Merseburg

Strictly speaking, only one of the three Schumann works Thomas Trotter plays here on the Ladegast organ of Merseburg Cathedral in Saxony Anhalt, the Six Fugues on BACH Op 60, was composed for organ.

Schumann: Organ works – review Andrew Clements 2010

Referring to the solar eclipse of 990 CE, Thietmar of Merseburg, a German bishop and chronicler, wrote: “I urge all Christians that they should truly believe that this does not happen on account of some incantations by wicked women, nor by eating, and it cannot be helped by any action in this world.”

In the Valley of the Shadow James L. Kugel 2011

Referring to the solar eclipse of 990 CE, Thietmar of Merseburg, a German bishop and chronicler, wrote: “I urge all Christians that they should truly believe that this does not happen on account of some incantations by wicked women, nor by eating, and it cannot be helped by any action in this world.”

In the Valley of the Shadow James L. Kugel 2011

Referring to the solar eclipse of 990 CE, Thietmar of Merseburg, a German bishop and chronicler, wrote: “I urge all Christians that they should truly believe that this does not happen on account of some incantations by wicked women, nor by eating, and it cannot be helped by any action in this world.”

In the Valley of the Shadow James L. Kugel 2011

Referring to the solar eclipse of 990 CE, Thietmar of Merseburg, a German bishop and chronicler, wrote: “I urge all Christians that they should truly believe that this does not happen on account of some incantations by wicked women, nor by eating, and it cannot be helped by any action in this world.”

In the Valley of the Shadow James L. Kugel 2011

Merseburg, or “Mercilessburg,” as some airmen began calling it, became the most forbidding destination in “the land of doom.”

Masters of the Air Donald L. Miller 2006

On the oil runs to Merseburg, the bombing seemed as random as the game of life and death in the exploding shrapnel.

Masters of the Air Donald L. Miller 2006

This was the unseen bonus of the oil campaign: whenever American bombers knocked out two hydrogenation plants—the immense Leuna works, near Merseburg, and a much smaller plant at Ludwigshafen—Germany instantly lost 63 percent of its synthetic nitrogen, 40 percent of its synthetic methanol, and 65 percent of its synthetic rubber.

Masters of the Air Donald L. Miller 2006

On the oil runs to Merseburg, the bombing seemed as random as the game of life and death in the exploding shrapnel.

Masters of the Air Donald L. Miller 2006

This was the unseen bonus of the oil campaign: whenever American bombers knocked out two hydrogenation plants—the immense Leuna works, near Merseburg, and a much smaller plant at Ludwigshafen—Germany instantly lost 63 percent of its synthetic nitrogen, 40 percent of its synthetic methanol, and 65 percent of its synthetic rubber.

Masters of the Air Donald L. Miller 2006