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Main Square, Maribor
The Main Square of Maribor, also known as ''Glavni trg'', is a square in Maribor, the second largest city in Slovenia, situated in the northeast of the country. On 17 November 1929 the aircraft: Raab-Katzenstein KL.1 Schwalbe with registration: D-974 crashed on Main Square of Maribor, with the death of Letalski center Maribor secretary: Ivo Šestan and the factory pilot Hans Müller. It used to be home to Maribor Slovenia's merchants' and on the upper side of the square is home to an open market. Notable buildings *Maribor Town Hall - Renaissance architecture Renaissance architecture is the European architecture of the period between the early 15th and early 16th centuries in different regions, demonstrating a conscious revival and development of certain elements of ancient Greek and Roman thought ... -built in 1515. * Plague Memorial External links * {{coord, 46, 33, 26.98, N, 15, 38, 43.29, E, type:landmark_region:SI_dim:150, display=title Squares in Maribor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maribor
Maribor ( , , , ; also known by other historical names) is the second-largest city in Slovenia and the largest city of the traditional region of Lower Styria. It is also the seat of the City Municipality of Maribor, the seat of the Drava statistical region and the Eastern Slovenia region. Maribor is also the economic, administrative, educational, and cultural centre of eastern Slovenia. Maribor was first mentioned as a castle in 1164, as a settlement in 1209, and as a city in 1254. Like most Slovene ethnic territory, Maribor was under Habsburg rule until 1918, when Rudolf Maister and his men secured the city for the State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs, which then joined the Kingdom of Serbia to form the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. In 1991 Maribor became part of independent Slovenia. Maribor, along with the Portuguese city of Guimarães, was selected the European Capital of Culture for 2012. Name Maribor was attested in historical sources as ''Marpurch'' circa 1145 (and later as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raab-Katzenstein KL
Raab-Katzenstein was a 1920s German aircraft manufacturer based in Kassel. History The main character of the company was its designer Gerhard Fieseler. Following World War I, he returned to printing, but yearned to return to flying. In 1926, he closed his print shop in Eschweiler and became a flight instructor with Raab-Katzenstein and continued to hone his flying skills, becoming an accomplished stunt pilot. In 1927, he performed a particularly daring routine in Zürich and started to command increasingly high fees for appearances. In 1928 while working at Raab-Katzenstein, he designed his own stunt plane, the Fieseler F1 (also known as the Raab-Katzenstein RK-26 Tigerschwalbe), which was offered and sold to a Swedish company called AB Svenska Järnvägverkstaderna (ASJA), which built 25 of the type for Swedish Air Force in the beginning of the 1930s. In 1930, Raab-Katzenstein was bankrupt, and Fieseler decided to strike out on his own. Using money he had been saving from his aer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Letalski Center Maribor
Letalski center Maribor short LCM (English: Aviation center Maribor) is the oldest and the biggest Slovenian general aviation aero club operating at international Maribor Airport operating with 11 aircraft and 11 gliders. Founded on December 20, 1927 in Maribor and It is well known for its flight school, ever since. It is considered to be the highest quality general aviation aero club in the country and Balkans. Annual number of flight hours is around 3500 h and 10000 landings Landing is the last part of a flight, where a flying animal, aircraft, or spacecraft returns to the ground. When the flying object returns to water, the process is called alighting, although it is commonly called "landing", "touchdown" or .... Current Fleet EASA Flight School LCM has training programs with a European accreditation for the following licenses and ratings as well as endorsements (entries) within its SI.ATO.014 (Approved Training Organization) according to EASA - European R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maribor Town Hall
Maribor Town Hall ( sl, Mariborski rotovž) is the town hall of Maribor, Slovenia. It is situated on the town's Main Square (). Built in 1515, it was remodeled in Renaissance style between 1563 and 1565. In the mid-19th century, it was again renovated in the late Classical style, but was later restored to its original 16th-century appearance. Adolf Hitler visited Maribor on 26. 4. 1941. According to an urban legend he addressed local Germans from the building's main balcony, overlooking the square. This did not happen as neither Hitler nor any of the officers accompanying him held any public speech (containing the infamous sentence "Make this land German again") on that day. In addition to city offices, the hall also houses a Slovene national cuisine restaurant, ''Toti Rotovž.'' In the square outside the hall there stands the Plague Memorial, which commemorates the “ black death” that devastated the city in 1680. References External links * {{Authority cont ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Renaissance Architecture
Renaissance architecture is the European architecture of the period between the early 15th and early 16th centuries in different regions, demonstrating a conscious revival and development of certain elements of ancient Greek and Roman thought and material culture. Stylistically, Renaissance architecture followed Gothic architecture and was succeeded by Baroque architecture. Developed first in Florence, with Filippo Brunelleschi as one of its innovators, the Renaissance style quickly spread to other Italian cities. The style was carried to Spain, France, Germany, England, Russia and other parts of Europe at different dates and with varying degrees of impact. Renaissance style places emphasis on symmetry, proportion, geometry and the regularity of parts, as demonstrated in the architecture of classical antiquity and in particular ancient Roman architecture, of which many examples remained. Orderly arrangements of columns, pilasters and lintels, as well as the use of semici ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Plague Memorial, Maribor
The Plague Column ( sl, Kužno znamenje) is a monument at Main Square () of the city of Maribor, northeastern Slovenia, erected by "pious burghers" in gratitude for the end of a 1680 plague epidemic that had claimed a third of the city's population. The original monument was built in 1681. The current one is a 1743 replacement, the first work by the German sculptor Joseph Straub in Maribor. It is considered his most monumental work, and one of the best examples of baroque art in Slovenia. The column is made entirely of white marble, and consists of an ornate rectangular pedestal that supports a Corinthian column bearing a gilded statue of the Virgin Mary, crowned with twelve stars and standing on the moon (a reference to Revelation 12:1). At its base, the column is surrounded by six saints, to which the townspeople prayed for intercession: [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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