For the tenth time now, the traditional club Rot-Weiss Essen won the Lower Rhine Cup on 22 August 2020. Following victories in 1993, 1995, 2002, 2004, 2008, 2011, 2012, 2015 and 2016, RWE is now the record cup winner. The cup final on August 22 against 1 FC Kleve was subject to special conditions due to the Corona pandemic. Only …
read more ...On Sunday the 09th of August the racecourse Hoppegarten in Brandenburg organized its fourth race day. There were eleven races, due to the current Corona restrictions, only 1,000 people. Among them 750 paying spectators as well as 250 owners, officials and employees. The list race Fürstenberg-Rennen (Gruppe III) over 2,400 metres was endowed with prize money of 27,500 euros. Winner …
read more ...On Sunday 19 July, the Hoppegarten racecourse in Brandenburg held its third race day. Eleven races took place. Only 1,000 people took part due to the Corona restrictions. According to the racetrack: 750 paying spectators and 250 owners, officials and employees. Highlight of the race day was the Hoppegartener Steherpreis. The list race over 2,800 meters was endowed with prize …
read more ...Marcel Kittel was a former German professional cyclist. At a young age he first focused on athletics, but then followed the call of cycling. The sport was not unknown in the family. Already his father Matthias Kittel was successful on the bike as vice GDR champion in the two-man team in 1983. At the age of 14 years Marcel Kittel …
read more ...“A world championship of superlatives with an outstanding Emma Hinze” was the title of our in-house cycling magazine turus.net. And yes: Many had already seen the nimble German track cyclist Emma Hinze from Track Team Brandenburg on their screens and she once again confirmed her skills on the track at the UCI Track World Championships 2020 in Berlin and impressed …
read more ...Peter Sagan is an extremely successful professional cyclist from Slovakia who has been active for the cycling teams Dukla Trenčín Merida (2009), Liquigas / Cannondale (2010-2014) and Tinkoff (2015-2016) and currently (since 2017) rides for the German team Bora-hansgrohe. Peter Sagan was the first cyclist to win the Road World Championship three times in a row: 2015 in Richmond, Virginia, …
read more ...A federal road (B1) many faces and above all many names. In the heart of Berlin, in the Berlin districts of Mitte and Friedrichshain, lies today’s Karl-Marx-Allee, named after the philosopher and social theorist Karl Marx. Built around 1700, it was given the name Große Frankfurter Straße before it was renamed Stalinallee together with Frankfurter Allee on December 21, 1949 …
read more ...A Lost Place worth seeing and much photographed directly in the Berlin area is the former lung sanatorium Grabowsee, located directly (as the name suggests) at the Grabowsee in the district of Oberhavel in the German state of Brandenburg. Founded in 1896 as a sanatorium for pulmonary tuberculosis by the German Red Cross as an experimental facility, it performed its …
read more ...Holidays in the GDR looked more diverse than one might think. Even if travelling to “western” countries was not possible, the German Democratic Republic and countries like Bulgaria or Hungary offered many recreational opportunities. Whether it was a holiday at the Baltic Sea, for example at the beach of Warnemünde, at the lakes of the Mecklenburg Lake District or around …
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