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Friedrichsthal (Saar)
Friedrichsthal () is a town and a municipality in the district of Saarbrücken, of Saarland, Germany. It is situated approximately 13 km northeast of Saarbrücken Saarbrücken (; Rhenish Franconian: ''Sabrigge'' ; ; ; ; ) is the capital and largest List of cities and towns in Germany, city of the state of Saarland, Germany. Saarbrücken has 181,959 inhabitants and is Saarland's administrative, commerci .... Friedrichsthal (Saar) station is located on the Bingen (Rhein)–Saarbrücken railway. History In 1723 the place was founded with a glass foundry by Frederick Louis, Count of Nassau-Ottweiler. Sons and daughters of the city * Johannes Driessler (1921-1998), composer * Joseph Rank (1816–1896), German-Austrian writer * Manfred Römbell (1941-2010), writer References Saarbrücken (district) {{Saarland-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saarbrücken (district)
The Regionalverband Saarbrücken is a ''Kommunalverband besonderer Art'', an integration of a district (''Kreis'') and a district-free town. It is located in the south of the Saarland, Germany. Neighboring districts are Saarlouis, Neunkirchen, Saar-Pfalz, and Forbach-Boulay-Moselle and Sarreguemines in the French ''département'' Moselle. History The district Saarbrücken was originally created in 1816. In 1974, the district and the district-free city Saarbrücken were merged, and the new administrative body was named ''Stadtverband Saarbrücken''. Although it's not a district like others, most of its administrative tasks are the same as those of a district. On November 21, 2007, the governing majority of the CDU in the parliament of Saarland passed a law which transformed the ''Stadtverband Saarbrücken'' into the ''Regionalverband Saarbrücken'' on January 1, 2008. The most striking change by this transformation was the introduction of the ''Kooperationsrat'', a council o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saarland
Saarland (, ; ) is a state of Germany in the southwest of the country. With an area of and population of 990,509 in 2018, it is the smallest German state in area apart from the city-states of Berlin, Bremen, and Hamburg, and the smallest in population apart from Bremen. Saarbrücken is the state capital and largest city; other cities include Neunkirchen and Saarlouis. Saarland is mainly surrounded by the department of Moselle (Grand Est) in France to the west and south and the neighboring state of Rhineland-Palatinate in Germany to the north and east; it also shares a small border about long with the canton of Remich in Luxembourg to the northwest. Having long been a relatively small part of the long-contested territories along the Franco-German linguistic border, Saarland first gained specific economic and strategic importance in the nineteenth century due to the wealth of its coal deposits and the heavy industrialization that grew as a result. Saarland was first est ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Germany
Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It lies between the Baltic Sea and the North Sea to the north and the Alps to the south. Its sixteen States of Germany, constituent states have a total population of over 84 million in an area of , making it the most populous member state of the European Union. It borders Denmark to the north, Poland and the Czech Republic to the east, Austria and Switzerland to the south, and France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands to the west. The Capital of Germany, nation's capital and List of cities in Germany by population, most populous city is Berlin and its main financial centre is Frankfurt; the largest urban area is the Ruhr. Settlement in the territory of modern Germany began in the Lower Paleolithic, with various tribes inhabiting it from the Neolithic onward, chiefly the Celts. Various Germanic peoples, Germanic tribes have inhabited the northern parts of modern Germany since classical ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saarbrücken
Saarbrücken (; Rhenish Franconian: ''Sabrigge'' ; ; ; ; ) is the capital and largest List of cities and towns in Germany, city of the state of Saarland, Germany. Saarbrücken has 181,959 inhabitants and is Saarland's administrative, commercial and cultural centre. It is located on the Saar River (a tributary of the Moselle), directly borders the French department of Moselle (department), Moselle, and is Germany's second-westernmost state capital after Düsseldorf. The modern city of Saarbrücken was created in 1909 by the merger of the three cities of Saarbrücken (now called ''Alt-Saarbrücken''), Sankt Johann (Saarbrücken), St. Johann a. d. Saar, and Malstatt-Burbach. It was the industrial and transport centre of the Saar coal basin. Products included iron and steel, sugar, beer, pottery, optical instruments, machinery, and construction materials. Historic landmarks in the city include the stone bridge across the Saar (river), Saar (1546), the Gothic church of St. Ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Friedrichsthal (Saar) Station
Friedrichsthal (Saar) station is a station in the town of Friedrichsthal in the German state of Saarland. It is on the Nahe Valley Railway (''Nahetalbahn'') between Saarbrücken and Türkismühle. History The station is located on the Saarbrücken−Neunkirchen railway, an important route in the 19th and early 20th century for the transport of coal from the mines to the coal port of Saarbrücken and to southern Germany and France. The first Friedrichsthal station was opened in 1852 and was located at the extreme south-west of the village. The industrial centre of Friedrichsthal was located in this area. In the second half of the 19th century, the station made the establishments of glass works in Friedrichsthal possible. The first station was demolished in 1910 to allow the line to be upgraded and today's building was built a few metres further west. The cost of the renewal of the station (access to the island platform without having to use a pedestrian crossing over the trac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nahe Valley Railway
The Nahe Valley Railway () is a two-track, partially electrified main line railway in the German states of Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland, which runs for almost 100 kilometres along the Nahe (Rhine), Nahe. It was built by the Rhine-Nahe Railway Company and connects Bingen Central Station, Bingen am Rhein on the West Rhine Railway, Left Rhine line with Saarbrücken Central Station, Saarbrücken. It was opened between 1858 and 1860 and is List of the first German railways to 1870, one of the oldest railways in Germany. The section south of Bad Kreuznach is part of the regionally important transport corridor between the two major cities of Mainz and Saarbrücken. History First initiatives and the opening of the Neunkirchen–Saarbrücken section As early as 1839, there were plans to build a railway connection between the Saar (river), Saar and the Middle Rhine, which could not be realised due to high construction costs. The first section between Neunkirchen and Saarbrücken w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frederick Louis, Count Of Nassau-Ottweiler
Frederick Louis of Nassau-Ottweiler (13 November 1651 – 25 May 1728) was a member of the House of Nassau. Biography He was born in Ottweiler, the son of John Louis, Count of Nassau-Ottweiler and Countess Palatine Dorothea Catherine of Birkenfeld-Bischweiler. He was count of Nassau-Ottweiler from 1680 until his death. From 1721, he was also Count of Nassau-Idstein; from 1723 also Count of Nassau-Saarbrücken. When he died in Saarbrücken, without a male heir, his territories fell to his cousin Charles of Nassau-Usingen after his death in 1728. Family Frederick Louis married on 28 July 1680 with Countess Christiane von Ahlefeldt (1659–95), the daughter of Count Friedrich von Ahlefeldt and his first wife Countess Margarethe Dorothea zu Rantzau (1642-1665). They had eight daughters: * Dorothea Friederike (1681–1691) * Charlotte Marie (1684–1690) * Christiane Charlotte (1685–1761), married first Charles Louis, Count of Nassau-Saarbrücken; secondly Frederick III ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johannes Driessler
Johannes Driessler (26 January 1921 – 3 May 1998) was a German composer, organist, and lecturer. He composed operas, chamber music, and especially sacred music both vocal and for organ. Life and work Driessler was born in Friedrichsthal on 26 January 1921. He studied from 1939 at the Pädagogische Akademie Dortmund, and from 1940 composition and organ at the Musikhochschule Köln. In November 1940, Driessler enlisted in the military; in 1944 he married Gertrude Ledermann. After World War II, he became a teacher in 1945 in Schondorf am Ammersee. In 1946, he became a lecturer at the newly founded Nordwestdeutsche Musikakademie Detmold. Here he began to focus on composing church music. He left his teaching position in 1950 to focus on composition, but returned in following 1954, becoming a professor in 1958 and vice chancellor in 1960, a post he would retain until 1972. He retired from teaching in 1983. Driessler is best known for his church music, including oratorios and ope ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Rank (writer)
Josef Rank ( Friedrichsthal, 10 June 1816 – Vienna, 27 March 1896) was a German-Austrian writer. Biography He learnt philosophy and law in Vienna. Shortly after finishing the university he began his literature career. In 1848, he was a member of the German Parliament. Later he moved to Stuttgart, then in 1851 to Majna-Frankfurt. From 1854 to 1859, he lived in Weimar. From 1849 he worked from Nürnberg. Here he served as the editor of ''Nürnberger Kurir''. In 1861, he moved to Vienna Vienna ( ; ; ) is the capital city, capital, List of largest cities in Austria, most populous city, and one of Federal states of Austria, nine federal states of Austria. It is Austria's primate city, with just over two million inhabitants. ... where he became the secretary of the royal and in 1876 the city theatre. From 1882 to 1885, he edited ''Heimat''. His works * Aus dem Böhmerwalde (1843); * Neue Geschichten aus dem Böhmerwalde (1847); * Eine Mutter vom Lande (1848); * Flori ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manfred Römbell
Manfred Römbell (3 December 1941, Bildstock – 22 June 2010, Saarbrücken) was a German author In legal discourse, an author is the creator of an original work that has been published, whether that work exists in written, graphic, visual, or recorded form. The act of creating such a work is referred to as authorship. Therefore, a sculpt ....http://www.volksfreund.de/nachrichten/kultur/regionalkultur/Kultur-in-der-Region-Saarbr-252-cken;art764,2476351 (German) Awards * 1969 Kurt-Magnus-Preis established by the ARD * 1975 Reisestipendium des Auswärtigen Amtes * 1986 Kunstpreis der Stadt Saarbrücken * 2002 Otto-Weil-Kulturpreis der Stadt Friedrichsthal * 2004 Stipendium des Künstlerhauses Schloss Wiepersdorf Works * 1971: ''Kaltluft'', Pforzheim * ''Kurze Prozesse. 17 Texte.'' Wolfgang Fietkau Verlag, Berlin 1973 (Schritte 23), . * 1976: ''Richtig lebendig wird es auf dem Friedhof im Herbst'', München * 1977: ''Brennen mit Licht'', Köln * 1980: ''Das nächste ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
