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8 unusual facts about Wissembourg


Danedream

Danedream made her first appearance in June 2010, when she won a minor race at Wissembourg by two and a half lengths.

Ettlingen

The city was first mentioned in 788 as "Ediningom" in a deed of donation belonging to Wissembourg Abbey in Alsace (now in France).

Lipsett Diaries

FACT Awards and Worldwide Short Film Festival in Toronto, Best Animated Film at Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival, and the grand prize at the Rencontres internationales du cinéma d'animation in Wissembourg.

Ophélie-Cyrielle Étienne

Ophélie-Cyrielle Étienne (born September 9, 1990) is a French swimmer from Wissembourg.

Otfrid of Weissenburg

Otfrid of Weissenburg (German: Otfrid von Weißenburg) (c. 800 - after 870) was a monk at the abbey of Weissenburg (modern-day Wissembourg in Alsace) and the author of a gospel harmony in rhyming couplets now called the Evangelienbuch.

Wissembourg

Another Battle of Wissembourg took place on 4 August 1870.

The first Battle of Wissembourg took place near the town in 1793.

Wissembourg formed the setting for the Romantic novel L’ami Fritz (1869) co-written by the team of Erckmann and Chatrian, which provided the material for Mascagni's opera L'Amico Fritz.


Abraham Kuhn

During the Franco-Prussian War he served with the Croix-Rouge (French Red Cross) on the battlefields of Wissembourg and Wörth.

Alsenz Valley Railway

On Sundays and public holidays in the summer, the Rheintalexpress runs on the Bingen–Enkenbach section to Karlsruhe and the Weinstraßen-Express runs to Wissembourg, each stopping in Enkenbach, Rockhausen, Bad Münster and Bad Kreuznach and each consisting of push–pull trains hauled by class 218 locomotives or class 628 diesel multiple units.

Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz

In the following year, 1772, Lenz accompanied his masters to the garrisons of Landau, Fort Louis and Wissembourg.

Joachim Zahn

His time at the top was noteworthy, among other things, for the building of Europe's largest truck factory, at Wörth (between Karlsruhe and the frontier with France at Wissembourg).

Lembach

It is positioned on the local road RD3 which connects Wissembourg, fifteen kilometres (nine miles) to the east with the north western tip of the département, and the road to Bitche.

Lines of Weissenburg

By 1870 the Lines no longer existed, but the two central forts in the towns of Wissembourg and Altenstadt, still possessed fortifications that proved useful defensive positions during the Battle of Wissembourg.

Mundat Forest

To distinguish it from the similar but unrelated Mundat at Rouffach further south, it is also known as the Wissembourg Mundat or, confusingly, the Lower Mundat – the Rouffach Mundat being the Upper Mundat.

Otto I, Duke of Carinthia

He could at least retain the ducal title as "Duke of Worms", received the Kaiserpfalz of Lautern and seized large estates of Wissembourg (Weißenburg) Abbey in compensation.

Wingen

Wingen, Bas-Rhin, in the arrondissement of Wissembourg in the communes of the Bas-Rhin department in France


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