Thurnau is a

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in the district Kulmbach,

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. It is known for

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ing as well as its potteries. Thurnau is known for transmitter Thurnau, the medium wave transmission site for Deutschlandfunk, a German national information

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City arrangement

Thurnau is arranged in the following boroughs:

Famous people

Famous people born in Thurnau

Carl von Linde Carl Paul Gottfried von Linde (11 June 1842 – 16 November 1934) was a German scientist, engineer, and businessman. He discovered a refrigeration cycle and invented the first industrial-scale air separation and gas liquefaction processes, whi ...

, (11 June 1842) was a German engineer who developed

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and gas separation technologies.

References

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