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11 unusual facts about Weinheim


Abtsteinach

Abtsteinach lies off the greater Bundesstraßen, but is nevertheless easily reached over the linking roads from Weinheim to Wald-Michelbach.

Conrad II of Teck

German historian Armin Wolf argues that several sixteenth century sources and tombstones of the Teck family refer to Cornad as electus in regem and concludes that Conrad was elected King by Albert's partisans on 30 April 1292 in Weinheim.

Corps Altsachsen Dresden

Every year at the end of May, student and alumni members of all German Student Corps meet in one of two cities (Weinheim and Bad Kösen) for three days to refresh their bonds with their fraternity and friends from the entire Corps network (WSC/KSCV).

Fürth, Hesse

The tribunal handed down a new border description which now named the most important places within the Mark Heppenheim, namely Furte (Fürth), Rintbach, Morlenbach, Birkenowa, Winenheim, Hepenheim, Besinsheim, Urbach (Auerbach), Lauresham and Bisestat.

Fürth is the northernmost and highest community in the Weschnitz valley, which stretches southwestwards to Weinheim.

Gorxheimertal

The nearest big town is Weinheim, and the way there also marks the division between the Odenwald and the Hessisches Ried (part of the Upper Rhine valley), as well as the boundary between Hesse and Baden-Württemberg.

Grasellenbach

Buslines run to the railway stations in Heppenheim and Weinheim, which, just like Grasellenbach, belong to the Rhine-Neckar Transport Network (Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Neckar).

Lesyani Mayor

Mayor's 2011 season started with European indoor meetings and she had indoor best jumps of 1.84 m in both Naples and Weinheim.

Propellants, Explosives, Pyrotechnics

PEP - how the journal is typically referred to in the energetic materials community - was founded in 1976 by Hiltmar Schubert, then director of the Fraunhofer-Institut für Chemische Technologie (ICT) Pfinztal/Germany and Verlag Chemie/Weinheim.

Prussian T 5

The Prussian T 5 locomotives for the Main-Neckar Railway, that went into Prussian ownership in 1866, were intended for the route between Weinheim and Fürth (Odenwald) (Weschnitz Valley Railway).

Variobahn

In 1996, six trams were delivered to serve on the light rail between Mannheim, Heidelberg and Weinheim, Germany, operated by Oberrheinischen Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft.


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Freudenberg Group

The Freudenberg Group owns the Hermannshof public botanic garden in Weinheim, which opened in 1983 and is jointly operated with the town.

Gorxheimertal

Gorxheimertal borders in the north on the community of Birkenau, in the east on the community of Abtsteinach, in the southeast on the community of Heiligkreuzsteinach and in the south and west on the town of Weinheim (both in the Rhein-Neckar-Kreis in Baden-Württemberg).