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71 unusual facts about Bavaria


1634: The Ram Rebellion

The initial main thread is called the "Western and North-Central Europe thread" (encompassing northern and western Germany, Denmark, England, France, the Low Countries, Sweden and the Baltic; the second plot line, encompassing events in Italy, Spain, the Mediterranean region, and France, the "South European thread", and this book can be considered the starting novel of the "South-Central/South-East thread" being set in southern Germany, Austria, Bavaria, and Bohemia.

1636: The Saxon Uprising

When Bavaria invades the Upper Palatinate the only soldiers available to meet them are the Thuringia-Franconia National Guard and one battalion of USE forces.

1995–96 Nottingham Forest F.C. season

Forest lost 2-1, and any remaining hopes of a semi-final place were crushed in the second leg when the Bavarians thrashed Frank Clark's men 5-1 at the City Ground.

Agent Axis

During a battle in Bavaria the World's Finest Team manages to activate the chronal transponder near the Ravager, returning the heroes to their proper time and place with no memory of the prior events.

Anglo-Bavarian Brewery

It has been asserted that this was in reference to the employment, by the new owners, of some brewers from Bavaria in order to produce a German-style beer, and that what is now called lager was brewed from that year.

Anton Schlüter München

Anton Schlüter München (also spelled: Anton Schlueter Muenchen) was a German tractor manufacturer in the region of Munich, Bavaria.

Bardonia, New York

Bardonia is named for the Bardon Brothers - John and the twins Phillip and Conrad - who came from Bavaria in 1849 and opened several businesses.

Charles Martel

Between 718 and 723, Charles secured his power through a series of victories: he won the loyalty of several important bishops and abbots (by donating lands and money for the foundation of abbeys such as Echternach), he subjugated Bavaria and Alemannia, and he defeated the pagan Saxons.

Charles Zeitler

Zeitler was born to a family of Bavarian immigrants in Clay Township, just north of South Bend, Indiana.

Château de Wangenbourg

In 1504, Holy Roman Emperor Maximilien I, having vanquished the Prince-elector, Philipp, in the war of succession of Bavaria, confiscated the castle from the cousins Hans and Stephan von Wangen for the count Tiestein, who himself gave it to the Archbishop of Strasbourg, Wilhelm III von Hohnstein, in 1516.

Counts of Castell

The County of Castell was created in AD1200, in the modern region of Franconia in northern Bavaria, Germany.

Crosby County, Texas

1878 Bavaria-born Heinrich Schmidtt, aka Henry “Hank” Clay Smith, and his wife Elizabeth Boyle and their six children, become the first permanent settlers in the area, where Hank is active in the county’s organization.

Delaware Sängerbund

The Delaware Sängerbund Oktoberfest is named after the widely known festival held each year in Munich, Bavaria.

Driving Out a Devil

The play charts the attempts of a self-confident and manipulative Bavarian peasant boy to outwit the vigilant parents of a girl of his village.

Feuchtwanger Cent

Lewis Feuchtwanger (born in Fürth, Bavaria on January 11, 1805) received a doctorate at the University of Jena and then moved to New York City.

Frederick Schwatka

His father Frederick G. Sr. (1810-1888) was born in Baltimore, Maryland, the son of August and Catherine (Geissendorfer) Schwatke (the original German spelling with the same pronunciation), German Lutheran immgrants from East Prussia (now eastern Poland) and Bavaria, respectively.

Gau Bayreuth

Gau Bayreuth (until 1942, Gau Bayerische Ostmark (English: Bavarian Eastern March)) was an administrative division of Nazi Germany in Lower Bavaria, Upper Palatinate and Upper Franconia, Bavaria, from 1933 to 1945.

Gau Mainfranken

The Gau Mainfranken (English: Gau Main-Franconia) was an administrative division of Nazi Germany in Lower Franconia, Bavaria, from 1933 to 1945.

George Conrad Hutzler Farm

George Conrad Hutzler was born in about 1822 and lived in a small village near Krumbach, Bavaria.

Giovane Élber

The following summer, he moved to fellow league team FC Bayern Munich where, save for one year, he was always crowned the club's top scorer (Carsten Jancker prevented that honour); additionally, he was instrumental in the conquest of four leagues, the 2000–01 UEFA Champions League and the 2001 Intercontinental Cup, whilst winning the Torjäger award for 2002–03 – 21 goals, the Bavarians won the double.

Grän

Grän lies in the Tannheim valley, a high mountain valley on the border with Bavaria.

Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich of Russia

The Bavarian government granted Olga the title of Countess of Hohenfelsen in 1904, but the marriage caused a scandal in the Russian Court.

Gstanzl

The Gstanzl (Viennese German for "stanza") is a mocking song that is especially known in the Austrian-Bavarian regions.

Gustav Bischof

Karl Gustav Bischof (January 18, 1792 – November 30, 1870) was a German chemist, born in Nuremberg, Bavaria.

Heidenheim

Heidenheim, Bavaria, municipality in the Hahnenkamm, Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen district, Bavaria, Germany

Henry of Schweinfurt

His father's parentage is not known with certainty, but he may have been a son of Arnulf, Duke of Bavaria.

Hugh Lygon

Hugh Patrick Lygon (2 November 1904 – 19 August 1936 Rothenburg, Bavaria) was the second son of William Lygon, 7th Earl Beauchamp, and is often believed to be the inspiration for Lord Sebastian Flyte in Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited.

Hürben

Hürben (Krumbach), a former village which, in 1902, became part of Krumbach (Schwaben), in the Günzburg district, Bavaria

Johann Nepomuk Krieger

Johann Nepomuk Krieger (4 February 1865, Unterwiesenbach – 10 February 1902, Sanremo) was a draftsman and selenographer.

Johann Stegner

Johann Stegner (20 December 1866, Frohnlach, Saxe-Coburg and Gotha – 7 January 1954, Coburg, Bavaria, West Germany) was a German politician from the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD).

John Eberhard Faber

John Eberhard Faber (sometimes Johann Eberhard Faber) (December 6, 1822 – March 2, 1879), was born in Stein, Bavaria, Germany.

John II, Duke of Bavaria

#Ernest I of Bavaria-Munich (1373–2 July 1438, Munich).

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He was the third son of Stephen II and Elizabeth of Sicily.

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#William III of Bavaria-Munich (1375, Munich–1435, Munich).

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Duke John II of Bavaria-Munich (1341 – 1397), (German: Johann II, Herzog von Bayern-München), since 1375 Duke of Bavaria-Munich.

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Otto II, Duke of Bavaria

Joseph Taggart

He taught school in nearby Bavaria in 1892 and 1893, studying law during his evenings and vacations.

Kampfbund

The purpose was to consolidate and streamline their agendas and also prepare to take advantage of the split between Bavaria and the central government.

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The Kampfbund ("Battle-league") was a league of patriotic fighting societies and the German National Socialist party in Bavaria, Germany, in the 1920s.

Kemnath

Kemnath is a small city in the district of Tirschenreuth, in Bavaria, Germany.

Königlich Bayerisches Amtsgericht

It is set in the German Empire shortly before World War I and revolves around the court proceedings of the Königlich Bayrisches Amtsgericht in the fictional Bavarian small town Geisbach.

Lachoudisch

Lachoudisch is a near-extinct dialect of German, containing many Hebrew and Yiddish, native to the Bavarian town of Schopfloch.

Langenfeld

Langenfeld, Bavaria, in the Neustadt (Aisch)-Bad Windsheim district of Mittelfranken, Bavaria

Langheim Abbey

Langheim Abbey was a well-known Cistercian monastery in Klosterlangheim, part of the town of Lichtenfels in Upper Franconia, Bavaria, Germany, in the Bishopric of Bamberg.

Leopold Feldmann

Leopold Feldmann (born Munich, Bavaria, 22 May 1802; died Vienna, 26 March 1882) was a German-Austrian dramatist.

Little fruit from the Equator

It was first released 1998, as part of that year'sHof International Film Festival and Lübeck Nordic Film Days.

Marie Anne de Bourbon, Duchess of Vendôme

Marie Anne was born and lived at the Hôtel de Condé, Paris, where her father was abusive to her as well as her mother, Anne Henriette of Bavaria.

Matthias Klostermayr

A native of the municipality of Kissing near Augsburg (his name, in Austro-Bavarian, on the baptismal register is Mattheus Klostermair), Bavarian Hiasl became an outlaw, first as a poacher and ultimately as the Robin Hood-like leader of a gang of robbers who, during the 1760s, plundered, sacked and robbed in the region between Munich, Augsburg and Swabia.

Michelin Guide

Guides were introduced for Algeria and Tunisia (1907); the Alps and the Rhine, covering northern Italy, Switzerland, Bavaria and the Netherlands (1908); Germany, Spain and Portugal (1910); the British Isles (1911); and "The Countries of the Sun" ("Les Pays du Soleil") covering northern Africa, southern Italy and Corsica (1911).

Mittersill castle

The first records known of the castle date to the 12th century while Pinzgau was under the control of the Duchy of Bavaria, when the Counts of Lechsgemünd (subsequently: Mittersill) decided to establish their family seat there.

Museum Brandhorst

When Anette died of cancer in 1999, her husband Udo donated the collection to the state of Bavaria on the proviso that the state build it a fitting home.

Oberreichenbach

Oberreichenbach, Bavaria, a town in the district of Erlangen-Höchstadt, Bavaria

ORF eins

In certain regions of Germany, e.g. Bavaria ORF can be received terrestrial without encryption.

Patrick Bernard Malone

He was twice married: firstly to Mary Sabina Benkut of Bavaria, and secondly to Anetta Slater.

Phyllobrostis hartmanni

It is listed as in the endangered on the Red List of Bavaria.

Pradeeban Peter-Paul

When he left Germany in 1993 he was on the Bavarian provincial team and had won a junior doubles title.

Reichenbach Castle

Some outbuildings were built, such as the brewery, which was added to provide for the Bavarian post office workers, who worked for Fischerpost.

Riedaster reicheli

Its type locality is Papierschifer, which is in a shallow subtidal mudstone in the Papierschiefer Formation in the Ried district of Germany.

Ritzel

First found in Bavaria, where the name was anciently associated with the tribal conflicts of the area.

Rottenbuch Radio Tower

The Rottenbuch Radio Tower is a transmitting tower of the Vodafone company in Rottenbuch, a part of the municipality of Peiting near Schongau in Germany.

Sarah Thompson, Countess Rumford

In 1785, when Sarah Thompson was eleven years old, her father moved to Bavaria to become an aide-de-camp to the Prince-elector Charles Theodore.

Seefeld

Seefeld, Bavaria, a town in the district of Starnberg in Bavaria, Germany

Seeta Devi

All three of these films were made through the collaboration of German film director Franz Osten and Indian actor-producer Himanshu Rai along with Bavarian company Emelka.

Sophie Amalie Lindenov

Her parents were Hans Lindenov, a nobleman of Bavarian origins who had been made a Knight of the Order of the Elephant in 1648 and was a member of the Danish Council of State, and Countess Elisabeth Augusta af Schleswig-Holstein, a morganatic daughter of King Christian IV of Denmark and Norway.

St. Conrad's Inter College, Agra

St. Conrad, whose original name was John, was born in the year 1818 A.D. at Parzham in Bavaria, in Germany.

Städel

The collection of the Staedel, officially known as the Städelsches Kunstinstitut und Städtische Galerie of Frankfurt, was removed from the museum to avoid destruction from the Allied bombings, and the collection was stored in the Schloss Rossbach, a castle owned by the Baron Thüngen near Bad Brückenau in Bavaria.

Thierstein

Thierstein, Bavaria, a municipality in the district of Wunsiedel, Germany

Tom Kühnhackl

Kühnhackl was born and raised in Landshut, Bavaria and first began to play hockey at the age of two.

Wiesent

Wiesent, Bavaria, a municipality in Regensburg District, Bavaria, Germany

Wilhelmsdorf

Wilhelmsdorf, Bavaria, in the district of Neustadt an der Aisch-Bad Windsheim

Woodstock, Oxfordshire

Churchill was given this palace in honour for his victories over the French and the Bavarians at Blenheim in 1704.


Alte Pinakothek

After the reunion of Bavaria and the Electorate of the Palatinate in 1777, the galleries of Mannheim, Düsseldorf and Zweibrücken were moved to Munich, in part to protect the collections during the wars which followed the French revolution.

Angelika Niebler

Angelika Niebler (née Rupertseder; born 18 February 1963) is a German politician and Member of the European Parliament for Bavaria with the Christian Social Union in Bavaria and the Member of the Bureau of the European People's Party.

Anna Caroline Oury

Anna Caroline (Charlotte) de Belleville-Oury was born in Landshut, Bavaria, Germany.

Antoria

Some Antoria guitars may have been manufactured in Bavaria by Framus.

Arzberg

Arzberg porcelain, a manufacturer of porcelain, originally located in Arzberg, Bavaria

Banz Abbey

Banz Abbey (German: Kloster Banz), now known as Banz Castle (German: Schloss Banz), is a former Benedictine monastery, since 1978 a part of the town of Bad Staffelstein north of Bamberg, Bavaria, southern Germany.

Bavaria-Ingolstadt

Louis reigned until his own son, Louis VIII, usurped his throne in 1443 and delivered him to their enemy, Henry XVI, duke of Bavaria-Landshut.

Central German football championship

The number of small states in the Thuringia region formed the new state of that name, with the exception of Coburg, which joined Bavaria.

Counts of Andechs

The noble family originally resided in southwestern Bavaria at the castle of Ambras near Innsbruck, controlling the road to the March of Verona across the Brenner Pass, at Dießen am Ammersee and Wolfratshausen.

County of Castell

Castell was a county of northern Bavaria, Germany, ruling a string of territories in the historical region of Franconia, both east and west of Würzburg.

Deutsches Jagd- und Fischereimuseum

During World War II, most of the objects were saved in Schloßgut Ast near Landshut, Bavaria.

Dillingen an der Donau

Dillingen, or Dillingen an der Donau (Dillingen on the Danube) is a town in Bavaria, Germany.

Ehrenberg, Hesse

Ehrenberg touches the municipalities Hilders (rural district Fulda) in the north, Birx (Thuringia), the town Fladungen (Bavaria), the municipality Hausen (also Bavaria) and the town Oberelsbach (also Bavaria) the east, the town Gersfeld (district Fulda) in the south and the municipality Poppenhausen (district Fulda) in the west.

Elkan Naumburg

Naumburg was born in Treuchtlingen, Bavaria, in 1835, and emigrated with his parents to the United States at age 15 to escape the growing anti-Semitism of his native land.

Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg

In 1783 Ernest became a member of the Bavarian Illuminati under the name of Quintus Severus and/or Timoleon, and in 1784 he was created Supervisor of Abessinien (a name for Upper Saxony).

Ferdinand Christian Gustav Arnold

Ferdinand Christian Gustav Arnold (1828–1901) was a German lichenologist and taxonomist born in Ansbach, Bavaria.

Friedenberg, Missouri

Unlike the communities of Altenburg, Frohna and Uniontown that were settled by Saxon Lutherans from Germany, Friedenberg was founded in 1838 by Lutheran immigrants from Bavaria, Germany.

FSV Erlangen-Bruck

The FSV Erlangen-Bruck is a German association football club from the suburb of Bruck in the city of Erlangen, Bavaria.

Gasparo Duiffopruggar

It is believed that Duiffopruggar was born near Füssen in Bavaria, Germany, and had moved to Lyon, France, where he did most of his work, by 1553.

George, Duke of Bavaria

The most southern districts of Bavaria-Landshut Kufstein, Kitzbühel and Rattenberg passed to Emperor Maximilian and were united with Tyrol.

Giebelstadt Army Airfield

Giebelstadt Army Airfield is a closed military airfield located in Germany southwest of Giebelstadt (Bavaria); approximately 250 miles southwest of Berlin.

Heimenkirch

Since the signing of the peace treaties of Brünn and Preßburg in 1805, the town belongs to Bavaria.

Hermann AVA

Stone Hill's cellars were constructed in 1847, the Hermanhoff Winery was founded in 1852 and in 1855, the Adam Puchta Winery was founded by immigrants from Oberkotzau, Bavaria who had struck gold during the California Gold Rush before returning to Hermann.

Herrenchiemsee

Herrenchiemsee is a complex of royal buildings on the Herreninsel, an island in the Chiemsee, Bavaria's largest lake, 60 km south east of Munich.

History of the Jews in Pittsburgh

There are no reliable records of the beginnings of the Jewish community; but it has been ascertained that between 1838 and 1844 a small number of Jews, mostly from Baden, Bavaria, and Württemberg, settled in and around Pittsburgh.

Homburg–Neunkirchen railway

Historically, the Homburg–Bexbach section was in Bavaria and was built as part of the Palatine Ludwig Railway.

Ilag

British and American citizens were interned in the castles of Laufen and Tittmoning in Bavaria on the border with Austria.

Jock Hamilton-Baillie

NOTE Tittmoning is in Bavaria, not Czech Republic as stated in the Telegraph obituary Tittmoning

Józef Padewski

He was moved to Tittmoning, Bavaria, where the future Roman Catholic Pope Benedict XVI had lived ten years previously as a small child.

Karl Addicks

Karl Addicks (born 31 December 1950 in Amberg, Bavaria) is a German politician and member of the FDP.

Lauter

Lauter, Bavaria, village in the district of Bamberg, Bavaria, Germany

Leonhard Reichartinger

Leonhard Reichartinger (?? - 1396) was a Crusader of Bavarian nobility, who may have come from the vicinity of Trostberg.

Lower Bavaria

After the reunification in 1340 Bavaria was divided again in 1349, in 1353 Bavaria-Straubing and Bavaria-Landshut were created in Lower Bavaria.

Maria Mandl

In May 1945, Mandl fled from Mühldorf into the mountains of southern Bavaria to her birthplace of Münzkirchen, Austria.

Maria Renata Saenger von Mossau

Renata was inducted in the convent of Unter-Zell in Bavaria in 1699, were she made herself known for her great piety and was appointed Sub Prioress in 1740.

Matthias Klotz

Matthias Klotz did not really build his instruments according to the classical Italian style but rather made them similar to those of masters from Fussen (a town in Bavaria) and Swabian (Southern Germany).

Millstatt Abbey

Millstatt Abbey was founded as a proprietary monastery by the Chiemgau count Aribo II (1024–1102), a scion of the Aribonid dynasty and former Count palatine of Bavaria, and his brother Poto on their estates in the newly established Duchy of Carinthia.

Odilo, Duke of Bavaria

He ruled Thurgau until 736, when with the death of Hugbert of Bavaria the older line of the Agilofing became extinct and he inherited the rulership of Bavaria, which he held until his death in 748.

Osterburg

Osterberg, a municipality in the district of Neu-Ulm, Bavaria, Germany

Plankstetten Abbey

Plankstetten Abbey (Kloster Plankstetten) is a monastery of the Benedictines located between Berching and Beilngries in Bavaria, Germany.

Rems Railway

This was after the line crossing the border at Ulm/Neu-Ulm (now part of the Ulm–Augsburg railway), the second link built between the railways of Württemberg and Bavaria.

Sonja Bertram

She spent most of her childhood in Dießen – Bavaria, the second of four children born to Josef and Gabi Bertram.

Sophie Charlotte

Duchess Sophie Charlotte in Bavaria (1847–1897), Duchess of Alençon and born Duchess in Bavaria

Trimberg

Trimberg is a town in the Elfershausen municipality in Bavaria, Germany.

Trudering-Riem

Trudering-Riem is the 15th borough of Munich, Bavaria, consisting of the districts Trudering and Riem.

William I, Duke of Bavaria

William I, Duke of Bavaria-Straubing (Frankfurt am Main, 12 May 1330 – 15 April 1389, Le Quesnoy), was the second son of the emperor Louis IV the Bavarian from his second wife Margaret of Holland and Hainaut.