Talk:Göttingen

message: Göttingen was also the long-time home of the famous mathematician, Carl Friedrich Gauss.  I think that he, and also possibly Felix Klein should be mentioned on this page.
:I agree...someone should put that in.
The Georgia Augusta is also the university, that the German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder went to.
On my screen, the first time it appears, the word Goettingen is followed by a question mark.  I think this has to do with IE html compatibility.  Can some-one fix this?
:This has to do with it being part of an pronunciation file. If you click on Göttingen, you should be able to listen to German pronunciation.
Why isn't the professional soccer team  Goe 07 (http://www.svg-goettingen.de/) listed in the sports section, whereas a cricket team is listed.  What about basketball?
:Please, could you all sign (with --~~~~!)? I can't see who says what! However, what I have to say is:
:1.:Yes, Schröder studied in Göttingen. Put that in.
:2.:Yes, the scientists were here. Put that in.
:3.:I don't see a quanstion mark.
:--SymTec ltd. 19:29, 2 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Untitled 

message: according to the origins of gotingen...how can the first mention of the village be 953AD and the creation be from 1100 ???  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.33.138.137 (talk) 17:29, 10 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  what? 

message: How about having a section on G in pop culture/lit?  E.g., Barabar's song, some mysteries set in G, the board game set in the city.... Kdammers (talk) 02:49, 19 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  popular culture 

message: Why the * is the Low German pronunciation given here? You will never hear it in or around Göttingen, which is well south of the language border. I'm taking it out. —Wegesrand (talk) 12:01, 15 September 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Actually there are still native Low German speakers in the villages around Göttingen and the local paper (Göttinger Tageblatt) used to have a page in Low German up until at least the early '90s (possibly later, but I left in 94). 86.171.31.171 (talk) 19:37, 19 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Low German?! 

message: Who is Jana Gray?  All the references I found are to genealogy.  Respectfully,   Tiyang (talk) 09:30, 27 October 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Notable people born in Gottingen 

message: The top soccer team in the '90s and at least up to 2005 was Goettingen 07 (http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/SVG_G%C3%B6ttingen_07).  They were as high as the Oberliga Nord, but since I don't know the difference these days between amateur and professional, I haven't added them, but they should be included.
There is also the  RSV Göttingen 05, with a number of teams in various sports. Kdammers (talk) 11:49, 18 January 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: The top soccer team in 1970-2000 was consistently SC Göttingen 05. "Göttingen 07" (locally almost always referred to as "SVG") was always the second team in town - there may have been one or two seasons where SVG was above 05 in the league but that would have been exceptional (I was a youth player for one of the SVG reserve teams around that time). "05" used to be a top amateur team having a couple of close battles for  promotion to the professional leagues. Notably narrowly loosing a promotion playoff to Vfl Wolfsburg in the early 1990s. And again in the early 2000s to Holstein Kiel. "05" went bankrupt in 2003, went through some merges and name changes (the RSV 05 name comes from that area). SVG closely followed suit with financial problems. Both have struggled ever since. 86.146.30.208 (talk) 09:46, 31 March 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sports teams 

message: "St. Jacobi (St. James's, often mistakenly called St. Jacob's), " 
1. Why does the photo have the English name?  I've never heard it used by anyone, by even native speakers of English who know no German when visiting Goettingen?
2. IF  we're going to translate, why is "Jacob" wrong?  I'm not a Christian and don't know much about saints, but http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James,_son_of_Zebedee indicates that St. Jacob and St. James are one and the same -- and there are churches with teh former name, e.g., saintjacobschurch.com/, a Lutheran church in the U.S. 211.225.39.71 (talk) 01:48, 5 October 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Jacobikirche 

message: I'm planning to move to the city for a month and it'd be very useful a section describing the transport sector: buses, train, bicycles, etc. 145.64.134.245 (talk) 12:54, 30 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Transport!