Braunschweig

:Braunschweig may also refer to the administrative region of Germany. See Braunschweig (region). Brunswick may refer to several geographic locations, companies and products. See Brunswick (disambiguation).

Miscellaneous

Braunschweig has been an important industrial area.

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Today it is known for its University (website) and research institutes, mainly the Federal Agricultural Research Centre (English website) and the PTB, the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt, the national institute of natural and engineering sciences and the highest technical authority for metrology and physical safety engineering of the Federal Republic of Germany (English website).

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Also located in Braunschweig is the "Martino-Katharineum" (website), a secondary school founded in 1415. It had such famous pupils as Carl Friedrich Gauss, Hoffmann von Fallersleben, Richard Dedekind and Louis Spohr.

Related Topics:
1415 - Carl Friedrich Gauss - Hoffmann von Fallersleben - Richard Dedekind - Louis Spohr

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Brunswick is the home of two piano companies, both known worldwide for the high quality of their instruments: Schimmel and Grotrian-Steinweg (cf. Steinway). Both companies were founded in the 19th century.

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Piano - Steinway - 19th century

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Braunschweig is famous for Till Eulenspiegel, a medieval mixture of a jester and a Robin Hood who played many practical jokes on its citizens.

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Till Eulenspiegel - Robin Hood

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It also had - and still has - many breweries, and still a very peculiar kind of beer is made called Mumme, first quoted in 1390, a malt-extract that was shipped all over the world.

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Beer - 1390

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Near Braunschweig at Cremlingen-Abbenrode, there is a large medium wave transmitter, which transmits the program of "Deutschlandfunk" on 756 kHz, the transmitter Cremlingen.

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