Mauer

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

Places

• 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

• 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

• Die Chinesische Mauer ("The Chinese Wall"), a 1985 album by Michael Cretu

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

Other

• 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

• Maurer, is the German word for bricklayer and a more common surname
• Maur (disambiguation), place and surname
• Auf der Maur, surname
• In der Maur, surname