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Triberg Im Schwarzwald
Triberg im Schwarzwald is a town in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, located in the Schwarzwald-Baar district in the Black Forest. Triberg lies in the middle of the Black Forest between 500 and 1038 metres above sea level. Elektrizitäts-Gesellschaft Triberg, a regional utility, was founded 1896 by Friedrich Wilhelm Schoen, Wilhelm Eduard von Schoen and the famous industrialist and inventor Carl von Linde. It is still active today and partially owned by local municipalities. Watchmaking was once a thriving local industry, but no longer plays a central role in the economy. A private hospital, Asklepios Klinik, is the town's major employer. The number of inhabitants was estimated at around 4.650 in 2022. In 2020, the population was estimated at 4,656. Sights * The Triberg Waterfalls, a series of waterfalls in the Gutach River, are among the highest in Germany. With a total vertical drop of 151m (496 feet), the falls are not as high as the highest waterfall in Germany, which is the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baden-Württemberg
Baden-Württemberg ( ; ), commonly shortened to BW or BaWü, is a states of Germany, German state () in Southwest Germany, east of the Rhine, which forms the southern part of Germany's western border with France. With more than 11.07 million inhabitants across a total area of nearly , it is the third-largest German state by both List of German states by area, area (behind Bavaria and Lower Saxony) and List of German states by population, population (behind North Rhine-Westphalia and Bavaria). The List of cities in Baden-Württemberg by population, largest city in Baden-Württemberg is the state capital of Stuttgart, followed by Mannheim and Karlsruhe. Other major cities are Freiburg im Breisgau, Heidelberg, Heilbronn, Konstanz, Pforzheim, Reutlingen, Tübingen, and Ulm. Modern Baden-Württemberg includes the historical territories of Baden, Prussian Province of Hohenzollern, Hohenzollern, and Württemberg. Baden-Württemberg became a state of West Germany in April 1952 through ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Triberg Gallows
The Triberg Gallows () is a double gallows on the heights known as ''Hochgericht''The local name ''Hochgericht'' ("High Court") does not refer to a high place, but to the High or Blood Court of a judicial district or territorial lordship. () on the Kreisstraße, K 5728 county road that runs from Schönwald im Schwarzwald, Schönwald to Villingen-Schwenningen, Villingen, and in the county of Schwarzwald-Baar-Kreis in the German state of Baden-Württemberg. A map from Benedictine St. George's Abbey in the Black Forest, Abbey of St. George in the Black Forest indicates that, on the present site of the Blood Court, a gallows was erected in the late 16th century. A historical map known as the ''Pürschgerichtskarte'', which charts the area around the free imperial town of Rottweil, shows two wooden gallows on this spot. The present stone gallows replaced its wooden predecessors in 1721. As a symbol of justice of the Anterior Austria, Anterior Austrian Vogt, Obervogtei of Triberg, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Snows Of Kilimanjaro (short Story)
"The Snows of Kilimanjaro" is a short story by American author Ernest Hemingway first published in August 1936, in ''Esquire'' magazine. It was republished in '' The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories'' in 1938, '' The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories'' in 1961, and is included in '' The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway: The Finca Vigía Edition'' (1987). Plot The story opens with a paragraph about Mount Kilimanjaro, the highest mountain in Africa, whose western summit is called in Masai the "House of God." There, we are told, lies the frozen carcass of a leopard near the summit. No one knows why it is there at such altitude. The reader is introduced to Harry, a writer dying of gangrene, and Helen, who is with him on safari in Africa. They are stranded in the camp, because a bearing in their truck's engine burnt out. Harry's situation makes him irritable, and he speaks about his impending death in a matter-of-fact, sarcastic way that upsets Helen. He q ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Miller Hemingway ( ; July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American novelist, short-story writer and journalist. Known for an economical, understated style that influenced later 20th-century writers, he has been romanticized for his adventurous lifestyle and outspoken, blunt public image. Some of his seven novels, six short-story collections and two non-fiction works have become classics of American literature, and he was awarded the 1954 Nobel Prize in Literature. Hemingway was raised in Oak Park, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. After high school, he spent six months as a reporter for ''The Kansas City Star'' before enlisting in the American Red Cross, Red Cross. He served as an ambulance driver on the Italian Front (World War I), Italian Front in World War I and was seriously wounded by shrapnel in 1918. In 1921, Hemingway moved to Paris, where he worked as a foreign correspondent for the ''Toronto Star'' and was influenced by the modernist writers and artists ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United States
The United States of America (USA), also known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It is a federal republic of 50 U.S. state, states and a federal capital district, Washington, D.C. The 48 contiguous states border Canada to the north and Mexico to the south, with the semi-exclave of Alaska in the northwest and the archipelago of Hawaii in the Pacific Ocean. The United States asserts sovereignty over five Territories of the United States, major island territories and United States Minor Outlying Islands, various uninhabited islands in Oceania and the Caribbean. It is a megadiverse country, with the world's List of countries and dependencies by area, third-largest land area and List of countries and dependencies by population, third-largest population, exceeding 340 million. Its three Metropolitan statistical areas by population, largest metropolitan areas are New York metropolitan area, New York, Greater Los Angeles, Los Angel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Triberg Chess Tournament
The Triberg chess tournament constitutes a series of chess tournaments, held in Triberg im Schwarzwald, Imperial Germany, during World War I. History Eleven players from the Russian Empire, who participated in the interrupted Mannheim 1914 chess tournament, were interned in Rastatt, Germany, after the declaration of war against Russia on August 1, 1914. A few weeks later, on September 14, 17, and 29, 1914, four of them (Alekhine, Bogatyrchuk, Koppelman, Saburov) were freed and allowed to return home via Switzerland. A fifth player, Romanovsky was freed and went back to Petrograd in 1915, and a sixth one, Flamberg was allowed to return to Warsaw in 1916. Eight tournaments were played by the internees, the first at Baden-Baden 1914 (won by Alexander Flamberg) and all the others in Triberg im Schwarzwald. Participation by the internees varied, but the tournaments were mostly won by Efim Bogoljubow. Participants *Efim Bogoljubow * Alexander Flamberg * Boris Maljutin * Ilya Ra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Largest Cuckoo Clocks
Several unusually large cuckoo clocks have been built and installed in different cities of the world with the aim of attracting visitors, as part of publicity of a cuckoo clock shop, or to serve as a landmark for the community and town. Some have been awarded with the title of "World's Largest Cuckoo Clock" by the ''Guinness World Records''. Argentina * Eduardo Castex, inaugurated in 1977. * La Cumbrecita, 2011. * La Falda, 1963. * Villa Carlos Paz, 1958. File:RelojCucu11AM-CarlosPaz.jpg, Villa Carlos Paz File:RelojCucú.jpg, La Falda Brazil * Gramado England * Pembridge, Herefordshire, 2013. Germany Black Forest: * Höllsteig (Breitnau), 1994. * Niederwasser (Hornberg), 1995, cuckoo and quail clock. * Schonach im Schwarzwald, Schonach, 1980. * Schonachbach (Triberg), 1994. * Titisee-Neustadt *Villingen-Schwenningen, 2021. Other parts of Germany: * Gernrode, 1997. * Sankt Goar, world's largest free-hanging cuckoo clock. * Wiesbaden, 1946. File:Hofgut Sternen Kuckucksuhr 832 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hans-Peter Pohl
Hans-Peter Pohl (born 30 January 1965 in Triberg im Schwarzwald) is a former German nordic combined skier who competed during the late 1980s and early 1990s. He won the 3 x 10 km team event at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary with teammates Thomas Müller and Hubert Schwarz. Pohl also won two medals in the 3 x 10 km team events at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships with a gold in 1987 (with West Germany) and a bronze in 1993 (with a unified 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 popu ...). References External links * * 1965 births Living people German male Nordic combined skiers Olympic Nordic combined skiers for West Germany Olympic Nordic combined skiers for Germany Nordic combined skiers at the 1988 Winter Olympics Nordic combined ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Voith
The Voith Group is a global technology company. With its broad portfolio of systems, products, services and digital applications, Voith trades in the markets of energy, paper, raw materials and transport. Founded in 1867, Voith today has around 22,000 employees, sales of € 5.2 billion and locations in over 60 countries worldwide and thus is one of the larger family-owned companies in Europe. Company history Years of foundation In 1825, Johann Matthäus Voith took over his father's locksmith's workshop in Heidenheim with five employees, mainly carrying out repairs to water wheels and paper mills. Around 1830 in Heidenheim, there were about 600 people working in 15 factories, mostly textile factories that had been established by wealthy merchants and publishers. The necessary maintenance and repair of the expensive machinery offered a source of income to several workshops, particularly the locksmiths and metalworkers in what was still a small town at the time. In 1830, Joha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christof Duffner
Christof Duffner (born 16 December 1971) is a West German/German former ski jumper. Career He won a gold medal in the team large hill event at the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer. Duffner also won two medals in the team large hill event at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships with gold in 1999 and silver in 1997. His only World cup victory was in 1992 in Oberstdorf. On 22 March 1992, he crashed at world record distance at 194 metres (636 ft) at FIS Ski Flying World Championships 1992 in Harrachov, Czechoslovakia. On 18 March 1994, he crashed at world record distance at 207 metres (679 ft) at FIS Ski Flying World Championships 1994 in Planica, Slovenia Slovenia, officially the Republic of Slovenia, is a country in Central Europe. It borders Italy to the west, Austria to the north, Hungary to the northeast, Croatia to the south and southeast, and a short (46.6 km) coastline within the Adriati .... World Cup Standings Wins Invalid ski jumping wor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albrecht Dold
Albrecht Dold (5 August 1928 – 26 September 2011) was a German mathematician specializing in algebraic topology who proved the Dold–Thom theorem, the Dold–Kan correspondence, and introduced Dold manifolds, Dold–Puppe stabilization, and Dold fibrations. Life Albrecht Dold was born in Triberg, and studied mathematics and physics at Heidelberg University, earning a Ph.D. degree in 1954 under the direction of Herbert Seifert. He visited the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton in 1956–58, and taught at Columbia University in 1960–62 and at the University of Zürich in 1962–63. In 1963 he returned to Heidelberg, where he stayed most of his career, till his retirement in 1996. Dold's work in algebraic topology, in particular, his work on Fixed-point theorem, fixed-point theory has made him known in economics as well as mathematics. His book "Lectures on Algebraic Topology" is a standard reference among economists as well as mathematicians. He had 19 doctoral stu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Efim Bogoljubow
Efim Bogoljubow, also known as Efim Dimitrijewitsch Bogoljubow (April 14, 1889 – June 18, 1952), was a Russian-born German Grandmaster (chess), chess grandmaster. Early career Bogoljubow learned how to play chess at 15 years old, and developed a serious interest at the age of 18. His father was a priest. Originally he wanted to become a priest too, and studied theology in Kiev, but he decided otherwise and enrolled in the Polytechnical Institute to study agriculture.Efim Bogoljubov Chess Federation of Russia He did not finish his studies and instead focused on chess. In 1911, Bogoljubow tied for first place in the Kiev championships, and finished 9–10th in the Saint Petersburg (All-Russian Amateur) Tournament, won by Stepan Levitsky. In 1912, he took second place, behind Karel Hromádka, in Vilna ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
