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Lol improve it by translating from latin ? Just translate the german site. What a horrible idear.


Some time ago I saw a volksmusik programme on one of the German television channels.

It was of people singing in various picturesque settings in Regensburg.

One female singer sang a song walking around the grounds of what may have been a Bishop's palace and there was a rather nice statue of a man (a medieval bishop?) feeding two geese.

Is anyone familiar with this please? Is there a story associated with the statue?

If so, it might make a good addition to the page and, if possible, may be worthy of an illustration.

Songwriter 15:33 6 Jul 2003 (UTC)

Hi!

I live in Regensburg, however I'm not familiar with such a statue. Are sure the film was taken on location in Regensburg?? (Michael.chlistalla 22:22, 4 Mar 2004 (UTC))

There is such a statue at Regensburg in the 'Bischofshof' (bishop's court) right behind the cathedral. The notable thing about the statue is that when looking at it from the one side, it pictures a bishop feeding geese, but when looking at the back of the statue, one can see that the bishop is really a fox in disguise that already has a dead goose in his jaws.

I do not know the official story behind it, but I was told that the statue expresses people's unhappiness with the exploitation of the common folk by the bishop.


Odd, why isn't the sugar factory mentioned in the "Economy" section? When I lived there (15 years ago) its smokestack dominated the region. http://www.suedzucker.de/unternehmen/standorte/regensburg/ NeilFraser 18:08, 15 March 2006 (UTC)


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[edit] Ratisbon

It seems a bit wrong to say that the English name was "formerly Ratisbon", - that was the French name, which the English borrowed. I'm not sure the best way to clarify. john k 22:14, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

Well, formerly English used the French name, now it uses the German name. Actually, there are rather a lot of German cities for which English formerly used the French name: Aix-la-Chapelle for Aachen, Mayence for Mainz, Trèves for Trier, etc. For Cologne we still do use the French name. Angr 12:08, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Pope Benedict XVI residency

It says that Pope Benedict XVI has never been a resident of Regensburg while he taught theology at the University of Regensburg from 1969 to 1977. It's totally non-sense because if he taught there for 8 years, it means he actually lived there. Therefore, I suggest that this part of the article be revised.136.183.231.42 01:10, 7 December 2006 (UTC)Shady19

He probably commuted. This site [1] claims he lived in Pentling, where he still owns a house. Chl 04:13, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

Yes, but Pentling is a suburb of Regensburg. The people there do have slight separatist tendencies, but the fact remains that it is built up all the way out. You can walk from Pentling to the university in 10 minutes. Locally, Pentling is now being referred to as Popeville! --Doric Loon 17:03, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

Pentling is in Regensburg Landkreis. However this article is about the city itself, and not the Landkreis which is here Regensburg (district) so I think it is correct to say here that he did not live in Regensburg. Thehalfone 16:23, 8 August 2007 (UTC)


I am from Pentling and yes, he lifed here and still owns a house here. Pentling is pretty close to Regensburg and the University. Still Pentling is a small village of its own with its own administration/major. The 10 minutes walk to the University is a huge exageration by the way. 84.57.120.254 (talk) —Preceding comment was added at 16:01, 30 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Schweinfurt-Regensburg mission

I need some help here regarding the Schweinfurt-Regensburg mission. The factory/factories must have been outside town, as the site for the raid sugests heavy damage, while the site for Regensburg, the town, says that it escaped the war more or less unscathed. I'm way out of my field here. Can someone give a location for the factories relative to the town center and elaborate on Regensburg during the war. Other than the link I just added, there is no mention.4.249.186.40 01:54, 25 September 2007 (UTC).

The Messerschmitt Factories were located about 5km west of the towncentre, often reffered to the big cathedral. They were surrounded by lots of houses and situated 1.5km to a big hospital (Barmherzige Brüder - "Mercyful Brothers"). So one can say, it is a full load of luck for the town itself, that it hasnt been damaged during the airraid. Thus, you can even today find some craters in the direction the raid has been done. For example, in the near woods of the suburb Prüfening, which are now often used for some mountainbiking fun.

Outside the town were numerous trenches and positions of the SS, mostly very young boys and very old men, standing their orders to defend the city. The US Army fired from the opposite side of the donau river, high in the hills of the "Vogelsang" (near the Village Sinzing) to the positions in the walls and hills in the outskirt "Prüfening" and "Pentling". My Grandmother told me, that she was taken by a teacher with all her schoolfellows outside the town to camp and sleep near a barn because they feared another airraid these days. A few hundred meters behind the barn she said, were trenches full with by artillery fire humilated corpses of german soldiers...The city was later overhanded without a single battle to the allied troops. That was mainly arranged by three citizens, one of them was a priest. Sadly, the allies still didnt have the city under full control so the 3 "traitors" where the very next day publicely executed at the "Dachau-Platz" by a few remaining fanatics. The Messerschmitt areal has been for about 50 years completely closed down for the public (a low wood has grown over it, which was fenced) and for rebuilding-actions because of the danger of unexploded bombs. In the last fiftteen years, the area has been cleared and is now covered with buildings like a bank, a school and several houses. If you look at the citymap, for example under http://stadtplan.regensburg.de/stadtplan.html, head to the west of the city. Between the railroad and the donau river is the "Siemens-Osram-Infineon"-Complex. This complex and the nearby "Lilienthalstrasse" and the "Prüfeningstrasse" merely sourround the Messerschmitt-Areal. The "Donaupark" is the area of the former Messerschmitt Airfield. At the local Work-Education-School ("Matthäus Runtinger Berufschule") is a small monument for the over 150 young pupils of that school, who have died in the bombingraid (together with lots of war prisoners). Today, still a lot of streets in Regensburg are named after flying aces of WorldWar1 or 2 or after aircraft-ingenieurs. For example: Udetstrasse, Lillienthalstrasse, Richthofenstrasse, Boelkestrasse, Immelmanstrasse, Heinkelstrasse, Charles Lindbergh Strasse or Messerschmittstrasse, to name a few.

[edit] Coat of arms

Why does Regensburg get twice as many keys as Bremen?

Sca (talk) 15:32, 20 May 2008 (UTC)