Thurn And Taxis Affair
Thurn may refer to: * Thurn, Austria, a town near Lienz, Tyrol * Thurn Pass, an Alpine mountain pass in Austria * Thurn und Taxis The Princely House of Thurn and Taxis (, ) is a family of German nobility that is part of the ''Briefadel''. It was a key player in the mail, postal services in Europe during the 16th century, until the end of the Holy Roman Empire in 1806, and ..., a historical noble house See also * Turn (other) * Thurm * Thurnen (other) * {{disambig, geo, surname ...
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Thurn, Austria
Thurn is a municipality in the district of Lienz in the Austrian state of Tyrol Tyrol ( ; historically the Tyrole; ; ) is a historical region in the Alps of Northern Italy and western Austria. The area was historically the core of the County of Tyrol, part of the Holy Roman Empire, Austrian Empire and Austria-Hungary, f .... Population References External links Cities and towns in Lienz District {{Tyrol-geo-stub ...
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Thurn Pass
Thurn Pass (el. ) is a high mountain pass in Austria, in the Kitzbühel Alps. It connects Kitzbühel in Tyrol with Mittersill in Salzburg. The Jochberger Ache has its source near the pass. A series of peatland mires in the pass have been designated as a protected Ramsar site since 2004. Lifts There are several chairlifts and T-bar lifts at the pass. A gondola lift connecting Hollersbach im Pinzgau with the ski resort of the Thurn Pass opened in December 2005. In 2005 The Gondola connected The Hollersbach area to the Kitzbühel ski area. Again in summer 2011, The Resterhöhe double chairlift and Moseralm T-bar were replaced with a new modern six-person detachable chairlift with weather bubble and seat heating. These lift improvements are part of a large lift improvement plan that started back in 2004. Since then, fifteen new gondolas and chairlifts have replaced older ones across the ski-resort. See also * List of highest paved roads in Europe * List of mountain passes This is ...
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Thurn Und Taxis
The Princely House of Thurn and Taxis (, ) is a family of German nobility that is part of the ''Briefadel''. It was a key player in the mail, postal services in Europe during the 16th century, until the end of the Holy Roman Empire in 1806, and became well known as the owner of breweries and commissioner of several castles. The family has resided in Regensburg since 1748 with their seat at St. Emmeram Castle from 1803. The family is one of the wealthiest in Germany, and the current head of the House is Albert, 12th Prince of Thurn and Taxis. They are one of the mediatised Houses for their former Sovereign Imperial count, Imperial counties, later mediatised to Kingdom of Württemberg (Buchau Abbey, Buchau Princely Abbey, now Bad Buchau), Kingdom of Bavaria and Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen. History The Tasso family (from the Italian word for "badger", the family's heraldic animal) was a Lombardy, Lombard family in the area of Bergamo. The earliest records place them in Almenno in ...
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Turn (other)
To turn is to rotate, either continuously like a wheel turns on its axle, or in a finite motion changing an object's orientation. Turn may also refer to: Sports and games * Turn (game), a segment of a game * Turn (poker), the fourth of five community cards * Turn (dance and gymnastics), rotation of the body * Turn (swimming), reversing direction at the end of a pool * Turn (professional wrestling), a transition between face and heel * Turn, a quality of spin bowling in cricket Science and technology * Turn (knot), a component of a knot * Turning, shaping wood or metal using a lathe * Turn (biochemistry), an element of secondary structure in proteins * Turn (unit), a unit of angle * Traversal Using Relays around NAT (TURN), a computer network protocol * A loop of wire in an electromagnetic coil Entertainment Film and television * ''Turn'' (film), a 2001 Japanese film * ''The Turn'' (film), a 2012 short film * '' Turn: Washington's Spies'', a 2014 television series on AMC, whi ...
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Thurm
Thurm is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Fritz Thurm (1883–1937), German politician and resistance fighter * Marian Thurm (born 1952), American author of short stories and novels See also *''Thurm.'', taxonomic author abbreviation of Jules Thurmann Jules Thurmann (5 November 1804, Neuf-Brisach in Haut-Rhin, France – 25 July 1855, Porrentruy) was an Alsatian French-Swiss geologist and botanist. He studied at the college in Porrentruy, then continued his education at the University of ...