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offenbach
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Offenbach may refer to:
Offenbach is a Kreis ( district) in the south of Hesse, Germany and is part of the Frankfurt/Rhine-Main Metropolitan Region. Neighbouring districts are Main-Kinzig, Aschaffenburg, Darmstadt-Dieburg, Groß-Gerau and the cities of Darmstadt, Frankfurt and Offenbach.
Offenbach is a Quebec blues rock band, initially active from 1969 to 1985. Following a successful reunion tour in 1996, the band released a new album in 2005.
Offenbach is one of the 299 single member constituencies used for the German parliament, the Bundestag. One of twenty two districts covering the state of Hesse, it is centred on the town of Offenbach am Main and also includes most of Offenbach county in the towns of Dietzenbach, Dreieich, Egelsbach, Heusenstamm, Langen, Mühlheim am Main, Neu-Isenburg and Obertshausen. The constituency elects one representative under the mixed member proportional representation (MMP) system. Under the current constituency numbering system, it is designated as constituency 185.
The constituency was created for the 1949 election, the first election in West Germany after World War II. Originally referred to by the Roman numeral XIX, it was renamed Offenbach am Main for the 1953 election, before assuming its current name for the 1965 election. Until the 1983 election, most contests in the district had been won by the Social Democratic Party of Germany. Since 1983, most elections have been won by the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who have held the district since 2005 election. The current representative is Peter Wichtel, who was first elected at the 2009 general election.
Usage examples of "offenbach".
He was leaving one pleasurable venue, a box at the Royal Festival Hall where he had been attending a charity recital of Offenbach arias, and was heading for another, the Palm Court at the Waldorf Hotel.
If you feel Offenbach, which is a separate city, is the environs of Frankfurt, he will approve the construction there.
The admittedly inferior musician is the one who, like Auber and Offenbach, not to mention our purveyors of drawing-room ballads, can produce an unlimited quantity of symmetrical tunes, but cannot weave themes symphonically.
Did they feign ignorance while slurping champagne, stuffing themselves with caviar and the finest food money could buy, ogling the spicy performers that there would be no Can-Can without music written by Offenbach, a Jew?
She danced through an eclectic melange of sound that comfortably encompassed Offenbach and Elton John.
He was, by a polite fiction, called the Duc de Morny, and he once collaborated with that Jew Offenbach in composing an operetta for a court ball, and making it very offensive.
Jacques Offenbach hastily left Paris for Italy, and thus earned himself a double damnation, for having cravenly deserted the city in these dire days, and for having been such a prominent fixture of it until now.
I prefer Wagner to squills, and compared to the delights of Mozart, Hayden and Offenbach those of paregoric are nit.
Several trips later, Pope brought him a bonanza from the next generationcompositions by Offenbach, Borodin, Bizet, Paganini, Liszt, and, above all, Berlioz and Wagner.
I found myself spewed out through the warm rain and into the dim, throbbing cave of a cab, together with Betsy and Hilda and Emily Ann Offenbach, a prim little girl with a bun of red hair and a husband and three children in Teaneck, New Jersey.