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Herrsching
Herrsching am Ammersee is a municipality in Upper Bavaria, Germany, on the east shore of the Ammersee, southwest of Munich. The population is around 8,000 in winter, increasing to 13,000 in summer. Situated at one terminus of the Munich S-Bahn line S8 (Munich), S8, the village is popular with travellers for its water-sports and as the starting point of trips to the Benedictine Andechs Abbey. Herrsching is also a stop for touring steamships of the Bayerische Seenschifffahrt, Bavarian ''Seenschiffahrt'' or lake fleet. Herrsching is home for the unit finance of "college of public service in Bavaria". Prior to the Second World War, it was there the ''Reichsfinanzschule Hersching''. From 1943 to 1946, the school was converted into a hospital and rehab facility for soldiers who had lost limbs. Main sights Notable sights include *the lake-front promenade (at about 5 km, the longest one in Germany) *''Kurparkschlössl'' (Little castle), built in 1888 by the artist Ludwig Scheuermann ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
S8 (Munich)
Line S8 is a line on the Munich S-Bahn network. It is operated by DB Regio Bayern. It runs from Herrsching via Weßling, München-Pasing station, Pasing, central Munich and Munich East station, Munich East to Munich Airport station. The line operates at 20-minute intervals between Weßling and Munich Airport. Two out of three trains an hour continue from Weßling to Herrsching, so that the gap between trains alternates between 20 and 40 minutes. It is operated using DBAG Class 423, class 423 four-car electrical multiple units, usually as two coupled sets. In the evenings and on Sundays, they generally run as single sets. The line runs over sections built at various times: *from Herrsching to Pasing over the Munich–Herrsching railway, opened on 1 July 1903 by the Royal Bavarian State Railways *from Pasing to the beginning of the Trunk line (Munich S-Bahn), S-Bahn trunk line over tracks running parallel to the Munich–Augsburg railway, opened by the Munich–Augsburg Railway Co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Munich S-Bahn
The Munich S-Bahn () is an Railway electrification system, electric rail transit system in Munich, Germany. "S-Bahn" is the German abbreviation for ''Stadtschnellbahn'' (literally, "urban rapid rail"), and the Munich S-Bahn exhibits characteristics of both rapid transit and commuter rail systems. The Munich S-Bahn network is operated by S-Bahn München, a subsidiary of DB Regio Bayern, which is itself a subsidiary of the German national railway company, Deutsche Bahn. It is integrated into the Munich Transport and Tariff Association (''Münchner Verkehrs- und Tarifverbund'', MVV) and interconnected throughout the city with the locally owned Munich U-Bahn. Today, the S-Bahn covers most of the populated area of the Munich metropolitan area of about 3 million inhabitants. In terms of system length, the Munich S-Bahn is the fourth-largest in Germany, behind the Rhine-Neckar S-Bahn, Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn and the S-Bahn Mitteldeutschland. The Munich S-Bahn was established on 28 May 1972. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ludwig Scheuermann
Ludwig Gustav Wilhelm Scheuermann (18 October 1859, Burgersdorp - 1 September 1911, Herrsching am Ammersee) was a German painter and caricaturist. Biography He was born to a family of merchants from Augsburg. Shortly before his birth, they had emigrated to the Cape Colony to start a new business. His father died only two years later, and they returned to Augsburg, Kingdom of Bavaria, where he had his primary schooling. At the age of twenty, he enrolled in the classics course at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich. There, he studied with Gyula Benczúr, Ludwig von Löfftz and Alexander Strähuber. After graduating, with support from his teachers, he was able to spend some time in Paris at the Académie Julian, where he worked with William Bouguereau.Scheuermann, Ludwig Gustav Wilhelm. In: Hans Wolfgang Singer (Ed.): ''Allgemeines Künstler-Lexicon. Leben und Werke der berühmtesten bildenden Künstler. Vorbereitet von Hermann Alexander Müller'', Vol. 4: Raab–Vezzo. Literar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ammersee
Ammersee (; English: Lake Ammer) is a '' Zungenbecken'' lake in Upper Bavaria, Germany, southwest of Munich between the towns of Herrsching and Dießen am Ammersee. With a surface area of approximately , it is the sixth largest lake in Germany. The lake is at an elevation of , and has a maximum depth of . Like other Bavarian lakes, Ammersee developed as a result of the ice age glaciers melting. Ammersee is fed by the River Ammer, which flows as the Amper out of the lake. Like neighbouring Lake Starnberg - deeper, bigger in surface area, similar in shape - it is a popular location for watersports. Ammersee and the Amper are part of the ancient Celtic amber trading route leading to the Brenner Pass. The word ''Ammer'' is a 13th-century form of ''Amper'', the Celtic ''*ambra'', deriving from the Indo-European , "wet, Water". Passenger services have operated on the lake since 1879. Today they are operated by the Bayerische Seenschifffahrt company, using a mixture of histori ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfred Ploetz
Alfred Ploetz (22 August 1860 – 20 March 1940) was a German physician, biologist, Social Darwinist, and eugenicist known for coining the term racial hygiene (''Rassenhygiene''), a form of eugenics, and for promoting the concept in Germany. Early life Ploetz was born in Swinemünde, Germany (now Świnoujście, Poland). He grew up and attended school in Breslau (now Wrocław). He was a friend of Carl Hauptmann, brother of the famous author Gerhart Hauptmann. In 1879, he founded a secret racial youth society. In Gerhart Hauptmann's drama ''Vor Sonnenaufgang'' ("Before Sunrise"), which was first performed on 20 October 1889 in Berlin, the key figure of the journalist Loth was based on Ploetz. After he had finished school, Ploetz at first studied political economy in Breslau, where he joined the "Freie Wissenschaftliche Vereinigung" (Free Scientific Union). Among his friends were his brother, his former school friend Ferdinand Simon (later son-in-law of August Bebel), the broth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Burkard Freiherr Von Müllenheim-Rechberg
Richard Alexander Conrad Bernhard Burkard von Müllenheim-Rechberg (Spandau, 25 June 1910 — Herrsching am Ammersee, 1 June 2003) was a German diplomat and author. After his career as a naval officer in the ''Kriegsmarine'', he entered the diplomatic career of the Federal Republic of Germany. He was the highest-ranking survivor of the battleship Bismarck. Early life Burkard Freiherr von Müllenheim-Rechberg was a member of the Müllenheim family, an old Protestant family which originated from Alsace. After receiving his ''Abitur'' in 1929, he entered the Reichsmarine, the Weimar navy. He became an aide to the German military attaché in London. Second World War At the outbreak of the Second World War, von Müllenheim-Rechberg served on several vessels. In May 1941, he experienced the sinking of the battleship Bismarck as fourth artillery officer with the rank of lieutenant commander, thereby becoming the highest-ranking survivor of the ship. He was rescued by the Bri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Starnberg (district)
Starnberg () is a ''Landkreis'' (district) in the southern part of Bavaria, Germany. Neighboring districts are (from the north clockwise) Fürstenfeldbruck, Munich, Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen, Weilheim-Schongau and Landsberg. Starnberg district and the Hochtaunuskreis regularly compete for the title of Germany's wealthiest district. Geography The main geographic feature of the district are the five lakes – the Starnberger See and Ammersee, as well as the smaller Weßlinger See, Wörthsee and Pilsensee. The lakes were formed by the glaciers of the last ice age. Hence the district is also called '' Fünf-Seen-Land'' (five-lake county). History The district was created in 1902, when the ''Bezirksamt München II'' was dissolved, and the new ''Bezirksamt Starnberg'' and ''Bezirksamt Wolfratshausen'' were created. Starting in 1939 they were called ''Landkreis''. In 1972 two municipalities (Bachhausen and Höhenrain) from the district Wolfratshausen were added to the district. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harald Winter
Harald Winter (born in 1953), is a Bavarian artist who works in the fields of drawing, painting, sculpting, and performance. Life Harald is a native of Herrsching am Ammersee, west of Munich, Bavaria. After his Abitur, the final secondary school examinations in 1973, he entered the Nuremberg Academy of Arts (“Akademie der Bildenden Künste Nürnberg”) and completed his studies in 1978. He lives in the countryside near Nuremberg, Germany, and has a secondary residence in Berlin, Germany and Castellabate, Italy. His picture "Neun Leute aus der Provinz/ Countryfolk" (oil on canvas, 350 cm/200 cm, 1981) was attracting a first attention during the presentation in Munich, Haus der Kunst, Kunstsalon in 1982. Initiated by the Italian Consulate General of Geneva and the Italian Embassy, a large exhibition of his works was opened at the United Nations Palais des Nations in Geneva, Switzerland in January 2010. In the year 2011 he was presented with an award for culture (F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clemens Kuby
Clemens Kuby (born 17 November 1947, in Herrsching am Ammersee) is a German documentary writer and film maker. He is a proponent of self-healing techniques. He is the nephew of Nobel Prize recipient Werner Heisenberg. Biography Mental healing Clemens calls his technique of self-healing mental healing. Works Bibliography (most books and movie were not translated into English) * 1993 – ''Das alte Ladakh.'' Book about movie. . * 1994 – ''Living Buddha''. Authors: Clemens Kuby and Ulli Olvedi, . * 2003 – ''Unterwegs in die nächste Dimension – Meine Reise zu Heilern und Schamanen'' ''(Travels into the next dimension)''. . * 2005 – ''Heilung – das Wunder in uns. Selbstheilungsprozesse entdecken'' ''(Healing – the miracle within ourselves)''. . * 2007 – ''Selbstheilungs-Navigator. With 64 cards''. . * 2010 – ''Mental Healing – Das Geheimnis der Selbstheilung''. ''(The secret of self-healing)'' 2010; . * 2012 – ''Mental Healing – Gesund ohne Medizin. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Camilla Horn
Camilla Martha Horn (25 April 1903 – 14 August 1996) was a German dancer and a film star of the silent and sound era. She starred in several Hollywood films of the late 1920s and in a few British and Italian productions. Biography The daughter of a civil servant, Horn was educated as a dressmaker and worked at Erfurt. In 1925, together with Marlene Dietrich, she worked as an extra in the German film '' Madame Wants No Children'', and later she was seen in a musical review by director Alexander Korda. She made her great breakthrough in 1926, when she replaced Lillian Gish as "Gretchen" in F. W. Murnau's UFA production of ''Faust''. In 1928 she sailed for Hollywood, where she played opposite John Barrymore in '' Tempest'' and '' Eternal Love''. She returned to Europe, and in the 1930s refused to follow the official line of the Nazis and was prosecuted for a monetary offense. After the war the British tribunal at Delmenhorst convicted her for minor offenses (among them travell ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roderich Fick
Roderich Fick (16 November 1886 – 13 July 1955) was a German architect most prominent during the Nazi regime. Fick became professor at the Munich Technical University in 1935, designed the Munich residence of Rudolf Hess in 1936, joined the NSDAP in 1937, and thereby secured Nazi projects such as various buildings at Adolf Hitler's Obersalzberg complex and such as SS barracks. Fick also was given the task of redesigning Linz. His work was part of the architecture event in the art competition at the 1936 Summer Olympics. After the war, Fick was officially classified as a Mitläufer, a 'fellow traveller', a person passively complicit in Nazi crimes. Fick participated in the reconstruction of Linz, and retired to practice in Bavaria. His first wife died on 2 October 1938; in 1948, he married Catharina Büscher, 28 years his junior. His daughter, Friedrike, was born in 1950. See also * Nazi architecture Nazi architecture is the architecture promoted by Adolf Hitler a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Klaus Wennemann
Klaus Wennemann (18 December 1940 – 7 January 2000) was a German television and film actor. Wenneman was born in Oer-Erkenschwick, North Rhine-Westphalia. He is perhaps best known for his leading roles as the Chief Engineer, (the LI), in ''Das Boot'', and as Faber in the TV series '' Der Fahnder''. As an actor, he appeared in nine movies, and ten television series. He died in Bad Aibling, Bavaria, at the age of 59, from lung cancer. He was married to the same woman from 1963 until his death; they had two sons together. Wennemann was good friends with fellow actor Jürgen Prochnow. Their real-life friendship further added to the ''on-screen friendship'' of their respective character roles, portrayed in the film ''Das Boot (; ) is a 1981 West Germany, West German war film written and directed by Wolfgang Petersen, produced by Günter Rohrbach, and starring Jürgen Prochnow, Herbert Grönemeyer and Klaus Wennemann. An Film adaptation, adaptation of Lothar-Günthe ...''. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
