Mauer is the German word for wall. It may also refer to:

Places

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  • Mauer, Vienna, a former village of Lower Austria that has been part of Vienna since 1938
  • Mauer bei Amstetten, a village in the municipality of Amstetten, in Lower Austria
  • Mauer bei Melk, a village in the municipality of Dunkelsteinerwald, in the Mostviertel in Lower Austria
  • Mauer (Baden), a village of the Rhein-Neckar-Kreis in Germany

People

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  • Albert Mauer (1907–1999), former Polish ice hockey player
  • Frank Mauer (born 1988), German ice hockey player
  • Gary Mauer, American actor
  • Jake Mauer (born 1978), former baseball player and baseball manager; also older brother of Joe Mauer
  • John Mauer (1901–1978), former college basketball coach for the University of Kentucky and later for the University of Tennessee
  • Joe Mauer (born 1983), all-star catcher for the Minnesota Twins (Major League Baseball)
  • Ken Mauer (born 1955), NBA referee
  • Renata Mauer (born 1969), Polish sports shooter
  • Rocco Mauer (born 1988), US rugby player

Music

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  • Die Mauer ("The Wall"), a 1982 song by the Swedish punk band Ebba Grön

Other

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  • Berlin Wall (Berliner Mauer), a barrier that divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989
  • Mauer 1, a fossilized mandible, type specimen of the Homo heidelbergensis, named after its place of discovery Mauer
  • Also used to refer to the Inner German border, mid-1950s–1989

See also

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