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  Bavaria - LoveToKnow 1911
The district watered by the southern tributaries of the Danube consists for the most part of an extensive plateau, with a mean elevation of 2390 ft. In the mountainous parts of the country there are numerous lakes and in the lower portions considerable stretches of marshy ground.
The districts of Lower Bavaria, Upper Bavaria and the Upper Palatinate are almost wholly Roman Catholic, while in the Rhine Palatinate, Upper Franconia, and especially Middle Franconia, the preponderance is on the side of the Protestants.
Albert's rival was George's son-in-law, Rupert, formerly bishop of Freising, and son of Philip, count palatine of the Rhine; and the emperor Maximilian I., interested as archduke of Austria and count of Tirol, interfered in the dispute.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /Bavaria   (9169 words)

  
 Eurostat
Mannheim, the Land's busiest port, is at the confluence of the Rhine and the Neckar.
The district is also crossed by some of Europe's most important thoroughfares - the E 4/A 5 (Stockholm-Frankfurt-Lausanne) intersects at Heidelberg with the E 12/A 6 (Metz-Nürnberg-Prague-Warsaw-St Petersbourg) and at Karlsruhe with the E11/EB (Paris-Munich-Salzburg).
These built-up areas, which account for 51% of the district in area terms, are home to 80% of the population and 85% of jobs.
forum.europa.eu.int /irc/dsis/regportraits/info/data/en/de12_geo.htm   (705 words)

  
  Rhein-Neckar
Rhein-Neckar is a district (Kreis) in the north-west of Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
Neighboring districts are Bergstraße, Odenwaldkreis, Neckar-Odenwald, Heilbronn, Karlsruhe, district-free Speyer, the district Ludwigshafen, and district-free Mannheim and Heidelberg.
The district was created in 1973 by merging the previous districts Heidelberg, Mannheim and a big part of Sinsheim.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/rh/Rhein-Neckar.html   (128 words)

  
 Rhein-Pfalz-Kreis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Rhein-Pfalz-Kreis is a district (Kreis) in the east of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
Neighboring districts are (from north clockwise) the district-free city Worms, the district Bergstraße, district-free Mannheim, Frankenthal and Ludwigshafen, Rhein-Neckar, district-free Speyer, the districts Karlsruhe, Germersheim, Südliche Weinstraße and Bad Dürkheim.
The district is located in the valley of the Rhine river, both the actual river valley and the Vorderpfälzer Tiefland, formed by the sediments of the rivers of the Palatinate hills.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ludwigshafen_(district)   (416 words)

  
 Ludwigshafen am Rhein - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Ludwigshafen synagogue was destroyed in 1938 and its Jewish population deported in 1940.
The harbour of Ludwigshafen consists of several basins in the South of the city near Mundenheim (Luitpoldhafen, Kaiserwörthhafen, Mundenheimer Altrheinhafen), the wharfs along the river parallel to the city centre and the BASF, and, finally, of the Landeshafen basin in the North.
The district south of Ludwigshafen is dominated by the Rhine and the Altrhein arms (lakes marking the earlier course of the river) and the ancient town of Speyer with its magnificent imperial cathedral.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ludwigshafen   (4322 words)

  
 Ludwigshafen, Germany
Ludwigshafen is the birthplace of the world-famous German rock-climber Wolfgang Gullich.
The first settlement in the area of Modern Ludwigshafen was a fortress ("Die Rheinschanze") built by Kurfürst Friedrich IV on the other side of the Rhine River to protect the City of Mannheim.
With more jobs available, the population of Ludwigshafen started to increase very rapidly, so that in 1899 the city was governing more than 62,000 residents (Compared to 1,500 in 1852).
www.creekin.net /c401-n71-ludwigshafen-germany.html   (388 words)

  
 Ludwigshafen, Germany   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
Ludwigshafen (lood´ vigs • häf-n), became Pasadena’s original sister city through the efforts of the American Friends Service Committee in Pasadena, who wished to provide war relief to Europe after World War II, as had been done after the First World War.
By the war’s end, the city was a mass of twisted steel and rubble with less than 20 percent of the residences still habitable.
Today, Ludwigshafen, with a population 160,000 is one of Germany’s most prosperous industrial cities.
www.passcc.org /images/pages/germany/germany.html   (368 words)

  
 Mainz-Bingen information - Search.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
Mainz-Bingen is a district (Kreis) in the east of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
The main river in the district is the Rhine, which forms all the border of the district to the east.
The flanks of the Hunsrück mountains in the west of the district to the Rhine valley are used as wine hills.
c10-ss-1-lb.cnet.com /reference/Mainz-Bingen   (298 words)

  
 Socially Integrative City: An Initial Appraisal, 2002, Ludwigshafen - Westend - Bundestransferstelle Soziale Stadt
The "integration of the neighbourhood in the district and the overall structure of the city" is important to prevent the neighbourhood from becoming an excluded and excluding social space.
To prevent ghettoization, consistent spatial and development integration in the district and city as a whole city is required.
Together with the children, the organisers staged workshops on various topics relevant for the district, like gymnastics, games and dancing for senior citizens and children, excursions with children through the Westend neighbourhood, and a painting and drawing campaign on neighbourhood design.
www.sozialestadt.de /en/veroeffentlichungen/zwischenbilanz/2-ludwigshafen-english.shtml   (3066 words)

  
 Palatinate. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
Rheinpfalz or Niederpfalz), often called simply the Palatinate, is a district (c.2,100 sq mi/5,440 sq km) of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate (Ger.
Neustadt an der Weinstrasse is the capital; Ludwigshafen, Kaiserslautern, Pirmasens, and Speyer are the chief cities.
In 1803, Maximilian ceded the palatine lands E of the Rhine to Baden, Hesse-Darmstadt, and Nassau, but in 1806 he became king of a much-enlarged Bavaria, and at the Congress of Vienna (1815) he recovered part of the Rhenish Palatinate W of the Rhine, including Speyer and other enclaves.
www.bartleby.com /65/pa/Palatina.html   (628 words)

  
 Socially Integrative City: 5.6 District Culture - Bundestransferstelle Soziale Stadt
The vibrancy and identity of city districts are intertwined with the richness of their cultural life (1).
More than half of all programme districts are highly multicultural societies whose inhabitants come from a myriad of cultural, social and religious backgrounds (2).
The district cultural projects are multifaceted, focusing on developing creative potential, establishing and strengthening a sense of identity and on closely-related image improvement, participation and learning with an emphasis on communication.
www.sozialestadt.de /en/veroeffentlichungen/endbericht/5.6.phtml   (2224 words)

  
 Petra Kummer, Model, Wed to Kim Townsend - New York Times
Hans Kummer of Ludwigshafen, West Germany, was married yesterday in Old Brookville, L.I., to Kim Townsend, son of Mr.
Her father, a chemist, is a senior officer in the plant protection division of BASF Chemical Corporation in Ludwigshafen.
Townsend, an assistant district attorney in Manhattan, was graduated from the Suffield (Conn.) Academy, Hofstra University and the Hofstra Law School.
query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?res=9E06E6DE1F38F931A25754C0A967948260   (157 words)

  
 campus-germany.de - City portrait Ludwigshafen: Chemistry City   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
Ludwigshafen without BASF would be like Leverkusen without Bayer, Munich without the “Hofbräuhaus” or the Ruhr area without coal.
40,000 people are employed by BASF in Ludwigshafen, the whole complex covers a vast area, virtually a city within a city, it is in fact the largest chemistry concern in Europe.
Without the dividing line of the River Rhine, Ludwigshafen and Mannheim located exactly opposite could not be separated.
www.campus-germany.de /english/4.22.3.1544.html   (398 words)

  
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 Regional Policy Inforegio   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
Ludwigshafen and Mannheim are in the centre of the Rhine-Neckar Triangle, a densely populated urban area with 2.3 million inhabitants.
The eligible area includes the urban centres of Mannheim and Ludwigshafen and also the West End, the district around the main railway station and the southern Rhine bank of Ludwigshafen, comprising a conglomeration covering about 800 hectares with 40,000 inhabitants (24,000 in Mannheim and 16,000 in Ludwigshafen).
In Ludwigshafen this affects mostly the active population and young families, whereas in Mannheim it is the more prosperous older inhabitants that are leaving the town.
ec.europa.eu /regional_policy/country/prordn/details.cfm?gv_PAY=DE&gv_reg=ALL&gv_PGM=2000DE160PC109&LAN=5   (769 words)

  
 Rotary District 1860 / News
Thus the district honoured Beck's personal and political contribution in Rwanda and in Sri Lanka as welll as his support for volunteers in his state.
Clubs and districts across the world are participating in a global effort to promote more awareness about Rotary’s ideals and humanitarian programs.
He explained to 529 incoming district governors gathered at this important training meeting that the new theme was inspired by the desire to celebrate in the Centennial year the ideals that Rotary's founders stood for and that over the years have influenced generations of Rotarians to do good throughout the world.
www.rotary1860.org /news/archive-e.htm   (3867 words)

  
 Beginning of private broadcasting stations
With the introduction of the private broadcasting in the cable television pilot survey project in the city of Ludwigshafen at the Rhine [Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany], middle of the eighties, I had the possibility now of showing a larger audience on a completely different and new TV station, the Open channel (Public TV], my produced films, too.
The LPR state headquarters for private broadcasting in Rhineland-Pfalz, Germany exclaimed for the first time a statewide competition for amateur film producers in 1991.
birthday and other events were particularly popular in the greatest and oldest district of the industrial town for the elderly people in the district on the Rhine.
home.arcor.de /woba-tv/seite_13_beginning_of_private_broadcastin.htm   (496 words)

  
 VIDiDOC Press Releases
The District Savings Bank of Ludwigshafen on the Rhine will use the client/server software as its central software tool in its current internal IT restructuring project "Back Office", aimed at the integration of all its existing IT applications.
Based on its positive experiences, the District Savings Bank of Ludwigshafen on the Rhine will now install VIDiDOC Clients in all 21 branch offices as well as in all departments of its main branch and thus establish the foundation for successively digitalizing the processing of all lists and to automate it as far as possible.
At present, it is planned to execute the annual accounts processing in parallel operation (print and electronic) and to gradually replace all existing paper lists with electronic documents during the course of 2002 in coordination with the user departments and auditing office.
www.betasystems.com /vididoc_e.nsf/(docs)/030014   (332 words)

  
 Menneskerettigheder - CASE OF STOCKÉ v. THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
From 26 March to 9 July 1976 he was held in custody under a warrant (Haftbefehl) issued by the Ludwigshafen District Court (Amtsgericht), as he was suspected of tax offences.
Mr Köster received DEM 500 from the Ludwigshafen police and on 16 March 1979 a further DEM 2,500 by way of reimbursement of his expenses, in particular the cost of chartering the plane.
Mr Lesmeister, Mr Antes and Mr Biesel, police officers who had taken part in the arrest, said that the Ludwigshafen police had asked for their assistance during the morning of 7 November (see paragraph 17 above) and that Mr Klemp had said he was acting with the consent of the appropriate public prosecutor's office.
www.menneskeret.dk /menneskeretieuropa/konventionen/baggrund/domme/ref00000258   (5203 words)

  
 Mindelheim county until 1972 (schwaben district, bavaria, germany)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
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landkreis county until 1972 (oberfranken district, bavaria, lesotho royal flags municipality
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 Mannheim
With its sister city Ludwigshafen on the west bank, Mannheim boasts massive ports and lots of activity.
It is arranged in a 'T' shape with the Wasserturm sitting at the 'bottom' of the T. The cross of the T is the Paradeplatz, one of the downtown's two main squares.
The district around the Luisenpark has several museums, including Mannheim's industrial museum, and a planetarium.
www.tompgalvin.com /places/de/baden_wuerttemberg/mannheim.htm   (919 words)

  
 BASF Group: The wastewater treatment plant
The company needs water in its plants first and foremost for cooling, though water is also used for dissolving, washing and diluting as well as for generating steam.
The energy released during incineration is used to generate steam in waste-heat boilers.
This steam is then used in a turbine to produce electricity and to supply the Pfingstweide area of Ludwigshafen with district heating.
www.corporate.basf.com /en/sustainability/service/regionen/europa/020901.htm?id=V00-12yIq5UwJbcp0Ke   (855 words)

  
 PALATINATE (Ger. Pfalz) - Online Information article about PALATINATE (Ger. Pfalz)
Baden, from which it is separated by the Rhine; on the S. by the imperial province of See also:
Lorraine, from which it is divided by the Lauter; and on the W. by the administrative districts of See also:
archbishop of Trier and the bishopric of Juliers, and ruled various isolated districts along the Rhine.
encyclopedia.jrank.org /PAI_PAS/PALATINATE_Ger_Pfalz_.html   (2542 words)

  
 CNN.com - UAE diplomat kidnapped in Baghdad - May 16, 2006
His Sudanese bodyguard was shot during the abduction, but he survived and described the attack to investigators, police said.
Six civilians died when gunmen opened fire in the southern Hor Rijab Shiite district, while another civilian was killed when gunmen struck at a police patrol in western Baghdad's Qahtan Square.
Two soldiers from the 3rd Heavy Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, were killed Monday when their vehicle struck a roadside bomb near Balad, north of the capital, in Salaheddin province.
www.cnn.com /rssclick/2006/WORLD/meast/05/16/iraq.main/index.html?section=cnn_world   (664 words)

  
 BASF
As the world’s leading chemical company with its head offices in Ludwigshafen, BASF – The Chemical Company also relies on the inventiveness of its employees.
The 3-litre house is part of a project to modernise a BASF estate called the Brunck district in Ludwigshafen, which incidentally is one of the places featured in the “365 Landmarks in the Land of Ideas” campaign.
The dwellings in the new Brunck district are extremely energyefficient.
www.land-of-ideas.org /CDA/partners,4850,0,,en.html   (406 words)

  
 Famous Bassemirs
Up to his death on May 14, 1816 he was a school teacher and clerk of the court in Neidenfels (today part of the Lambrecht municipality).
Until 1933 he belonged to the Neustadt District Assembly and was acting mayor in Bad Duerkheim-Hardenburg from 1920 to 1933.
In Oggersheim, today a district of Ludwigshafen, a street is designated after Friedrich Bassemir (see photo above).
www.bassemir.de /fame.html   (948 words)

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