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Kirchberg (other)
Kirchberg ( German for "Church Hill") commonly refers to: * Kirchberg, Luxembourg, a quarter of Luxembourg City, Luxembourg ** Court of Justice of the European Union (metonym) Kirchberg may also refer to: Austria *Kirchberg am Wagram, a town in Lower Austria * Kirchberg am Walde, a town in Lower Austria *Kirchberg am Wechsel, a town in Lower Austria *Kirchberg an der Pielach, a town in Lower Austria *Kirchberg an der Raab, a town in Styria * Kirchberg in Tirol, a town in Tyrol *Kirchberg bei Mattighofen, a town in Upper Austria *Kirchberg ob der Donau, a town in Upper Austria *Kirchberg-Thening, a municipality in Upper Austria *Kirchberg (Fontanella), a subdivision of Fontanella, Austria in Vorarlberg France *Kirchberg, Haut-Rhin Germany *Kirchberg an der Iller, in Biberach, Baden-Württemberg * Kirchberg an der Murr, in Rems-Murr, Baden-Württemberg *Kirchberg, a borough of Sulz am Neckar in Rottweil, Baden-Württemberg * Kirchberg convent, a monastery in Sulz am Neckar, Bade ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
German Language
German ( ) is a West Germanic languages, West Germanic language mainly spoken in Central Europe. It is the most widely spoken and Official language, official or co-official language in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, and the Italy, Italian province of South Tyrol. It is also a co-official language of Luxembourg and German-speaking Community of Belgium, Belgium, as well as a national language in Namibia. Outside Germany, it is also spoken by German communities in France (Bas-Rhin), Czech Republic (North Bohemia), Poland (Upper Silesia), Slovakia (Bratislava Region), and Hungary (Sopron). German is most similar to other languages within the West Germanic language branch, including Afrikaans, Dutch language, Dutch, English language, English, the Frisian languages, Low German, Luxembourgish, Scots language, Scots, and Yiddish. It also contains close similarities in vocabulary to some languages in the North Germanic languages, North Germanic group, such as Danish lan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sulz Am Neckar
Sulz am Neckar is a town in the district of Rottweil, in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is situated on the river Neckar, 22 km north of Rottweil, and 19 km southeast of Freudenstadt. Sulz am Neckar came in the possession of the Hohengeroldseck in AD 1242. At Sulz a powerline for traction current crosses the Neckar Valley in a large span, which is mounted on two 61-metre-tall electricity pylons. Geography Geographical Location The city is situated between Black Forest and Swabian Jura as well as between Stuttgart and Lake Constance at the Neckar at an altitude of 410 to 675 m. Sulz has with a size of 87,60 km² the largest municipal area in the Rottweil (district). Urban structure The city of Sulz is divided into the core city of Sulz with its two districts Sulz-Kastell and Sulz-Schillerhöhe as well as the nine districts Bergfelden, Dürrenmettstetten, Fischingen, Glatt, Holzhausen, Hopfau, Mühlheim, Renfrizhausen, Sigmarswangen History Early histor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edmund Landolt
Jacques Rodolphe Edmund Landolt (17 May 1846 – 9 May 1926) was a Swiss ophthalmologist stationed in Paris, mostly known for a wide range of publications and his research in the field of ophthalmology. First years Edmund Landolt was born in Kirchberg, Switzerland, of a French mother, Rosina Baumgartner, and Swiss father, Rudolf Landolt. He came to France during the war in 1871 with a Swiss ambulance hospital, and was present at the battles around Belfort, where he contracted enteric fever. Study and work Studied at University of Zurich where he got a Ph.D. in 1869 and was through this time and later pupil of Knapp in Heidelberg, Ferdinand Arlt in Vienna, Von Graefe and Helmholtz in Berlin, Horner in Zürich, and Snellen and Donders in Utrecht. Worked in physiological optics with, among others, Snellen and Donders. After study and practice in Utrecht and Germany he established himself in Paris in 1874 where he became oculist to the Institut National des Je ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chirpăr
Chirpăr (german: Kirchberg; hu, Kürpöd) is a commune located in Sibiu County, Transylvania, Romania. It is composed of four villages: Chirpăr, Săsăuș (''Sachsenhausen''; ''Szászház''), Vărd (''Werd''; ''Vérd'') and Veseud (''Zied''; ''Vessződ''). Chirpăr and Veseud villages have fortified churches. The commune is situated in the eastern part of the county, east of the county seat, Sibiu, south of Agnita, and west of Făgăraș. Architecture The village church was erected by the local Transylvanian Saxon community in the 12th century. It was initially built as a Romanesque basilica, made of stone. History The Mongol invasion of 1241–1242 caused great damage to the area. The first attestation of the locality (under the name of Kirchberg) dates from 1332. In 1910 the Agnita to Sibiu railway line was completed with at station at Vărd; however the line was closed in 2001. An active restoration group has since been formed aiming to restore the entire line to wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Flying Classroom
''The Flying Classroom'' (German: ''Das fliegende Klassenzimmer'') is a 1933 novel for children written by the German writer Erich Kästner. In the book Kästner took up the predominantly British genre of the school story, taking place in a boarding school, and transferred it to an unmistakably German background. Plot summary The story covers the last few days of term before Christmas for the students of the Johann-Sigismund Gymnasium. The main characters are Martin, the first student of the class, Jonathan, an orphan who was adopted by a captain, Matz, Uli and Sebastian, students from the Tertia (Year 8). There is a bitter struggle between the students at the Gymnasium and another school, the ''Realschule'' (which is, with some probability, not the Realschule as known today, but an ''Oberrealschule'', as the science -oriented, rather than humanist and focussing on classical philology, variety of the Gymnasium was then called). The so-called "Realists" steal the Gymnasium's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erich Kästner
Emil Erich Kästner (; 23 February 1899 – 29 July 1974) was a German writer, poet, screenwriter and satirist, known primarily for his humorous, socially astute poems and for children's books including '' Emil and the Detectives''. He received the international Hans Christian Andersen Medal in 1960 for his autobiography '. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in six separate years. Biography Dresden 1899–1919 Kästner was born in Dresden, Saxony, and grew up on Königsbrücker Straße in Dresden's Äußere Neustadt. Close by, the Erich Kästner Museum was subsequently opened in the Villa Augustin that had belonged to Kästner's uncle Franz Augustin. Kästner's father, Emil Richard Kästner, was a master saddlemaker. His mother, Ida Amalia (née Augustin), had been a maidservant, but in her thirties she trained as a hairstylist in order to supplement her husband's income. Kästner had a particularly close relationship with his mother. When he was living ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kirchberg, Saxony
Kirchberg is a town in the Zwickau district, in Saxony, Germany. It is situated at the western end of the Ore Mountains, 11 km south of Zwickau. Notable people * Christoph Graupner (1683-1760), musician and composer. The high school in Kirchberg is named after him. * Robert Seidel Robert Seidel (March 12, 1918 – July 1982) was a Swiss boxer who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics. In 1936 he was eliminated in the second round of the lightweight class after losing his fight to the upcoming gold medalist Imre Harangi ... (1850-1933), politician, took part in the founding congress of the SPD. There is a street named after him in Kirchberg. References Zwickau (district) {{Zwickau-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kirchberg (Verbandsgemeinde)
Kirchberg is a ''Verbandsgemeinde'' ("collective municipality") in the Rhein-Hunsrück district, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Its seat is in Kirchberg. The ''Verbandsgemeinde'' Kirchberg consists of the following ''Ortsgemeinden'' ("local municipalities"): Verbandsgemeinde in Rhineland-Palatinate {{RheinHunsrück-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kirchberg, Rhein-Hunsrück
Kirchberg, the ''Stadt auf dem Berg'' (“Town on the Mountain”), called ''Kerbrich'' in Moselle Franconian, is a town in the Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis (district) in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is the seat of the like-named ''Verbandsgemeinde'', to which it also belongs. Geography Location The town lies in the Hunsrück, 10 km west of the district seat of Simmern and 12 km east of Frankfurt-Hahn Airport. Kirchberg's skyline, with its three towers – two churchtowers and one watertower – can be seen from a long way off, for they stand on raised land that gives the town its nickname “Town on the Mountain”. From the churchtower at Saint Michael's, the following places can be seen: to the southeast, the Soonwald (a heavily wooded section of the west-central Hunsrück) with the Koppenstein castle ruin; to the south, the Lützelsoon (a little outlier of the Soonwald); to the southwest, the Idarkopf and the Erbeskopf (mountains, the latter of which, at 816&nb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kirchberg (Bensheim)
Kirchberg is a low hill of Hesse, Germany. {{coord, 49, 41, 16, N, 8, 37, 36, E, region:DE-HE_type:mountain_source:kolossus-dewiki, display=title Site of Massacre On 24 March 1945 - three days before American troops reached nearby Bensheim - twelve German and foreign prisoners, men and women, were murdered by the Gestapo The (), abbreviated Gestapo (; ), was the official secret police of Nazi Germany and in German-occupied Europe. The force was created by Hermann Göring in 1933 by combining the various political police agencies of Prussia into one organi ... north of the Kirchberg summit. Among the murdered were three American paratroopers (W.H. Forman, R.T. McDonald, Ray F. Hermann). A memorial stone commemorates the act. The murdered were Rosa Bertram, Erich Salomon and Walter Hangen from Worms, Lina Bechstein from Kriegsheim, Gretel Maraldo from Offenbach am Main, Jakob Gramlich from Bonsweiher, two Frenchmen Eugene Dumas and Lothaire Delaunay, Dutchman Frederik Roo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kirchberg Im Wald
Kirchberg im Wald is a municipality in the district of Regen, in Bavaria, Germany Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, and the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany is situated betwe .... References Regen (district) {{Regendistrict-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
