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RapidShare was founded by Christian Schmid in Mulheim, Germany, initially as ezShare later Rapid Share, a file hosting service for his RapidForum web forum hosting services. [2] In 2004, he started the company RapidShare AG, which went online in August 2004 [ 3 ] then moved its premises to Baar, Switzerland in 2006. [ 4 ]
Rapid transit in Germany consists of four U-Bahn systems and 14 S-Bahn systems. The U-Bahn, commonly understood to stand for Untergrundbahn ('underground railway'), are conventional rapid transit systems that run mostly underground, while the S-Bahn or Stadtschnellbahn ('city rapid railway') are commuter rail services, that may run underground in the city center and have metro-like ...
Numbers of cities and towns in the German states: Bavaria: 317 cities and towns. Baden-Württemberg: 316 cities and towns. North Rhine-Westphalia: 272 cities and towns. Hesse: 191 cities and towns. Saxony: 169 cities and towns. Lower Saxony: 159 cities and towns.
The following table lists the 80 cities in Germany with a population of at least 100,000 each on 31 December 2021, as estimated by the Federal Statistical Office of Germany. [ 2] A city is displayed in bold if it is a state or federal capital, and in italics if it is the most populous city in the state. The table below contains the following ...
The Sportklub Rapid ( German pronunciation: [ʁaˈpiːd] ), commonly known as Rapid Wien or Rapid Vienna in English, is an Austrian professional football club playing in the country's capital city of Vienna. Rapid has won the most Austrian championship titles (32), including the first title in the season 1911–12, as well as a German ...
The InterCityExpress (ICE) network map in Germany (maximum speed limit): New lines, 300 km/h (186 mph) New and upgraded lines, 250–280 km/h (155–174 mph) Upgraded lines, 200–230 km/h (124–143 mph) Conventional lines (selected), 160 km/h (100 mph) Construction of the first high-speed rail in Germany began shortly after that of the French ...
Transrapid ( German: [tʁansʁaˈpiːt] ⓘ) is a German-developed high-speed monorail train using magnetic levitation. Planning for the system started in the late 1960s, with a test facility in Emsland, Germany inaugurated in 1983. [ 1] In 1991, technical readiness for application was approved by the Deutsche Bundesbahn in cooperation with ...
Industrialization in Germany was the phase of the breakthrough of industrialization in Germany, beginning at the time from around 1815 to 1835. [ 1][ 2] This period was preceded by the periods of pre-industrialization and early industrialization. In general, the decades between the 1830s and 1873 are considered the phase of industrial take off.