A brief glimpse into the past

Rüsselsheim Razorbacks

The Rüsselsheim Razorbacks were an American football team from Rüsselsheim, Germany. The club's most successful era was from 1996 to 2003 when it played in the German Football League, the highest level of play in American football in Germany.

Rüsselsheimer Ruder-Klub 08

The Rüsselsheimer Ruder-Klub 08 , also known by its abbreviation RRK 08, is a sports club based in the German city of Rüsselsheim am Main. Originally a rowing club, the main sport has been hockey since the late 1960s.

Rüsselsheim am Main

Rüsselsheim am Main is the largest city in the Groß-Gerau district in the Rhein-Main region of Germany. It is one of seven special status cities in Hesse and is located on the Main, between Frankfurt and Mainz, only a few kilometres from its mouth in Mainz.

Rüsselsheim station

Rüsselsheim station is a transit station in the town of Rüsselsheim in the German state of Hesse on the Main Railway from Mainz to Frankfurt am Main. It is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 3 station.

Rüsselsheim train disaster

The Rüsselsheim train disaster occurred on February 2, 1990, on the Main Railway near the Rüsselsheim station in West Germany. With 17 persons killed and 145 injured the train collision is amongst the most serious in rapid transit.

Rüsselsheim massacre

The Rüsselsheim massacre was a war crime that involved the lynching and killing of six American airmen by townspeople of Rüsselsheim during World War II. The incident happened on August 26, 1944, two days after a Consolidated B-24 Liberator bomber of the United States Army Air Forces was shot down by heavy anti-aircraft fire over Hanover. Nine crew members of the aircraft parachuted to the ground, where they were captured and held by German Luftwaffe personnel.

Rüsselsheim Opelwerk station

Rüsselsheim Opelwerk station is a railway station in the Opelwerk district in the municipality of Rüsselsheim am Main, located in the Groß-Gerau district in Hesse, Germany.

Friedrichshafen Airport

Friedrichshafen Airport is a minor international airport 1.9 miles (3 km) north of Friedrichshafen, Germany, on the banks of Lake Constance (German: Bodensee). It is the third biggest airport in the German state of Baden-Württemberg after Stuttgart and Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden and served 559,985 passengers in 2015.

Friedrichshafen G.III

Friedrichshafen FF.33

Friedrichshafen FF.33 was a German single-engined reconnaissance three-bay wing structure biplane, using twin floats, designed by Flugzeugbau Friedrichshafen in 1914 for the Marine-Fliegerabteilung aviation forces of the Kaiserliche Marine.

Friedrichshafen FF.41

The Friedrichshafen FF.41a was a large, German-built, three-seat, twin-engine floatplane reconnaissance aircraft designed by Flugzeugbau Friedrichshafen in 1917. The aircraft was mainly used as a reconnaissance aircraft, but also as a bomber and as a mine-laying aircraft.

Friedrichshafen G.IV

Friedrichshafen FF.29

The Friedrichshafen FF.29 was a German lightweight two-seat floatplane of the 1910s produced by Flugzeugbau Friedrichshafen.