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70 unusual facts about Wurzburg


25th Field Artillery Regiment

10th Infantry Division was deployed to Germany, replacing the 1st Infantry Division at Würzburg, serving as part of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization defensive force.

Alexander Montgomerie

He may have planned to leave the country, perhaps to go to the Scottish Benedictine monastery in Würzburg, but he was still in Scotland at the time of his death in August 1598.

Benjamin R. Mixon

After the 82nd Mixon attended and then graduated from the Infantry Officer Advanced Course and was reassigned to the 3rd Infantry Division (Mechanized), in Würzburg.

Björn Emmerling

Björn Emmerling (born November 16, 1975 in Würzburg) is a field hockey player from Germany, who plays for Hanauer THC in his native country.

Brygos cup of Würzburg

It once belonged to the Feoli collection, but today is in the Martin von Wagner Museum in Würzburg, where it has the inventory number HA 248 (= L 479).

Carsten Lichtlein

Carsten Lichtlein (born November 4, 1980 in Würzburg) is a German team handball player and goalkeeper.

Charles Tristan, marquis de Montholon

He was chosen for a mission to discuss diplomatic matters with the Austrian commander Archduke Ferdinand Karl Joseph of Austria-Este at Würzburg among others.

Christian Hein

Christian Hein (born September 6, 1982 in Würzburg, Bayern) is a retired German swimmer, who specialized in long-distance freestyle events and open water marathon.

Christian Zirkelbach

Christian Zirkelbach (born 20 December 1961 in Würzburg) is a retired West German sprinter who specialized in the 100 metres.

County of Castell

Castell was a county of northern Bavaria, Germany, ruling a string of territories in the historical region of Franconia, both east and west of Würzburg.

Der Vampyr

Wagner, in fact, conducted Der Vampyr when at Würzburg in 1833.

Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft

Max von Laue, as chairman of the DPG, gave the opening address at the 1933 physics convention held in Würzburg.

Dieter Borchmeyer

After his Habilitation in 1979 he taught at the Universities of Erlangen and Würzburg.

Eckart Höfling

In 1949 Eckart Höflich completed his schooling in Würzburg and passed the legal clerk exams in 1952.

Ernst Feßmann

The other two were the 1st Panzer Division formed in Weimar and commanded by Maximilian von Weichs and the 2nd Panzer Division formed in Würzburg and commanded by Heinz Guderian.

Ernst Georg Ferdinand Küster

He studied medicine in Bonn, Würzburg and Berlin, and following graduation worked as an assistant to Robert Ferdinand Wilms (1824-1880) at the Bethanien Hospital in Berlin.

Fabienne Kohlmann

Fabienne Kohlmann (born November 6, 1989 in Würzburg, Bavaria) is a German track and field athlete who specialises in the 400 metres hurdles.

Four seasons altar of Würzburg

There it was acquired for the antiquities division of Martin von Wagner Museum in Würzburg by Erika Simon who recognised the lost altar.

Geist und Leben

It has been published under the title Geist und Leben since 1947 (vol. 20) at the publishing house Echter Verlag in Würzburg, Germany.

GenoMik

#The competence network Würzburg, "genome research on pathogenic bacteria", coordinated by Professor Werner Goebel.

Gerard Segarelli

Some Apostles were traduced at a council in Würzburg and a decree was issued which forbade them to preach and beg and the people were warned against encouraging them by giving food or water.

Germain Boffrand

In 1724 Boffrand worked on site at Würzburg with Balthasar Neumann, who had been consulting him in Paris, on the Prince-Bishop's Residenz (under construction 1719-1744).

Giebelstadt Airport

The airport is the only public-use airfield in the Würzburg region.

Habsburg Monarchy

While exiled from Tuscany, this line ruled at Salzburg from 1803 to 1805, and in Würzburg from 1805 to 1814.

Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht

Born οn June 15, 1948 in Würzburg, Germany, Gumbrecht received his education in Paris, Munich, Regensburg, Salamanca, Pavia and Konstanz, receiving his Ph.D. at the University of Konstanz in 1971 where he was also an assistant professor from 1971 to 1974.

Hans-Joachim Pancherz

From 1933 he worked as a civilian flight instructor at the Würzburg, Kitzingen and Fürth flying schools, and at the Dresden LKS (Luftkriegsschule).

Heinrich Joseph Dominicus Denzinger

In 1831 his father, who was a professor at the Liege University, took him to Würzburg, the original home of the family.

Hep-Hep riots

The antisemitic communal violence began on August 2, 1819 in Würzburg and soon reached the outer regions of the German Confederation.

Hermann Streber

Invited by Joseph Hergenröther to assist him in editing the new edition of the Kirchenlexikon, Streber resigned his parish, and settled in Würzburg.

Historical mortality rates of puerperal fever

For the relatively small maternity clinic at Würzburg in Germany, Franz Kiwisch von Rotterau reported 27 deaths from 102 patients (26.5%) cared for during one year, much higher than the Viennese hospital.

Hohenlohe-Jagstberg

Hohenlohe-Jagstberg was a Principality located in northeastern Baden-Württemberg, Germany, around Jagstberg which had been a territory of the Bishopric of Würzburg.

Infoware

The term infoware was first used in O'Reilly's talk on the subject at the Linux Kongress in Würzburg in 1997, and later in talks such as one at ISPCON 98.

Irene Jerotich Kosgei

She was third at the Grand 25 Berlin in May 2004 (running a time of 1:29:23) and won the half marathon in Würzburg the following week.

Jakob Zeugheer

In London they had only a few engagements in private houses; Wex retired ill, and the quartet was broken up till a new violinist was found in Anton Popp of Würzburg.

Jean Gamans

After making his novitiate, he devoted several months to a revision of his philosophical studies, and subsequently, from 1626, spent five years teaching in the college of Würzburg, conducting his pupils through the five classes which comprised the complete course in humanities.

Jephtas Gelübde

He completed the score in Würzburg in April 1812, writing the overture last of all.

Johann Georg Heine

At length he left Southern Germany and took his residence in Berlin from 1794 to 1798, where he got into contact with Barthel von Siebold, a son of a Würzburg surgeon Karl Kaspar von Siebold.

Kathrin Bringmann

She passed the State Examinations in Mathematics and Theology at the University of Würzburg, Germany, in 2002, and obtained a Diploma in Mathematics at Würzburg in 2003.

Lambach

The famous Abbey of Lambach was founded in 1056 by bishop Adalbero of Würzburg.

Leighton Barracks

It was active as a military base between 1936–2008, from 2012-onwards part of the barracks has converted to new rôle as additional academic buildings and student accommodation for the University of Würzburg

Leonardo da Vinci International Art Award

The prize giving event has been hosted by other European Rotary Clubs in cities such as Tours, Vienna, Athens, Madrid, Würzburg, Brussels and Amsterdam.

Margaret of Cleves, Duchess of Bavaria-Munich

Catharina (1441–1497) - became a Premonstratensian then a Dominican nun in Würzburg, then finally ending up in the monastery under the protection of bishop Rudolf van Würzburg

Martin Hundfeld

Martin Hundfeld (also Huntzfeld, possibly from Hundsfeld, a village some 20 km east of Würzburg) was an early 15th-century (died before 1452) German fencing master.

Mirok Li

In May 1920 he achieved his goal and in 1922 moved to Würzburg, and a year later continued his medical studies in Heidelberg.

Nils Brahe

In 1630 he accompanied Gustavus into Germany, in the Thirty Years' War and in 1631 was appointed colonel of "the yellow regiment," the king’s world-renowned life-guards, at the head of which he captured the castle of Würzburg on October 8, 1631.

Old Irish

Important Continental collections of glosses from the 8th and 9th century include the Würzburg Glosses (mainly) on the Pauline Epistles, the Milan Glosses on a commentary to the Psalms and the St Gall Glosses on Priscian's Grammar.

Peter K. Vogt

Vogt received his undergraduate education in biology at the University of Würzburg and in 1959 was awarded his Ph.D. at the University of Tübingen for work done at the Max Planck Institute for Virology in Tübingen.

Pope Callixtus II

An embassy of three cardinals was sent by Calixtus II to Germany, and negotiations for a permanent settlement of the investiture struggle were begun in October 1121 at Würzburg, where it was agreed that a general truce should be proclaimed in Germany, that the Church should have free use of its possessions, and that the lands of those in rebellion should be restored.

Ras Sheehama

In the end of May 1999 Ras Sheehama celebrated his first show in Germany together with the former Lucky Dube's Band The Slaves at the Africa Festival in Würzburg, Germany.

Rhenish Franconia

While Emperor Frederick Barbarossa in 1198 granted the ducal title to the Prince-Bishops of Würzburg in Eastern Franconia, Rhenish Franconia was divided and extinguished.

The eastern half of the historic duchy of Franconia on the Main river around the city of Würzburg and Nuremberg forms the modern Franconian region of northern Bavaria, the Würzburg bishops retained the title of a "Duke of Franconia".

Richard H. Tilly

From 1955 to 1957, he completed his military service largely in Germany, where he learned the language of his grandfather and, in 1960, married his wife Elisabeth, of Würzburg.

Rob Muzzio

Robert ("Rob") Muzzio (born 25 June 1964, in Würzburg, West Germany to American parents) is a retired male decathlete from the United States, who represented Team USA at the 1992 Summer Olympics.

Robert de Cotte

Balthasar Neumann, in Paris to consult him over the building operations at Würzburg, found him and his son grandly occupied.

Royal Armouries Ms. I.33

Sporadic dialectal elements in these terms (notably nucken and halpschilt) suggest a location of composition consistent with the reported discovery in a Franconian monastery in the wider area of Würzburg.

Alphonse Lhotsky in a handwritten note suggested the late 13th century and identified the scribe as a secretary to the bishop of Würzburg.

It was created around 1300 in Franconia and It remained in a Franconian monastery (presumably in Eastern Franconia) until the mid-16th century.

It is first mentioned by Henricus a Gunterrodt in his De veriis principiis artis dimicatoriae of 1579, where he reports it to have been acquired (looted) by a friend of his, one Johannes Herbart of Würzburg when serving in the force of Albert Alcibiades, Margrave of Brandenburg-Kulmbach in the campaigns of 1552/3.

Silke Nowitzki

In 1993 Silke Nowitzki promoted with the women's team of DJK Würzburg into the first German basketball division.

Silke Nowitzki (born July 12, 1974 in Würzburg, Germany) is a German former international basketball player.

Stefan Schmid

Stefan Schmid (born 6 July 1970 in Würzburg) is a German decathlete.

Steffen Hofmann

In his early years, Steffen played for the youth team of his home town Würzburg, before joining the Bayern Munich Junior Team in 1997.

Supreme Committee for the Liberation of Lithuania

Functions of VLIK were resumed in October 1944 in Würzburg, but soon moved to Reutlingen ahead of the approaching Red Army.

Susanne Alt

Susanne Alt was born in Würzburg, Germany, in 1978, to Hans-Joachim and Maria Alt.

The Devil Worshippers

The film is said to have premiered on 2 January 1921 at "Vaters Lichtspiele" at Würzburg but the first showing is only documented for 14 January 1921 at Wilhelmsburg.

Triphyophyllum

peltatum is currently cultivated in only three botanical gardens: Abidjan, Bonn, and Würzburg.

Tuosist

He is believed to have departed from Kilmacillogue harbour in Tuosist on his mission to Würzburg, Germany.

Ulrich Wilcken

Afterwards he was a professor at Würzburg (1900), Halle (1903, where he was again a successor to Eduard Meyer), Leipzig (1906) and Bonn (1912), where he succeeded Heinrich Nissen (1839-1912).

William Hallock

He graduated from Columbia College in 1879, and received the degree of Ph.D. from Würzburg, Germany in 1881.

Würzburg American High School

Würzburg American High School (or WAHS) was located in Würzburg, Germany on Leighton Barracks.


Albin Eser

He studied law at the universities of Würzburg, Tübingen and the Free University of Berlin between 1954 and 1958.

August Karl von Goeben

He held almost independent command with conspicuous success in the actions of Dermbach (in Wartburgkreis), Laufach (in Aschaffenburg), Kissingen, Aschaffenburg, Gerchsheim, Tauberbischofsheim and Würzburg.

Bernhard Heine

At the age of ten (according to other references, thirteen) years he was apprenticed to his uncle Johann Georg Heine in Würzburg as an orthopaedic mechanic.

Christopher Street Day

In some cities, politicians are also patrons of the CSD, for example in Hamburg, the former First Mayor Ortwin Runde, and Ole von Beust, in Dresden Mayor Ingolf Rossberg, in Würzburg Claudia Roth, and in Braunschweig, the former Federal Minister Juergen Trittin.

DB Regio Oberfranken

One exception is the through connexion of RE trains from Würzburg/Lichtenfels via Hof as Regionalbahn trains to Bad Steben.

Eibelstadt

The city is located at the Bundesstraße B 13, approximately 2 km from the highway exit "Würzburg-Randersacker" of the Autobahn A3.

Holger Geschwindner

Holger is an official coach of the Dallas Mavericks and runs a basketball academy in Würzburg that he calls "the Institute of Applied Nonsense."

Ignaz Döllinger

He commenced his studies in his native town (where he took a doctorate in 1794), continuing them in Würzburg, Pavia and Vienna before returning to Bamberg.

Jakob Heine

Heine studied classical languages and theology before turning to medicine, a decision influenced by his uncle, Johann Georg Heine, who owned an orthopaedic institute in Würzburg.

Josef Neckermann

Josef Carl Peter Neckermann (5 June 1912 in Würzburg – 13 January 1992 in Dreieich) was a German equestrian and Olympic champion.

Juan Azor

There are extant in manuscript other works by Azor; in Rome, in the Jesuit archives, a commentary on the Canticle of Canticles; at Würzburg, an exposition of the Psalms and at Alcalá, several theological treatises on parts of the Summa Theologiae of Thomas Aquinas.

Kaufmann Kohler

He received his rabbinical training at Hassfurt, Höchberg near Würzburg, Mainz, Altona, and at Frankfurt am Main (under Samson Raphael Hirsch), and his university training at Munich, Berlin, Leipsic, and Erlangen (Ph.D. 1868; his thesis, "Der Segen Jacob's", was one of the earliest Jewish essays in the field of the higher Biblical criticism, and its radical character had the effect of closing to him the Jewish pulpit in Germany).

Laufach

Laufach can be reached over Bundesstraße 26, by rail (Laufach station on the Aschaffenburg-Würzburg line, served by the Regionalbahn) and on the nearby A 3.

Ludwig Julius Budge

He studied medicine at the Universities of Marburg, Berlin and Würzburg, and following graduation worked as a general practitioner in Wetzlar and Altenkirchen.

Main–Spessart railway

On 1 October 1854, the Royal Bavarian State Railways opened the section of the Ludwig's Western Railway from Würzburg to Aschaffenburg and the state border at Kahl.

Max Meyer-Olbersleben

Max Meyer-Olbersleben (5 April 1850 in Olbersleben – 31 December 1927 in Würzburg) was a German composer and pianist.

Neckar Valley Railway

The Heidelberg–Neckargemünd section of the line was built in 1862 as part of the Baden Odenwald Railway (Baden Odenwaldbahn), running from the Heidelberg via Neckargemünd, Meckenheim, Neckarbischofsheim, Aglasterhausen, Obrigheim, Neckarelz, Mosbach, Oberschefflenz, Seckach, Osterburken, Königshofen and Lauda to Würzburg.

Neuendorf, Bavaria

The newly built Nantenbach Curve and Nantenbach Main Valley Bridge (Maintalbrücke Nantenbach) on the Aschaffenburg-Würzburg railway line and the bypass on Bundesstraße 26 have changed the community’s face considerably.

Nicole Resch

She ended her sports life early and studied law at the Julius Maximilians university of Würzburg.

Peter Ernst von Lasaulx

Although the Würzburg government tried to keep him there, Lasaulx left in 1844 to become Professor of Philology and Aesthetics at the University of Munich, where he became known for his magnetic style.

Plachutta

The Plachutta is related to a number of other problem themes: it can be regarded as a Würzburg-Plachutta brought about by a white sacrifice on the critical square (a Würzburg-Plachutta itself being a pair of Holzhausen interferences); or it can be thought of as a Novotny with similarly moving (rather than differently moving) black pieces involved (a Novotny itself being a Grimshaw brought about by a white sacrifice on the critical square).

Reichsbahndirektion Nürnberg

WürzburgAnsbach – (Treuchtlingen) – (Augsburg/Ingolstadt – Munich)

Samson Raphael Hirsch

His contemporary Isaac Dov Bamberger, Rabbi of Würzburg, argued that as long as the Grossgemeinde made appropriate arrangements for the Orthodox element, secession was unnecessary.

Treuchtlingen–Würzburg railway

It runs from Treuchtlingen in southern Middle Franconia through Gunzenhausen, Ansbach, Steinach (b Rothenb), Marktbreit and Ochsenfurt to the capital of Lower Franconia, Würzburg.

Two-stage model of free will

The most recent thinker to describe a two-stage model is Martin Heisenberg (son of physicist Werner Heisenberg), chair of the University of Würzburg's BioZentrum genetics and neurobiology section.

Würzburg Hauptbahnhof

First, in 1861 construction started on a nearly 90 kilometre-long link between Würzburg and Ansbach station, where it connected with a line that had been built in 1859 by the town of Ansbach to connect with the Ludwig South-North Railway in Gunzenhausen.