Idar-Oberstein is a town in the Birkenfeld district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
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18 Facts About Idar-Oberstein
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Today's town of Idar-Oberstein is the product of two rounds of administrative reform, one in 1933 and the other in 1969, which saw many municipalities amalgamated into one.
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Idar-Oberstein is known as a gemstone town, and as a garrison town.
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On 1 April 1960, the town of Idar-Oberstein was declared a Große kreisangehorige Stadt by the state government, after the town itself had applied for the status.
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One of the reasons for this was a tendency that had been noted for people from Idar-Oberstein to move out of town to the surrounding municipalities, which were opening up extensive new building areas – among others Gottschied, Rotsweiler-Nockenthal and Kirschweiler – whereas within the town itself, given the problematic lie of the land, there were hardly any.
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Since Idar-Oberstein had not only a good general infrastructure but, after the Steinbach Reservoir was brought into service, a more than adequate water supply, the option of amalgamating themselves with the town became attractive to many further municipalities.
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Idar-Oberstein has its connections with the notorious outlaw Johannes Buckler, commonly known as Schinderhannes.
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Idar-Oberstein's parents lived in Idar around 1790, and Oberstein was the scene of one of his earliest misdeeds in 1796.
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Idar-Oberstein had stolen it from an innkeeper named Koch from Veitsrodt who had meant to use it to buy brandy.
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Idar-Oberstein spent her childhood with her father and elder sister Margarethe as a “bench singer” and a fiddler at markets and church fetes.
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In 1827, emigrants from Idar-Oberstein discovered the world's most important agate deposit in Brazil's state of Rio Grande do Sul.
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Jasper is featured there, for Idar-Oberstein is an important centre for that semiprecious stone.
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Idar-Oberstein has an indoor swimming pool and, since September 2005 an outdoor swimming pool fed by natural water.
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Idar-Oberstein became well known for its invention of the mobile field kitchen in 1892.
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For businesses in Idar-Oberstein and environs, the Bundeswehr is a major economic factor as both an employer and a client.
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Local transport in Idar-Oberstein was run from 1900 to 1956 by trams, and from 1932 to 1969 by trolleybuses.
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Furthermore, Idar-Oberstein is the starting point for Regio bus routes to Baumholder and Birkenfeld.
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Idar-Oberstein is home to every kind of educational institution, and since 1986, it has been a Hochschule location.
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