the Waldorf-Astoria on Park Avenue in Manhattan, New York received the first part of its name from the small town that the first American multi-millonaire and the patriarch of the wealthy and influential Astor family, John Jacob Astor, was born in, in 1763?

And that this grand hotel used to be two separate hotels - the Waldorf and the Astoria - built by two feuding relatives, William Waldorf Astor (opened in 1893) and John Jacob Astor IV (in 1897)?

Walldorf was a small town (dorf actually means village) in the Electoral Palatinate, Holy Roman Empire. Today it is a town in the Rhein-Neckar-Kreis district in the state of Baden-Württemberg in Germany. And home to the world’s third largest software company SAP.