Kürten
Kürten
Location of Kürten within Rheinisch-Bergischer Kreis district
Coordinates	51°02′59″N 7°16′0″E / 51.04972°N 7.266667°E / 51.04972; 7.266667Coordinates: 51°02′59″N 7°16′0″E / 51.04972°N 7.266667°E / 51.04972; 7.266667
Administration
Country	Germany
State	North Rhine-Westphalia
Admin. region	Cologne
District	Rheinisch-Bergischer Kreis
Municipal subdivisions	69
Mayor	Ulrich Iwanow
Basic statistics
Area	67.5 km2 (26.1 sq mi)
Elevation	150 - 300 m
Population	19,639 (31 December 2010)[1]
- Density	291 /km2 (754 /sq mi)
Other information
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Licence plate	GL
Postal code	51515
Area codes	02268, 02207
Website	www.kuerten.de

Kürten is a village and a municipality in the Rheinisch-Bergischer Kreis, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

Geography[link]

Kürten is situated approximately 25 km east of Cologne.

Neighbouring places[link]

Nearby cities include Bergisch Gladbach, Overath, Wermelskirchen, and Wipperfürth. Neighboring municipalities are Lindlar and Odenthal.

Constituent Villages, Localities, and Communities[link]

The municipality includes 69 districts (Ortsteile):

Ahlendung - Bechen - Biesenbach - Biesfeld - Bilstein - Blissenbach - Bornen - Breibach - Broch - Broich - Broichhausen - Burgheim - Busch - Dahl - Delling - Dörnchen - Dorpe - Duhr - Dürscheid - Eichhof - Eisenkaul - Engeldorf - Enkeln - Forsten - Furth - Hachenberg - Hahn - Heidergansfeld - Hembach - Herrscherthal - Herweg - Höchsten - Hufe - Hungenbach - Hutsherweg - Jähhardt - Junkermühle - Kalsbach - Kochsfeld - Kohlgrube - Laudenberg - Miebach - Müllenberg - Nassenstein - Nelsbach - Oberbersten - Oberbörsch - Oberkollenbach - Oeldorf - Offermannsberg - Offermannsheide - Olpe - Olperhof - Petersberg - Richerzhagen - Schanze - Schnappe - Schwarzeln - Selbach - Spitze - Sülze - Sürth - Unterbersten-Unterbörsch - Unterossenbach - Viersbach - Waldmühle - Weiden - Weier - Wolfsorth.

Twin towns[link]

• Rodengo-Saiano, (Italy) since 1999

Population[link]

Kürten is one of the historically slow-growing localities in the Bergische Land. Only since the 1960s has the number of inhabitants risen significantly.

History[link]

Origin of the place name[link]

Up until 1930 the place name "Kürten" was written with a "C".

Already in the high Middle Ages—around 1300—the Liber Valoris (a listing of all churches as a basis for collecting the crusade tithe) registers the place "Curtine" as the location of a church. The church itself was devoted to John the Baptist. This name could suggest that the location of today's place of worship possibly already served as a baptismal site at the time of Christianization.

There are two interpretations for the origin of the name.

The conventional version holds that the name developed from medieval Latin curtis, meaning "courtyard", "socage farm", "princely court", or "place where court is held": In the terminology of the later Middle Ages, toward the 14th century, in Latin documents curtis designates the open space within an enclosed courtyard, where jurors met and the court of justice was held.

On the other hand, the resident local historian Theo Stockberg, after many years of comparative etymological research on names of the settlements and fields of the Bergisches Land, holds the view that Kürten is derived from "Op de Corte", which means more or less: "on the short (watercourse)". A wellspring does in fact exist in the original settlement area, from which today a reed-banked brook flows from the summit above the school complex into the river Sülz.

Archives of the municipality[link]

The Kürten municipality archives predominantly contain administrative documents, beginning at present after the Code Civil under Napoleonic rule of administrative structuring (starting in 1804). Inventory 1 covers the documents from 1804 to 1918, Inventory 2 refers to the collection from the end of the First to the end of the Second World War; from 1945 Inventory 3 begins. Owing to a lack of written evidence from the time before Napoleon, the archives can provide information about local historical affairs only over the past 200 years. In the year 2000 a sheaf of 160 much older official documents were deposited in the municipal archives: Nine original documents from the sixteenth century, on the one hand church documents from Olpe, and on the other hand feudal court records. These are original papers from the 16th to the 19th century, and in particular from the time around 1780. The oldest document in the collection, a court record, originated from as early as 1572.

Chronology[link]

1171 First documented mention of the municipal area of Olpe

1175 First documented mention of the municipal area of Bechen

1308 First documented mention of Kürten: "Curtine" is catalogued in the Liber Valoris as the location of a church.

1300 The Counts (later Dukes) of Berg introduce an Ämterverfassung (jurisdictional constitution), which remains valid for 500 years.

1555 Reference to the old seal of the Kürten Landgeding (regional court).

1699 Kürten is the location of a law court (cf. local-name interpretation of Curtis, cf. medieval record for Curtine). Reference to a manor house with a patronage of living and a legal jury, to which Biesfeld and Offermannsheide are also assigned.

1739 Records of the association of the parish of Kürten with the Steinbach authority.

1806 Elector Max Joseph von Kurpfalz-Bayern surrendered the Duchy of Berg to Napoleon. In 1808 a Grand Duchy under Joachim Murat was created and the administration was reformed (Mairies = mayoralties).

1815 Kürten and Olpe are attached to Prussia.

1929 The jurisdictions of Kürten (consisting of the municipalities of Kürten and Bechen) and Olpe (consisting of the municipalities Olpe and Wipperfeld) are combined.

1947 The municipality becomes part of the newly formed Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia. Refugees from former eastern German regions lead to a distinct increase in the population.

1965 World-famous classical music composer Karlheinz Stockhausen has a house built in Kürten, designed to his specifications by the architect Erich Schneider-Wessling. In 1998, Stockhausen founded the Stockhausen Courses, held annually in Kürten.

1975 In the course of the kommunalen Neugliederung (repartitioning of communities) the former municipality of Kürten and significant parts of the municipalities of Bechen and Olpe are merged into the new municipality of Kürten (Köln-Gesetz, § 11 Abs. 1). Into this new municipality, parts of the then city of Bensberg (amongst others, Dürscheid) and smaller areas of the (at that time partial) municipalities of Lindlar, Odenthal, and Wipperfeld are integrated. In the course of restructuring of the Kürten Authority, the greater part of Wipperfeld became part of the city of Wipperfürth.

2000 The reconstruction achievements in all regions of the Federal Republic of Germany in the second half of the 20th century open up also in Kürten, up to the 1990s, a comparatively undreamt-of infrastructural and economic upswing, accompanied with an increase in the population from scarcely 4,000 people in the post-war period to over 20,000 citizens in the year 2000. In a counter-action, since the turn of the century indications of a decrease in growth are becoming stronger, with the ever-shrinking means of household budgets.

2008 The "Karlheinz-Stockhausen-Platz" is dedicated in Kürten on 22 August, the 80th anniversary of the late composer's birth (Press release).

Coat of Arms[link]

The upper half of the coat of arms displays the Lion of Berg. The heron in the lower part of the escutcheon alludes to the abundance of fish in the numerous brooks in the area. The official blazon reads:

In geteiltem Schild oben in Silber ein zwiegeschwänzter, blau bewehrter und gekrönter roter Löwe, unten in Rot ein silberner Fischreiher, der einen silbernen Fisch im Schnabel trägt.

Or, in English blazon:

Party per fess Argent and Gules, in the chief a demi-lion rampant Gules with double tail, langued, membered and crowned Azure, in base a heron bearing in its bill a fish Argent.

The municipal coat of arms corresponds in all essentials to the original seal of the Law-courts of Cürten from 1598. In 1925 an act from 1742 was discovered in the Staatsarchiv in Düsseldorf, which bears the impression of this legal seal. The coat of arms was first bestowed on the municipality of Kürten by a decree of the Prussian State Ministry of 5 October 1926, and a second time on the Amt of Kürten, this time by a charter from the central government of the State of North Rhine–Westphalia dated 8 December 1949. The coat of arms remained valid up until the local reorganization on 1 January 1975: At this point in time the present submunicipalities of Bechen and Olpe were included in the armorial charter. In reaction to the altered local-political situation, Kürten received a newly redesigned municipal coat of arms, which was authorized in its present form by a charter from the district president in Cologne, dated 15 March 1982. Traditionally the Bergische Lion forms one part of the configuration of coats of arms belonging to the communities of the original County of Berg. For this reason the cities and municipalities of this region retain this charge as part of the armorial achievement, supplemented with independent local symbols in order to differentiate the coats of arms from each other.

Politics[link]

Since the general election in 2004, the Mayor has been Ulrich Iwanow (BFB), the CDU received 39.00 % (13 seats), the Bürger für Bürger (Citizens for Citizens) BFB 26.75 % (9 seats), the SPD 14.75 % (5 seats), the FDP 13.14 % (5 seats) and Alliance 90/Green Party 6.37 % ( 2 seats).

References[link]

This article incorporates information from the German Wikipedia.

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Kürten

• Official site (German)
• Kürten in the German version of the Open Directory

v t e Cities and municipalities in Rheinisch-Bergischer Kreis Bergisch Gladbach Burscheid Kürten Leichlingen Odenthal Overath Rösrath Wermelskirchen

This article is an orphan, as few or no other articles link to it. Please introduce links to this page from related articles; suggestions may be available. (November 2011)

Dieter Kürten, November 2008

Dieter Kürten (born 23 April 1935 in Duisburg) is a German sports journalist.

Life[link]

Kürten worked since 1963 for sport magazine das aktuelle sportstudio at German broadcaster ZDF. Kürten is married and has three children.^[1]

Awards[link]

• 1979 – Goldener Gong for Länderspiel: Bundesrepublik–Argentinien
• 1981 – Goldene Kamera in category sportjournalist

References[link]

1. ^ "Dieter Kürten ist 75 - und der Grandseigneur des Sports" by Andreas Böhme, Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung (22 April 2010) (German)

External links[link]

• "Mister Sportstudio wird 75" by Inga Radel, Westdeutsche Zeitung (21 April 2010) (German)

Jessica Kürten
Personal information
Full name	Jessica Kürten
Nationality	Ireland
Discipline	Show jumping
Born	(1969-11-24) 24 November 1969 (age 42) Cullybackey, Northern Ireland
Height	6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)
Medal record Competitor for  Ireland Equestrian European Championships Gold 2001 Arnhem Team jumping

Jessica Kürten (24 November 1969) is an Irish equestrian who competes in the sport of show jumping.

Born Jessica Chesney, Kürten won several national pony championships as a youth.

In 1994 Kürten married Eckard Kürten and moved to Hünxe in the German Rhineland. She has twice represented Ireland at the Olympic Games, 1996 Atlanta on Diamond's Exchange finishing 26th individually and team 8th and in 2004 Athens on Castle Forbes Maike finishing 18th individually.

Rolex World Ranking[link]

Kurten had been the highest ranked Irish rider (apart from October 2009 (Ranking no. 106), and January 2010 (Ranking no. 109), where Denis Lynch held the title) until July 2010 (Ranking no. 116) when Denis Lynch took over.

She reached her highest ever World Ranking in April 2008 (No. 88) where she was the 2nd highest ranked rider in the world.

As of the end of December 2011, she is ranked 108th in the Rolex World Rankings - Irelands no. 7.

Career[link]

In 2006 Kürten was a judge on the BBC's Only Fools on Horses event. In April 2007 she won the prestigious British Open Show Jumping Championships title at the NEC, Birmingham, UK. In 2007, Kürten's horse Castle Forbes Maike was found tested positive for etoricoxib, after a competition in La Baule in France. She has since challenged the result.^[1]

The contract between Jessica and Lady Georgina Forbes was terminated by the latter on the 31st of December 2010. Lady Forbes owned many of Kürten's most successful horses including Quibell, Castle Forbes Libertina, Castle Forbes Cosma, and Castle Forbes Myrtille Paulois. A spokesman for Jessica said: "There are financial commitments which need to be cleared up between the owner and Kurtens, as well as third parties. There are diverse details also for the German tax authorities which need to be sorted out due to the fact that Lady Georgina Forbes is Irish and lives in Switzerland." The spat was taken to another level, with a court rejecting an application for a temporary injunction to return the horses to Lady Forbes, so the horses remain in the Kürten's care in Germany while a solution to the matter is sought. At the beginning of March, Kürten stated that both parties "have different point of views how financial claims between themselves and in regard to third parties can be settled."^[2][3][4] The five horses were handed over on the 20th April in the presence of lawyers and veterinarians, and €300,000 was posted by Lady Georgina Forbes as a guarantee against future claims by the Kürtens.^[5]

2010[link]

In January 2010 she returned to Leipzig for the CSI5*-W Show. For the third year in a row - after Castle Forbes Libertina only just returning to competition - she won the World Cup Qualifier securing her place in the final in Geneva. Kürten had to reluctantly pull out of the FEI Rolex World Cup Final in Geneva after suffering a fall off a horse at home the weekend before. She was hospitalised on Friday the 9th and released over the weekend. This was a big blow as she was heading into the final as a leading contender as she was on top of the Leader Board.

Kuerten travelled to the CSI4* in Antwerp, Belgium in April. Here, she won the opening four star class - the BMW Masters with Fashion. She also 3rd in Saturdays 1m50 class with Castle Forbes Myrtille Paulois - just 0.25 seconds off the pace of European Champion Kevin Staut.

On the first weekend of May, she competed at the first leg of the Global Champions Tour in Valencia. Although Kuerten had no luck in the €285,000 Grand Prix on Saturday - she did capture the 1m50 class on the Sunday with Castle Forbes Cosma.

Kuerten then traveled to Hamburg for the second leg of the Global Champions Tour where she secured a decisive victory in the accumulator class. She won the class by nearly 14 seconds on Castle Forbes Myrtille Paulois.

Next was the third leg of the Global Champions Tour held in Turin, Italy. She secured 4th place in the Grand Prix with Castle Forbes Libertina bagging herself €25,000 and 33 Global Champions Tour points moving her up to 5th place on the tour rankings.

From the 10–12 July, Kuerten competed at the CSI5* Global Champions Tour of Cannes, France. She got off to a good start on the first day by winning the 1m50 jump-off class with Castle Forbes Libertina. The pair were over 1.5 seconds ahead of second place; Phillipe Rozier and Randgraaf. In the Grand Prix on Saturday, Kuerten and Castle Forbes Libertina finished third. The class was won by the Australian, Edwina Alexandra on Cevo Itot du Château with the only treble clear. The pair picked up €38,000 and gained 35 GCT points which left Kuerten in 3rd position after four legs of the Tour.

Kuerten continued to climb the Global Champions Tour leader board after a fantastic treble clear in the (Global Champions Tour) Grand Prix of Monte Carlo with Castle Forbes Libertina. The pair were pipped by the final rider (Bernardo Alves) by just 0.02 of a second. This second place finish left her in 2nd place overall on the 2010 GCT Rankings after 5 legs.

Her Global Champions Tour campaign continued to the CSI5* Estoril, Portugal. On Day 1 (Friday), Kuerten had 4 faults on Castle Forbes Libertina in the 1m50 opening class. She then jumped API Largo in the 1m45 jump-off class that evening, but had 1 time fault in the first round. On Saturday, Kuerten jumped a double clear on API Largo in the 1m45 two phase class to finish 6th and earn €1,200. In the GCT Grand Prix that evening, she had the last fence down in the first round on Lady Georgina Forbes' Castle Forbes Libertina - this left Kuerten in 4th position in the GCT Rankings after the 6th leg.

Next, she travelled as part of the Irish squad to the CSIO5* in Falsterbo, Sweden. In the 7yo class on Day 1, Kuerten and Baco had 4 faults to finish 7th. In the 5th leg of the Meydan FEI Nations Cup, which was won by the home team, Ireland finished 5th on 24 faults: Dermott Lennon (Hallmark Elite) 4/12, Jessica Kuerten (Castle Forbes Myrtille Paulois) (8)/(12), Shane Breen (Carmena Z) 4/4, Denis Lynch (Nabab's Son) 0/0.

The CSI5* of San Patrignano, Italy was Kuerten's next stop. Here, Paddington 82 picked up 2 placings, a 7th and 8th in 7 year old classes. Castle Forbes Myrtille Paulois finished 3rd in the 1m45 speed class on Saturday, and API Largo took 8th place in the Accumulator class on Sunday.

At the penultimate leg of the Global Champions Tour at the CSI5* Valkensward, the Netherlands, Kuerten and Castle Forbes Myrtille Paulois finished 10th in the GCT 'VDL Groep' Grand Prix, keeping 4th in the overall GCT rankings.

She did not travel to Rio de Janeiro for the final leg of the GCT, so she dropped to 5th in the overall GCT rankings and earned €60,000 of the €1,000,000 bonus.

Kuerten travelled to the CSI3* Humlikon, Switzerland next. Here, she and API Largo jumped a double clear in the Grand Prix but completed a steady jump-off round with 1 time fault to finish 7th and collect €1,250.

CSI 5*-W 'Kingsland' Oslo Horse Show, Finland: Kuerten steered Castle Forbes Cosma to 9th place in the Rolex FEI World Cup qualifier to collect €1,000, and earn 8 points towards qualifying.

CSI5*-W Helsinki International Horse Show, Finland: In the Grand Prix qualifier on Day 1, Kürten steered Castle Forbes Cosma to 7th place and earned €1,000. On Day 2, she partnered API Largo to 4th place in the Grand Prix and collected €6,000. In the 'Equita Masters' on Saturday night, Kürten steered Lector 35 to 7th place to earm €6,000.

CSI5*-W Verona, Italy: On Saturday, she and Castle Forbes Cosma finished in 4th place in a 1m40 class to earn €2,000. In the Grand Prix, Kürten steered API Largo to 8th place and €2,000. On Sunday, she and Lector finished 6th in the 1m40 two-phase class to earn €1,500.

CSI5*-W Gucci Masters, Paris, France: On the opening evening - in the Rolex Speed Challenge - Kürten and the VDL Stud's VDL Harley took 6th prize of €2,100. The pair took a further €4,500 by finishing 7th in the €100,000 'Gucci by Gucci' challenge on Saturday evening.

CSI5* La Coruna, Spain: In the 1m45 speed class on Friday evening, Kürten took 4th and 5th prize totaling €3,600 with VDL Harley and Castle Forbes Cosma respectively. In the feature class that evening, the 1m50 jump-off class, she saw a return to winning form when she and Castle Forbes Myrtille Paulois took the top prize of €24,000. Her luck continued into the Grand Prix on Saturday where she again partnered Castle Forbes Myrtille Paulois to take second prize of €26,000. That evening, she and Castle Forbes Cosma took 3rd prize of €3,000 in the 1m45 class.

CSI5*-W Mechelen, Belgium: In the 1m50 class on Tuesday, Kürten and Castle Forbes Myrtille Paulois took 7th prize of €1,250. She and Castle Forbes Cosma then secured top-prize of €2,200 in the Queen's Cup that evening. Again, riding Castle Forbes Myrtille Paulois, Kürten took the top prize of a Land Rover and €13,000 in the feature class - the Rolex FEI World Cup Qualifier. And to top off a great weekend, Castle Forbes Cosma finished second in the Last Chance jump-off class.

2011[link]

CSI5*-W Vigo, Spain: In a 1m50 speed class on day 1, Kürten and API Largo took 6th prize of €2,200. On Saturday, she and Lektor earned €2,100 by finishing 5th in another 1m50 speed class.

CSI5* Global Champions Tour Doha, Qatar: VDL Harley had 4 faults in the 1m50 jump-off on Friday to settle for 12th position and €1,500.

CSI3* San Giovani, Italy: Kürten and Lektor finished 3rd in a 1m50 class to earn €3,450.

CSIO5* St. Gallen, Switzerland: Kürten and Lektor took 5th prize of 22,000CHF (€18,000) in the Longines Grand Prix

CSI4* De Steeg, the Netherlands: VDL Harley won a 1m50 jump-off class worth €5,750 to the winner.

World Breeding Championships, Lanaken, Belgium: Jessica and Cor de la Rossa Z won the 7 year old final earning €5,000.

CSI4* La Coruna, Spain: Harley VDL and Kurten had a productive show by winning a 1m45 class, taking €7,350 in prize-money. They also took 3rd prize of €2,990, and 6th prize of €1,380 in two other 1m45 classes.

CSI2* Sainte Cecile, France: Harley VDL earned €4,370 by finishing second in the Grand Prix.

CSI3* San Giovanni, Italy: Kurten and Vincente finished 6th in the 1m50 Grand Prix.

CSI3* Kiel, Germany: Vincente took 3rd prize of €5,600 in the Grand Prix. The pair also took 5th place (worth €1,400) in the 1.50 Grand Prix qualifier on Saturday.

CSI5*-W Geneva, Switzerland: In the 1m55 Grand Prix on Friday night, API Largo finished 6th to earn 5,000CHF (€4,000).

CSI5* La Coruna, Spain: Vincente jumped 0/4 in the 1m55 Grand Prix to take 6th prize of €4,250.

CSI5*-W Mechelen, Begium: Kurten and API Largo earned 2nd prize of €5,000 in a 1m45 two-phase class behind fellow countryman, Denis Lynch.

2012[link]

CSI4* Amsterdam, the Netherlands: Kürten finally returned to the winners circle at Grand Prix level when Vincente took first prize (by just 0.03 second) of €24,750 in the Grand Prix.

CSI5*-W Zurich, Switzerland: Vincente had 4 faults in the 'Mercedes Benz' Rolex FEI World Cup and finished 12th to earn €1,660 (2,000CHF).

CSI2* Valencia, Spain: API Largo finished equal-third in a 1m45 two-phase to earn €2875.

CSI5* Paris, France: Kürten and API Largo joined Marcus Ehning and Copin van de Broy in the pairs competition where they finished 3rd earning €5,000. Vincente picked up a further €3,450 for 3rd place in a 1m45-1m50 competition.

CSI4* Antwerp, Belgium: API Largo finished equal-third to earn €1,775 in the six-bar.

CSI3* Ebreichsdorf, Austria: Voss jumped double-clear in the Grand Prix to take the top prize of a car.

CSI5* Madrid, Spain: Voss picked up €1,350 for 6th place in a 1m50.

Horses[link]

Diamond Exchange Gelding / Bay / 1983 / Diamond Serpent

Winner of the Grand Prix of Helsinki (1996) and Mechelen (1995). The pair were also members of two victorious Nations Cup teams in 1994 in La Baule and Modena. At the World Championships in 1994, he finished 10th individually, and the Olympic Game of 1996, the pair finished 27th individually.

Paavo N Gelding / Bay / 1986 / Polydor x Goldstern

Placed in Nations Cups and Grand Prix all over the world. At the European Championships in 1999, Paavo N took the 'Horse of the Show' award.

Bonita 38 Mare / Grey / 1989 / Bal Pare x Goldcup

Winner of International classes across the world, including the Aegon Masters Final in Monte Carlo, 2001.

Quibell Mare / Bay / 1994 / Quidam de Revel - owned by Lady Georgina Forbes

She won the $750,000 Dubai Grand Prix in 2006, along with the Grand Prix of Chernyakovsk, Russia. She also won the Gothenburg Graqnd Prix in 2008. In 2006, the pair won the opening round of the 2006 World Cup.

Castle Forbes Libertina Mare / Bay / 1996 / Libero H x Polydor - owned by Lady Georgina Forbes

Winner of nine 5* Grand Prix - 2007: Monaco, and the World Cup qualifier at London Olympia; 2008: Dublin, São Paulo, and the World Cup qualifier at Leipzig; 2009: The World Cup qualifiers at Zurich and Leipzig; 2010: the World Cup qualifiers at Gothenburg and Leipzig. The pair also took victory in the 2007 Rolex Top Ten Final in Geneva. At the 2006 World Cup final in Kuala Lumpur, they came within a single fault of first place to finish 2nd.

Castle Forbes Myrtille Paulois Mare / Bay / 2000 / Dolar Du Murier x Grand Verneur - owned by Lady Georgina Forbes

Winner of the Rolex FEI World Cup Qualifier at the 5* Mechelen, Belgium in 2010

Career statistics[link]

Warming up for the Dublin Horse Show Samsung Aga Khan Nations Cup 5* Superleague

Notable Results[link]

• 2012
  • 1st, Grand Prix, CSI4* Ebreichsdorf, Austria (Voss)
  • 1st, Grand Prix, CSI4* Amsterdam, the Netherlands (Vincente)
• 2011
  • 3rd, Grand Prix, CSI3* Kiel, Germany (Vincente)
• 2010
  • Rolex FEI World Cup Qualifier, CSI5*-W, Mechelen, Belgium (Castle Forbes Myrtille Paulois)
  • 2nd, Grand Prix, CSI5* La Coruna, Spain (Castle Forbes Myrtille Paulois)
  • 2nd, Grand Prix, CSI5* GCT Mote Carlo, Monaco (Castle Forbes Libertina)
  • 3rd, Grand Prix, CSI5* GCT Cannes, France (Castle Forbes Libertina)
  • Rolex FEI World Cup Qualifier, CSI5*-W Gothenburg, Sweden, (Castle Forbes Libertina)
  • 2nd, Rolex FEI World Cup Qualifier, CSI5*-W 's-Hertogenbosch, (Castle Forbes Libertina)
  • Rolex FEI World Cup Qualifier, CSI5*-W Leipzig, Germany, (Castle Forbes Libertina)
• 2009
  • 2nd, Rolex FEI World Cup Qualifier, CSI5*-W Mechelen, (Castle Forbes Libertina)
  • Grand Prix, CSI4* Moorsele, Belgium, (Castle Forbes Vivaldo vh Costersveld)
  • Grand Prix, CSIO4* Barcelona, Spain, (Castle Forbes Cosma)
  • 2nd, Grand Prix, CSI3* Humlikon, Switzerland, (Castle Forbes Cosma)
  • 2nd, Grand Prix, CSI3* Arezzo, Italy, (Quibell)
  • Rolex FEI World Cup Qualifier, CSI5*-W Zurich, Switzerland, (Castle Forbes Libertina)
  • Rolex FEI World Cup Qualifier, CSI5*-W Leipzig, Germany, (Castle Forbes Libertina)
• 2008
  • Grand Prix, CSI5* São Paulo, Brazil, (Castle Forbes Libertina)
  • Grand Prix, CSIO5* Dublin, Ireland, (Castle Forbes Libertina)
  • Grand Prix Pescanova, CSI4* Gijon, (Castle Forbes Libertina)
  • 2nd, Grand Prix Telefonica, CSI4* La Coruna, (Castle Forbes Libertina)
  • Equal 4th, Rolex FEI World Cup Final, Gothenburg, (Castle Forbes Libertina)
  • Rolex FEI World Cup Final, Gothenburg Trophy, Gothenburg, (Quibell) [1]
  • Rolex FEI World Cup Final, Competition II, Gothenburg, (Castle Forbes Libertina)
  • Rolex FEI World Cup Qualifer (Grand Prix of Leipzig), CSI5*-W Leipzig, Germany, (Castle Forbes Libertina)
• 2007
  • Rolex FEI World Cup Qualifer, CSI-W Olympia, London, (Castle Forbes Libertina)
  • NH Hoteles Trophy, CSI5* La Coruna, (Kalande des Grez)
  • Rolex Top Ten Final, CSI5* Geneva, (Castle Forbes Libertina)
  • Equal 2nd, Rolex Grand Prix, CSI5* Geneva, (Castle Forbes Libertina)
  • Prix Clarins, CSI5* Geneva, (Castle Forbes Vivaldo vh Costersveld)
  • Speed Class, CSI4*-W Verona, (Castle Forbes Libertina)
  • British Open Champion, CSI4* NEC, Birmingham (Galopin de Bioley)
  • Monaco Grand Prix, CSI5* Monaco, (Castle Forbes Libertina)
  • 2nd, Grand Prix de Cannes, CSI5* Cannes, (Castle Forbes Libertina)
  • Longines Grand Prix, CSIO5* La Baule (Castle Forbes Maike)
  • OBO Bettermann Prize, CSI3* Balve, Germany (Castle Forbes Libertina)
  • Preis der AachenMunchener, CSIO5* Aachen (Quibell)
  • Coruna City Council Grand Prix, CSI4* La Coruna, Spain (Quibell)
• 2006
  • Dubai Grand Prix (Quibell)
  • Dubai Masters (Castle Forbes Libertina)
  • Credit Suisse Grand Prix, Zürich (Quibell)
  • Mercedes Swiss Masters (winning a car), Zürich (Castle Forbes Libertina)
  • Chernyakhovsk Grand Prix, Russia (Quibell)
  • 2nd, Rolex World Cup Final, Kuala Lumpur, (Castle Forbes Libertina)
  • Worldcup pre-Qualifier Competition, Leipzig
  • Qualifier young horses, Leipzig
  • Final young horses, Leipzig
  • Qualifier Worldcup Competition Göteborg
  • Göteborg Trophy, Göteborg
  • Intern. jumping class CSI Cannes
• 2005
  • Estoril Grand Prix, Portugal (Castle Forbes Maike)
  • The knock out, Kiel (Laurus)
• 2004
  • Team Trophy, Leipzig (Lady Preishammer)
  • Berlin World Cup Qualifier
  • Nations Cup: Dublin (Quibell)
  • 18th, Athens Olympics Individual Show Jumping
• 2003
  • Ladies German Masters, Stuttgart (Quibell)
  • Accumulator, National Show Nürnberg, Germany
  • Queens Cup, Mechelen (Paavo N)
• 2002
  • Indoor-Derby, Vienna (Lady Preishammer)
• 2001
  • Team Gold medal European Championships, Arnheim, Netherlands (Bonita 38)
  • Aegon MoneyMaxx Masters Final, (winning a car), Monte Carlo (Bonita 38)
  • Nations Cups: Calgary and Lummen (Bonita 38)
• 2000
  • Nations Cups: Calgary and Rotterdam, Dublin, San Marino & Modena - helping to win a record-breaking tenth Nations Cup, thus clinching Ireland’s place as outright winner of the Samsung Nations Cup Series 1999/2000 (all Paavo N)
• 1999
  • Queen Elizabeth II Cup, Hickstead (Paavo N)
• 1996
  • Helsinki Grand Prix (Diamond Exchange)
• 1995
  • Mechelen Grand Prix (Diamond Exchange)
• 1994
  • World Championships, WEG The Hague, 10th individually (Diamond Exchange)
  • Nations Cups: La Baule and Modena (Diamond Exchange)
• 1992
  • Millstreet World Cup Qualifer (Diamond Exchange)

References[link]

• Results - Horse Sport Ireland
• - Horses in the South

External links[link]

• Official website
• www.britishopenshowjumping.com
• Show jumper profile: Jessica Kürten

Peter Kürten
Mugshot of Peter Kürten taken in 1930 or 1931
Background information
Birth name	Peter Kürten
Also known as	The Vampire of Düsseldorf
Born	(1883-05-26)May 26, 1883 Mülheim am Rhein
Died	July 2, 1931(1931-07-02) (aged 48) Cologne, Germany
Cause of death	Decapitation by guillotine
Conviction	Arson, attempted murder, burglary, theft, murder
Penalty	Death
Killings
Number of victims	Murders: 9 (possibly over 60) Attempted: 7 Sexual assaults: unknown
Country	Germany
State(s)	Prussia Rhine Province
Motive	sexual pleasure/to "strike back at oppressive society"
Date apprehended	May 24, 1930

Peter Kürten (26 May 1883–2 July 1931) was a German serial killer dubbed The Vampire of Düsseldorf by the contemporary media. He committed a series of sex crimes, assaults and murders against adults and children, most notoriously from February to November 1929 in Düsseldorf.

Early life[link]

Kürten was born into a poverty-stricken, abusive family in Mülheim am Rhein, the third of 13 children. As a child, he witnessed his alcoholic father repeatedly sexually assault his mother and his sisters. He followed in his father's footsteps, and was soon sexually abusing his sisters. He engaged in petty criminality from a young age, and was a frequent runaway. He later claimed to have committed his first murders at the age of nine, drowning two young friends while swimming. He moved with his family to Düsseldorf in 1894 and received a number of short prison sentences for various crimes, including theft and arson. As a youth he was employed by the local dogcatcher, a job which allowed him to indulge in animal cruelty.^[1]

Kürten progressed from torturing animals to attacks on people. He committed his first provable murder in 1913, strangling a 10-year-old girl, Christine Klein, during the course of a burglary. His crimes were then halted by World War I and an eight-year prison sentence. In 1921 he left prison and moved to Altenburg, where he married. In 1925 he returned to Düsseldorf, where he began the series of crimes that would culminate in his capture, death sentence and execution.

Murders[link]

On 8 February 1929 he assaulted a woman and molested and murdered an eight-year-old girl. On 13 February he murdered a middle-aged mechanic, stabbing him 20 times. Kürten did not attack again until August, stabbing three people in separate attacks on the 21st; murdering two sisters, aged five and 14, on the 23rd; and stabbing another woman on the 24th.^[2] In September he committed a single rape and murder, brutally beating a servant girl with a hammer in woods that lay just outside of Düsseldorf. In October he attacked two women with a hammer. On 7 November he killed a five-year-old girl by strangling and stabbing her 36 times with scissors, and then sent a map to a local newspaper disclosing the location of her grave. The variety of victims and murder methods gave police the impression that more than one killer was at large: the public turned in over 900,000 different names to the police as potential suspects.

The November murder was Kürten's last, although he engaged in a spate of non-fatal hammer attacks from February to March 1930. In May he accosted a young woman named Maria Budlick; he initially took her to his home, and then to the Grafenberger Woods, where he raped but did not kill her. Budlick led the police to Kürten's home. He avoided the police, but confessed to his wife and told her to inform the police. On 24 May he was located and arrested.

Trial and execution[link]

Kürten confessed to 79 offenses, and was charged with nine murders and seven attempted murders. He went on trial in April 1931. He initially pleaded not guilty, but after some weeks changed his plea. He was found guilty and sentenced to death.

As Kürten was awaiting execution, he was interviewed by Dr. Karl Berg, whose interviews and accompanying analysis of Kürten formed the basis of his book, The Sadist. Kürten stated to Berg that his primary motive was one of sexual pleasure. The number of stab wounds varied because it sometimes took longer to achieve orgasm; the sight of blood was integral to his sexual stimulation.

Kürten was executed on 2 July 1931 by guillotine in Cologne.^[3]

Analysis[link]

Kürten said to the legal examiners that his primary motive was to "strike back at oppressive society". He did not deny that he had sexually molested his victims, but he always claimed during his trial that this was not his primary motive.

In 1931 scientists attempted to examine irregularities in Kürten's brain in an attempt to explain his personality and behavior. His head was dissected and mummified and is currently on display at the Ripley's Believe It or Not! museum in Wisconsin Dells.^[4]

Cultural references[link]

Fritz Lang's 1931 film M, in which a serial child killer terrorizes a big city, is often said to have been based upon Kürten, but Lang denied that Kürten was an influence. Because of the similarities between Kürten and the film's villain, Hans Beckert, the film was known as The Vampire of Duesseldorf in some countries. While the location is never mentioned in the film, the dialect used by the characters and the several maps used throughout the film bearing the city's trademark bear symbol heavily suggest that the action takes place in Berlin.

The first biopic about Kürten was Robert Hossein's The Secret Killer (Le Vampire de Düsseldorf, 1965).^[5] Kürten was subsequently played by Nigel Green in the LWT play Peter and Maria, written by Clive Exton and broadcast on 9 October 1970.

Playwright Anthony Neilson's 1991 work Normal: The Düsseldorf Ripper is a fictional account of Kürten's life, is told from the point of view of his defense lawyer. It was adapted for the screen as Angels Gone, and also released under the title Normal.

Kim Newman included Kurten as a minor character in his 1995 novel The Bloody Red Baron ^[6], serving as a "batman" (military servant) to Manfred von Richthofen, the "Red Baron".

The power electronics band Whitehouse has an album called Dedicated to Peter Kürten.

Further reading[link]

• The Monster of Dusseldorf: The Life and Trial of Peter Kürten by Margaret Seaton Wagner, 1932.
• The Sadist by Karl Berg, 1945.
• Peter Kurten: A Study In Sadism by George Godwin 1938.

References[link]

1. ^ "Peter Kürten: The Vampire of Dusseldorf — The Making of a Killer — Crime Library on". Trutv.com. http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/serial_killers/history/kurten/killer_4.html. Retrieved 2012-03-28. 
2. ^ "Peter Kürten: The Vampire of Düsseldorf" Gilbert, Alexander. Crime Library. Retrieved on 2007-10-03
3. ^ About the decapitation by executioner Carl Gröpler read in detail: Blazek, Matthias, Scharfrichter in Preußen und im Deutschen Reich 1866-1945, Stuttgart 2010, p. 74 f.
4. ^ Raphael, Lutz; Tenorth, Heinz-Elmar, Ideen als gesellschaftliche Gestaltungskraft im Europa der Neuzeit – Beiträge für eine erneuerte Geistesgeschichte, Ed. 20, Berlin 2006, p. 432.
5. ^ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058922/.
6. ^ Kim Newman (1995). Anno Dracula. The Bloody Red Baron. London: Titan Books. p. 203. ISBN 978-085-768-0846. 

• Lane, Brian and Gregg, Wilfred (1992). The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers. Berkley Books.
• Fuchs, Christian [1996] (2002). Bad Blood. Creation Books.
• Cummins, Joseph S. (2001). "Cannibals: Shocking True Tales of the Last Taboo on Land and at Sea." Lyons Press.

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Olympic medal record
Men's Field Hockey
Competitor for  West Germany
Gold	1972 Munich	Team competition

Carsten Keller (born on September 8, 1939) is a former field hockey player from West-Germany, who won a gold medal for his native country at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich.^[1] He played 133 international matches for Germany, and retired after the Munich Games. Keller then became a hockey coach.

Three of his children also played hockey at the highest level, and all were strikers. Andreas became Olympic champion in 1992 (Barcelona), after securing silver at the two previous Olympics in Los Angeles (1984) and Seoul (1988). Natascha competed in four Olympics, and also won a gold medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. Florian won a gold medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.

Carsten Keller's father Erwin grabbed a silver medal in the same sport at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin. The Keller family therefore is one of the most famous hockey families in Germany.^{[citation needed]}

References[link]

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