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Furth im Wald (in Czech ''Brod nad Lesy'', resp. ''Bavorský Brod'') is a town in
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Bavaria
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, Germany
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, near the Czech border in the Bavarian Forest, northeast of Cham, and southwest of Domažlice. The city is known as ''Drachenstadt'' (Dragon City), a reference to Furth im Wald's annual ''Drachenstich'' (Slaying of the Dragon) play. The ''Drachenstich'', originally part of a Corpus Christi procession, was first mentioned in 1590. As one of the oldest folk plays in the German language, each year actors re-enact the legend of Saint George slaying the dragon. In 2010, the play became notable for using the world's largest walking robot, an animatronic
Animatronics refers to mechatronic puppets. They are a modern variant of the automaton and are often used for the portrayal of characters in films and in theme park attractions.
It is a multidisciplinary field integrating puppetry, anatomy a ...
dragon called Tradinno.
Twin towns
Furth im Wald is twinned with: *Ludres
Ludres () is a commune in the Meurthe-et-Moselle ''département'' in north-eastern France.
The inhabitants are called ''Ludréens''. In the past, inhabitants of Ludres were known by their neighbours as ''rôtisseurs'' ("roast meat sellers"), hav ...
, France
* Furth bei Göttweig
Furth bei Göttweig is a town and municipality in the district of Krems-Land in the Austrian state of Lower Austria. The municipality consists of the following populated places:
*Aigen
*Furth bei Göttweig
*Klein-Wien
*Oberfucha
*Palt
*Steinaweg
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, Austria
* Domažlice, Czech Republic
Gallery
Photographs from the Bohnenstengel, A. (2002)Bayern
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Sons and daughters of the town
* Aloys Fischer
Aloys Fischer (10 April 1880 – 23 November 1937) was a German educationalist.
Fischer was born in Furth im Wald, Bavaria on 10 April 1880. He attended the local elementary school. In 1891 he was awarded a scholarship to the grammar school ba ...
(1880–1937), educator
* Helmut Sturm (1932–2008), painter, member of the group SPUR
A spur is a metal tool designed to be worn in pairs on the heels of riding boots for the purpose of directing a horse or other animal to move forward or laterally while riding. It is usually used to refine the riding aids (commands) and to ba ...
, from 1980 to 1982 guest professor at the Berlin University of the Arts
The Universität der Künste Berlin (UdK; also known in English as the Berlin University of the Arts), situated in Berlin, Germany, is the largest art school in Europe. It is a public art and design school, and one of the four research universit ...
* Willibald Utz (1893–1954), officer, most recently Generalleutnant in the Second World War
References
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