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unusual facts about Wiesbaden-Dotzheim


Horst-Schmidt-Kliniken

The Horst-Schmidt-Kliniken in the district of Dotzheim is the largest hospital complex in Wiesbaden founding in 1879, owing to its affiliated institutions and 1,027 beds.


1913 International Lawn Tennis Challenge

The first round tie between Germany and France, played at Wiesbaden, Germany was the first Davis Cup tie to be played on clay courts, or indeed any surface but grass.

Alexandru Ioan Cuza

Cuza spent the remainder of his life in exile, chiefly in Paris, Vienna and Wiesbaden, accompanied by his wife, his mistress, and his two sons.

Andreas Karasiak

In 1998 and again in 2007, he sang the tenor part of Hermann Suter's Le Laudi in Wiesbaden with the Chor von St. Bonifatius, conducted by Gabriel Dessauer.

Bibliotheca Teubneriana

After the fall of the Berlin wall and the reunification of Germany, B.G. Teubner was also reunited and subsequently consolidated its headquarters at Wiesbaden.

Bilkheim

These finds are in part displayed or archived at the Museum in Wiesbaden.

Blanche d'Antigny

She became the mistress of the Russian police chief Mesentzov who took her to St. Petersburg and, when she was forced to leave Russia by special order of the Tsarina, to Wiesbaden.

Botho zu Eulenburg

Eulenburg worked in high positions of the Prussian and German administration in Wiesbaden (1869–1872), Metz (president of the Département de la Lorraine; 1872–1873) and upper president of the Province of Hanover (1873–1878).

Cambrex Corporation

Cambrex has R&D and cGMP manufacturing facilities in the US (Charles City, IA), Europe (Karlskoga, Sweden, Milan, Italy, Tallinn, Estonia, Wiesbaden, Germany) and Hyderabad, India.

Carl Timoleon von Neff

As mentioned, he contributed to the artistic decoration of Saint Isaac's Cathedral, St. Petersburg, Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, Moscow, and Helsinki Cathedral, in present-day Finland, as well as churches outside the Russian empire - e.g. in Nice, France and Wiesbaden, present-day Germany.

Charles Bieger

Bieger was born in Wiesbaden, Germany and enlisted into Company D, 4th Missouri Volunteer Cavalry at St. Louis, Missouri after immigrating to St. Louis with his family in 1857.

Charles, Prince of Nassau-Usingen

Charles, Prince of Nassau-Usingen (born: 31 December 1712 in Usingen; died: 21 June 1775 in Biebrich), was from 1718 to 1775 Prince of Nassau-Usingen.

He then moved his residence from Usingen in the Taunus to Schloss Biebrich in Biebrich and continued the progressive policies of his mother.

Deutscher Fachverlag

dfv is a majority shareholder of IZ Immobilien Zeitung Verlagsgesellschaft mbH in Wiesbaden, The Business Target Group GmbH based in Scheeßel near Hamburg and The Conference Group GmbH based at the head office in Frankfurt.

Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic

First published in 1961 by Otto Harrassowitz in Wiesbaden, Germany, it was an enlarged and revised English version of Wehr's German Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart ("Arabic dictionary for the contemporary written language") (1952) and its Supplement (1959).

Dieter Rübsaamen

Born in Wiesbaden in 1937, raised in Maxsain (Westerwald); law studies; has worked as an artist since 1957, autodidact.

Frankfurt Griesheim station

The station is now served only by S-Bahn lines S1 (WiesbadenRödermark-Ober-Roden) and S2 (NiedernhausenDietzenbach).

Friedberg station

On 13 July 1901 the Friedberg–Friedrichsdorf–Bad Homburg line opened; this was part of a line from Bad Nauheim to Wiesbaden, also known as the Bäderbahn (Spa Railway).

G. O. Smith

The International Federation of Football History & Statistics, a scholarly group based in Wiesbaden, describes him as "the most brilliant, indeed perfect, footballer in the world around the turn of the century".

Gerlach I, Count of Nassau

Gerlach I of Nassau (before 1288 – 7 January 1361), Count of Nassau in Wiesbaden, Idstein, Weilburg, and Weilnau.

Hans Uwe Hielscher

Hans Uwe Hielscher (born 1945) is a German organist and composer, the organist and carilloneur at the Marktkirche in Wiesbaden since 1979, internationally known as a concert organist.

Harold von Mickwitz

In 1886, he began teaching piano at the Karlsruhe Conservatory of Music, and from 1893 to 1895, he taught piano at the Wiesbaden Conservatory of Music.

Heckel

Wilhelm Heckel GmbH, woodwind musical instrument manufacturer based in Wiesbaden, Germany

Helena Sá e Costa

She was among the virtuoso performers at famous festivals, such as at Strasbourg, Wiesbaden, Haarlem, Prades, Gulbenkian, Majorca, Costa del Sol, Sintra, Espinho, Costa Verde, etc.

House of Nassau

1249–1255: Walram II; from 1255–1276: Count of Nassau in Wiesbaden, Idstein, and Weilburg

Hugo Debaere

Debaere was guest lecturer at the Hogeschool Sint-Lukas Brussels, Well known is the invitation to Wiesbaden, where he collaborated with his friend, the artist and his former teacher Danny Matthys.

Jagdfliegerführer 3

The headquarter was located at Wiesbaden and from July 1940 in Deauville, from February 21, 1942 at Brest-Guipavas and from March 1942 again at Deauville.

James Clemens, Jr.

Louis, Independent City, Missouri, May 12, 1850 – Burzlaff, August 19, 1912, Lady of Burzlaff and Mandelatz, married in Wiesbaden on May 16, 1871 Maximilian Felix Christoph Wilhelm Leopold Reinhold Albert Fürchtegott von Versen

John Lorenzo Young

He was educated at the Communal College of Boulogne, under Professor Opel at Wiesbaden, in 1842 at the Civil Engineering College in Putney, and at King's College London from 1843 to 1845, where John Howard Clark (later Sir John Howard Clark, editor of The Register and who conducted its Geoffry Crabthorn column) was a fellow student.

John Philip Wisser

During 1884, he studied at the Freiberg, Saxony, school of mines, and at the agricultural experiment station at Wiesbaden.

Karl Heun

Karl Heun (born 3 April 1859, Wiesbaden; died 10 January 1929, Karlsruhe) was a German mathematician who introduced Heun's equation, Heun functions, and Heun's method.

Karl Hill

Hill was born in Idstein in the Taunus mountains north of Wiesbaden, but he lived and worked for most of his life in Schwerin, where he died.

Karl Hopf

Karl Hopf (Hamm, Westphalia, February 19, 1832 – Wiesbaden, August 23, 1873) or Carl Hermann Friedrich Johann Hopf was historian and expert in Medieval Greece, both Byzantine and Frankish.

Karl-Heinrich von Groddeck

Back in 1958, von Groddeck moved from Wiesbaden to Hamburg to work for Axel Springer AG as a journalist in the sports section of a newspaper.

Ländches Railway

In the 1970s, an MU pair travelled a route from Au on the Sieg (in Windeck) to Mainz on the Ländchesbahn, connecting the Westerwald with the capital cities of Wiesbaden and Mainz.

Lorch, Hesse

There is a connection to the Autobahn “cross” at Mainz (A 61/A 60, Cologne/Koblenz/Ludwigshafen) across the Wiesbaden-Schierstein bridge over the Rhine; and by way of the Rhine ferries at Lorch and Kaub to the on-ramps at Laudert and Rheinböllen (about 15 km).

Mayfield, New South Wales

The BHP constructed, in the early 1920s, a very fine mansion in Crebert Street (named after Peter Crebert 1825-1895, an immigrant from Wiesbaden in Germany), with extensive gardens, for their General Manager.

Natalie of Serbia

In 1888, Queen Natalie and her son left for another long foreign stay in Wiesbaden - obviously without intention to return to Belgrade.

Panthera leo fossilis

Many bone-fragments of this cat are known from Mosbach in Germany, a small village, which is now included in the town of Wiesbaden.

Petra Hammesfahr

Petra Hammesfahr (born 10 May 1951 in Titz, North Rhine-Westphalia) is an acclaimed German crime writer, winner of several awards including the Crime Prize of Wiesbaden and Rhineland Literary Prize.

Red Hill filling station

Noyes may have been inspired by the design by Danish architect Arne Jacobsen for Skovshoved Petrol Station in 1936, German designer Lothar Gotz's new garage in Wiesbaden from the 1950s, and the distinctive forecourt fittings used by AGIP in Italy in the 1960s.

Ringkirche

Ringkirche (Circle Church) is a Protestant church in Wiesbaden, the state capital of Hesse, Germany.

Schierstein Kaserne

Schierstein Kaserne was a NATO facility located near Wiesbaden, Germany.

Today the facility has been redeveloped as part of the Schierstein borough of Wiesbaden.

Sebastian Kienle

In 2009, he won Ironman 70.3 Germany in Wiesbaden, holding off 70.3 World Champion Michael Raelert.

Vallonia tenuilabris

Vallonia tenuilabris was described for the first time in the loess of Wiesbaden, Germany.

Vertigo parcedentata

Vertigo parcedentata was first described as a fossil from the loess of Wiesbaden, Germany.

Walram II, Count of Nassau

Walram received all of his father's lands south the Lahn River including Wiesbaden, Idstein, Weilburg and Sonnenberg.

Walter T. Galligan

During the Berlin airlift, 1948–1949, Galligan piloted C-47 aircraft between Wiesbaden Air Base, Germany, and Tempelhof Airport, Berlin.

Wiesbaden-Breckenheim

Breckenheim and other villages in the area were sold in 1492 to William III, the landgrave of Upper Hesse, and was passed to Hesse-Marburg in 1567, then in 1604 to Hesse-Kassel (or Hesse-Cassel), then to Hesse-Darmstadt in 1624.


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