Beautiful City of Erlangen in Europe

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Free video about XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX. This free video was created for you by http://epsos.de and can be used for free under the creative commons license with the attribution of epSos.de as the original author of this XXXXXXXXXX video. Thank you for supporting the creative commons movement !! Today the town is mainly by the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg and diverse works of the technology group Siemens coined. The unincorporated area Mark, the communities Möhrendorf, Bubenreuth, Marloffstein, Spardorf and Buckenhof and the woodland Buckenhofer Forst (all the Erlangen-Höchstadt belonging), the cities of Nuremberg and Fürth, the municipality Obermichelbach ( district Fürth ) as well as the city Herzogenaurach and the community Heßdorf (both Erlangen-Höchstadt). Erlangen is located in a transition zone from maritime to continental climate. The Erlangen's Old Town has been repeatedly destroyed, most recently at the great fire in 1706. Only parts of the city walls in the northern city wall street and the rear ground floor of the former bathhouse. The first six Huguenots arrived at Erlangen on 17 May 1686 about 1500 followed in several waves. In addition, also came a few hundred Waldensian, but could not keep up and in 1688 moved on again. Before it could be seen could be expected how many refugees decided the Margrave, south of the Old Town Erlangen since founding the town called Neustadt Erlangen as autonomous legal settlement. The rational motive to promote the economy of their own country, the hope was combined in typical of absolutism way to fame as a city founder. The post-war period led to a further expansion, not only the number of students, but also the chairs. Especially the cooperation with the newcomers to Erlangen Siemens AG announced the further expansion decisive impetus and led among other things to build the southern area for the technical and scientific faculties. In 1961 the Hindenburg University Nuremberg was integrated as the Economic and Social Sciences and the College of Education in 1972 as Faculty of Education. The name of the university was then in " University of Erlangen-Nuremberg changed ". The population of Erlangen initially belonged to the diocese Würzburg, from 1017 to the Diocese of Bamberg. 1528 of the mayor and council of the first Lutheran pastor committed and therefore the Reformation introduced so that Erlangen for many years remained a Protestant city. The Catholic church, which soon increase received by French emigrants who had fled from the revolutionary turmoil, but fell because of the ever-changing political situation in a financial crisis. The Archdiocese of Bamberg belonged since 1803 to the Electorate of Bavaria, Erlangen was until 1806 Prussian, after four years French. As employees abroad subjects received the Erlanger clergy of Bamberg no grade. Only with the inclusion of Erlangen in Bavaria, this problem has been solved. The city flag is white and red. The lion in the lower part of the emblem represents the Erlangen's historic quarter. It is the Luxembourg-Bohemian lion, which is detectable in the city seals since 1389. In the upper half are of Brandenburg and the Prussian eagle, symbolizing the Town of Erlangen. They decorated the New Town emblem since 1707. The letters E and S stand for Elisabeth Sophie, the wife of the Margrave Christian Ernst. Since 1977 the city of Erlangen used as a badge next to the coat of arms a 1976 designed by the Munich-based designer Walter Tafelmaier Signet with the lettering city Erlangen, which the mission statement with its design "Erlangen - open from tradition" graphically transposed. In 1860 Erlangen exported three times as much beer as Munich. The invention of the refrigerator at the beginning of the 1880s brought this soaring to an abrupt end. Today in Erlangen there are only two breweries. The establishment of the cotton mill AG in 1880 opened a new industry in Erlangen. Through several mergers was created in 1927 the cotton industry Erlangen-Bamberg (ERBA), which employed before the Second World War, more than 5,000 employees. Erlangen is one of the economically strongest cities in Germany. As a result of long-standing efforts to promote new, innovative technologies Erlangen was founded in 1998 as the first Bavarian metropolis entitled Economics friendly community honored by the Bavarian State Government. Since autumn 2007, the retail landscape of Erlanger city is through the covered shopping arcade Erlangen Arcaden marked on three floors with nearly one hundred retail outlets. In two citizens' initiative (2004 and 2005), the Erlanger population had expressed for the establishment of the passage in the grounds of the former main post office. Thank you for supporting the creative commons movement !!