He was also responsible for the fortifications of Regensburg.

Frankfurt regularly served as the site of the election from the fifteenth century on, but elections were also held at Cologne ( 1531 ), Regensburg ( 1575 and 1636 ), and Augsburg ( 1653 and 1690 ).

The place is unknown ; it could have had happened in any of the cities of the Empire ( possibly Regensburg ), but also in one of the Polish towns like Gniezno or Ostrów Lednicki.

The Staufens, in addition to claiming the private Salian lands which clearly fell to them, also claimed all of the crown lands gained under Henry IV and Henry V. Lothair's attempts to seize the crown lands following approval from a group of nobles meeting in Regensburg provoked Staufen reaction.

The University of Regensburg and mercantile trade also play major roles in Regensburg's economy.

Some high tech biotech companies were also founded in Regensburg and have their headquarters and laboratories in the city's " BioPark ".

* Stone Bridge of Regensburg Digital Media Archive ( creative commons-licensed photos, laser scans, panoramas ), mainly covering the medieval Stone Bridge but also including surrounding areas, with data from a Christofori und Partner / CyArk research partnership

While engaged in this struggle Henry was also occupied in suppressing a rising in Bavaria, led by Frederick, Count of Bogen, during which both duke and count sought to establish their own candidates in the Bishopric of Regensburg.

Regensburg, 1846 – 1848 ) and on Luther ( 1851, Eng, tr., 1853 ) he is very severe on the Protestant leaders, and he also accepts, in his earlier works, the Ultramontane view then current on the practical condition of the Church of England, a view he later changed.

The hopes of Fesch with respect to Regensburg were also damped by an arrangement of the year 1810 whereby Regensburg was absorbed in Bavaria.

The imperial city also housed three Imperial abbeys ( St. Emmeram's Abbey | St. Emmeram, Niedermünster, Regensburg | Niedermünster and Obermünster, Regensburg | Obermünster.

Pethahiah of Regensburg also refers to the latter, but under the name of " Daniel ben Solomon "; hence it must be assumed that Hasdai was also called " Solomon.

Until the 17th century, it was also in use in the Bishopric of Regensburg ( Ratisbon ).

The image appears in the Middle Ages, mostly in carvings on church or cathedral walls, often outside where it could be seen from the street ( for example at Wittenberg and Regensburg ), but also in other forms.

The saint also reformed the convents of Obermünster and Niedermünster at Regensburg, chiefly by giving them as an example the convent of St. Paul, Mittelmünster, at Regensburg, which he had founded in 983.

There are also Hofbräuhäuser in Regensburg, Kaiserslautern, and Berchtesgaden.

Bretislaus also succeeded in receiving a long-desired imperial investiture at the Diet of Regensburg on 19 April 1099.

Judah ben Samuel of Regensburg ( born 1140 in Speyer-Feb. 22, 1217 in Regensburg ), also called HeHasid or ' the Pious ' in Hebrew, was the initiator of the Chassidei Ashkenaz, a movement of Jewish mysticism in Germany considered different from kabbalistic mysticism because it emphasizes specific prayer and moral conduct.

Like Cardinal Contarini, beside whom he also appeared at the religious conference of Regensburg in 1541, he was charged with having conceded too much to the Protestants.

He was born and died at Regensburg ( Ratisbon ).

Last, Henry besieged his residence at Ratisbon ( Regensburg ) and forced Arnulf into submission.

He was employed in several important legations, as by Paul II at the Imperial diet at Regensburg / Ratisbon, and later by Sixtus IV to restore ecclesiastical authority in Umbria.

In January 1532, Cranmer was appointed the resident ambassador at the court of the Holy Roman Emperor, Charles V. As the emperor travelled throughout his realm, Cranmer had to follow him to his residence in Ratisbon ( Regensburg ).

Between April 19 and April 23, 1809, Regensburg was the scene of the Battle of Ratisbon between forces commanded by Baron de Coutaud ( the 65th Ligne ) and retreating Austrian forces.

* The Swedish Intelligencer ( 1632 – 33 ), including an account of the career of Gustavus Adolphus and of the Diet of Ratisbon ( Regensburg ), is attributed to Roe in the catalogue of the British Museum.

He was made King of Bohemia in 1646, King of Hungary in 1647 ( coronation took place on June 16 in Pressburg ) and was elected King of the Romans ( future ruler of the Holy Roman Empire ) on 31 May 1653, and crowned at Ratisbon ( Regensburg ) on 18 June of the same year.

Regensburg, or Ratisbonne ( Ratisbon ) as the French and English called it for centuries, was, apart from hosting the Imperial Diet ( Holy Roman Empire ) | Reichstag, a most peculiar city: an officially Lutheran city that nevertheless was the seat of the Catholic prince-bishopric of Regensburg, its prince-bishop and cathedral chapter.

** Der heilige Wolfgang, Bischof von Regensburg ; historische Festschrift zum neunhundertjährigen Gedächtnisse seines Todes, ed., in connection with numerous historical scholars, by MEHLER ( Ratisbon, 1894 ), among the chief collaborators on this work being BRAUNMULLER, RINGHOLZ ( of Einsiedeln ), and DANNERBAUER ; KOLBE, Die Verdienste des Bischofs Wolfgang v. R. um das Bildungswesen Suddeutschlands.

The Austrian plan called for the Bohemian corps, the I under Bellegarde, consisting of 38, 000 troops, and the II of 20, 000 troops under Kollowrat, to attack Regensburg ( Ratisbon ) from the Bohemian mountains by way of Cham, the Austrian center and reserve, comprising 66, 000 men of Hohenzollern's III, Rosenberg's IV, and Lichtenstein's I Reserve Corps, to advance on the same objective through Scharding, and the left wing, made up of the V of Archduke Louis, Hiller's VI, and Kienmayer's II Reserve Corps, a total of 61, 000 men, to move forward toward Landshut and guard the flank.

The next day, Hiller withdrew to Landshut, separating the left wing from the main army under Generalissimo Archduke Charles, Duke of Teschen near Regensburg ( Ratisbon ).

About 1195 the latter left his native place and settled in Regensburg ( Ratisbon ), on account of an " accident " – most probably persecution experienced by the Jews of Speyer generally.

Petachiah of Ratisbon, also known as Petachiah ben Yakov, Moses Petachiah, and Petachiah of Regensburg, was a Bohemian rabbi of the late twelfth and early thirteenth centuries CE.

Petachiah was born in Ratisbon ( German Regensburg ), Bavaria.

In an event organized by the Jazzclub Regensburg, Werner Steinmassl held a live musical reading of Josephine Mutzenbacher, accompanied by Andreas Rüsing, at the Leeren Beutel Concert Hall in Ratisbon, Bavaria, Germany called " Werner Steinmassl reads Josefine Mutzenbacher " on 3 September 2005.

Working for church music reform, in 1874 Haberl founded a famous school for church musicians at Regensburg ( Ratisbon ).

* Marianus Scotus died near 1088, Irish abbot of St Peter's at Ratisbon ( Regensburg )

One tradition relates the story of Jews from Ratisbon ( Regensburg ) coming into Hungary with merchandise from Russia, on a Friday ; the wheel of their wagon broke near Buda ( Ofen ) or Esztergom ( Gran ) and by the time they had repaired it and had entered the town, the Jews were just leaving the synagogue.

The Abensberg railway station is located on the Danube Valley Railway from Regensburg to Ingolstadt.

In 1260 Pope Alexander IV made him Bishop of Regensburg, an office from which he resigned after three years.

The remains of Altdorfer's surviving work comprises 55 panels, 120 drawings, 125 woodcuts, 78 engravings, 36 etchings, 24 paintings on parchment, and fragments from a mural for the bathhouse of the Kaiserhof in Regensburg.

Category: People from Regensburg

Category: People from Regensburg

His parents were Heinrich Telemann, deacon at the Catholic Church of the Holy Spirit ( Heilige-Geist-Kirche ) in Magdeburg, and Maria Haltmeier, daughter of a clergyman from Regensburg.

The Treaty of Lunéville ( 1801 ), which ceded territory on the Rhine's left bank to France, led to the abolition of the archbishoprics of Trier and Cologne, and the transfer of the remaining spiritual Elector from Mainz to Regensburg.

Examples of the latter include the Walhalla temple built by Leo von Klenze for Ludwig I of Bavaria between 1830 – 1847 near Regensburg, Germany, and the Tresco Abbey Gardens Valhalla museum built by August Smith around 1830 to house ship figureheads from shipwrecks that occurred at the Isles of Scilly, England, where the museum is located.

* Emperor Otto III makes a pilgrimage from Rome to Aachen and Gniezno ( Gnesen ), stopping at Regensburg, Meissen, Magdeburg, and Gniezno.

Category: People from Regensburg ( district )

As the Prussian and Russian troops entered Saxony in the spring, the King first moved to the south in order to avoid a direct encounter and pursued an alliance with Austria secretly from Regensburg.

Unlike most other major German cities, Regensburg suffered little damage from the Allied strategic bombing campaign, and the nearly intact medieval city centre is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Kohlenmarkt with Town Hall, site of the Perpetual Diet of Regensburg | Perpetual Diet from 1663 to 1806.

The city's colleges ( apart from the University of Regensburg ) include an episcopal clerical seminary, and a school of church music.

* Pope Benedict XVI, professor of theology at the University of Regensburg from 1969 to 1977, who retains the title, honorary professor ; he is not a former resident of the city of Regensburg, but his house, less than 1 kilometer from the city, lies in Pentling in the district of Regensburg.

34 he relates how he first became aware of Torricelli's mercury tube experiment from Valerianus Magnus at Regensburg in 1654.