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4 unusual facts about Wolfsburg


Ingolstadt Manching Airport

Ingolstadt Manching also receives frequent charter flights from Braunschweig-Wolfsburg Airport transferring personnel of the Volkswagen Group between their headquarters in Wolfsburg and their subsidiary Audi in Ingolstadt.

P3 Ingenieurgesellschaft

Besides P3’s headquarter in Aachen, Germany there are several offices and subsidiary companies in Hamburg, Wolfsburg, Stuttgart, Ulm and Ingolstadt.

Ryōan-ji

Centuries after its creation, the influences of the dry elements at Ryōan-ji continue to be reflected and re-examined in garden design — for example, in the Japangarten at the Art Museum at Wolfsburg in Germany.

Taison

After being linked with a host of clubs across Europe, including Wolfsburg and Napoli Taison eventually signed for Ukrainian club Metalist Kharkiv for an approximate fee of 6 million euros.


Aaron Berzel

He joined the club in 2011, and made 21 appearances in the Regionalliga Nord in the 2011–12 season, before his former Wolfsburg youth coach, Christian Benbennek, brought him to 3. Liga side SV Babelsberg 03.

Alex Raphael Meschini

In the summer transfer of 2007, he was linked with a 8 million move to German side Wolfsburg but it never happened.

Daisuke Matsui

Among the teams which were believed to have shown interested in signing him at the time were Catania, Genoa, Lazio and Torino of Serie A, Celtic and Rangers of the Scottish Premier League, Werder Bremen and Wolfsburg of the Bundesliga, and Lille of Ligue 1.

EHC Wolfsburg

The professional team is named after the title character of The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams, while the parent club is known as EHC Wolfsburg.

The team enjoys substantial financial support from the Czech automobile manufacturer Škoda Auto, which in turn belongs to the Wolfsburg-based Volkswagen Group.

Grafite

With Wolfsburg he won the national championship in 2008–09, the same season he topped the Bundesliga scorers list and received German Player of the Year honours.

Hans-Joachim Geisler

He received his bachelor's degree in Wolfsburg in 1974, and then between 1978 and 1984 studied at the RWTH Aachen University.

Henry VI, Burgrave of Plauen

In preparation for his marriage on 9 April 1564 at Fallersleben to Princess Catherine of Brunswick-Lüneburg-Gifhorn (born: 1548 in Gifhorn; died: 10 December 1565 in Schleiz) he pledged the district of Pausa to a citizen in Leipzig, who sold the claims in 1569 to Elector August of Saxony.

Julian Draxler

Draxler continued to play an important role after Holtby's departure and the signing of Michel Bastos, allowing Draxler to impress in his favoured attacking midfield position, including two goals in a 4–1 victory at Wolfsburg.

Konrad mine

The pit Konrad (Schacht Konrad) is a former iron ore mine proposed as a deep geological repository for medium- and low level radioactive waste in the city Salzgitter in the Metropolitan region Hannover-Braunschweig-Göttingen-Wolfsburg in southeast Lower Saxony, Germany, located between Hildesheim and Braunschweig.

Marcel Maltritz

Wolfsburg, financially supported by the Volkswagen concern, developed very well and even reached the third round of the UEFA Cup in the season 1999–2000.

Marie-Luise Marjan

She was the heroine in Wolfgang Petersen's drama Smog and has also played in films by Werner Schroeter (Palermo oder Wolfsburg, Tag der Idioten) and Rainer Werner Fassbinder (Berlin Alexanderplatz).

Michael Henrich

After one more season with Wolfsburg in the DEL, Henrich signed with Lega Italiana Hockey Ghiaccio club HC Asiago.

Mike Lapper

He continued to start for Wolfsburg until coach Eckhard Krautzun, who had sought Lapper's services, was fired by team management.

Oliver Gill

In December 2009, Gill was rewarded for his performances with a first team squad number, No. 45, and a defensive injury crisis meant that he travelled with the first-team to Germany for their final Champions League group stage game against Wolfsburg on 8 December.

Oliver Norwood

2009–10 was a big season for Norwood, as he made the full step up to the reserve team and also received his first call-up to the first-team for their Champions League group stage match away to Wolfsburg.

Oomph! discography

The band was formed in mid-1989 by three musicians from Wolfsburg: singer/drummer Dero Goi, guitarist/programmer Andreas Crap and guitarist/bassist/programmer Robert Flux.

Scheppau

It flows west and north of Königslutter and joins the Schunter in Glentorf, between Königslutter and Wolfsburg.

Sven Müller

He had the following year a place in the first eleven but after his former Wolfsburg manager Wolfgang Wolf had to leave the club he did not play anymore so he followed him to famous second league club 1. FC Kaiserslautern where he could return to his old strength.

Temple of Two Suns

Later the band gathered at Gate-Studio in Wolfsburg where, under the direction of expert producers Sascha Paeth and Miro, all the instrumental and vocal parts were recorded in July and August.

TSG 1899 Hoffenheim

VfL Wolfsburg is wholly owned and supported by automobile manufacturer VW, Bayer 04 Leverkusen by pharmaceutical company Bayer.

Volkswagen Arena

The stadium hosted Wolfsburg's first ever game in the Champions League along with their first win in the UEFA Champions League when Brazilian striker Grafite scored a hat-trick against CSKA Moscow, beating them 3–1, on 15 September 2009.


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