A fifth of Germany’s Bavaria. Even otherwise, the state falls in the Federal Republic of quite a bit of weight. From the Alps to the “Newcomer”: facts and Fun for the state election in Bavaria.
Alps
Bavaria means mountains, but are meant only for the Alps? No, almost every part of the state has mountains, The Franconian Jura, the Fichtel mountains, the Rhön, the weather stone mountains. The highest mountain in Bavaria and Germany, but is in fact in the Alps, The Zugspitze. And it is not only in Germany – by its Western summit, the border runs to the neighbors of Austria.
Pretzel, Pretzel, pretzl
The intricate Pretzels is a part of Bavaria such as beer and Lederhosen – it’s nice to see at least the Bavarians. The Swabians in the neighboring state of Baden-Württemberg, claim to be the “Pretzel” as she is called, as the not less typical of the country. Who are the best makes, is debatable.
Christian Social Union
Founded in 1945 as the Christian-conservative people’s party is referred to the CSU as Bavaria’s political “sister” of the CDU. The reason is that The CSU only in Bavaria, elected the CDU in the Rest of Germany. Because the CSU is since almost 60 years in Power, has shaped its policies very the free state. In the current parliamentary election, the party is fearful, however, to the deselection.
Dassler, Adi and Rudi
If two people are fighting: The brothers Adolf and Rudolf Dassler of Herzogenaurach, near Nuremberg, were once a common sports Shoe manufacturers, until they divided, and two separate companies founded: Addidas, and Puma. Both of the world’s leading sporting goods manufacturer no longer have their headquarters in Bavaria, the successful founders have spoken up to her death.
Elisabeth I.
The Empress of Austria, also known by the nickname “Sissi”, was famous for her beauty, notorious for her eccentricity and Bavarian! As the daughter of Duke Max of Bavaria, she was married to her Habsburg Cousin Franz-Josef into the neighbouring Empire of Austria.
Fingerhakl’n
Real fights are fought in Bavaria, not on the road, but at the beer table: by the power in the ring finger of the duelists. The Dueling hooking her two fingers together, and try to draw literally on the table.
Curmudgeon
“Zefix, the sky is the Lord God”: The Bavarians can rant well. So good, especially zeternde Bavaria even has its own term: The curmudgeon. A curmudgeon pimped a lot, but really evil, he says it’s not. If the sound in the Bavarian policy is sometimes a little sharper than elsewhere, not The grumbling wonder: just.
Hoegner, Wilhelm
Hard to believe, but it is also time that a politician has not ruled the modern free state of Bavaria, the CSU member. Wilhelm Hoegner was not only the first Prime Minister, the SPD politician is also considered to be the father of the Bavarian Constitution and its so-called mushroom para graphs: The guarantees of the inhabitants of Bavaria, the free access to nature, also to fungi (bairisch: Mushroom).
Identity
Pretzel, Bratwurst, mountains: Bayern maintain their cultural identity and this is reflected also in the policy, Conservative parties such as the CSU were with their tradition-conscious policy for decades, with voters particularly successful.
Janker
Leather trousers and Dirndl, the traditional Costume for men and women in Bavaria, everyone knows. But how is it with the Janker? This traditional jacket is worn in Bavaria, to festive occasions, but it is not from Bavaria, but to the neighbouring country of Austria.
King Ludwig II.
Before Bavaria became a free state and the province of the Federal Republic of Germany, it was a Kingdom, under the reign of Ludwig II., The ruler was often referred to as the “fairytale king” because he spent his time rather with the construction of locks, as the Rule. In the case of foreign tourists, Neuschwanstein remains in the Allgäu region, one of the main attractions.
Laptop and leather trousers
Bavaria is Germany’s economically most successful state, it is a fifth of the German economy generated power. Numerous high-tech companies, especially in the Munich area, but also globally successful traditional company like Addidas or Fendt contributed to this success. This is the recipe for success of the traditional and the Modern call the of Bavaria “Laptop and lederhosen”.
Maximilianeum
The Bavarian state Parliament with seat in the city of Munich is called the Maximilianeum. 14. October choose Bayern to 18. The 180 members of this state Parliament. Was thinking the Maximilianeum from its Builder, king Maximilian II., however, as a place of residence for the academic Elite of the country. A similar study Foundation there is in the building today. Since 1980 women are allowed to be included as scholarship and in the Maximilianeum live and work.
Nuremberg Christmas Market
The Christmas market in the North Bavarian city of Nuremberg is one of the most popular tourist attractions of Bavaria and the Federal Republic of Germany. Opens the market each year, from the “Christkindla”, whose Position is in hot demand. In order to meet two years of this office, you should born in Nuremberg, at least 1.60 meters tall and vertigo, to a high gallery, from which visitors are welcome.
Oktoberfest
The Oktoberfest is the largest folk festival in the world and attracts millions of visitors each year from all over the world to celebrate on the Theresienwiese in Munich. Once as a wedding celebration for the Bavarian Royal house initiated, the device the Feast today, there is always the expensive and the mass consumption of alcohol in the criticism.
Pumuckl
Cup upset? Misplaced your key? Children who have grown up in the modern Bayern, know that This can only be the Goblin Pumuckl. The children’s book character is driving in a Munich carpentry mischief and annoys the master carpenter Eder. (See Curmudgeon)
Rate
Who wants to be elected in Bavaria, in the diet, it’s not so easy as in other States: Even if a candidate wins a mandate in a district, he can not move automatically to the Parliament. A mandate only, whose party also gained at least five percent of the second votes.
Bratwurst
Nuremberg, Coburg, würzburg: The Sausage of North Bavaria, what is the white sausage is the inhabitants in the South of the free state: the sanctuary. The Nürnberger Bratwürste are now protected under EU law. Where you tastes especially good? Of course, at the Christmas market.
Strauss, Franz-Josef
The Munich native is perhaps Bavaria’s most famous politicians of modern Germany. As a member of the Bundestag and Federal Minister, member of the European Parliament, and finally Prime Minister of the free state, he coined the Federal and state policies of the postwar years, not without Controversy. The first Secretary General of his party, the CSU was also until his death in 1988, the longest party leader of the Bavarian Conservatives.
Tourism
Bayern is the German länder, the most popular destination for foreign visitors. Tourism is one of the most important sectors of the economy of the free state, the Bavarian Ministry of economic Affairs, to be referred to, create a sense of the industry as “identity”.
Independence
Bavaria is a free state and proud of it. In fact, the term has in relation to the Status of the other 15 German Federal States are of no importance. There are still some peculiarities, such as the right to vote or in the party landscape. And there are also political movements, espousing the independence of the free state. The bottom line is that Bayern is a perfectly normal state.
Four Strains
Up to the second world war, it was understood among the four tribes of Bavaria, the four groups of the population that once lived in the Kingdom of Bavaria: The old Bavaria, Franconia, Swabia and the Palatinate. After the redivision of Germany in the Federal States, were lost in Bavaria, the Palatinate, as the root. Franz-Josef-Strauß-defined instead of a new, fourth master: the two million Displaced persons who arrived after the second world war to Bavaria.
Sausage-Equator
A Couple of white sausages, a pretzel, sweet mustard and a wheat beer: A typical Bavarian Breakfast? Not in the North of Bavaria. An invisible and never quite well-defined line separates those in the free state from each other, which is a white sausage keep for Breakfast for totally normal and those who can shake only the head – just like the Rest of Germany.
Xaver Fendt
Xaver is not the engine only typical Bavarian Name, but also a typical example of Laptop and leather pants: Invented by the once Bavarian tradition company for tractors and agricultural economy, is the “Fendt Xaver” an Agricultural robot for the automation of the field work. The Fendt brand is owned now by an American agricultural group, is named the company after his Bavarian founder: Xaver Fendt.
Ypsilon in “Bavaria”
The “Bavaria” were not always the Bavarians, but only from the 20. October 1825. In the time of king Ludwig I decreed that the “Baiern” known population should henceforth be with the letter y written.
Newcomer
The Newcomers to the German “”, which are those in the free state of Bavaria, born in Bavaria. Whether five years ago or fifty in Bavaria, arrived, a little bit of “Zuagroaster” remains one forever. But as the author (even once “zuagruast”) knows that You can feel at home. As long as one is not ordered at the bakery for a “Pretzel”.