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Brühl (Rhineland)
Brühl () is a town in the Rhineland, Germany. It is located in the district of Rhine-Erft, 20 km south of the Cologne city center and at the edge of the Rhineland Nature Park, a famous nature reserve. History Brühl received its town privileges in 1285. From 1567 on, the city of Brühl was the official residence of the Prince Bishops of Cologne. In the 18th century the Prince Bishop Clemens August replaced a former ruined castle and built the Augustusburg and Falkenlust palaces near the city center. Today, both are listed as UNESCO World Heritage Sites because of their outstanding rococo architecture. Until 1990 Augustusburg Palace was used by the federal government to receive foreign heads of states visiting West Germany. Main sights * The amusement park Phantasialand * The Max Ernst Museum, opened in 2005. It displays sculptures and paintings of the surrealistic artist Max Ernst (who was born in Brühl) and other modern art. * Local history and pottery are shown in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Augustusburg And Falkenlust Palaces, Brühl
The Augustusburg and Falkenlust Palaces form a historical building complex in Brühl, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. The buildings are connected by the spacious gardens and trees of the Schlosspark. Built in the early 18th century, the palaces and adjoining gardens are considered masterpieces of early rococo architecture and have been listed as a UNESCO cultural World Heritage Site since 1984. Augustusburg Palace () and its parks also serve as a venue for the Brühl Palace Concerts. History The Augustusburg Castle was built on the foundations of a medieval castle in 1725. It was planned and funded by Archbishop-Elector of Cologne, Clemens August of Bavaria of the Wittelsbach family, and designed by the architects Johann Conrad Schlaun and François de Cuvilliés. Shortly thereafter, François de Cuvilliés designed the Falkenlust hunting lodge to the southeast for Clemens August to practice falconry, and the lodge was built from 1729 to 1740. The elaborate gardens surround ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Left Rhine Line
The West Rhine railway (German: ''Linke Rheinstrecke'', literally 'left (bank of the) Rhine route') is a famously picturesque, double-track electrified railway line running for 185 km from Cologne via Bonn, Koblenz, and Bingen to Mainz. It is situated close to the western (left) bank of the river Rhine and mostly aligned to allow 160 km/h operation between Cologne and Koblenz and between Bingen and Mainz. Line speed between Koblenz and Bingen is restricted by the meandering nature of the Rhine Gorge, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. History The first section of the line opened on 15 February 1844, by the Bonn–Cologne Railway Company (''Bonn-Cölner Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft'') between the former station of Cologne St. Pantaleon Cologne and Bonn. It was extended on 21 January 1856, south to Rolandseck station and in 1859 north to the Cologne central station. After the takeover by the Rhenish Railway Company (''Rheinische Eisenbahn Gesellschaft'', RhE) on 1 January 18 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wolfgang Streeck
Wolfgang Streeck (; born 27 October 1946) is a German economic sociologist and emeritus director of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne. Early life Streeck was born "just outside Münster", the son of refugees – ethnic Germans from eastern Europe displaced at the end of the Second World War. His mother was a Sudeten German from Czechoslovakia. Streeck studied sociology at the Goethe University Frankfurt and pursued graduate studies in the same discipline at Columbia University between 1972 and 1974. Career In 1974 he became assistant professor in sociology at the University of Münster and in 1986 finished his habilitation in sociology at Bielefeld University. Between 1988 and 1995 he worked as professor of sociology and industrial relations at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, returning to Germany in 1995 to take up the post of director of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies and working as professor of sociology at the Uni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bayer 04 Leverkusen
Bayer 04 Leverkusen, officially known as Bayer 04 Leverkusen Fußball GmbH () and commonly known as Bayer Leverkusen or simply Leverkusen, is a German professional association football, football club based in Leverkusen, North Rhine-Westphalia. It competes in the Bundesliga, the top tier of German football league system, German football, and plays its home matches at the BayArena. Founded in 1904 by employees of the pharmaceutical company Bayer (whose headquarters are in Leverkusen and from which the club draws its name), the club was formerly a department of TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen and RTHC Bayer Leverkusen, sports clubs whose members participate in athletics, gymnastics, Bayer Giants Leverkusen, basketball, field handball, rowing, tennis and hockey. In 1999, the football department was separated from the sports club. Bayer Leverkusen's main colours are red and black, which feature across their playing kits and badge, and their main rivals are 1. FC Köln, Borussia Mönchenglad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reiner Calmund
Reinhold "Reiner" Calmund (born 23 November 1948) is a German retired football executive. He was the managing director of Bundesliga club Bayer Leverkusen from 1976 to 2004 and most recently from 1999 worked as the first managing director of Fußball GmbH, which had previously been spun off from . Calli, as he is also known, is now active as a football expert, TV presenter and author. His brand, which made him known to the public beyond football, includes his strong Rhineland accent and, before his weight loss in 2020, being obese. Early life and career Calmund played football professionally with until 1966, when a serious injury forced him to quit. The following year, he became a youth coach for several football clubs, part of the Middle Rhine Football Association in Rhein-Efert district, including Frechen 20, , , and . He completed the training to be a commercial clerk and studied business administration. From 1974 to 1976, he was assistant coach, under Fritz Pott, for SC Br ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patric Hemgesberg
Patric Hemgesberg (born 3 November 1973) is a German poet. Life and career Patric Hemgesberg was born in 1973 in Brühl. After a brief study of social education he has worked since 2001 as a home educator in a home for disabled people in Bonn. In addition to the normal jobs, he also developed a talent in the writing guild. Since early 2000 he is represented as a lyricist with various publications in numerous poetry anthologies, including the Heyne Verlag in the anthology ''Weißt Du noch das Zauberwort'', published by Kristiane Allert-Wybranietz, 2002 in the Young Poetry series ''Junge Lyrik'' in the Martin Werhand Verlag or edited by Axel Kutsch in the Poetry anthology ''Zeit. Wort: Deutschsprachige Lyrik der Gegenwart''. More publications can be found in particular in poetry magazines like ''Die Brücke - Forum für antirassistische Politik und Kultur'', or ''Federwelt''. Furthermore, he is represented with his poems in various poetry anthologies of the Cologne Ferber publishe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joel Sturm
Joel Sturm (born 29 November 2001) is a German racing driver. He's the 2024 FIA World Endurance Championship LMGT3 champion, having driven for Manthey Pure Rxcing. Early career GT4 Having begun his career in karts at the age of eight, Sturm progressed into racing cars in 2020, driving for Allied-Racing in the ADAC GT4 Germany. With Dennis Fetzer as his teammate, Sturm managed to score a podium at the season-finale and ended up seventh in the standings. The following year saw Sturm enter the GT4 European Series. He scored his first victory in sportscar racing at Spa-Francorchamps before winning in Barcelona, earning himself sixth place overall. Additionally, three rounds in ADAC GT4 yielded a win in Hockenheim, and Sturm finished third in class at that year's 24 Hours of Nürburgring. GT3 career 2022 Sturm progressed into GT3 competition in late 2021 where he drove in the final two races of the 2021 GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup in the Silver category with Allied, w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helmut Müller-Brühl
Helmut Peter Müller-Brühl (28 June 1933 – 2 January 2012) was a German conductor. Müller-Brühl was a pupil of Hermann Abendroth, founder of the Cologne Chamber Orchestra. In 1958, Müller-Brühl invited this orchestra to be the principal orchestra for concerts given at his family home, Schloss Brühl. In 1964, the orchestra's conductor, Erich Kraak, invited Müller-Brühl to be chief conductor, and Müller-Brühl led the orchestra until 2008. He also successfully collaborated with Takako Nishizaki on the “Discovery” album of violin concertos by the Chevalier de Saint-Georges Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-George(s) (; ; 25 December 17459 June 1799) was a French violinist, conducting, conductor, composer and soldier. Moreover, he demonstrated excellence as a Fencing, fencer, an athlete and an accomplished dancer. .... Müller-Brühl died on 2 January 2012 following a long illness. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heinz-Josef Kehr
Heinz-Josef Kehr (18 December 1950, Brühl, North Rhine-Westphalia – 19 November 2014) was a professional German footballer. Kehr made 187 appearances and scored 78 goals in the 2. Fußball-Bundesliga for Alemannia Aachen, Tennis Borussia Berlin and Rot-Weiss Essen Rot-Weiss Essen is a German association football club based in Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia. The club plays in the 3. Liga, at the Stadion an der Hafenstraße. The team won the DFB-Pokal in 1953, and the German championship in 1955. The latt ... during his playing career. References External links * 1950 births 2014 deaths People from Brühl (Rhineland) Footballers from Cologne (region) German men's footballers Men's association football forwards 2. Bundesliga players Alemannia Aachen players Tennis Borussia Berlin players Rot-Weiss Essen players 20th-century German sportsmen {{Germany-footy-forward-1950s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hans Leyendecker
Hans Leyendecker (born 12 May 1949) is a German journalist. He writes for the ''Süddeutsche Zeitung'' and is one of Germany's best known investigative journalists. Leyendecker formerly worked for the magazine ''Der Spiegel'', unveiling various political and economic scandals, such as the widespread illegal party financing during the 1980s, and that of the CDU in 1999. He also unveiled the smuggling of Russian plutonium into Germany, with the help of the foreign intelligence service ''Bundesnachrichtendienst'' in 1994, bribery at arms deals, German Visa Affair 2005 and corruption of the staff council at Volkswagen Volkswagen (VW; )English: , . is a German automotive industry, automobile manufacturer based in Wolfsburg, Lower Saxony, Germany. Established in 1937 by German Labour Front, The German Labour Front, it was revitalized into the global brand it .... References * 1949 births Living people German investigative journalists German newspaper journalists Germ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erika Reihlen
Erika Reihlen (born 2 August 1936) is a former president of the German Evangelical Church Assembly. She served from 1991 to 1993. She is active in women's causes and on the BORA Women's Shelter Board of Directors. She has also been involved in Protestant/Catholic The Catholic Church (), also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the List of Christian denominations by number of members, largest Christian church, with 1.27 to 1.41 billion baptized Catholics Catholic Church by country, worldwid ... dialogue and was children's dentist Her husband Helmut is also a known figure in the church. References 1936 births German Protestants Women dentists 20th-century German dentists Living people {{Germany-reli-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Else Schmitt
Else Marie Sofie Schmitt (May 2, 1921 in Brühl, Germany – March 22, 1995 in Cologne, Germany) was a German politician of the Social Democratic Party of Germany. She served as member of city council of Cologne (1961–1984) as well as the first female deputy mayor (1969–1975) of the city. Schmitt was a member of the ''Parteirat'' of her party in the 1970s and contributed substantially to policy changes regarding abortion law ( Paragraph 218) policyDer Spiegel, 27/1971 (June, 06.)spiegel.de/ref> and Paragraph 175 of her federal ruling party. The "Bundesverdienstkreuz The Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (, or , BVO) is the highest federal decoration of the Federal Republic of Germany. It may be awarded for any field of endeavor. It was created by the first President of the Federal Republic ..." was awarded to her in two different classes - 1974 and 1986. References Literature * Thomas Deres: ''Die Fraktion beschließt einstimmig'', Emon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
