Edelweiss (disambiguation)

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Edelweiss (German: Edelweiß) is a European mountain flower.

Edelweiss may also refer to:

Plants

• Javanese edelweiss or Anaphalis javanica, a plant species found on the mountains of Indonesia
• Edelweiss (grape), a table and white wine grape
• Rauschling Edelweiss or Completer, a wine grape
• Chasselas or Edelweiss, a wine grape

Literature

• Edelweiss (magazine), a magazine published by Ringier in Switzerland
• Edelweiss (visual novel), a 2008 Japanese visual novel developed by Overdrive
• Edelweiss, an online book publishers' catalogue by Above the Treeline

Music

• Edelweiss (band), an Austrian band in the late 1980s early 1990s
• Edelweiß (album), a 1982 album by Joachim Witt
• "Edelweiss" (song), a 1959 show tune from the Rodgers and Hammerstein's The Sound of Music
• Edelweiss, a piano solo, Op. 31 by Gustav Lange

Brands and enterprises

• Edelweiss (beer), a brewery and beer in Austria
• Edelweiss Air, a Swiss charter airline
• Edelweiss Lodge and Resort, an AFRC hotel complex in Germany run by the United States military
  • Edelweiss Vacation Village and Campground
• Edelweiss Valley or Edelweiss, a ski resort in Quebec

Nazi-related

• Edelweiss (anti-partisan unit), a German anti-partisan unit organized on the Slovak territory during World War II
• Edelweiss Pirates, an anti-Nazi youth culture in Germany before, during, and after World War II
• Kampfgeschwader 51 "Edelweiss", a World War II German Luftwaffe bomber group
• Operation Edelweiss, a German plan to capture the Caucasus and the oil fields of Baku in World War II

Transport vehicles

• Edelweiss (train), an international express train in Europe
• Duruble Edelweiss or Edelweiss, a French light utility monoplane designed by Roland Duruble
• Siren Edelweiss, a French glider produced by SIREN as the C30S Edelweiss

Other uses

• Edelweiss (actress) (born 1977), a Russian-Bulgarian pornographic actress
• Edelweiss (Aosta Valley), a regional political party in Italy
• Edelweiss (skyscraper), a building in Moscow
• EDELWEISS, a European experiment searching for dark matter
• Edelweiss, an expansion module for the Panzer Grenadier series board games
• Edelweiss, a tank prototype in the videogame Valkyria Chronicles

People with the given name

• Edelweiss Cheung (born 1985), Miss Hong Kong 2008
• Edelweis Rodriguez (1911–1962), Italian Olympic boxer

See also

• Eidelweiss, New Hampshire, village district
• "Es war ein Edelweiss", a 1941 World War II marching song by Herms Niel