1. FC Herzogenaurach once: 1. FC Herzogenaurach The 1. FC Herzogenaurach is a German association football club from the city of Herzogenaurach, Bavaria. The history of the club is strongly intertwined with the Sports equipment manufacturer Puma, then just a local company and sponsor of the "FC" and its rivalry to ASV Herzogenaurach, which was sponsored by another local company, Adidas. Formed in 1916, the club did not begin to play competitive football till 1919 due to the difficult circumstances of the First World War. Between the two world wars, the club played on local Middle Franconian level, at times as high as
High-speed rail in Germany Maglev Train, a Transrapid technology based maglev built in collaboration with Siemens, Germany, has been operational since March 2004. Part of these routes are new constructions that run along or close to the existing, or previous, route: Completely new construction projects: High-speed rail in Germany Construction of the first high-speed rail in Germany began shortly after that of the French LGVs ("lignes à grande vitesse", high-speed lines). However, legal battles caused significant delays, so that the German Intercity-Express (ICE) trains were deployed ten years after the TGV network was established. The first regularly scheduled ICE trains ran on 2 June