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| 1 | Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 520 Lat/Lng : 48.1508 / 11.5803 | Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (also referred to as LMU or the University of Munich, in German: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) is a public research university located in Munich, Germany. The University of Munich is Germany's sixth-oldest university in continuous operation (...) | |
| 2 | Bregenz ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 404 Lat/Lng : 47.5049 / 9.7492 | Bregenz is the capital of Vorarlberg, the westernmost state of Austria. The city is on the eastern shores of Lake Constance, the third-largest freshwater lake in Central Europe, between Switzerland in the west and Germany in the northwest (...) | |
| 3 | Trieste ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 116 Lat/Lng : 45.6361 / 13.8042 | Trieste (;. CollinsDictionary.com. Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 11th Edition. Retrieved September 21, 2012 listen;) is a city and a seaport in northeastern Italy. It is situated towards the end of a narrow strip of Italian territory lying between the Adriatic Sea (...) | |
| 4 | TSV 1860 Munich ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 540 Lat/Lng : 48.102 / 11.5653 | Turn- und Sportverein München von 1860, commonly known as TSV 1860 München or 1860 Munich, is a German sports club based in Munich. After the 2016–17 season the club's football team was relegated from the 2. Bundesliga (...) | |
| 5 | Augustiner Museum ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 288 Lat/Lng : 47.9938 / 7.8526 | The Augustiner Museum is a museum in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany located in the former Augustinian Monastery building. It is undergoing an extensive renovation and expansion, the first phase of which ended in 2010. Christoph Mäckler, architect. Badische Zeitung, 16 March 2010 (...) | |
| 6 | Rudolf-Harbig-Stadion ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 114 Lat/Lng : 51.0411 / 13.7483 | Rudolf-Harbig-Stadion is a football stadium in Dresden, Saxony. It is named after German athlete Rudolf Harbig, and is the current home of Dynamo Dresden. Sports facilities have existed on the site of the stadium, the Güntzwiesen, since 1874 (...) | |
| 7 | Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 331 Lat/Lng : 48.3151 / 16.3804 | Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff (10 March 1788 – 26 November 1857) was a Prussian poet, novelist, playwright, literary critic, translator, and anthologist. Eichendorff was one of the major writers and critics of Romanticism.Cf. J. A (...) | |
| 8 | FC Bayern Munich ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 523 Lat/Lng : 48.1437 / 11.5766 | Fußball-Club Bayern München e.V., commonly known as FC Bayern München , FCB, Bayern Munich, or FC Bayern, is a German sports club based in Munich, Bavaria (Bayern). It is best known for its professional football team, which plays in the Bundesliga, the top tier of the German football league system, (...) | |
| 9 | Maria am Gestade ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 187 Lat/Lng : 48.2128 / 16.3705 | Maria am Gestade (Mary at the Shore) is a Gothic church in Vienna, Austria. One of the oldest churches in the city—along with St. Peter's Church and St. Rupert's Church—it is one of the few surviving examples of Gothic architecture in Vienna (...) | |
| 10 | Municipality of Kočevje ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 454 Lat/Lng : 46.6431 / 14.8594 | The Municipality of Kočevje is a municipality in southern Slovenia. The seat of the municipality is the city of Kočevje. Today it is part of the Southeast Slovenia Statistical Region. In terms of area, it is the largest municipality in Slovenia. (...) | |
| 11 | Lufthansa ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 50 Lat/Lng : 50.9415 / 6.9809 | Deutsche Lufthansa AG (or JSC) , commonly known as Lufthansa (sometimes also as Lufthansa German Airlines), is the largest German airline and, when combined with its subsidiaries, also the largest airline in Europe both in terms of fleet size, largest airlines in Europe (...) | |
| 12 | Kočevje ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 468 Lat/Lng : 45.643 / 14.8594 | Kočevje (; ;Leksikon občin kraljestev in dežel zastopanih v državnem zboru, vol. 6: Kranjsko. 1906. Vienna: C. Kr. Dvorna in Državna Tiskarna, p. 36. Göttscheab or Gətscheab in the local Gottscheerish dialect;) is a city in the Municipality of Kočevje in southern Slovenia (...) | |
| 13 | Flak tower ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 36 Lat/Lng : 52.5099 / 13.3359 | Flak towers were eight complexes of large, above-ground, anti-aircraft gun blockhouse towers constructed by Nazi Germany in the cities of Berlin (3), Hamburg (2), and Vienna (3) from 1940 onwards. Other cities that used flak towers included Stuttgart and Frankfurt (...) | |
| 14 | Vlasatice ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 184 Lat/Lng : 48.9306 / 16.4881 | Vlasatice , is a village and municipality (obec) in the Brno-Country District of the South Moravian Region of the Czech Republic. The municipality covers an area of , and had a population of 807 as of July 2006. Vlasatice lies approximately south of Brno and south-east of Prague. (...) | |
| 15 | Austria-Hungary ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 214 Lat/Lng : 48.2 / 16.35 | Austria-Hungary, often referred to as the Austro-Hungarian Empire or the Dual Monarchy in English-language sources, was a constitutional union of the Austrian Empire (the Kingdoms and Lands Represented in the Imperial Council, or Cisleithania) and the Kingdom of Hungary (Lands of the Crown of Saint (...) | |
| 16 | New Town, Prague ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 221 Lat/Lng : 50.0767 / 14.4245 | The New Town is a quarter in the city of Prague in the Czech Republic. New Town is the youngest and largest of the five independent (from the Middle Ages until 1784) towns that today comprise the historic center of modern Prague (...) | |
| 17 | Langenstein-Zwieberge ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 158 Lat/Lng : 51.8444 / 11.0233 | The Langenstein-Zwieberge was a concentration camp, an under-camp of the Buchenwald concentration camp. More than 7000 prisoners from 23 countries were imprisoned there between April 1944 and April 1945. The camp was situated in the village of Langenstein, Saxony-Anhalt, that has since been absorbed (...) | |
| 18 | Tsardom of Russia ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 15 Lat/Lng : 59.9333 / 30.3333 | The Tsardom of Russia (Хорошкевич, А. Л. Символы русской государственности. -М. :Изд-во МГУ,1993. -96 с. :ил., фот. Костомаров Н. И. Русская история в жизнеописаниях ее главнейших деятелей. Olma Media Group, 2004 Russkoje tsarstvo later changed to ,Зимин А. А., Хорошкевич А. Л (...) | |
| 19 | Austria Classic Hotel Wien ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 169 Lat/Lng : 48.217 / 16.3895 | The Austria Classic Hotel Wien is a three-star hotel, located on Praterstraße in Vienna's second district, the Leopoldstadt. It is a member of the Austria Classic Hotels group and was named Hotel Nordbahn until a rebranding in January 2008. (...) | |
| 20 | Proclamation of the German Empire ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 138 Lat/Lng : 48.8053 / 2.135 | The proclamation of the German Empire also called the Deutsche Reichsgründung, took place in January 1871 after the joint victory of the German states in the Franco-Prussian War. As a result of the November Treaties of 1870s, the southern German states of Baden, Hesse-Darmstadt, with their (...) | |
| 21 | Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 28 Lat/Lng : 50.844 / 4.3477 | The Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts - École supérieure des Arts de la Ville de Bruxelles (ARBA-ESA), in Dutch Koninklijke Academie voor Schone Kunsten van Brussel, is the Belgian art school, established in Brussels in the Kingdom of Belgium. It was founded in 1711 (...) | |
| 22 | Ansbach Residence ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 407 Lat/Lng : 49.3031 / 10.5758 | Residenz Ansbach (Ansbach Residence), also known as Markgrafenschloß (Margrave's Palace), is a palace in Ansbach, Germany. It was the government seat of the Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach. Today it is the administrative seat of the government of Middle Franconia (...) | |
| 23 | Kefermarkt Altarpiece ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 545 Lat/Lng : 48.4442 / 14.5408 | The Kefermarkt Altarpiece is an altarpiece made between 1490 and 1497 by an unidentified artist sometimes referred to as the Master of the Kefermarkt Altarpiece. The altarpiece is considered one of the main works of late Gothic art in the German-speaking part of Europe (...) | |
| 24 | Reifenstein Castle ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 949 Lat/Lng : 46.878 / 11.4448 | Reifenstein Castle (German: Burg Reifenstein, Italian: Castel Tasso) is a castle in Freienfeld, near Sterzing, in South Tyrol (northern Italy). It is located near a dried marsh, in the valley of the Eisack. (...) | |
| 25 | Ferdinand Christian Gustav Arnold ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 526 Lat/Lng : 48.1288 / 11.5648 | Ferdinand Christian Gustav Arnold (24 February 1828 – 8 August 1901) was a German lichenologist and taxonomist born in Ansbach, Bavaria. Even as a high school student he showed an active interest in botany: "Ich und August Gattinger .. (...) | |
| 26 | Pyramid of Elephantine ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 99 Lat/Lng : 24.0856 / 32.8853 | The Pyramid of Elephantine is part of a group of seven very similar small step pyramids, along with the pyramids at Edfu South, , Naqada, , , and . All of these were built far from the main centres of Egypt and are very poorly understood (...) | |
| 27 | Massacre in Ciepielów ![]() FeatureType : event Elevation : 137 Lat/Lng : 51.25 / 21.5833 | Massacre in Ciepielów on 8 September 1939 was one of the largest and best documented war crimes of the Wehrmacht during its Invasion of Poland. On September 8, 1939, after the Invasion of Poland, the village of Dąbrowa (near Ciepielów) was the site of a mass murder of approximately 300 Polish (...) | |
| 28 | History of the Jews in Cologne ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 100 Lat/Lng : 50.802 / 6.7674 | The history of the Jews in Cologne is documented from the year 321 AD, almost as long as the history of Cologne. Over its history, the Jewish community of Cologne has suffered persecutions, many expulsions, massacres and destruction (...) | |