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3 unusual facts about southern Germany


Bremerhaven Army Airfield

The US needed a support point with an harbour, to allow the unhindered support of US forces in the American Occupation Zone in Southern Germany.

Erecura

Representations of Erecura are most commonly found in the Danubian area of Southern Germany and Slovenia, but they also occur in Italy, Great Britain, and France.

Paul Kleinschmidt

Kleinschmidt made several rapid moves from Berlin throughout Southern Germany in 1932 ending up in Ulm and within a year's time, Ay near Senden.


Berthold V, Duke of Zähringen

In exchange for this renunciation, Berthold gained territorial concessions in what is now southern Germany and northern Switzerland, consolidating Zähringer hold over the Ortenau, the Breisgau, Schaffhausen, Breisach and All Saints' Abbey.

Käthe Kollwitz

The German Peasants' War was a violent revolution which took place in Southern Germany in the early years of the Reformation, beginning in 1525; peasants who had been treated as slaves took arms against feudal lords and the church.


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1634: The Ram Rebellion

The initial main thread is called the "Western and North-Central Europe thread" (encompassing northern and western Germany, Denmark, England, France, the Low Countries, Sweden and the Baltic; the second plot line, encompassing events in Italy, Spain, the Mediterranean region, and France, the "South European thread", and this book can be considered the starting novel of the "South-Central/South-East thread" being set in southern Germany, Austria, Bavaria, and Bohemia.

601st Tank Destroyer Battalion

During the move into southern Germany, on January 26, 1945, two tank destroyers of the battalion participated in the engagement for which Lieutenant Audie Murphy was awarded the Medal of Honor.

Adolphus von Dalberg

Adolphus von Dalberg, born into a long-established noble family of southern Germany, after holding the office of provost at Celle in Hanover for some years, was elected Prince-Abbot of the Benedictine Fulda Abbey in 1724.

Allersberg-Express

Allersberg-Express is the brand name for the RegionalBahn train service between Nuremberg and Allersberg in Bavaria in southern Germany, operated by Deutsche Bahn.

Alpines Steinschaf

Alpines Steinschaf (German for alpine stone sheep) is a breed of domesticated sheep found in southern Germany and Austria.

Ansbach station

Ansbach station is the central transportation hub in the town of Ansbach in southern Germany.

Austro-Hungarian gulden

In southern Germany, the word Gulden was the standard word for a major currency unit.

Banz Abbey

Banz Abbey (German: Kloster Banz), now known as Banz Castle (German: Schloss Banz), is a former Benedictine monastery, since 1978 a part of the town of Bad Staffelstein north of Bamberg, Bavaria, southern Germany.

Beck's Brewery

Beck's is known for its pilsner consisting of two row spring barley from the south of England, yeast, crystal water from the "Rotenburger Rinne" and Hallertau hops from southern Germany.

Bernhard Dietsche

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

Carolingian Schools

In Southern Germany and Switzerland the Carolingian revival was felt before the close of the eighth century in Rheinau, Reichenau and St. Gall, and early in the following century in Northern Italy, especially in Pavia and Bobbio.

Cricosaurus

From the slightly older Nusplingen Plattenkalk (late Kimmeridgian) of southern Germany, both C. suevicus and Dakosaurus maximus are contemporaneous.

ED50

The geodetic datum of ED50 is centred at the Munich Frauenkirche in southern Germany, where the approximate centre of the Western Europe national networks was situated in the years of the cold war.

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.

Geosaurus

From the slightly older Nusplingen Plattenkalk (late Kimmeridgian) of southern Germany, both G. suevicus and Dakosaurus maximus are contemporaneous.

German school of fencing

Hans Talhoffer in the 1440s to 1460s was active throughout Southern Germany, including Königsegg, Emerkingen, Zürich,

Gnathosaurus

Fragments of Gnathosaurus jaw were first discovered in 1832 in the Solnhofen limestones of southern Germany but were mistaken for a piece of teleosaurid crocodile jaw, hence the synonym Crocodylus multidens.

Hanhart

Today, Hanhart produces its instrument watches and stopwatches in its workshops in Gütenbach, southern Germany.

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.

Johannes Zick

Johannes (Johann) Zick (January 10, 1702 – March 4, 1762) was a German painter of frescoes in southern Germany and active during the Baroque period.

Karlsruhe–Mühlacker railway

Baden saw the line has having two important tasks: on the one hand, connecting the industrial town of Pforzheim to the rail network, on the other hand, the creation of a possible direct connection between France, southern Germany and the Austrian Empire.

Katzenberger Trial

Together with his two brothers, Leo Katzenberger (born 28 November 1873 in Maßbach near Bad Kissingen) owned a large shoe wholesale shop as well as some thirty shoe shops throughout southern Germany.

Landsmannschaft Schottland

The Landsmannschaft Schottland ("Scotland") is a German fraternity - not to be confused with the American variety - situated in Tübingen, a student city in southern Germany.

Manegold of Lautenbach

Manegold's book also contained an account of the life of Gregory VII, reflecting the Vita by John the Deacon of Gregory the Great; this shares details with chronicles of Berthold of Reichenau and Bernold of St Blasien, writing in the part of southern Germany in which Manegold had sheltered after having to leave Alsace.

Matthias Klotz

Matthias Klotz did not really build his instruments according to the classical Italian style but rather made them similar to those of masters from Fussen (a town in Bavaria) and Swabian (Southern Germany).

Oskar Ritter

The Kaiser-Wilhelm Institut für Physik (KWIP, Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physics, today, the Max-Planck Institut für Physik) had partly evacuated to Hechingen and Haigerloch in southern Germany.

Parking Non-Stop

Soon afterwards, the group came to the attention of Faust's Hans Joachim Irmler, who invited them to perform at his Klangbad Festival in Scheer, southern Germany in 2007.

Paul Oßwald

Bayern's internationals – Ludwig Goldbrunner, Sigmund Haringer, Konrad Heidkamp and Oskar Rohr – turned the table of the Southern Germany's final fixture and won 2–0 the German championship.

Peter Herbert Jensen

The Kaiser-Wilhelm Institut für Physik (KWIP, Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physics) had partly evacuated to Hechingen and Haigerloch in southern Germany.

Philip I, Margrave of Baden

During his reign, Philip was confronted a wave of rebellions all over southern Germany.

Protestantism in Switzerland

The Reformed branch of Protestantism in Switzerland was started in Zürich by Huldrych Zwingli and spread within a few years to Basel (Johannes Oecolampadius), Bern (Berchtold Haller and Niklaus Manuel), St. Gall (Joachim Vadian), to cities in southern Germany and via Alsace (Martin Bucer) to France.

Romano Artioli

Artioli was born in Moglia in the Province of Mantua, and raised in Bolzano where in the 1980s he ran one of the largest Ferrari dealerships in the world, selling in northern Italy and southern Germany.

Saxon Rebellion

Henry fled across the Harz mountains reaching the Landgraviate of Thuringia at Eschwege first and then moved on to Franconian Hersfeld further into southern Germany.

Sudetendeutsche Landsmannschaft

Since Pentecost of 1950, the Landsmannschaft organized a traditional convention, the Sudetendeutscher Tag, which mostly took place in southern Germany.

The New Aesthetics

The origin of the New Aesthetics lies in an art summer school held in Irsee, southern Germany, in 2007 and the joint class held there by the English artist Clive Head and the Anglo-Cypriot writer and art theorist Michael Paraskos.

Urbanus Rhegius

Urbanus Henricus Rhegius or Urban Rieger (May 1489, Langenargen – 23 May 1541, Celle) was a Protestant Reformer who was active both in Northern and Southern Germany in order to promote Lutheran unity in the Holy Roman Empire.

Vaterstetten

On 5 May 1945, the delegations of the German Army Group G and the 7th U.S. Army met here to discuss the surrender of the 200 000 German soldiers in southern Germany, which was finally signed in the neighbour community of Haar.

Von Gemmingen

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

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.