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66 unusual facts about Bavaria


1636: The Saxon Uprising

When Bavaria invades the Upper Palatinate the only soldiers available to meet them are the Thuringia-Franconia National Guard and one battalion of USE forces.

1995–96 Nottingham Forest F.C. season

Forest lost 2-1, and any remaining hopes of a semi-final place were crushed in the second leg when the Bavarians thrashed Frank Clark's men 5-1 at the City Ground.

Agent Axis

During a battle in Bavaria the World's Finest Team manages to activate the chronal transponder near the Ravager, returning the heroes to their proper time and place with no memory of the prior events.

Anglo-Bavarian Brewery

It has been asserted that this was in reference to the employment, by the new owners, of some brewers from Bavaria in order to produce a German-style beer, and that what is now called lager was brewed from that year.

Anne Theresa Bickerton Lyons

In Athens, Greece on December 24, 1839 she married Philipp Hartmann Veit von Würtzburg (1811–1897), Baron von Würtzburg, in Bavaria.

Antoria

Some Antoria guitars may have been manufactured in Bavaria by Framus.

Bavarian

Bavarian is the adjective form of the German state of Bavaria, and refers to people of ancestry from Bavaria.

Charles Martel

In foreign wars, Martel subjugated Bavaria, Alemannia, and Frisia, vanquished the pagan Saxons, and halted the Islamic advance into Western Europe at the Battle of Tours.

Charles Zeitler

Zeitler was born to a family of Bavarian immigrants in Clay Township, just north of South Bend, Indiana.

Counts of Castell

The County of Castell was created in AD1200, in the modern region of Franconia in northern Bavaria, Germany.

Crosby County, Texas

1878 Bavaria-born Heinrich Schmidtt, aka Henry “Hank” Clay Smith, and his wife Elizabeth Boyle and their six children, become the first permanent settlers in the area, where Hank is active in the county’s organization.

Driving Out a Devil

The play charts the attempts of a self-confident and manipulative Bavarian peasant boy to outwit the vigilant parents of a girl of his village.

English claims to the French throne

Maria Theresia, Princess of Modena and later Queen consort of Bavaria (20 November 1875 – 3 February 1919), his niece.

Ensdorf Abbey

Ensdorf Abbey (Kloster Ensdorf) was a house of the Benedictine Order located at Ensdorf in Bavaria in Germany.

Frankenmuth, Michigan

The goal of the festival is to retain as much of the Bavarian heritage of the region as possible.

Frederick Schwatka

His father Frederick G. Sr. (1810-1888) was born in Baltimore, Maryland, the son of August and Catherine (Geissendorfer) Schwatke (the original German spelling with the same pronunciation), German Lutheran immgrants from East Prussia (now eastern Poland) and Bavaria, respectively.

Friedrich von Hermann

From the year 1836 he acted as inspector of technical instruction in Bavaria, and made frequent journeys to Berlin and Paris in order to study the methods there pursued.

Friedrich von Hermann was born on the 5th of December 1795, at Dinkelsbühl in Bavaria.

Gau Mainfranken

The Gau Mainfranken (English: Gau Main-Franconia) was an administrative division of Nazi Germany in Lower Franconia, Bavaria, from 1933 to 1945.

George Conrad Hutzler Farm

George Conrad Hutzler was born in about 1822 and lived in a small village near Krumbach, Bavaria.

German locomotive classification

That changed later when many railway companies were taken over or founded by the respective German states such as Prussia, Bavaria, etc.

Gorze Abbey

They did so extremely successfully and the customary of Gorze soon spread to many other monasteries, at first local, such as St. Maximin's Abbey, Trier, and St. Evre's Abbey, Toul, and later in more distant places, such as Bavaria, through the mediation of Wolfgang of Regensburg.

Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich of Russia

The Bavarian government granted Olga the title of Countess of Hohenfelsen in 1904, but the marriage caused a scandal in the Russian Court.

Gstanzl

The Gstanzl (Viennese German for "stanza") is a mocking song that is especially known in the Austrian-Bavarian regions.

Gustav Bischof

Karl Gustav Bischof (January 18, 1792 – November 30, 1870) was a German chemist, born in Nuremberg, Bavaria.

Heidenheim

Heidenheim, Bavaria, municipality in the Hahnenkamm, Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen district, Bavaria, Germany

Hermann AVA

Stone Hill's cellars were constructed in 1847, the Hermanhoff Winery was founded in 1852 and in 1855, the Adam Puchta Winery was founded by immigrants from Oberkotzau, Bavaria who had struck gold during the California Gold Rush before returning to Hermann.

Hohenfels

Hohenfels, Bavaria municipality in Landkreis Neumarkt in Oberpfalz in Bavaria.

Hohneck

Hohneck, unincorporated community of Kansas, United States

Hugh Lygon

Hugh Patrick Lygon (2 November 1904 – 19 August 1936 Rothenburg, Bavaria) was the second son of William Lygon, 7th Earl Beauchamp, and is often believed to be the inspiration for Lord Sebastian Flyte in Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited.

Hutzler's Barn

George Johann Hutzler was born in about 1815 and lived in a small village near Krumbach, Bavaria.

Johann Nepomuk Krieger

Johann Nepomuk Krieger (4 February 1865, Unterwiesenbach – 10 February 1902, Sanremo) was a draftsman and selenographer.

Johann Stegner

Johann Stegner (20 December 1866, Frohnlach, Saxe-Coburg and Gotha – 7 January 1954, Coburg, Bavaria, West Germany) was a German politician from the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD).

John Eberhard Faber

John Eberhard Faber (sometimes Johann Eberhard Faber) (December 6, 1822 – March 2, 1879), was born in Stein, Bavaria, Germany.

John II, Duke of Bavaria

#Ernest I of Bavaria-Munich (1373–2 July 1438, Munich).

He was the third son of Stephen II and Elizabeth of Sicily.

#William III of Bavaria-Munich (1375, Munich–1435, Munich).

Elisabeth of Sicily

Kampfbund

The purpose was to consolidate and streamline their agendas and also prepare to take advantage of the split between Bavaria and the central government.

The Kampfbund ("Battle-league") was a league of patriotic fighting societies and the German National Socialist party in Bavaria, Germany, in the 1920s.

Karl Wald

In 2006, Deutsche Presse-Agentur reported a claim by former football referee Karl Wald, from Frankfurt am Main, that he had first proposed the shoot-out in 1970 to the Bavarian FA.

Karl-August von Reisach

His zeal on behalf of the Church having rendered him unpleasing to the Government, he was, at the request of King Maximilian II of Bavaria, summoned to Rome by Pope Pius IX as Cardinal-Priest, with the title of St. Anastasia.

Kassel conversations

Translation: "Roman ("uualha") people are stupid, Bavarians are smart; there is little smartness in the Romans; they have more stupidity than smartness."

Kemnath

Kemnath is a small city in the district of Tirschenreuth, in Bavaria, Germany.

Lachoudisch

Lachoudisch is a near-extinct dialect of German, containing many Hebrew and Yiddish, native to the Bavarian town of Schopfloch.

Landesstraße

In the free states of Bavaria and Saxony – but not, however, in the Free State of Thuringia – Landesstraßen are known as Staatsstraßen.

Little fruit from the Equator

It was first released 1998, as part of that year'sHof International Film Festival and Lübeck Nordic Film Days.

Marie d'Alençon

She married firstly in 1411, Peter d' Évreux, Infante of Navarre, Count of Mortain, and secondly on 1 October 1413, Louis VII, Duke of BavariaIngolstadt.

Michelin Guide

Guides were introduced for Algeria and Tunisia (1907); the Alps and the Rhine, covering northern Italy, Switzerland, Bavaria and the Netherlands (1908); Germany, Spain and Portugal (1910); the British Isles (1911); and "The Countries of the Sun" ("Les Pays du Soleil") covering northern Africa, southern Italy and Corsica (1911).

Mittersill castle

The first records known of the castle date to the 12th century while Pinzgau was under the control of the Duchy of Bavaria, when the Counts of Lechsgemünd (subsequently: Mittersill) decided to establish their family seat there.

Obergruppenführer

To avoid having the SS split into two separate entities, one based in Northern Germany and the other in Bavaria, Adolf Hitler promoted Daluege to the new rank of Obergruppenführer making him equal in rank to Himmler.

ORF eins

In certain regions of Germany, e.g. Bavaria ORF can be received terrestrial without encryption.

Phyllobrostis hartmanni

It is listed as in the endangered on the Red List of Bavaria.

Pradeeban Peter-Paul

When he left Germany in 1993 he was on the Bavarian provincial team and had won a junior doubles title.

Reichenbach Castle

Some outbuildings were built, such as the brewery, which was added to provide for the Bavarian post office workers, who worked for Fischerpost.

Rottenbuch Radio Tower

The Rottenbuch Radio Tower is a transmitting tower of the Vodafone company in Rottenbuch, a part of the municipality of Peiting near Schongau in Germany.

Seefeld

Seefeld, Bavaria, a town in the district of Starnberg in Bavaria, Germany

Seeta Devi

All three of these films were made through the collaboration of German film director Franz Osten and Indian actor-producer Himanshu Rai along with Bavarian company Emelka.

Sisters of St. Mary

Anna Katherine (later Mother Mary Odilia) Berger was born in Regen, Bavaria.

Sophie Amalie Lindenov

Her parents were Hans Lindenov, a nobleman of Bavarian origins who had been made a Knight of the Order of the Elephant in 1648 and was a member of the Danish Council of State, and Countess Elisabeth Augusta af Schleswig-Holstein, a morganatic daughter of King Christian IV of Denmark and Norway.

St. Conrad's Inter College, Agra

St. Conrad, whose original name was John, was born in the year 1818 A.D. at Parzham in Bavaria, in Germany.

Thule Society

In 1918, Nauhaus was contacted in Munich by Rudolf von Sebottendorf (or von Sebottendorff), an occultist and newly elected head of the Bavarian province of the schismatic offshoot, known as the Germanenorden Walvater of the Holy Grail.

Tom Kühnhackl

Kühnhackl was born and raised in Landshut, Bavaria and first began to play hockey at the age of two.

Welf VI

Welf inherited the familial possessions in Swabia, including the counties of Altdorf and Ravensburg, while his eldest brother Henry the Proud received the duchies of Bavaria and Saxony and his elder brother Conrad entered the church.

Wiesent

Wiesent, Bavaria, a municipality in Regensburg District, Bavaria, Germany

Witch trial of Fuersteneck

The town of Fuersteneck, near Grafenau in Bavaria, Germany, was the location of a witch trial in 1703.


Ackerlspitze

On fine days there is an attractive and extensive panoramic view from the summit of the Ackerlspitze over the neighbouring mountain groups and as far as the Chiemsee lake in Bavaria as well as the Großvenediger.

Albert Pudas

In 1936 Pudas coached the Port Arthur Bearcats who represented Canada in the Winter Olympics in Garmisch-Partenkirchen in Bavaria, Germany.

Angelika Niebler

Angelika Niebler (née Rupertseder; born 18 February 1963) is a German politician and Member of the European Parliament for Bavaria with the Christian Social Union in Bavaria and the Member of the Bureau of the European People's Party.

Arzberg

Arzberg porcelain, a manufacturer of porcelain, originally located in Arzberg, Bavaria

Attic helmet

The closest surviving Imperial Roman helmet to the type illustrated in relief sculpture dates to the 2nd century AD, and was found in Bavaria.

Bavarian Localbahn Society

The Bavarian Localbahn Society (Bayerischer Localbahnverein e.V. or BLV), with its headquarters in Tegernsee, is a society that is concerned with the history of the railways in Bavaria.

Bavarian pine vole

This rodent was previously known from only one location in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Bavaria, Germany, which has since been altered by the construction of a hospital in the 1980s.

Central German football championship

The number of small states in the Thuringia region formed the new state of that name, with the exception of Coburg, which joined Bavaria.

Christoph Wilhelm von Aach

Christoph Wilhelm von Aach was a German metal caster, active in the mid-18th century in Nuremberg in Bavaria.

Counts of Andechs

The noble family originally resided in southwestern Bavaria at the castle of Ambras near Innsbruck, controlling the road to the March of Verona across the Brenner Pass, at Dießen am Ammersee and Wolfratshausen.

County of Castell

Castell was a county of northern Bavaria, Germany, ruling a string of territories in the historical region of Franconia, both east and west of Würzburg.

Deutsches Jagd- und Fischereimuseum

During World War II, most of the objects were saved in Schloßgut Ast near Landshut, Bavaria.

Dillingen an der Donau

Dillingen, or Dillingen an der Donau (Dillingen on the Danube) is a town in Bavaria, Germany.

Elkan Naumburg

Naumburg was born in Treuchtlingen, Bavaria, in 1835, and emigrated with his parents to the United States at age 15 to escape the growing anti-Semitism of his native land.

Ensdorf

Ensdorf, Bavaria, a village in the Amberg-Sulzbach district, Bavaria, Germany

Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg

In 1783 Ernest became a member of the Bavarian Illuminati under the name of Quintus Severus and/or Timoleon, and in 1784 he was created Supervisor of Abessinien (a name for Upper Saxony).

Ferdinand Christian Gustav Arnold

Ferdinand Christian Gustav Arnold (1828–1901) was a German lichenologist and taxonomist born in Ansbach, Bavaria.

Frankfurt-Hanau Railway

The Hessian Ludwig Railway (Hessische Ludwigs-Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft, HLB), which was established in the Grand Duchy of Hesse recognized the importance of the HLB for the expansion of railway services in the Rhine-Main region, particularly to the province of Upper Hesse (an exclave of the Grand Duchy), from the Rhine-Main area to Bavaria and via the Kinzig valley to Bebra.

Friedenberg, Missouri

Unlike the communities of Altenburg, Frohna and Uniontown that were settled by Saxon Lutherans from Germany, Friedenberg was founded in 1838 by Lutheran immigrants from Bavaria, Germany.

Gasparo Duiffopruggar

It is believed that Duiffopruggar was born near Füssen in Bavaria, Germany, and had moved to Lyon, France, where he did most of his work, by 1553.

Gau Bayreuth

Gau Bayreuth (until 1942, Gau Bayerische Ostmark (English: Bavarian Eastern March)) was an administrative division of Nazi Germany in Lower Bavaria, Upper Palatinate and Upper Franconia, Bavaria, from 1933 to 1945.

Giebelstadt Army Airfield

Giebelstadt Army Airfield is a closed military airfield located in Germany southwest of Giebelstadt (Bavaria); approximately 250 miles southwest of Berlin.

History of the Jews in Pittsburgh

There are no reliable records of the beginnings of the Jewish community; but it has been ascertained that between 1838 and 1844 a small number of Jews, mostly from Baden, Bavaria, and Württemberg, settled in and around Pittsburgh.

Homburg–Neunkirchen railway

Historically, the Homburg–Bexbach section was in Bavaria and was built as part of the Palatine Ludwig Railway.

Ilag

British and American citizens were interned in the castles of Laufen and Tittmoning in Bavaria on the border with Austria.

Jayaque

These churches are sponsored by the Lutheran Church of Penzberg, Bavaria, Germany as well as through relationships with churches in the Greater Milwaukee Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, in southeast Wisconsin, USA.

Jock Hamilton-Baillie

NOTE Tittmoning is in Bavaria, not Czech Republic as stated in the Telegraph obituary Tittmoning

Johann Stegner

From 19 March 1920 until the election on 7 November 1920, initially in an advisory capacity, he represented the Coburger Land with Hermann Mämpel and Hans Woldemar Schack in the Landtag of Bavaria.

Karl Addicks

Karl Addicks (born 31 December 1950 in Amberg, Bavaria) is a German politician and member of the FDP.

Langenprozelten Pumped Storage Station

The Langenprozelten Pumped Storage Station is a pumped storage power power station near Gemünden am Main at the Main in the under-Frankish district Main Spessart (Bavaria), which went in service in 1976.

Lebia cruxminor

The species can be found in Irkutsk, Russia, and various German towns such as: Kulbach district of Bavaria, and Upper Franconia.

Leonhard Reichartinger

Leonhard Reichartinger (?? - 1396) was a Crusader of Bavarian nobility, who may have come from the vicinity of Trostberg.

Marek Krejčí

He died in a road accident near Maitenbeth in Bavaria in the early morning of 26 May 2007, around 5:40 CEST.

Matthias Klotz

Matthias Klotz did not really build his instruments according to the classical Italian style but rather made them similar to those of masters from Fussen (a town in Bavaria) and Swabian (Southern Germany).

Osterburg

Osterberg, a municipality in the district of Neu-Ulm, Bavaria, Germany

Plankstetten Abbey

Plankstetten Abbey (Kloster Plankstetten) is a monastery of the Benedictines located between Berching and Beilngries in Bavaria, Germany.

Rems Railway

This was after the line crossing the border at Ulm/Neu-Ulm (now part of the Ulm–Augsburg railway), the second link built between the railways of Württemberg and Bavaria.

Sonja Bertram

She spent most of her childhood in DießenBavaria, the second of four children born to Josef and Gabi Bertram.

Sophie Charlotte

Duchess Sophie Charlotte in Bavaria (1847–1897), Duchess of Alençon and born Duchess in Bavaria

Thomas Bonacum

He studied at St. Vincent's College, Cape Girardeau, Missouri, and at the University of Würzburg, Bavaria, after which he was ordained priest at St. Louis, 18 June 1870.

Thule Society

The Thule Society attracted about 250 followers in Munich and about 1,500 in greater Bavaria.

Tooheys Pils

Originally brewed with Saaz hops, however due to production and supply issues is now brewed with Hallertau hops from Bavaria, Germany and is described as a light, refreshing beer with a crisp, hoppy finish without a lingering aftertaste.

Trimberg

Trimberg is a town in the Elfershausen municipality in Bavaria, Germany.

Trudering-Riem

Trudering-Riem is the 15th borough of Munich, Bavaria, consisting of the districts Trudering and Riem.

William George McCloskey

He was rector until his promotion to the See of Louisville in May 1868, being consecrated bishop in the chapel of the college on May 24 of that year by Cardinal von Reisach, Archbishop of Munich, Bavaria, assisted by Mons.

William III, Duke of Bavaria

After the extinction of the Wittelsbach dukes of Bavaria-Straubing, counts of Holland and Hainaut, William and his brother Ernest struggled with their cousins Henry and Louis but finally received half of Bavaria-Straubing in 1429.

Württembergischer Yacht Club

This move followed the establishment of Yacht clubs in the neighboring kingdoms of Bavaria, Austria and Baden at the time.