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28-660: Headquartered in Reutlingen , Baden-Württemberg , the company has additional production centres in Tübingen as well as international manufacturing sites in Hungary, Italy, Slovakia , China and Taiwan . There are additional sales and service branches in the United States, South Korea and India. Manz had developed a significant presence in the solar photovoltaic industry. Its activities in this sector focused on

56-528: A castle on top of the Achalm , one of the largest mountains in Reutlingen district (about 706 m). One of the towers of this castle was rebuilt in the 19th century and is open to visitors. The name Reutlingen was first mentioned in writing in the so-called Bempflingen Treaty (German: Bempflinger Vertrag ) which is dated approximately 1089–90. Reutlingen's earliest documented mention dates back to 1089 in

84-430: A module efficiency of 16 percent. The major business areas of Manz are the supply of systems for the production of flat panel displays and touch panels , a market it first entered in 1994, Printed Circuit Boards , electronic devices, such as smartphones, tablet computers and laptops as well as the supply of systems for the production of lithium-ion batteries on an industrial scale for e.g. e-mobility . The company

112-582: A supplier of integrated production lines, the company changed its name from Manz Automation AG to Manz AG in June 2011. The company listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange in 2006, moving to its Prime Standard market segment in 2008. The company was a constituent of the TecDAX index between September 2008 and March 2009, and again between September 2009 and March 2011. Manz AG shared back in

140-522: A tributary of the Neckar , flows through the city centre. Along with the old university town of Tübingen (about 15 km (9.3 mi) to the west), Reutlingen is the centre of the Neckar-Alb region. It is also part of the larger Stuttgart Metropolitan Region . The first settlements in the area are believed to date from the 4th or 5th century. Some time around 1030, Count Egino started to build

168-487: Is a city in Baden-Württemberg , Germany. It is the capital of the eponymous district of Reutlingen . As of June 2018, it has an estimated population of 116,456. Reutlingen has a university of applied sciences , which was founded in 1855, originally as a weavers' school. Today, Reutlingen is home to an established textile industry and also houses machinery, leather goods and steel manufacturing facilities. It has

196-563: Is an internationally friendly school with over 200 university cooperations worldwide. Classes are generally taught in German; however, in some Bachelor programs and in the Master's programs classes are taught in English. Reutlingen is twinned with: Unincorporated: Gutsbezirk Münsingen Swabian German Swabian ( German : Schwäbisch [ˈʃvɛːbɪʃ] ) is one of

224-491: Is still visible today. During World War II , the wings of the V-1 flying bomb were manufactured in Reutlingen, making the city the target of several allied bombing raids. The reconstruction of Reutlingen and its democratization is closely linked to the name Oskar Kalbfells, who was the first democratically elected mayor of the city to shape Reutlingen's political history until 1973 after World War II . In 1947 Reutlingen came to

252-502: The Danube Swabian population of Hungary , the former Yugoslavia and Romania are only nominally Swabian and can be traced back not only to Swabian but also to Franconian , Bavarian and Hessian dialects, with locally varying degrees of influence of the initial dialects. Swabian can be difficult to understand for speakers of Standard German due to its pronunciation and partly differing grammar and vocabulary. In 2009,

280-563: The Bempflingen Treaty, which was an inheritance agreement between Zwiefalten Monastery and the descendants of the Achalm Count. In 1180, Reutlingen was given market privileges by Frederick Barbarossa. The settlement of Reutlingen was likely concentrated around the present-day Katharinenstraße and Untere Wilhelmstraße due to strategic considerations. Around 1180, Reutlingen received market rights and, between 1220 and 1240 it

308-569: The TecDAX as of March 24, 2014. In May 2016 Shanghai Electric company took over 19.67% of Manz shares. In May 2022 Daimler Truck AG acquired a stake in Manz as part of a strategic partnership. On 1 January 2008, with the acquisition of the company Christian Majer in Tübingen, Germany (machines for packaging and film processing), the basis for entry into the lithium-ion battery market in 2009

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336-484: The acquisition of the mechanical engineering division of Kemet Electronics Italy (formerly Arcotronics) in 2014, Manz enlarged its technology portfolio in the battery division and founded Manz Italy . In 2015 Manz acquired KLEO, a specialist for laser direct imaging (LDI), from the ZEISS Group . Reutlingen Reutlingen ( German pronunciation: [ˈʁɔʏtlɪŋən] ; Swabian : Reitlenga )

364-800: The city; the League landed a crushing blow, conquering Württemberg and selling it to Charles V . In 1495 and 1516 the Jews were exiled from the city. As a result of such struggles, Reutlingen became an Imperial City of the Holy Roman Empire , free from allegiance to the Duke of Württemberg . In 1530, Reutlingen's city council signed the Augsburg Confession , and in 1580 and the Formula of Concord, key documents of Lutheranism . In 1803, in

392-438: The company on an unrestricted basis. In September 2012, Manz presented a CIGS solar module, which was produced on a mass production line and has a 14.6 percent efficiency on total module area and 15.9 percent on aperture area (one in the industry unequaled efficiency). In April 2015, Manz surpassed these numbers again and presented an impressive new efficiency world record for CIGS thin-film solar modules on mass production line with

420-574: The development and supply of integrated systems for the production of CIGS thin-film solar modules . In 2010 the company established a partnership with Würth Solar (part of the Würth industrial group) for the exclusive licensing of its CIGS solar cell production technology. After the acquisition of the CIGS modules innovation line of Würth Solar in January 2012, technology licenses were also transferred to

448-726: The dialect groups of Upper German , sometimes one of the dialect groups of Alemannic German (in the broad sense) , that belong to the High German dialect continuum. It is mainly spoken in Swabia , which is located in central and southeastern Baden-Württemberg (including its capital Stuttgart and the Swabian Jura region) and the southwest of Bavaria ( Bavarian Swabia ). Furthermore, Swabian German dialects are spoken by Caucasus Germans in Transcaucasia . The dialects of

476-436: The difference in the formation of the past participle of 'sein' (to be) into gwäa and gsei. The Gsei group is nearer to other Alemannic dialects , such as Swiss German . It can be divided into South-East Swabian , West Swabian and Central Swabian . The Danube Swabians from Hungary, Romania, and former Yugoslavia have been speaking several different Swabian dialects, called locally Schwowisch , some being similar to

504-743: The meaning of Muggeseggele in their Swabian dictionary in the Swabian-based TV series Ein Fall für B.A.R.Z. In many regions, the Swabian dialect is spoken with a unique intonation that is also present when native speakers speak in SHG. Similarly, there is only one alveolar fricative phoneme /s/ , which is shared with most other southern dialects. Most Swabian-speakers are unaware of the difference between /s/ and /z/ and do not attempt to make it when they speak Standard German. The voiced plosives,

532-511: The narrowest street in the world, Spreuerhofstraße (width 31 cm). Reutlingen is located about 35 km (22 mi) south of the State capital of Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart . It lies in the Southwest corner of Germany, right next to the Swabian Jura , and that is why it is often called The gateway to the Swabian Jura (German: Das Tor zur Schwäbischen Alb ). The Echaz river,

560-532: The newly founded state of Württemberg-Hohenzollern , which merged with the state of Baden-Württemberg in 1952. On 24 July 2016 a Syrian killed a pregnant woman in a machete attack . City buses are run by Reutlinger Stadtverkehr (RSV), while trains from Reutlingen Hauptbahnhof and Reutlingen West, -Sondelfingen and Reutlingen-Betzingen are run by Deutsche Bahn and Abellio Rail Baden-Württemberg . On Mutscheltag (the first Thursday after Epiphany ), townspeople gather in halls and homes to play games of dice,

588-931: The original Swabian dialect, but also the Bavarian dialect, mostly with Palatine and Hesse mixed dialects. In this regard, the Banat Swabians speak the Banat Swabian dialect . The Baden-Württemberg Chamber of Commerce launched an advertising campaign with the slogan "Wir können alles. Außer Hochdeutsch." which means "We can [do] everything. Except [speak] Standard German" to boost Swabian pride for their dialect and industrial achievements. However, it failed to impress Northern Germans and neighboring Baden. Dominik Kuhn ( Dodokay ) became famous in Germany with Swabian fandub videos, dubbing among others Barack Obama with German dialect vocals and revised text. In

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616-567: The post-alveolar fricative, and the frequent use of diminutives based on " l " suffixes gives the dialect a very "soft" or "mild" feel, often felt to be in sharp contrast to the harder varieties of German spoken in the North. Swabian is categorized as an Alemannic dialect, which in turn is one of the two types of Upper German dialects (the other being Bavarian ). The Swabian dialect is composed of numerous sub-dialects, each of which has its own variations. These sub-dialects can be categorized by

644-560: The wake of the French Revolutionary Wars , Reutlingen lost its independence in the German Mediatisation , being restored to Württemberg . The worst disaster in the history of Reutlingen happened in 1726, when a major fire swept through the city, destroying 80% of all residential houses and almost all public buildings, and making 1,200 families homeless. The impact of this fire, which lasted three days,

672-467: The winner of which earns parts or whole Mutschel loaves of bread. The Mutschelspiele (Mutschel games) consist of small games scored by tally marks, and are won both independently and by grand total at the end of the hour or night. This tradition is unique to the city of Reutlingen. Reutlingen University is a university of applied sciences, focusing on hands-on learning, which is apparent in their mandatory internship for all business majors. The university

700-544: The word Muggeseggele (a Swabian idiom ), meaning the scrotum of a housefly , was voted in a readers' survey by Stuttgarter Nachrichten , the largest newspaper in Stuttgart , as the most beautiful Swabian word , well ahead of any other term. The expression is used in an ironic way to describe a small unit of measure and is deemed appropriate to use in front of small children (compare Bubenspitzle ). German broadcaster SWR 's children's website, Kindernetz , explained

728-507: Was founded by Dieter Manz as the GmbH Manz Automatisierungstechnik in 1987. It initially focused on industrial automation and robotics , and today continues to supply automated systems as part of a broader range of products. In October 2001 Manz Automatisierungstechnik merged with ACS GmbH, another firm founded by Dieter Manz, forming Manz Automation AG. As Manz has grown from an automation specialist into

756-640: Was promoted to city status and city-walls and fortifications were built. Shortly thereafter, from 1247 to 1343, the city's landmark, the St. Mary's Church (German: Marienkirche ) was built. In 1377 Reutlingen was the scene of a victory by the Swabian League , formed in the previous year by 14 Swabian cities, led by Ulm , over the Count of Württemberg . In 1519, a later Swabian League came to Reutlingen's help when Ulrich, Duke of Württemberg attempted to seize

784-632: Was set. Also in 2008, Manz Slovakia was founded and Intech Machines (Taiwanese market leader for wet chemical processes in manufacturing displays) was absorbed. Manz also established a vacuum coating technology development centre ( Manz Coating GmbH in Karlstein, Germany) in 2010. In 2012 the establishment of Manz CIGS Technology GmbH in Schwäbisch Hall, Germany and the opening of a new manufacturing facility in Suzhou (China) took place. With

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