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  Kulmbach (district) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It is bounded by (from the north and clockwise) the districts of Kronach, Hof, Bayreuth and Lichtenfels.
The historical centre of the region was the castle of Plassenburg in the city of Kulmbach.
In 1603 the castle of Plassenburg was abandoned, and the capital was moved to the city of Bayreuth.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kulmbach_(district)   (492 words)

  
 NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Hof (district)
It is bounded by (from the south and clockwise) the districts of Wunsiedel, Bayreuth, Kulmbach and Kronach, the states of Thuringia (district of Saale-Orla) and Saxony (district of Vogtlandkreis), and the Czech Republic.
The Vogtlandkreis is a Kreis (district) in the south-west of Saxony, Germany, at the borders to Thuringia, Bavaria, and the Czech Republic.
Passau is a district (Kreis) in the southeast of Bavaria.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Hof-%28district%29   (1587 words)

  
 Main-Spessart
It is bounded by (from the north and clockwise) the districts of Bad Kissingen, Schweinfurt and Würzburg, the state of Baden-Württemberg (district of Main-Tauber), the districts of Miltenberg and Aschaffenburg, and the state of Hesse (district of Main-Kinzig).
The district was established in 1972 by merging the former districts of Gemünden, Karlstadt, Lohr and Marktheidenfeld
In the west of the district the Spessart mountains are rising.
www.starrepublic.org /encyclopedia/wikipedia/m/ma/main_spessart.html   (127 words)

  
 Bayreuth (district)
The district is bounded by (from the north and clockwise) the districts of Kulmbach[?], Hof[?], Wunsiedel[?], Tirschenreuth[?], Neustadt/Waldnaab[?], Amberg-Sulzbach, Nürnberger Land[?], Forchheim[?] and Bamberg.
The district was established in 1972 by merging the former districts of Bayreuth and Pegnitz.
The sources of the White Main and the Red Main are both located in the district.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ba/Bayreuth_(district).html   (156 words)

  
 Coburg (district) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It is bounded by (from the east and clockwise) the districts of Kronach, Lichtenfels, Bamberg and Haßberge, and by the state of Thuringia (districts Hildburghausen and Sonneberg).
The present district is identical to that portion, but excludes the city of Coburg and the exclave of Königsberg, which is part of Haßberge district.
The district is located in the hilly country between the Thuringian Slate Mountains and the Main valley.
www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Coburg_(district)   (255 words)

  
 Kulmbach (district)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
It is bounded by (from the and clockwise) the districts of Kronach Hof Bayreuth and Lichtenfels.
The district of Kulmbach was founded soon The city of Kulmbach did not belong the district until 1972 when city and were merged.
The district surrounding the ancient city of is located on the southern edge of Forest (Frankenwald) and Fichtelgebirge.
www.freeglossary.com /Kulmbach_%28district%29   (537 words)

  
 Kulmbach, Hans Suess (Süss) von - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Kulmbach, Hans Suess (Süss) von
About 1500 he left his native Kulmbach for Nuremberg, where he studied in Dürer's workshop and was also influenced by the visiting Venetian artist Jacopo de' Barbari.
Next to Baldung Grien, Kulmbach was Dürer's most important pupil, with a personal style quite distinct from that of his master.
In 1511 Kulmbach obtained citizenship of his adopted town and became an independent artist.
encyclopedia.farlex.com /Kulmbach,%20Hans%20Suess%20%28S%FCss%29%20von   (199 words)

  
 District Government of Upper Franconia - Brief information about the District Government
Each administrative district of Bavaria is headed by a local Government constituting the median level in the three-tier Bavarian system of state administration.
The President of the administrative district´s Government is the head of its public administration with a staff of nearly 560 employees, and is also the administrative principal of nearly 9,500 civil servants working in the Government´s employ in 32 services and 113 schools.
This duty of the district Governments refers to decisions rendered by the administrative counties´ councils as well as by the municipal councils of the cities enjoying county status (and to a degree also by the large county towns´ councils).
www.regierung.oberfranken.bayern.de /english/eportrai.htm   (526 words)

  
 Kulmbach (district) - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Kulmbach (district) - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
This encyclopedia, history, geography and biography article about Kulmbach (district) contains research on
Kulmbach (district), History, Geography, Coat of arms, Towns and municipalities, External links and Districts of Bavaria.
www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Kulmbach_(district)   (403 words)

  
 History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The district was headed by a “county administrator” (Kreishauptmann or Oberhauptmann).
A considerable part turned into the district Werdau; furthermore, parts of the Zwickauer area were added to the district of Reichenbach.
At the constituent meeting of district assembly Christian Otto was elected head of the administration of the district Zwickau.
www.zwickauerland.de /Englisch/Geschichte/Geschichte.htm   (811 words)

  
 Rhön-Grabfeld   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
It is bounded by (from the southeast and clockwise) the districts of Hassberge, Schweinfurt and Bad Kissingen, and the states of Hesse (district Fulda) and Thuringia (districts Schmalkalden-Meiningen and Hildburghausen).
The district of Rhön-Grabfeld was established in 1972, when the former districts of Bad Neustadt, Königshofen and Mellrichstadt were merged.
The district consists of two distinct areas: The eastern parts of the Rhön mountains and the Grabfeld.
www.bidprobe.com /en/wikipedia/r/rh/rhoen_grabfeld.html   (199 words)

  
 Kulmbach (district)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The rulers of the castle and the surrounding lands were the counts of Andechs (1135-1248, from 1135to 1180 Dießen-Andechs, from 1180 to 1248 Andechs-Meranien) and the Thuringian counts of Orlamünde (1260-1340).
The importance of the city of Kulmbach declined hereafter, although themargraves (and sometimes the population of Kulmbach) often used to take shelter on the castle during the years of the Thirty Years' War.
The city of Kulmbach did not belong to the district until 1972, when city anddistrict were merged.
www.therfcc.org /kulmbach-district--121117.html   (311 words)

  
 Fürth (district)
It is bounded by (from the east and clockwise) the cities of Fürth and Nuremberg, and by the districts of Roth, Ansbach, Neustadt (Aisch)-Bad Windsheim and Erlangen-Höchstadt.
In the 13th and most of the 14th century the region was a regional centre of the Hohenzollern state.
The district is occupied by the western Nuremberg metropolitan area.
www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/f/fu/fuerth__district_.html   (190 words)

  
 Bayreuth - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Some sixty years later the town (at that time a tiny village) became subordinate to the Hohenzollern state, and when this state was divided, Bayreuth belonged to the county of Kulmbach.
The turning point of the town's history was in 1603, when Christian the margrave of Kulmbach (in the meantime also called Brandenburg-Kulmbach) decided to move his residence to Bayreuth.
The develepmont of the new capital stagnated due to the Thirty Years' War, but afterwards many famous baroque buildings were added to the town.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bayreuth   (802 words)

  
 Forchheim   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
established in 1972 by merging the former district of Forchheim with parts of the dissolved districts of Ebermannstadt and Pegnitz.
by (from the north and clockwise) the districts of Forchheim, Bayreuth, Amberg-Sulzbach, Neumarkt, Roth and Erlangen-Höchstadt...
the districts of Fürth, Neustadt (Aisch)-Bad Windsheim, Bamberg, Forchheim and Nürnberger Land, and by the cities of...
www.germanyresources.com /germany/Forchheim   (267 words)

  
 Culture   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
A long and good tradition are the regular talks of the head of the administration of the district with artists in their studios.
In the years 1996, 1998 and 2000 the rural district - in association with the "Art Club Pleissenland" - implemented an open air painting in Hartenstein, in the district Kulmbach and in Hartmannsdorf.
The rural district is a member in the "Kulturraum Zwickauer Raum.“ Thereby the rural district supports also important public institutions like the “Theatre Plauen-Zwickau”, the “Town School Library Zwickau”, the “House of Robert Schumann Zwickau”, the theatres in Glauchau and Crimmitschau, the “Karl-May-Museum Hohenstein-Ernstthal”, the castles in Stein and Schönfels and a lot more.
www.zwickauerland.de /Englisch/Kultur/Kulturlandschaft.htm   (455 words)

  
 Kulmbach County (Oberfranken District, Bavaria, Germany)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Kulmbach is the only Bavarian county known to have changed its flag after the first grant.
The background colours of the lower part are taken from the arms of Bavaria and symbolise the fact that the area belongs to Bavaria since 1810.
The new arms show in the first half the arms of the State of Bamberg, derived from the old arms of the Stadtsteinach district.
www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/de-by-ku.html   (344 words)

  
 Landshut (district)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
It is bounded by (from the north and clockwise) the districts of Kelheim, Straubing-Bogen, Dingolfing-Landau, Rottal-Inn, Mühldorf, Erding and Freising.
The present district was established in 1972 by merging the former districts of Landshut, Rottenburg and Vilsbiburg and adding some municipalities of surrounding districts.
The district comprises plain countryside on both banks of the Isar river.
www.tocatch.info /en/Landshut_%28district%29.htm   (246 words)

  
 Freising (district) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It is bounded by (from the north and clockwise) the districts of Kelheim, Landshut, Erding, Munich, Dachau and Pfaffenhofen.
In the Holy Roman Empire Freising was a clerical state ruled by the bishops.
The district is located north of the Munich metropolitan area.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Freising_(district)   (327 words)

  
 Rohr - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Rohr in Niederbayern, in the Kelheim district, Bavaria
A part of Freystadt in the Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz district, Bavaria
A part of Neudrossenfeld in the Kulmbach district, Bavaria
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rohr   (173 words)

  
 Kelheim (district)
The district is located half way between Ingolstadt and Regensburg on both banks of the Danube.
The city of Regensburg is enclosed by, but does not belong to the district; it is nonetheless its...
Each step you will do in the district of Kelheim is touching history like nearly everwhere in Bavaria.
www.logicjungle.com /wiki/Kelheim_%28district%29   (277 words)

  
 Deutsche BSE-(Verdachts)fälle im Jahr 2000
The BFAV confirmed BSE in a German Simmental cow that according to information forwarded by the BMVEL had been born in the same local district and was slaughtered.
The BFAV confirmed BSE in a cow that according to information forwarded by the BMVEL had been born on the farm and was killed because of an illness not conspicious for BSE.
The BFAV diagnosed BSE in a cow that according to information forwarded by the BMVEL had been born in the same local district and was slaughtered.
www.schuett-abraham.de /bse2003-en.htm   (1714 words)

  
 Surveillance for Prion Disease in Cervids, Germany, Figure | CDC EID
Distribution of free-ranging roe deer, red deer, and fallow deer tested for transmissible spongiform encephalopathies that shows the risk for each district where samples were obtained.
, fallow deer samples originating from a district with high fallow deer density; n, number of samples from each federal state.
Samples came from 14 (88%) of the 16 federal states (2 missing states are 2 major cities with almost no deer population) and from 280 (87%) of the 323 German administrative districts.
www.cdc.gov /NCIDOD/EID/vol12no02/05-0970-G.htm   (192 words)

  
 NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Bamberg
There are 439 German districts (Kreise), administrative units in Germany.
This is a list of urban districts in Germany.
Area is a physical quantity expressing the size of a part of a surface.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Bamberg   (709 words)

  
 Coburg (district)
District: urban district: Administrative unit: Population: 42,257 NA (2003) Area: 48.3 km²...
Our school has been part of the Coburg District Primary Schools Sports Association for over 50 years and within that affiliation we provide opportunities for our...
Coburg's removal to district court was based on 28 U.S.C. § 1331 (2001), giving federal courts original jurisdiction over "all civil actions arising under the Constitution, laws, or treaties of...
www.logicjungle.com /wiki/Coburg_%28district%29   (285 words)

  
 Stars & Stripes
The city of Kulmbach, Germany, about 35 minutes east of Bamberg, boasts several breweries and museums, a great shopping experience and some of the friendliest people you are likely to meet anywhere.
The citizens of Kulmbach seem incredibly proud of their city and are more than willing to provide directions and other information about the sights.
Kulmbach has its own title of beer supremacy: “We are the secret capital of beer,” she claimed.
www.estripes.com /article.asp?section=103&article=34074   (938 words)

  
 Schmargendorf
After Schmargendorf had been integrated into the district of Wilmersdorf because of the reformation of Berlin in 1920, the town hall of Schmargendorf became the registry office of Wilmersdorf.
Right opposite the town hall, an erratic block of 2 metres height symbolizes the partnership between Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf and the district of Kulmbach.
After long years of friendly contacts, the partnership contract with the then district of Wilmersdorf was officially cancelled in 1991.
www.berlin.de /ba-charlottenburg-wilmersdorf/sprachen/engels/Schmargendorf.html   (307 words)

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