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    Mauer (German for "wall"; Central Bavarian: Maua) is a former village of Lower Austria that has been part of Vienna since 1938. Today's cadastral community...
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  • Look up Mauer or mauer in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Mauer is the German word for wall. It may also refer to: Mauer, Vienna, a former village of...
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    Vienna (German: Wien [viːn] ; Austro-Bavarian: Wean [veɐ̯n]) is the capital, most populous city, and one of nine federal states of Austria. It is Austria's...
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    John Banner (category Male actors from Vienna)
    Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine). He studied for a law degree at the University of Vienna, but decided instead to become an actor. In 1938, when he was performing...
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  • Othmar Zeidler (category Scientists from Vienna)
    at the University of Vienna, became a pharmacist in the Fünfhaus district of the capital. He died in Mauer near Vienna on 17 June 1911. Though many...
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  • Franz Holzweber (category People from Vienna)
    married and had a child. At the time of the July Putsch, he lived in Mauer, Vienna. Holzweber joined the Nazi Party (member number 300,248) on 8 October...
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  • Dominik Peterlini (category Musicians from Vienna)
    Boys' Choir at his country estate in Mauer, Vienna. From 1925 to 1932, Peterlini was a professor at the Vienna Music Academy, during which time he also...
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    Karl Silberbauer (category People from Vienna)
    Vienna police assigned him to a desk job in the "Identification Office" (Erkennungsamt). Silberbauer died in Vienna in 1972. He is interred in Mauer Friedensstrasse...
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    Berlin Wall (redirect from Berliner Mauer)
    The Berlin Wall (German: Berliner Mauer, pronounced [bɛʁˌliːnɐ ˈmaʊɐ] ) was a guarded concrete barrier that encircled West Berlin of the Federal Republic...
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    Liesing (category Districts of Vienna)
    Erlaa, Inzersdorf, Kalksburg, Liesing, Mauer, Rodaun, and Siebenhirten. Liesing lies in the southwest of Vienna and borders Lower Austria along with the...
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    Clemens Holzmeister (category Academic staff of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna)
    (now Christ the King Church) Neufünfhaus in Vienna (1933/34) Parish Church of St. Erhard, Mauer (Vienna) (1934–36) Christ Evangelical Church in Kitzbühel...
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  • Gisbert Johann Eduard Kapp (2 September 1852, in Mauer, Vienna – 10 August 1922, in Birmingham) was an Austrian-English electrical engineer. His parents...
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  • Walter Kohut (category Male actors from Vienna)
    Bridge Too Far. He died aged 52 and his gravesite is located in the Mauer cemetery in Vienna. During the filming of the film Panische Zeiten on 14 January 1980...
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    Wotruba Church (category Roman Catholic church buildings in the Vicariate of Vienna City)
    Wotrubakirche or Wotruba Church, is a Catholic church located in Liesing, Vienna. It was built between August 1974 and October 1976, based on a design by...
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    Feuerhalle Simmering (category Buildings and structures in Simmering (Vienna))
    buried in Friedhof Mauer, Vienna Ernst Kirchweger (1898–1965), victim of political violence – ashes now buried in Hietzing Cemetery, Vienna György Ligeti (1923–2006)...
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    Galerie nächst St. Stephan (category Art museums and galleries in Vienna)
    Galerie nächst St. Stephan is an art gallery in Vienna, Austria that was founded by Monseigneur Otto Mauer in 1954 on Grünangergasse next to the Stephansdom...
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    situated between Linz (60 km; 40 miles) and Vienna (120 km; 75 miles) on the highway and just over an hour from Vienna by highspeed-train, and lies on the river...
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    performed at the Vienna State Opera. He later sang in concert, oratorio and lieder. He retired from the stage in 1907, and died at Mauer, Vienna, in 1912, aged...
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  • Ferdinand Leopoldi (category Musicians from Vienna)
    Fritz Wiesenthal (died 31 December 1936 in a sanatorium located in Mauer, Vienna at age 53/56), Hermann und Ferdinand Leopoldi opened the cabaret "Leopoldi-Wiesenthal"...
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    Hanns Hörbiger (category Engineers from Vienna)
    November 1860, in Atzgersdorf – 11 October 1931, in Mauer) was an Austrian engineer from Vienna with roots in Tyrol. He took part in the construction...
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    Fritz Wotruba (category Sculptors from Vienna)
    his death, was the planning of the Church "of the Holy Trinity" in Mauer, Vienna, better known as Wotruba Church. He did not live to see the completion...
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  • Donau SV Gerasdorf Stammersdorf FC Hellas Kagran SC Mannswörth Sportunion Mauer Red Star Penzing SV Schwechat 1. Simmeringer SC SK Slovan-Hütteldorfer AC...
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    hat die Absicht, eine Mauer zu errichten!" ("No one has the intention to erect a wall"). It was the first time the term Mauer (wall) had been used in...
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    Archduchess Elisabeth Marie of Austria (category Burials in Vienna)
    with whom he had a son, was institutionalized at a psychiatric hospital in Mauer-Ohling, where she died on 9 June 1935. The lengthy legal process dragged...
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    Karl Mayreder (13 June 1856 in Mauer (today a suburb of Vienna) – 9 September 1935 in Vienna) was an Austrian architect. Karl Mayreder was born the son...
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    Leopold Querfeld (category Footballers from Vienna)
    Wien and the Austria national team. Querfeld is a youth product of Union Mauer, and moved to the academy of Rapid Wien in 2012. He began training with...
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    (Chinese: 杨俊) is a Chinese-Austrian contemporary artist who lives and works in Vienna, Taipei, and Yokohama. Jun Yang was born in 1975, in Qingtian, China. When...
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  • Renato Gligoroski (category Footballers from Vienna)
    L.A. Riverside, Brunn/Geb. SC, ASK Marienthal, SC Ritzing, and Union AC Mauer. After Gligoroski ended his playing career he took over the coaching position...
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  • Martin Schlaff (category Businesspeople from Vienna)
    net worth is estimated between €3.2 and €8 billion. Schlaff was born in Vienna, Austria, to Jewish refugees from World War II. His parents lived in a camp...
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  • von In der Maur auf Strelberg und zu Freifeld, also known as Wolf In der Mauer or Wolf Indermaur (March 2, 1924 – March 17, 2005), was an Austrian journalist...
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