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Beeskow
Beeskow (; , ;) is a town in Brandenburg, in eastern Germany, and capital of the Oder-Spree district. It is situated on the river Spree (river), Spree, 30 km southwest of Frankfurt an der Oder. History In 1518 the town was purchased by the Diocese of Lubusz, and it was the place of death of the last bishop in 1555. The town was a fief of the Kingdom of Bohemia until 1742, when it was annexed by the Kingdom of Prussia. From 1815 to 1947, it was part of the Province of Brandenburg. One of the main escape routes for insurgents of the unsuccessful Polish November Uprising from partitioned Poland to the Great Emigration led through the town. After World War II, Beeskow was incorporated into the State of Brandenburg from 1947 to 1952 and the Bezirk Frankfurt of East Germany from 1952 to 1990. Since 1990, Beeskow is again part of Brandenburg. Demography File:Bevölkerungsentwicklung Beeskow.pdf, Development of Population since 1875 within the Current Boundaries (Blue Line: Popula ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oder-Spree
Oder-Spree is a ''Kreis'' (district) in the eastern part of Brandenburg, Germany. Neighboring are (from north clockwise) the district Märkisch-Oderland, the district-free city Frankfurt (Oder), Poland, the districts Spree-Neiße and Dahme-Spreewald, and the States of Germany, ''Bundesland'' Berlin. Geography The district is named after the two major rivers in the district - the Spree (river), Spree river forms a large bend within the district; the Oder river constitutes the eastern border. History The district was created in 1993 by merging the districts Eisenhüttenstadt, Beeskow and Fürstenwalde, and the district-free city Eisenhüttenstadt. Demography File:Bevölkerungsentwicklung Landkreis Oder-Spree.pdf, Development of Population since 1875 within the Current Boundaries (Blue Line: Population; Dotted Line: Comparison to Population Development of Brandenburg state) File:Bevölkerungsprognosen Landkreis Oder-Spree.pdf, Recent Population Development and Projections (Populat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Province Of Brandenburg
The Province of Brandenburg () was a province of Prussia from 1815 to 1947. Brandenburg was established in 1815 from the Kingdom of Prussia's core territory, comprised the bulk of the historic Margraviate of Brandenburg (excluding Altmark) and the Lower Lusatia region, and became part of the German Empire in 1871. From 1918, Brandenburg was a province of the Free State of Prussia until Prussia was dissolved in 1945 after World War II, and replaced with reduced territory as the State of Brandenburg in East Germany, which was later dissolved in 1952. Following the reunification of Germany in 1990, Brandenburg was re-established as a federal state of Germany, becoming one of the new states. Brandenburg's provincial capital alternated between Potsdam, Berlin, and Charlottenburg during its existence. Geography The province comprised large parts of the North German Plain, stretching from the Elbe river in the west to beyond the Oder in the east, where the Neumark region bordered ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diocese Of Lubusz
The Diocese of Lebus (; ; ) is a former diocese of the Catholic Church. It was erected in 1125 and suppressed in 1598. The Bishop of Lebus was also, ''ex officio'', the ruler of a lordship that was coextensive with the territory of the diocese. The geographic remit included areas that are today part of the land of Brandenburg in Germany and the Province of Lubusz in Poland. It included areas on both sides of the Oder River around the town of Lebus (). The cathedral was built on the castle hill in Lubusz and was dedicated to St Adalbert of Prague. Later, the seat moved to Górzyca (), back to Lebus and finally to Fürstenwalde () on the River Spree. It bordered the Diocese of Poznań to the east, the Diocese of Brandenburg to the west, the Diocese of Cammin (Kamień) to the north and the Diocese of Meissen to the south. Establishment The Lubusz Land formed part of Poland since the reign of its first historic ruler Mieszko I in the 10th century. In 968, the Diocese of Poznań ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Max Seiffert
Maximilian Seiffert (9 February 1868 – 15 April 1948) was a German musicologist and editor of Baroque music. Biography Seiffert was born in Beeskow an der Spree, Kingdom of Prussia, the son of a teacher. He was first educated at the Joachimsthal Gymnasium, in Berlin, where he studied under Philipp Spitta, and then at the University of Berlin where he received a Ph.D. in 1891 for his dissertation '' J. P. Sweelinck und seine direkten deutschen Schüler (Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck and his German pupils)''. He died in Schleswig, Germany on the fifteenth, of April, 1948. Career As well as producing modern editions of organ pieces by Bach and Buxtehude, Seiffert was responsible for the following: *Making piano transcriptions of some of Bach's works (in association with Max Schneider). *Assisting with the editing of the Händel-Gesellschaft. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ronny Ostwald
Ronny Ostwald (born 7 April 1974, in Beeskow) is a German sprint athlete. He finished 8th in the 100 m final at the 2006 European Athletics Championships in Gothenburg. He has had more success as a relay runner for Germany, winning a bronze medal in the 4 × 100 m relay at the 2002 European Athletics Championships (belatedly when the United Kingdom team were disqualified after Dwain Chambers failed a drugs test in 2004) and competing in the relay team at the 2004 Summer Olympics The 2004 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad (), and officially branded as Athens 2004 (), were an international multi-sport event held from 13 to 29 August 2004 in Athens, Greece. The Games saw 10,625 athletes .... References * Sports Reference 1974 births Living people People from Beeskow Sportspeople from Bezirk Frankfurt German male sprinters Athletes from Brandenburg German national athletics champions Olympic athletes for Germany Athletes (track ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bezirk Frankfurt
The Bezirk Frankfurt, also Bezirk Frankfurt (Oder), was a district (''Bezirk'') of East Germany. The administrative seat and the main town was Frankfurt (Oder). History The district was established, with the other 13, on 25 July 1952, substituting the old German states. After 3 October 1990 it was disestablished due to the German reunification, becoming again part of the state of Brandenburg. Geography Position The Bezirk Frankfurt bordered with East Berlin and the ''Bezirke'' of Neubrandenburg, Potsdam and Cottbus. It bordered also with Poland. Subdivision The ''Bezirk'' was divided into 12 ''Kreise'': 3 urban districts (''Stadtkreise'') and 9 rural districts (''Landkreise''): *Urban districts : Eisenhüttenstadt, Frankfurt (Oder), Schwedt. *Rural districts : Angermünde; Bad Freienwalde; Beeskow; Bernau; Eberswalde; Eisenhüttenstadt-Land; Fürstenwalde; Seelow; Strausberg. References {{Authority control Frankfurt Frankfurt am Main () is the most populous city ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jana Thieme
Jana Thieme (born 6 July 1970) is a German rower and Olympic champion. Thieme travelled to Barcelona for the 1992 Summer Olympics as a substitute but did not compete. She competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics. She won a gold medal in double sculls with her partner Kathrin Boron Kathrin Boron (born 4 November 1969) is a German sculler, and four-time Olympic gold medallist. She's an athlete of the SV Dynamo / SG Dynamo Potsdam. Boron won the women's double sculls at the 1992 Summer Olympics with Kerstin Köppen and 20 ... at the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games. Thieme has won six World Championships and nine German Championships. References External links * archive * * 1970 births Living people German female rowers Olympic rowers for Germany Rowers at the 1996 Summer Olympics Rowers at the 2000 Summer Olympics Olympic gold medalists for Germany Olympic medalists in rowing Medalists at the 2000 Summer Olympics World Rowing Championships medalists for East Ger ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Judith Zeidler
Judith Ungemach ( Zeidler, born 11 May 1968) is a German-Australian world champion rower and Olympic gold and bronze medalist. Early life and education Zeidler was born in Beeskow, Brandenburg. She started rowing at the age of thirteen at the East German best rowing club Dynamo Berlin (later Sport Club Berlin). Career After three World Junior titles, Zeidler won gold in the women's eight at the 1988 Summer Olympics. A year later she won the world titles in Bled (Slovenia) in the coxless pair. At the 1992 Summer Olympics she won bronze in the women's eight with the unified German eight. Zeidler lives with her husband, Matthias Ungemach, and two sons and one daughter on Sydney's Northern Beaches. Achievements Junior world championships * 1984: Jönköping (SWE) – 1st place (quadruple scull) * 1986: Roudnice (CZE) – 1st place (quadruple scull) World championships * 1989: Bled (SLO) – 1st place (coxless pair) * 1990: Lake Barrington (AUS) – 3rd place (coxless fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joachim Mattern
Joachim Mattern (born 2 May 1948 in Beeskow) is an East German sprint canoeist who competed in the 1970s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won two medals at Montreal in 1976 with a gold in the K-2 500 m and silver in the K-2 1000 m events. Mattern also won five medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships The ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships are an international event in canoe racing, one of two top-tier Summer Olympic sport events organized by the International Canoe Federation (the other being the ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships). They ... with a gold (K-2 500 m: 1977 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, 1977), two silvers (K-2 1000 m: 1977, K-4 1000 m: 1970 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, 1970), and two bronzes (K-2 1000 m: 1970, 1973 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, 1973). References * * * 1948 births Living people People from Beeskow German male canoeists Canoeists from Brandenburg Olympic canoeists for East Germany Ea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Otto Holzapfel
Otto Holzapfel (born February 5, 1941, in Beeskow) is a German folklorist and researcher of traditional German folk song (folk music, Lied). He is a retired professor at the University of Freiburg. His mother tongue is Danish. He studied in Frankfurt am Main; among his subjects were Scandinavian languages and literature with Klaus von See. In 1970 he was appointed curator (archivist) at the German Folk Song Archives in Freiburg, now Center for Popular Culture and Music, University of Freiburg. He led this institute until 1996. He was co-editor of the journal ''Jahrbuch für Volksliedforschung'' from 1984 to 1998 and editor of the ''Studien zur Volksliedforschung'' (volumes 1 – 17, 1991–1996). Special topics of Holzapfel are the traditional German folk ballad A ballad is a form of verse, often a narrative set to music. Ballads were particularly characteristic of the popular poetry and song of Great Britain and Ireland from the Late Middle Ages until the 19th century. They ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hans Sohnle
Hans Sohnle (17 September 1895 – 24 March 1976) was a German art director.Chandler p.270 He frequently collaborated with Otto Erdmann on set designs. Selected filmography * '' The Loves of Käthe Keller'' (1919) * '' The Woman in Doctor's Garb'' (1920) * '' Kean'' (1921) * '' The Solemn Oath'' (1921) * ''Seafaring Is Necessary'' (1921) * '' The Curse of Silence'' (1922) * '' The Homecoming of Odysseus'' (1922) * '' Two Worlds'' (1922) * '' The Weather Station'' (1923) * '' Horrido'' (1924) * '' Prater'' (1924) * '' The Stolen Professor'' (1924) * '' The Woman in Flames'' (1924) * '' Joyless Street'' (1925) * '' Flight Around the World'' (1925) * '' The Golden Calf'' (1925) * '' Shadows of the Metropolis'' (1925) * '' The Third Squadron'' (1926) * '' The Great Duchess'' (1926) * '' The Poacher'' (1926) * '' Professor Imhof '' (1926) * '' Tea Time in the Ackerstrasse'' (1926) * '' The Pride of the Company'' (1926) * '' The White Slave'' (1927) * ''The City of a Thousand Delights' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karl August Otto Hoffmann
Karl August Otto Hoffmann (25 October 1853 in Beeskow – 11 September 1909) was a German botanist and a high school teacher in Berlin. Author of ''Sertum plantarum madagascariensium'', the genus ''Hoffmanniella'' in the family (biology), family Asteraceae was named after him by Rudolf Schlechter. The plant genus of ''Hoffmannanthus'' (also in the family of Asteraceae was named after him in 2014. He studied mathematics and natural history at the University of Berlin, later performing graduate studies at the University of Göttingen. Beginning in 1877, he taught classes at the ''Friedrichswerdersches Gymnasium'' in Berlin. He died in September 1909, following an operation for appendicitis. He donated his impressive herbarium to the Berlin Herbarium.A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
