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Rothenburg has an area of 15.5 km 2 (6.0 sq mi). Of this area, 67.8% is used for agricultural purposes, while 16.6% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 15.5% is settled (buildings or roads) and the remainder (0.2%) is non-productive (rivers, glaciers or mountains). [3] In the 1997 land survey, 16.56% of the total land area was forested. Of ...
Rothenburg Station railway station (German: Bahnhof Rothenburg Station) is a railway station in the municipality of Rothenburg, in the Swiss canton of Lucerne. It is an intermediate stop on the standard gauge Olten–Lucerne line of Swiss Federal Railways. Until the December 2022 timetable change, the station was named Rothenburg. [1]
Rabbi Meir Ben Baruch of Rothenburg (died 1293, buried 1307 in Worms) had a great reputation as a jurist in Europe. In 1274, Rothenburg was accorded privileges by King Rudolf of Habsburg as a free imperial city. Three famous fairs were established in the city and in the following centuries, the city expanded.
The contest was announced by the "Founder's Organization for German Sciences" and the "Heinz Nixdorf Foundation". [1] In 1954 the State of Baden-Württemberg founded a forestry school in Rottenburg am Neckar. In the 1970s the school was commuted to a vocational school of forestry.
Glenn Rothenburg, the birthname of American actor Glenn Corbett (1930–1993) Heinz-Joachim Rothenburg (born 1944), East German shot putter Karl Rothenburg (1894–1941), German Wehrmacht officer
Other important relics include the High Altar (1466 by Friedrich Herlin a pupil of Rogier van der Weyden; also known as the Twelve Apostles Altar) [4] in the east choir, which represents on its back side the oldest depiction of the city of Rothenburg and rare images of the Jakobs pilgrim legend, as well as an altar by Tilman Riemenschneider and ...
Colbert Presenting the Members of the Royal Academy of Sciences to Louis XIV in 1667, by Henri Testelin; in the background appears the new Paris Observatory. The French Academy of Sciences (French: Académie des sciences, [akademi de sjɑ̃s]) is a learned society, founded in 1666 by Louis XIV at the suggestion of Jean-Baptiste Colbert, to encourage and protect the spirit of French scientific ...
The first RAF raid on the interior of Germany took place on the night of 15/16 May 1940. [38] [39] Lights along the fire line memorialize the bombing of Rotterdam, 14 May 2007. When the invasion of Holland took place I was recalled from leave and went on my first operation on 15 May 1940 against mainland Germany.