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Vechta Wassermühle
Vechta (; Northern Low Saxon: ''Vechte'') is the capital and largest city of the Vechta district in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is home to the University of Vechta. It is known for the 'Stoppelmarkt' fair, which takes place every summer and has a history dating back to 1298. With an attendance of 800,000 visitors it is one of the biggest annual fairs in north-western Germany. In the recent past, the town was known as a centre of far-northern German Catholicism. Town subdivisions Vechta consists of the following 15 boroughs. * Vechta Stadt * Bergstrup * Calveslage * Deindrup * Hagen I * Hagen II * Holtrup * Holzhausen * Langförden * Oythe * Spreda * Stoppelmarkt * Stukenborg * Telbrake * Vardel Transport and infrastructure The A1, also known as the ''Hansalinie'', passes by Vechta. There are three interchanges: Vechta-West/Bakum, Vechta-Langförden/Emstek, Vechta-Nord/Ahlhorn . Also, the B69 runs through the city of Vechta. Transport Vechta lies on the Delmenhorst-H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Landesamt Für Statistik Niedersachsen
The statistical offices of the German states (German language, German: ) carry out the task of collecting official statistics in Germany together and in cooperation with the Federal Statistical Office of Germany, Federal Statistical Office. The implementation of statistics according to Article 83 of the Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany, constitution is executed at state level. The Bundestag, federal government has, under Article 73 (1) 11. of the constitution, the exclusive legislation for the "statistics for federal purposes." There are 14 statistical offices for the States of Germany, 16 states: See also * Federal Statistical Office of Germany References {{Reflist National statistical services, Germany Lists of organisations based in Germany, Statistical offices Official statistics, Germany ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jászberény
Jászberény is a city and market centre in Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok county in Hungary. Location Jászberény is located in central Hungary, on the Zagyva River, a tributary of the Tisza River. It is about from Budapest. History The oldest archeological finds from the Jászság, the area around Jászberény, originate from nomadic people of the stone-age and date back 16500 years B.C. Excavations (2002) in Jászberény and Jásztelek aiming for traces of the hunter and gatherers of the Mesolithic in the northern part of the Great Hungarian Plain by Róbert Kertész detected distinct indications of settlements. During this period, the climate in the region began to warm up. Thus, the ice-age coniferous forests were gradually replaced by deciduous forests, the eco-system changed and a new fauna was established in the Carpathian basin. Under the pressure of climate change, the formerly nomadic people settled down. Traces from that time indicate that people actively planted ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martin Welzel
Martin Welzel (born November 11, 1972, in Vechta) is a German organist, musicologist, and pedagogue. Biography Martin Welzel received his first musical training in Bremen, where Käte van Tricht (a former student of Karl Straube) was one of his teachers. From 1993 to 2001, he studied Pipe organ, organ with Daniel Roth (organist), Daniel Roth and Wolfgang Rübsam, piano with Kristin Merscher, and harpsichord with Gerald Hambitzer at the Hochschule für Musik Saar in Saarbrücken, where he received Bachelor's degree, bachelor's (1997) and Master's degree, master's degrees (1999) in sacred music and organ performance (1999, with distinction), as well as an Artist diploma, artist diploma in organ performance (2001). Later, he studied organ and harpsichord with Carole Terry at the University of Washington in Seattle and graduated with a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in 2005. During his Postgraduate education, graduate studies, he was the recipient of an Ambassadorial Scholarships, A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rolf Dieter Brinkmann
Rolf Dieter Brinkmann (16 April 1940 – 23 April 1975) was a German writer of poems, short stories, a novel, essays, letters, and diaries. Life and work Rolf Dieter Brinkmann is considered an important forerunner of the German so-called '' Pop-Literatur''. He published nine books of poems in the 1960s, dealing with the appearance of the present culture and the sensual experience of active subjectivity. During that period he also wrote ''Keiner weiß mehr'' (Nobody knows anymore), a novel of modern family life. His early prose was inspired by the French ''nouveau roman''. The precision of description of this style never left him, but merged in his poetry with influences from Gottfried Benn and William Carlos Williams, Frank O'Hara, and Ted Berrigan. In 1972/73 Brinkmann was a recipient of a fellowship at the German Academy Villa Massimo in Rome. His sensibility and the despair of civilisation permeating ''Rom, Blicke'' and the other posthumously published prose writings goes deep ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Westphalia
Westphalia (; ; ) is a region of northwestern Germany and one of the three historic parts of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It has an area of and 7.9 million inhabitants. The territory of the region is almost identical with the historic Province of Westphalia, which was a part of the Kingdom of Prussia from 1815 to 1918 and the Free State of Prussia from 1918 to 1946. In 1946, Westphalia merged with North Rhine, another former part of Prussia, to form the newly created state of North Rhine-Westphalia. In 1947, the state with its two historic parts was joined by a third one: Lippe, a former Principality of Lippe, principality and Free State of Lippe, free state. The seventeen Districts of Germany, districts and nine Independent city#Germany, independent cities of Westphalia and Lippe (district), the single district of Lippe are members of the North Rhine-Westphalia#Subdivisions, Westphalia-Lippe Regional Association (''Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe''). Previo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maria Johanna Von Aachen
Maria Johanna von Aachen (born Maria Johanna Katharina Erika Elisabeth von Amboten; 21 April 1755 – 21 January 1845) was a Westphalian writer and noblewoman.Ernst Rassmann, Messages from the Life and the Writings Münsterländischer writers of the eighteenth and nineteenth century, p.1 Life Maria Johanna Katharina Erika Elisabeth von Aachen was born in Vechta, a mid-sized strongly Roman Catholic, Catholic town in the flatlands between Osnabrück and Bremen. Her father, Majors Lewin Friedrich von Ambotten, served the archbishops of Münster. He originally hailed from the Courland, Kurland region, which has since become part of Latvia. In 1777, she married Captain Klemens August von Aachen (1756-1808), a career soldier in the Prussian Army and, like herself, a writer. The marriage resulted in the birth of at least four children. From the time of her marriage, Maria Johanna wrote poetry. However, she did not consider herself a professional poet, and most of her published poem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kingdom Of Bohemia
The Kingdom of Bohemia (), sometimes referenced in English literature as the Czech Kingdom, was a History of the Czech lands in the High Middle Ages, medieval and History of the Czech lands, early modern monarchy in Central Europe. It was the predecessor state of the modern Czech Republic. The Kingdom of Bohemia was an Imperial State in the Holy Roman Empire. The List of Bohemian monarchs, Bohemian king was a prince-elector of the empire. The kings of Bohemia, besides the region of Bohemia itself, also ruled other Lands of the Bohemian Crown, lands belonging to the Bohemian Crown, which at various times included Moravia, Silesia, Lusatia, and parts of Saxony, Brandenburg, and Bavaria. The kingdom was established by the Přemyslid dynasty in the 12th century by the Duchy of Bohemia, later ruled by the House of Luxembourg, the Jagiellonian dynasty, and from 1526 the House of Habsburg and its successor, the House of Habsburg-Lorraine. Numerous kings of Bohemia were also elected Hol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Bishops And Archbishops Of Prague
The following is a list of bishops and archbishops of Prague. The bishopric of Prague was established in 973, and elevated to an archbishopric on 30 April 1344. The current Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Prague is the continual successor of the bishopric established in 973 (with a 140-year sede vacante in the Hussite era). In addition, the city also has an Eastern Orthodox Church, Eastern Orthodox archeparchy (archbishopric), Greek Catholic exarchate and the Prague diocese and patriarchate of the Czechoslovak Hussite Church seat in Prague. Bishops of Prague The names are given in Czech language, Czech, with English or otherwise as suitable. Archbishops of Prague Orthodox bishops of Prague The first Orthodox mission in Czech lands was led by Saints Cyril and Methodius, some time before the East–West Schism, with its centre in Moravia. The current Czech and Slovak Orthodox Church comes from the Czech Orthodox clubs and partly arose from the early Czechoslovak Hussite Churc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roman Catholic Archdiocese Of Olomouc
The Roman Catholic Metropolitan Archdiocese of Olomouc (, ) is a metropolitan archdiocese of the Latin Church of the Catholic Church in the Czech Republic. It has its seat in Olomouc. Special churches Its cathedral is Cathedral of St. Wenceslaus in Olomouc and it has three Marian minor basilicas: * Basilica of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary in Hostýn, Zlín Region * Basilica of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary and Saints Cyril and Methodius in Velehrad, Zlín Region * Basilica of the Visitation of the Virgin Mary in Olomouc, Olomouc Region Statistics As of 2015, it pastorally served 746,900 Catholics (53.0% of 1,410,000 total) on 10,018 km2 in 418 parishes and 2 missions with 343 priests (246 diocesan, 97 religious), 33 deacons, 326 lay religious (117 brothers, 209 sisters) and 19 seminarians. Ecclesiastical province Its suffragan sees are : * Roman Catholic Diocese of Brno * Roman Catholic Diocese of Ostrava-Opava History Established in 1063 as Diocese ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diocese Of Verden
The Diocese of Verden was a diocese of the Catholic Church. It was founded around AD 768 as a suffragan of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Mainz, Archdiocese of Mainz. It was suppressed in 1648 as part of the Peace of Westphalia. The diocese was centered on the city of Verden an der Aller in what is today the States of Germany, state of Lower Saxony, Germany. The cathedral church of the diocese was dedicated to Ss Mary and Cecilia in 1028 but the building was only completed in 1490. The Bishops in the Catholic Church, Bishop of Verden was also, ''ex officio'', the ruler of a principality of the Holy Roman Empire — the Prince-Bishopric of Verden. The territory of the diocese was not identical with that of the prince-bishopric; while the state was located within the boundaries of the diocese, it amounted to less than a quarter of the diocesan territory. Its last bishop was Franz Wilhelm von Wartenberg, Franz Wilhelm, Count von Wartenberg. Following the Thirty Years' War, Verden, along ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Conrad Of Vechta
Conrad of Vechta (Czech ''Konrád z Vechty''; German ''Konrad von Vechta'') (born , possibly in Bremen; died 24 December 1431 in Roudnice nad Labem) was Diocese of Verden, Bishop of Verden (1400–1402/1407), Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Olomouc, Bishop of Olomouc (1408–1413), Archbishop of Prague (1413–1421), and Master of the Mint (1401–1403) and Chancellor (1405–1412) of the Kingdom of Bohemia. Before episcopate It is not certain whether Conrad was a member of the Patrician (post-Roman Europe), patrician family named von Vechta, living as successful merchants in Bremen, where family members also held positions in the city government, or if Conrad was born in Vechta and therefore epithetised von Vechta in German.Václav Bartunek, "Konrad von Vechta", in: #References, see references for bibliographical details, vol. 12, pp. 551seq., here p. 551. However, his brother Konstantin von Vechta held a canonicate at Bremen Cathedral as provost (religion), cathedral prov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andreas Romberg
Andreas Jakob Romberg (27 April 1767 – 10 November 1821) was a German violinist and composer. Romberg was born in Vechta, in the Duchy of Oldenburg. He learned the violin from his musician father Gerhard Heinrich Romberg and first performed in public at the age of six. In addition to touring Europe, Romberg also joined the Münster Court Orchestra. The cellist and composer Bernhard Romberg was his cousin. He joined the court orchestra of the Prince Elector in Bonn (conducted by the Kapellmeister Andrea Luchesi) in 1790, where he met the young Beethoven. He moved to Hamburg in 1793 due to wartime upheavals and joined the Hamburg Opera Orchestra. Romberg's first opera, 'Der Rabe', premiered there in 1794. He also composed his own setting of Messiah (Der Messias). After a time in Paris, Andreas settled in Hamburg where he became a central figure in the city's musical life. In 1815 he succeeded Louis Spohr as music director at the court of the Duke, in Gotha, Thuringia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
