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  City of Guben (Spree-Neiße County, Brandenburg, Germany)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Guben, situated on both banks of the river Neisse, was split into a German and a Polish part in 1945.
From 1961-1990 the city had the title Wilhelm-Pieck-Stadt Guben because Wilhelm Pieck, the first president of the German Democratic Republic, was born there.
Guben has approximately 30,000 inhabitants and is situated in Spree-Neisse county.
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 Luise Laezer, Andrea Rudorff
In Guben, the German part of the twin-city Guben/Gubin at the German-Polish border there is a comprehensive school.
We always paid special attention to the history of the divided city Guben/Gubin, the special status of the border during the time of the GDR, which was an interception line between two different economies with a prosperity descent, and the importance of the chemical-fibre-factory with its 8000 employees, which dismissed 7000 people after the reunification.
Guben is a part of the Euroregion Spree-Neisse-Bober and is a European Model-City.
www.indepsocres.spb.ru /leizer_e.htm   (2124 words)

  
 Independent, The (London): Schroder under fire as Germany grinds to a halt
Guben on the German side has seen its population shrink from 34,000 in 1989 to 25,000 today.
Guben is a typical example of the carnage already wrought by the free market and cross-border competition.
Xenophobia is rampant, and two years ago Guben reached national notoriety when a young Algerian was chased to his death by a gang of thugs.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20010817/ai_n14418218   (1055 words)

  
 Honolulu Star-Bulletin Hawaii News
Jerrold Guben, attorney for the Richards family, said he hopes to meet Friday with creditors, city and state officials and an organized group of niche and plot owners so a new plan can be developed.
Guben said he didn't have a final tally on the votes, which included support for the plan, because they were still coming in.
Guben said a new plan may include going forward with the demolition, which the owners earlier said would cost about $200,000.
starbulletin.com /2003/02/19/news/story4.html   (498 words)

  
 CHERRY GROWING IN THE SUBTROPICS
Stella, Noir de Guben, Van and Bing sweet cherry and Kütahya local sour cherry cultivars were used in the experiments.
The chilling requirements of sweet cherry cultivars were found between 600–1200 hours for Stella, 700–800 hours for Noir de Guben and 1000–1200 hours for Van as the result of 4 years' experiments.
Considering the results, Stella and Noir de Guben seem to be suitable to grow under subtropical conditions with some cultural practices.
www.actahort.org /books/441/441_7.htm   (247 words)

  
 Augustana College: 1999 Regents Scholars Potsdam Trip - Day 4   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
We rode past many of the homes and industries in Guben and got out to walk to the top of a hill where we could look east to the Gubin (Poland) side of the border, just across the river.
Guben, Germany and Gubin, Poland used to be one town, but new country borders were drawn after World War II.
Dinner was at the hotel before we headed out to meet some of the students from Guben who study English.
www.augie.edu /trips/potsdam99/day4.html   (457 words)

  
 Guben Jewish Cemetery   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The Hebrew abbreviation at the end of the Hebrew writing on the eastern side is called translated: "your souls are bound up in the bonds of life." and is based on 1.
The Memorial Stone was sketched and manufactured by the stone-cutter Joerg Glockann from Guben on behalf of the city Evangelical church.
At Guben's "good place", at which over one century Guben Jews found their last resting place, this memorial is now erected for our Jewish fellow citizens, for whom - pursued, driven out, kidnapped, murdered - there is no resting place here.
reissner-guben.org /doc/cemetery.html   (549 words)

  
 E.B. residents seek donations for nearby Elija’s Promise More than 300 are fed daily by Elijah’s Promise Soup ...
Guben, a mother of four, and Falon, who is expecting, take time out of their busy days to do what they consider their civic responsibility.
Guben thinks that because the soup kitchen is not in the "best of areas," most people are discouraged from volunteering or dropping off items there.
They just trusted that we were on the level and their donation was for a good cause.
ebs.gmnews.com /News/2000/1129/Front_Page/07.html   (386 words)

  
 BBC News | EUROPE | Germany agonises over neo-Nazis
In Guben on the Polish border, the townspeople are trying to combat racism, following the death of an Algerian asylum seeker last year at the hands of neo-Nazis.
The play is being funded by the Guben authorities, in the hope of spreading the message of tolerance.
Not far away, in a suburb of Guben surrounded by communist-era tower blocks, is a small plaque.
news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/europe/870086.stm   (854 words)

  
 English Summary - cloth industry Guben
The history of the hat industry of Guben is connected closely with production of the cloth, which has already existed in the Middle Ages in Guben.
In 1847 hatter Carl Gottlob Wilke laid the foundations for the world-wide importance of place Guben with the invention of weather-proof wool felt hat.
The city Guben advertised with the saying: “Gubener Tuche, Gubener Hüte weltbekannt für ihre Güte” - “Cloth and hats of Guben are known all over the world because of their quality”.
www.acol.de /hutmuseum/eng.htm   (353 words)

  
 Augustana College: 2004 Regents Scholars Potsdam, Germany Trip   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The German half is Guben and the Polish half is Gubin.
We toured an area outside of Guben that afternoon and returned for the evening.
That evening we met with students from Guben and Gubin at Gottfried's church in Guben.
www.augie.edu /admission/Potsdam2004/guben.html   (267 words)

  
 [Studies of guben quyu No I combined with chemotherapy in treating cancer]
Cancer patients with Qi-Deficiency and Blood Stasis (QDBS) syndrome were studied, and stress was put on the observation of the Guben Quyu No. I, which was used in combining with chemotherapy for synergistic effect and attenuation of toxicity.
Since the cellular immuno-deficiency and blood hypercoagulability were associated with recurrence and metastasis of cancer.
It is considered that the Guben Quyu No I possibly is to reduce the occurring of the above-mentioned consequences.
www.aegis.com /aidsline/1995/feb/M9520858.html   (414 words)

  
 Wolf house project: Home
Wolf was fascinated, and commissioned the architect to design a country house for his family in Guben.
Because of the considerable prestige of both textile bus-nesses the Wolf family was highly respected not only in Berlin and Dresden, but also in Guben which was frequented culturally and politically prominent figures.The 1926-1927 construction of the Wolf House marked the first zenith of Mies van der Rohe's professional career.
Already apparent in Guben was the idea of combining nature, man and architecture; the idea which later became a fundamental design element in Mies' work.
www.iba-fuerst-pueckler-land.de /wolf-house-project/my_wolf_house_projectbackground.htm   (873 words)

  
 Page 365
His secular poems are forgotten; about forty of his religious songs, hymns, and psalms have been kept in the hymn-books of the German Protestant Church.
The music for his hymns by the Guben organist Christoph Peter appeared first in the Andachtscym beln, the oldest Guben hymn-book, in 1648.
A. Jentsch, Johann Franck von Guben, Guben, 1877.
www.ccel.org /s/schaff/encyc/encyc04/htm/0381=365.htm   (857 words)

  
 In Guben - W Gubinie
Historic view: The German-Polish border divides the city since 1945, before that date the Polish state boundary was 50 miles to the east from here.
In Gubin (PL) Ruins of the church and the town-hall, where now green grass grows, once were two storey buildings, yet the historic heart of what used to be old-Guben is gone.
Historic view of Guben: Church and town hall and historic houses around the market.
grenzen.150m.com /gubinGB.htm   (408 words)

  
 Guben - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Guben
There are lignite (brown coal) mines, and textiles are manufactured.
A former part of Guben on the right bank of the river was incorporated into Poland after 1945, and is now the Polish town of Gubin.
During the time East Germany was a separate country, 1949–90, Guben was officially known as Wilhelm-Pieck-Stadt Guben, in honour of the first (and only) president of the German Democratic Republic.
encyclopedia.farlex.com /Guben   (144 words)

  
 Guben-Gubin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
As an industrial-cultural reminder of the cloth and hat-making in the region, the "Gubener Wolle, Work 1" offers a variety of possibilities for conversions to other uses.
In the course of the work, it became increasingly clear that a future partial use of the "Gubener Wolle" would have to take into account the existing and foreseeable development scope of the border town.
On the basis of this, a flexible catalogue of measures was prepared which allows for both redevelopment and partial demolition.
www.inik.info /englisch/projekte/proje_03.htm   (144 words)

  
 Johann Franck (Hymn-Writer) - Short Biography
After his father’s death in 1620, Johann Franck’s uncle by marriage, the town judge, Adam Tielckau, adopted him and sent him to schools in Guben, Cottbus, Stettin, and Thorn.
Here his religious spirit, his love of nature, and his friendship with such men as Simon Dach and Heinrich Held, preserved him from sharing in the excesses of his fellow students.
In 1648, he became a burgess and councilor, a Burgermeister in 1661, and in 1671 was appointed the deputy from Guben to the Landtag (Diet) of Lower Lusatia.
www.bach-cantatas.com /Lib/Franck-Johann.htm   (207 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
After his fa­ther’s death in 1620, Franck’s un­cle by mar­ri­age, the town judge, Ad­am Tielck­au, adopt­ed him and sent him to schools in Gu­ben, Cott­bus, Stet­tin, and Thorn.
He re­turned to Gu­ben at Eas­ter, 1640, at his mo­ther’s ur­gent re­quest; she wished to have him near her in those times of war when Gu­ben fre­quent­ly suf­fered from the pre­sence of both Swed­ish and Sax­on troops.
Bur­ger­meis­ter in 1661, and in 1671 was ap­pointed the de­pu­ty from Gu­ben to the
www.cyberhymnal.org /bio/f/r/franck_j.htm   (189 words)

  
 Honolulu Star-Bulletin Business
Unsecured creditors, owed an estimated $4 million, would be paid 17.5 percent of their claims in cash, or a total of about $700,000.
The deal is likely to pass a required vote of creditors because the bulk of outstanding claims have recently been purchased by a company that is affiliated with Propper's firm, Guben said.
Aqua Reorganization Co. bought $3.9 million of the total $4.5 million in claims, which is more than the required two-thirds margin needed for the plan to pass a vote, Guben said.
starbulletin.com /2002/05/21/business/story5.html   (434 words)

  
 Chronology of Horno's Fight for Survival   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
In early March 1993, Michael Gromm calls upon young people in the Guben region to play an active role in environmental protection and in the course of their own futures.
On July 6th, 1994, Horno and ten other municipalities, including the city of Guben, file suit at the Administration Court (Verwaltungsgericht) in Cottbus against the Oberbergamt, proposing that approval of LAUBAG's outline mining plan for the Jänschwalde mine be rescinded.
This suit lay unattended on the desks of a number of Administration Court judges for almost five years, a clear infringement of the right to due process at court, which is guaranteed in the German Federal Constitution.
www.horno-allianz.de /Chronolo.htm   (3152 words)

  
 Exposure 2004 - The Hereford Photography Festival web site
Guben/Gubin - After the End of World War II the german town Guben had been divided into the german/polish town Guben/Gubin.
In Gubin the ruin of the former cathedral reminds that there once was an old town center, that had been completely destroyed.
The now german part Guben has once been the industrial suburb, famous for its production of textiles, wool and especially hats.
www.photofest.org /2004/exhibitions/index.php?exhibitionID=28   (229 words)

  
 law.com - Unregistered Copyrights Get Boost From Ruling
The decision came as a surprise, said Jerrold Guben, an attorney at Honolulu's Reinwald, O'Conner & Playdon, who represented Aerocon.
"I think virtually all prior cases went the other way," Guben said.
Guben also said he was still not sure whether the case would be appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court.
www.law.com /jsp/article.jsp?id=1030821205079   (388 words)

  
 FAQ: Brandenburg - Neumark in Prussia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Members of minor (unregcognised) churches had to record their vital statistics with the pastor of the official churches.
Oder, Potsdam, Spandau, Wriezen) Rep. 5 E Amtsgerichte (Altlandsberg, Angermünde, Arnswalde, Bärwalde, Baruth, Beelitz, Beeskow, Belzig, Berlin, Berlinchen, Bernau, Brandenburg, Brssow, Buchholz, Calau, Cottbus, Crossen, Dahme, Doberlug, Driesen, Drossen, Eberswalde, Finsterwalde, Forst, Friedeberg, Fürstenberg, Fürstenwalde, Genthin, Gransee, Guben, Havelberg, Jüterbog, Kirchhain, Königsberg, Königs Wusterhausen, Kremmen, Küstrin, Kyritz, Landsberg a.
Oder, Guben, Landsberg a.d.Warthe, Neuruppin, Potsdam, Prenzlau) Rep. 5 F Landgericht zu Meseritz Rep. 5 H Arbeitsgerichte (Berlin) Rep. 5 N Erbgesundheitsgerichte (Cottbus, Landsberg a.
www.mmhs.org /faq/faqbrand.htm   (1479 words)

  
 Vintage Guben GERMAN AVIATOR Postcard Signed W. Engel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
This vintage postcard is a portrait of a german aviator - I believe it may be from the 1930s or perhaps earlier.
It measures 4" x 5 3/4" and has just some light smudges.
It is postally unused, but there is printing from the manufacturer on the reverse side of the postcard, which reads, as close as I can make out,........***pro-Engel, Guben, Lindengroban".
cyberattic.com /stores/fuzzyizzy/items/454767/item454767cyberattic.html   (135 words)

  
 Poland's big year - Brave New World - MSNBC.com
Indeed, more than a decade of German investment has given today’s Guben a veneer of prosperity.
Yet, as dramatic changes broke down the barriers that split Berlin and then Belfast in recent years, the other Gubin, the Polish one, has languished.
The fact is, German Guben is trapped on the frontier of the world’s most powerful economic blocs, while Polish Gubin remains a transit point for the EU, a marshaling yard for desperate Ukrainians, Russians, Sri Lankans, Afghans, Uzbeks and others yearning to get into the world’s most generous welfare state.
msnbc.msn.com /id/4007939   (1251 words)

  
 Three Most Interesting Things
This was a very cool little hospital in Guben Germany, right on the Polish border (in fact, the town is split between the two countries because before the war, it was all a part of Germany).
It is called Naemi Wilke- Stift because about 100 years ago, one of the wealthy citizens of Guben, Mr.
Friedrich Wilke, a hat maker, had a daughter die of typhus.
www.fitzfamily.com /photoalbum/germany/interestgerm.htm   (412 words)

  
 GUBEN genealogy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
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www.onegreatfamily.com /genealogy/Guben.html   (93 words)

  
 nobody is illegal - bordercamp 2000   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
15.00 (new time!) Guben: Teach-in against anti-semitism at the war graves location ("Kriegsgräberstätte")
during day Guben: postposition of the Guben trials
17.00 event concernig the legal relations against nazis -- in the town hall Guben
www.nadir.org /nadir/kampagnen/camp00/program.en.html   (293 words)

  
 SURFSIDE, FL Political Contributions by Individuals
Guben, Jon K Dr. (Physician), (Zip code: 33154) $1250 to REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE on 07/15/04
Guben, Karen M Ms., (Zip code: 33154) $1250 to REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE on 07/15/04
GUBEN, JON K (PHYSICIAN), (Zip code: 33154) $500 to FRIENDS OF JOHNNIE BYRD on 09/30/03
www.city-data.com /elec/elec-SURFSIDE-FL.html   (1122 words)

  
 Guben, Brandenburg Flash Designers - Flash Site Design Firms   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
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