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Schloss Fuschl
Schloss Fuschl is a luxury hotel located in a historic castle in the gemeinde of Hof bei Salzburg, in the Land Salzburg in western Austria. It stands on a peninsula at the western end of Lake Fuschl, a glacier lake. It contains a collection of old master paintings, and a museum holding objects relating to the film '' Sissi'', parts of which were filmed in the castle. History The tower of the castle was constructed in 1461 by Prince-Archbishop of Salzburg Sigismund I. von Volkersdorf, who used it as a hunting lodge. The surrounding property had been the property of the Prince-Archbishopric for 700 years at that point. The castle was used for the Prince-Archbishop's annual grand hunt. The first mention of this is in a document dated 1545. In 1816 the Prince-Archbishopric of Salzburg was dissolved and the property passed to the Austrian state. The structure fell into disrepair. In 1833, the Austrian state leased the property, and in 1864, it was sold to Michael Fink, a ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hof Bei Salzburg
Hof bei Salzburg is a municipality in the district of Salzburg-Umgebung in the state of Salzburg in Austria. The mezzo-soprano Rosl Zapf (1925–2019) was born in Hof bei Salzburg. Geography Hof bei Salzburg is on the shore of the Fuschlsee and is surrounded by the Salzkammergut The Salzkammergut (; ; bar, Soizkaumaguad, label=Central Austro-Bavarian) is a resort area in Austria, stretching from the city of Salzburg eastwards along the Alpine Foreland and the Northern Limestone Alps to the peaks of the Dachstein Mou ... mountains. The town is on the Austrian motorway A1. References Cities and towns in Salzburg-Umgebung District {{Salzburg-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hotel Goldener Hirsch
The Hotel Goldener Hirsch is a five-star hotel located at Getreidegasse 37 in the Altstadt (old town) of Salzburg, Austria. The hotel includes the adjacent house at Getreidegasse 35 and the nearby goldsmith house at Getreidegasse 46. The Goldener Hirsch is listed as part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site Altstadt Salzburg. History The first recorded documents referencing the building that now houses the Hotel Goldener Hirsch were found in Nonnberg Abbey and date back to 1407. The residents living at 256 Getreidegasse (the old numbering system, now 37) at the time were Heinrich von Hulczein and his wife Liebhart von Hall, Peter Erner von Mattsee, and silversmith Aezius Zehringer. Over the next two centuries, the house was inhabited by Liebhart von Haller (1434), Peter Erner von Mattsee (1438), silversmith Alex Sehringer (1442), fitter Bernhard Stockär (1453), locksmith Bartlmee Falk (1463) who enlarged the house, blacksmith Niklas Warislochner (1478–1501), widow Margareth Waris ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stefan Schörghuber
Stefan Schörghuber (6 July 1961 – 25 November 2008) was a German businessman. Schörghuber was the owner of the Schörghuber Unternehmensgruppe in Munich, Germany. After his father Josef’s death in 1995, he took over the business, restructured it, and expanded it. The business, which is organised under the holding company Schörghuber Stiftung & Co. Holding KG, is active in the drinks, building and property, aircraft leasing, and hotel industries. Stefan Schörghuber’s wealth was estimated by ''Forbes'' to be US$2.8 billion in 2006, making him number 245, and later US$ 3.5 Billion, making him number 307 in the List of Billionaires. Schörghuber was married, had three children and lived in Munich. Together with his wife, Alexandra, he was active in the “Josef-Schörghuber-Stiftung für Münchner Kinder”, a charitable organisation for socially deprived children and their families in Munich. Together with Konrad Bernheimer Konrad Otto Bernheimer (born 30 August 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerald Ford
Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. ( ; born Leslie Lynch King Jr.; July 14, 1913December 26, 2006) was an American politician who served as the 38th president of the United States from 1974 to 1977. He was the only president never to have been elected to the office of president or vice president as well as the only president to date from Michigan. He previously served as the leader of the Republican Party in the House of Representatives, and was appointed to be the 40th vice president in 1973. When President Richard Nixon resigned in 1974, Ford succeeded to the presidency, but was defeated for election to a full term in 1976. Born in Omaha, Nebraska, and raised in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Ford attended the University of Michigan, where he was a member of the school's football team, winning two national championships. Following his senior year, he turned down offers from the Detroit Lions and Green Bay Packers, instead opting to go to Yale Law School. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
President Of The United States
The president of the United States (POTUS) is the head of state and head of government of the United States of America. The president directs the executive branch of the federal government and is the commander-in-chief of the United States Armed Forces. The power of the presidency has grown substantially since the first president, George Washington, took office in 1789. While presidential power has ebbed and flowed over time, the presidency has played an increasingly strong role in American political life since the beginning of the 20th century, with a notable expansion during the presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt. In contemporary times, the president is also looked upon as one of the world's most powerful political figures as the leader of the only remaining global superpower. As the leader of the nation with the largest economy by nominal GDP, the president possesses significant domestic and international hard and soft power. Article II of the Constitution establ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anwar Sadat
Muhammad Anwar el-Sadat, (25 December 1918 – 6 October 1981) was an Egyptian politician and military officer who served as the third president of Egypt, from 15 October 1970 until his assassination by fundamentalist army officers on 6 October 1981. Sadat was a senior member of the Free Officers who overthrew King Farouk in the Egyptian Revolution of 1952, and a close confidant of President Gamal Abdel Nasser, under whom he served as Vice President twice and whom he succeeded as president in 1970. In 1978, Sadat and Menachem Begin, Prime Minister of Israel, signed a peace treaty in cooperation with United States President Jimmy Carter, for which they were recognized with the Nobel Peace Prize. In his eleven years as president, he changed Egypt's trajectory, departing from many of the political and economic tenets of Nasserism, re-instituting a multi-party system, and launching the Infitah economic policy. As President, he led Egypt in the Yom Kippur War of 1973 to r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
President Of Egypt
The president of Egypt is the executive head of state of Egypt and the de facto appointer of the official head of government under the Egyptian Constitution of 2014. Under the various iterations of the Constitution of Egypt following the Egyptian Revolution of 1952, the president is also the supreme commander of the Armed Forces, and head of the executive branch of the Egyptian government. The current president is Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, who has been in office since 8 June 2014. History The first president of Egypt was Mohamed Naguib, who along with Gamal Abdel Nasser, led the Egyptian Revolution of 1952 that overthrew King Farouk and marked the end of the British colonial rule. Though Farouk's infant son was formally declared by the revolutionaries as King Fuad II, all effective executive power was vested in Naguib and the Revolutionary Command Council. On 18 June 1953, just under a year after the coup d'état, the Council abolished the monarchy of Egypt and Sudan, and dec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nikita Khrushchev
Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev (– 11 September 1971) was the First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964 and chairman of the country's Council of Ministers from 1958 to 1964. During his rule, Khrushchev stunned the communist world with his denunciation of his predecessor Joseph Stalin's crimes, and embarked on a policy of de-Stalinization with his key ally Anastas Mikoyan. He sponsored the early Soviet space program, and enactment of moderate reforms in domestic policy. After some false starts, and a narrowly avoided nuclear war over Cuba, he conducted successful negotiations with the United States to reduce Cold War tensions. In 1964, the Kremlin leadership stripped him of power, replacing him with Leonid Brezhnev as First Secretary and Alexei Kosygin as Premier. Khrushchev was born in 1894 in a village in western Russia. He was employed as a metal worker during his youth, and he was a political commissar during the Russian Civil Wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Winnie Markus
Winnie Markus (1921–2002) was a Czechoslovakia-born German film and television actress. Selected filmography * '' A Mother's Love'' (1939) - Rosl Pirlinger * ' (1939) - Juana de Alvarado * '' The Vulture Wally'' (1940) - Afra Kuttner * ''Herz geht vor Anker'' (1940) - Lotte Kamphausen * ''Im Schatten des Berges'' (1940) - Hedwig Brügger * ''Die Kellnerin Anna'' (1941) - Marina * ''Alarmstufe V'' (1941) * ''Brüderlein fein'' (1942) - Toni Wagner - seine Tochter * '' The Sold Grandfather'' (1942) - Ev Haslinger * ''The Little Residence'' (1942) - Marianne Hartung * ''Sommerliebe'' (1942) - Renate * '' Whom the Gods Love'' (1942) - Konstanze Weber Mozart * ''Fahrt ins Abenteuer'' (1943) - Gusti Lenz * ''Tonelli'' (1943) - Nelly, 'Königin der Luft' Joros Partnerin * ''Gefährlicher Frühling'' (1943) - Renate Willms * ''Dir zuliebe'' (1944) - Maria Mansfeld - seine Frau * ''The Enchanted Day'' (1944) - Christine Schweiger * ''Das alte Lied'' (1945) - Stine * ''In Those Days'' (194 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Possenhofen Castle
Possenhofen Castle (german: Schloss Possenhofen) is located in the town of Possenhofen on the western shore of Lake Starnberg in Bavaria, Germany. History The castle was built in 1536 by Jakob Rosenbusch, was destroyed during the Thirty Years' War, then rebuilt. It passed through various owners before being bought in 1834 by Maximilian, Duke in Bavaria, father of "Sisi", the future Empress Elisabeth (wife of Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria); thus, the castle is best remembered today as her childhood home and favourite vacation retreat. The castle served as a seat of the Dukes in Bavaria, a junior branch of the House of Wittelsbach, until it became derelict after 1920. Duke Luitpold Emanuel Ludwig Maria in Bavaria (1890-1973) sold it, as well as Biederstein Castle in Munich-Schwabing, in order to build his late romantic Schloss Ringberg Schloss Ringberg (Ringberg Castle) is located in the Bavarian Alps, 50 km south of Munich, on a foothill overlooking the Tegernsee. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Romy Schneider
Romy Schneider (; born Rosemarie Magdalena Albach; 23 September 1938 – 29 May 1982) was a German-French actress. She began her career in the German genre in the early 1950s when she was 15. From 1955 to 1957, she played the central character of Empress Elisabeth of Austria in the Austrian '' Sissi'' trilogy, and later reprised the role in a more mature version in Luchino Visconti's '' Ludwig'' (1973). Schneider moved to France, where she made successful and critically acclaimed films with some of the most notable film directors of that era. Early life Schneider was born Rosemarie Magdalena Albach in Vienna, six months after the ''Anschluss'' of Austria into Nazi Germany, to actors Magda Schneider and Wolf Albach-Retty. Her paternal grandmother, Rosa Albach-Retty, was also an actress. Schneider's mother was German while her father was Austrian. Four weeks after Romy's birth, the parents brought her to Schönau am Königssee in Germany where she and later her brother Wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
