10 Facts about Germany
Germany is outside the most populous European country of Russia, with a population of 82 million.
The area of Germany was over 50 more in the second Reich from 1871 to 1918 and included most of present-day Poland and parts of Lithuania.
Germans are the second biggest consumers of beer in the world after the Czechs, with an average of 107 liters per person per year in 2010 or 0 30 liters per day.
The German language was once the lingua franca of central, eastern and northern, and remains the language with the most native speakers in Europe.
15 million people in Germany are of non-German origin first and second generation, I E18 5 population Approximately half of them are foreign residents, not German citizens.
About a quarter of all US citizens claim at least partial German ancestry.
Germany has about 700 zoos, animal parks, aquariums, bird parks, game reserves and safari parks, including 414 registered zoos Zoologischer Garten Berlin over the United States is the largest zoo in the world, both in terms of number of species and animal population 1500 14 000.
In 2006, the youngest is billionaire Prince Albert II German von Thurn und Taxis, with a net worth estimated worldwide at about 1 $ 9 billion.
In 2012, German athletes won a total of 1662 Summer Olympic medals and winter combined 1896 to 2012, ith more than any other country in the world except the United States.
The Feengrotten Feengrotten in Saalfeld, Thuringia, are the most colorful caves in the world, according to the Guinness Book of Records.
There are about 2 5 million timbered houses in Germany, by far the highest number of any country in the world.
Classical music has been largely dominated by German composers language Some famous babies on the current territory of Germany include Bach HГ Nde, Beethoven, Schumann, Mendelssohn, Brahms, Wagner and R. Strauss
Some of the greatest philosophers were German Kant, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Heidegger the world.
Germans can be credited for the discovery of insulin, the invention of the clarinet, the pocket watch, the automatic calculator, bulb, partly television, paraffin, the essence of the petrol diesel engines, automobiles, and the engine, differential and other major appliances, motorcycle, jet engine, the LCD screen and the Walkman.
There are 1300 Beer breweries in Germany, making some 5,000 kinds of German beer people are the second largest world beer drinkers after the Czechs.
Germany is the first country to adopt DST DST k a summer time in 1916, in the midst of the First World War.
The Walhalla Temple Hall of Fame and honor of the German nation in Regensburg was built by Ludwig I of Bavaria in the early 19th century to commemorate important people and events in the ethnic German history, starting with the Battle of EC 9 the Teutoburg forest.
The Festival Theater Bayreuth Festspielhaus in Bayreuth was specifically designed and built to host performances of Richard Wagner's operas It opened in 1876 for the first cycle of four operas of Der Ring des Nibelungen.
In 1998, there were 5,752 museums in Germany almost as much as Italy and the United Kingdom combined.
Germany is one of the last Western European countries not to have banned smoking in workplaces and restaurants see map A political reasons is that the Nazis officially frowned on smoking, and lawmakers German post-war were afraid to imitate the Nazis regulations.
No less than forty-two winners of the Nobel prize studied or taught at the Georg-August University of Göttingen GГ Nobel Prize despite the famous people who are taught included Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777-1855, the number of old Brothers Grimm them Otto von Bismarck 1815 -1898 and JP Morgan US from 1837 to 1913.
Germans were the pioneers of the environmental movement and green politics The world of the first Green Party Die GrГјnen was founded in Germany 1979-1980 is one of the few countries with Belgium, where the Greens were part of a coalition government from 1998 to 2005, until now.
The long-term ecology was coined by the German biologist Ernst Haeckel in 1866.
Drachenfels Siebengebirge, North Rhine-Westphalia, became the first nature reserve in the world in 1836.
In 2005, Germany produced about 35 wind power in the world, there are over 20 000 turbines off the north coast of Germany, with the largest reach 200 meters in height.
The Germans are among the most avid recyclers According to a BBC survey, Germany has the third highest rate of recycling 48 of waste recycled, just overwhelmed by its Swiss and Austrian neighbors.
The oldest solar observatory currently known in Europe is the so-called circle Goseck Saxony-Anhalt It was built there around 7000 years.
Holy Roman Empire of the German nation was founded by Charlemagne in Aix-en 800 CE It lasted over a thousand years, until 1806, when Napoleon, he dissolved mostly because he saw himself as the heir of Charlemagne the new emperor of the West.
The brewery Weihenstephan in Freising, Bavaria, operates since its foundation in 1040, making it the oldest brewery in the world.
Hildegard of Bingen 1098-1179 is the first composer whose biography is known His works are considered the basis of what later became known as the opera more than 400 years later.
Germany has played a central role in the Reformation of Christianity 1400-1468 Johannes Gutenberg Bible printed first in the world in 1456 in Mainz The development of the press allowed ordinary people to own a copy of the holy book, previously reserved for the clergy and the nobility he didn t long before another German, Martin Luther 1483-1546, compared the actual content of the Bible to the teachings and practices of the Catholic Church, and found significant differences in 1517, Luther published his famous 95's thesis on the door of the Castle church in Wittenberg Saxony-Anhalt, where he emphasized the Bible as the only source of religious authority and the church as a priesthood of all believers the Protestant Reformation cause the Thirty years war 1618-1648 through the Holy Roman Empire, and resulted among others in the independence of Switzerland and the United-provinces of the Netherlands.
The Philipps University of Marburg UniversitГ t Marburg, Hesse, was founded in 1527 as the first Protestant university in the world.
The oldest world savings bank was established in Oldenburg Lower Saxony in 1786.
The world's first electric tram line was the Gross-Lichterfelde Tramway opened in the Berlin suburb of Lichterfelde in 1881. It was built by Siemens Halske, who would later become part of Siemens AG.
Germany had quite a few capitals in its turbulent history, particularly in the order of 794 Aachen, seat Regensburg Reichstag from 1663 to 1806, the site of Frankfurt am Main in the election and coronation German emperors between 1152 and 1792, seat of the Bundestag of the German Confederation from 1815 to 1871, Nuremberg seat of the Imperial Diet between 1356 and 1543, and the official residence of many kings of Germany, Berlin from 1871 to 1945, and 1990 to present, and Bonn from 1949 to 1990 - West Germany only.
Ulm Cathedral is the largest church in the world with 161 meters 53,530 feet high.
Cologne Cathedral is the world's tallest building until 1884 or 1880-1889 if you include the Washington Monument, which is an obelisk, not an appropriate building.
The Würzburg Residence has the largest outdoor ceiling of the world mВІ 677 or 7287 square feet, it is the work of Venetian artist Giovanni Battista Tiepolo 1696-1770.
The German Autobahn is the oldest motorway network in the first completed part of the world in 1932, as one of the densest 12,000 km for a country of 357,021 kmВІ It is also the only one in Europe to have no general speed limit.
Two largest cuckoo clocks are both located in Schonach, Baden-WГјrttemberg One cuckoos measures nearly five meters and weighs 150 kg world.
Over 300 bunkers and hundreds of kilometers of tunnels built during the Nazi era are still under the modern city of Berlin - though mostly unaccessible due to erosion and flooding in the groundwater.
Since 2003, Germany is the world's largest exporter of goods 1 with 016 trillion exported in 2005 10 1 of world exports come from Germany.
Germany's second largest producer of cars in the world after Japan and the vehicle in general after the United States.
The German company BASF Badische Anilin- und Soda-Fabrik is the second largest chemical company in the world, employs approximately 87,000 people in 160 subsidiaries and joint ventures in 41 countries.
Germany has been classified by the World Competitiveness Yearbook as No. 1 in patent and copyright protection.
After suffering one of the highest unemployment rates in Europe in 2006 12, Germany now has one of the lowest 5 April 2012.
In 2006, Germany posted the tax rate on the highest companies in Europe, almost 40.
The largest train station in Europe opened in Berlin in 2006.
The European Central Bank is located in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
Frankfurt International Airport claims the world record for most international destinations served Lufthansa, based in Frankfurt, is the largest airline in terms of international passengers in the world, and Europe more in terms of passengers -kilomètres traveled, freight tonne-kilometers flown and fleet size.
DELAG Deutsche Luftschiffahrts-Aktiengesellschaft, the translation of the German Airship Transport Corporation was the first airline in the world was founded November 16, 1909 in Frankfurt.
Despite the common clichГ the Germans are hard workers, statistics on the number of average annual hours worked per worker exposure that Germans work done in the least hours of all OECD countries, and it hasn t changed since statistics began in 2000 in 2014, each worked totaled 1371 hours per year, which is slightly more than 26 hours a week on average compared Italians worked 30 more and 50 more Greeks.
The largest department store in continental Europe is the KaDeWe Kaufhaus des Westens in Berlin, with over 60 000 square meters.
According to Wealthinsight World Millionaire City ranking in May 2013 the urban area of Frankfurt has more millionaires per capita than in other cities around the world surveyed Munich in second place.
Interesting facts about Germany Guide Germany, Germany, Holy Roman Empire.