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Forst
Forst may refer to: Communities In Germany *, in the district of Aachen *Forst (Baden), in Baden-Württemberg *Forst (Lausitz), in Brandenburg * Forst (Unterfranken), part of Schonungen, Bavaria * Forst, Altenkirchen, in the district of Altenkirchen, Rhineland-Palatinate * Forst (Eifel), in the district Cochem-Zell, Rhineland-Palatinate * Forst (Hunsrück), in the district Cochem-Zell, Rhineland-Palatinate *Forst an der Weinstraße, in the district of Bad Dürkheim, Rhineland-Palatinate *Forst, Lower Saxony, a district of Bevern, known for its residents Roedelius and Moebius in the 1970s In Italy * Forst (Foresta), a frazione in the comune of Algund (Lagundo) in South Tyrol, Italy In Switzerland * Forst, Switzerland, in the Canton of Bern People * David Forst (born 1976), American baseball executive * Grete Forst (1878–1942), Austrian soprano * Rainer Forst (born 1964), German philosopher *Willi Forst Willi Forst, born Wilhelm Anton Frohs (7 April 1903 – 11 August 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Forst (brewery)
Forst is an Italian brewing company, based in Forst (Italian: ''Foresta''), a ''frazione'' (municipal subdivision) of Algund (Italian: ''Lagundo''), South Tyrol. The brewery was founded in 1857 by two entrepreneurs, Johann Wallnöfer and Franz Tappeiner, from Meran (Italian: ''Merano''). Later in 1863, the company passed to the entrepreneur Josef Fuchs, who enlarged the plant in Forst. In 2004, Forst opened a small microbrewery in Forst, Germany. Operations Forst has an annual production of 700,000 hl, serving primarily the domestic market. In 1991, it acquired the Menabrea brewery in Biella, Piedmont and also maintains a bottling plant in Palermo, Sicily. The company also produces mineral water and other non-alcoholic drinks, through a subsidiary named ''Kaiserwasser''. File:Forst 01.JPG, A FORST ''Premium''4.8% vol.alc. File:StabilimentoForst1.JPG, The FORST ''Biergarten'' next to the brewery File:Spezialbierbrauerei Forst.jpg, The entrance gate of the brewery at Algund ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Forst (Lausitz)
Forst (Lausitz) ( dsb, Baršć) is a town in Lower Lusatia, Brandenburg, Germany. It lies east of Cottbus, on the river Lausitzer Neiße which is also the German-Polish border, the Oder-Neisse line. It is the capital of the Spree-Neiße district. It is known for its rose garden and textile museum. The town's population is 18,651. In Forst, there is a railway bridge across the Neiße belonging to the line Cottbus–Żary which is serviced by regional trains and a EuroCity train between Hamburg and Kraków (2011). There is also a road bridge across the river north of Forst. Overview Part of the region of Lower Lusatia, Forst was awarded to the Kingdom of Prussia in the 1815 Congress of Vienna. The town was administered as a part of the Province of Brandenburg from 1815 to 1947. After World War II it became part of the German Democratic Republic, from 1952 to 1990 within Bezirk Cottbus. Forst has experienced severe problems as a result of the 1990 German reunification, most notab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Forst (Unterfranken)
Forst in Unterfranken is a little village in the Schonungen municipality that lies in the district of Schweinfurt. It has about 900 inhabitants. Location Forst lies approximately 1/2 mile just north of the Main river along the southern exposed north bank of the Main river valley. At 923 ft (284m) above sea level, it is about 227 ft (70m) above the river. Many new houses have been built, except in the old village center, due to the great view into the valley. The expansion predominantly took place to the west towards Schonungen. History The village is first documented in the year 1183. The village was formed as a part of the free imperial city of Schweinfurt which was later given to the Count of Henneberg. During the Margravian War in 1553 and the Thirty Years' War the area suffered heavily. Objects of Interest Forst's main landmarks include: *The old tithe house from the year 1567 and other fachwerk (Tudor-type) houses along the old roads which meet in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Forst An Der Weinstraße
Forst may refer to: Communities In Germany *, in the district of Aachen *Forst (Baden), in Baden-Württemberg *Forst (Lausitz), in Brandenburg * Forst (Unterfranken), part of Schonungen, Bavaria * Forst, Altenkirchen, in the district of Altenkirchen, Rhineland-Palatinate * Forst (Eifel), in the district Cochem-Zell, Rhineland-Palatinate * Forst (Hunsrück), in the district Cochem-Zell, Rhineland-Palatinate *Forst an der Weinstraße, in the district of Bad Dürkheim, Rhineland-Palatinate *Forst, Lower Saxony, a district of Bevern, known for its residents Roedelius and Moebius in the 1970s In Italy * Forst (Foresta), a frazione in the comune of Algund (Lagundo) in South Tyrol, Italy In Switzerland * Forst, Switzerland, in the Canton of Bern People * David Forst (born 1976), American baseball executive * Grete Forst (1878–1942), Austrian soprano *Rainer Forst (born 1964), German philosopher *Willi Forst (1903–1980), Austrian actor, screenwriter, film director, film producer a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Forst
David Lee Forst (born May 18, 1976) is an American baseball executive with the Oakland Athletics of Major League Baseball. He is the general manager of the Athletics. Early and personal life Forst was born in Santa Monica, California, and raised in Encino, California. He attended Brentwood School in Brentwood, Los Angeles. Forst's wife is Rebe Glass, a lawyer with the San Francisco law firm Cooley Godward Kronish. Glass and Forst met at Harvard, where Glass was captain of the soccer team and a member of the 1997 All-Ivy Team, Second Team. They have a son (Judah) and a daughter (Sasha), and live in Berkeley, California. College Forst attended Harvard University, where he played college baseball for the Harvard Crimson. Forst was the Crimson's starting shortstop and team captain, and in his senior year he batted .406/.437/.624, while setting a school record with 67 hits. He was named an All-America third-team shortstop. He graduated cum laude with a bachelor's degree in socio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Forst (Eifel)
Forst (Eifel) is an ''Ortsgemeinde'' – a municipality belonging to a ''Verbandsgemeinde'', a kind of collective municipality – in the Cochem-Zell district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' of Kaisersesch. It is not to be confused with Forst (Hunsrück), which lies in the same district. The Forst that this article deals with has distinguished itself with the official tag “(Eifel)” since 1 June 1970. Geography Location The municipality lies in the Vordereifel (“Further Eifel”) between Treis-Karden and Kaisersesch. Constituent communities Forst's ''Ortsteile'' are Forst (main centre), Molzig and Pfaffenhausen. History In two papal documents from 1178 and 1186, the village is named as ''Vosca'' and ''Vostra''. Forst is the midpoint of the ''Forster Kirchspiel'' (parish), which was already a parochial and jurisdictional entity by the Middle Ages. The landholders about 1790 were Saint Castor's Foundation (''Stift St. Kastor' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Willi Forst
Willi Forst, born Wilhelm Anton Frohs (7 April 1903 – 11 August 1980) was an Austrian actor, screenwriter, film director, film producer and singer. As a debonair actor he was a darling of the German-speaking film audiences, as a director, one of the most significant makers of the Viennese period musical melodramas and comedies of the 1930s known as ''Wiener Filme''. From the mid-1930s he also recorded many records, largely of sentimental Viennese songs, for the Odeon Records label owned by Carl Lindström AG. Biography His first major role was opposite Marlene Dietrich in the silent film '' Café Elektric'' in 1927. However, he was best known for his characters in light musicals, which rapidly made him a star. He developed the genre of the Viennese Film with writer Walter Reisch in the 1930s, beginning with the Franz Schubert melodrama '' Leise flehen meine Lieder'' (1933) which became an iconic role for the actor Hans Jaray and ''Maskerade'' (1934), which launched his fame as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Forst, Switzerland
Forst is a village in the canton of Bern, Switzerland. The former municipality of the district of Thun merged with Längenbühl on January 1, 2007 to form Forst-Längenbühl. Geography Forst is a settlement with scattered building in the moraine landscape of Upper Gürbetal. The most important boroughs are Dörfli, Allmid (Allmend), Chromen, Längmoos, and Riedhubel. Of the entire municipal territory of 185 hectares, 79.7% is used for agriculture, 11.8% is forested, and a mere 8% is used for settlements. Politics The Municipal President of Forst is Hans Burkhalter. Transportation Forst is connected to the public transportation grid via Bus Line 51 Thun-Forst-Blumenstein of Verkehrsbetriebe STI Verkehrsbetriebe STI ( Steffisburg- Thun-Interlaken) is a bus operator in the Swiss canton (country subdivision), canton of Bern. It is a private company based in the city of Thun, and operates bus services in that city, as well as routes linking .... References External links * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Forst (Hunsrück)
Forst (Hunsrück) is an ''Ortsgemeinde'' – a municipality belonging to a ''Verbandsgemeinde'', a kind of collective municipality – in the Cochem-Zell district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' of Zell, whose seat is in the municipality of Zell an der Mosel. It is not to be confused with Forst (Eifel), which lies in the same district. The Forst that this article deals with has distinguished itself with the official tag “(Hunsrück)” since 1 June 1970. Geography Forst, together with the municipalities of Altstrimmig, Liesenich and Mittelstrimmig, belongs to the so-called ''Strimmiger Berg'' and lies in the Hunsrück on a hill above the Mörsdorfer Bach (brook) not far from Mastershausen. History The Strimmiger Berg was until 1781 part of the “Three-Lord Territory”. As in the Beltheim court, the landlordship was shared among the Electorate of Trier, the County of Sponheim and the House of Braunshorn (later Winneburg and Met ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grete Forst
Grete Forst (August 18, 1878 – June 1, 1942) was an Austrian soprano. Born Margarete Feiglstock to a Jewish family in Vienna, Forst made her operatic debut in Cologne in 1900 in the title role of '' Lucia di Lammermoor'' Three years later, made her Vienna State Opera debut in the same role and was made a member of the company by Gustav Mahler. In 1908 she sang in the premiere of Karl Goldmark's ''Ein Wintermärchen'' with Leopold Demuth. She remained in Vienna singing coloratura roles such as Olympia, Queen of the Night, Oscar, and Fiordiligi, as well as lyric soprano roles such as Cio-Cio-San. After she retired in 1911 upon her marriage to banker Johann Schuschny, she continued her career as a concert singer and teacher in Vienna for many years. She had one child, a son, Fritz Schuschny. She converted to Catholicism in 1940, but on May 27, 1942 she was placed in a transport to the Maly Trostenets extermination camp in Belorussia where she was murdered on June 1, 1942 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rainer Forst
Rainer Forst (born 15 August 1964, Wiesbaden) is a German philosopher and political theorist, and was called the "most important political philosopher of his generation" in 2012, when he won the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize. Currently he is Professor of Political Theory at the Department for Social Sciences, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt. He is often identified with the newest generation of scholars associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory. He received his doctorate under the supervision of Jürgen Habermas in 1993, with additional supervision by John Rawls from 1991 to 1992. His main areas of research are political theory, pragmatism, tolerance, and political and social justice. His first book in English, ''Contexts of Justice'', incorporated elements of Anglo-American liberal theory and communitarianism with German critical and social theory. He is frequently recognized as perhaps the world's leading authority on the subject of toleration ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Forst (Baden)
Forst is a municipality in the district of Karlsruhe in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is located on Bertha Benz Memorial Route 2 km north of Bruchsal and shares a direct border with that city. 1988 F-16C jet fighter crash On March 31, 1988, a US Air Force F-16C The General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon is a single-engine multirole fighter aircraft originally developed by General Dynamics for the United States Air Force (USAF). Designed as an air superiority day fighter, it evolved into a successf ... jet fighter crashed into the town during a low-altitude exercise. After striking the roof of a house and badly damaging another, the aircraft slid down along the length of Forster Hardtstrasse, setting several houses on fire. The pilot, 24-year old Lt. Thomas Edward Doyle, and a resident, 62-year old Theo Huber, were killed. References Karlsruhe (district) {{Karlsruhedistrict-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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