemberg B and B2

The Württemberg Class B and Class B2 engines were steam locomotives with the Royal Württemberg State Railways (Königlich Württembergische Staats-Eisenbahnen) first built in 1868 by the Maschinenfabrik Esslingen ('Esslingen engineering works') in Esslingen in the former Kingdom of Württemberg in southern Germany.