Edelweiss (disambiguation) explained

Edelweiss (German: Edelweiß|link=no) is a European mountain flower.

Edelweiss may also refer to:

People

• Edelweiss (actress) (born 1977), Russian-Bulgarian pornographic actress
• Edelweiss (given name)

Plants

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

Arts, entertainment, and media

Gaming

• Edelweiss, an expansion module for the Panzer Grenadier series board games
• Edelweiss, a tank prototype in the videogame Valkyria Chronicles

Literature

• Edelweiss (visual novel), a 2008 Japanese visual novel developed by Overdrive
• Edelweiss, an online book publishers' catalogue by Above the Treeline
• Edelweiss, capital of the fictional European nation of Graustark

Magazines

• Edelweiss (magazine), a magazine published by Ringier in Switzerland

Music

• Edelweiss (band), an Austrian band in the late 1980s and early 1990s
• Edelweiß (album), a 1982 album by Joachim Witt
• Edelweiss (Drezden album), 2009
• "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

Television

• "Edelweiss" (Space Ghost Coast to Coast), a television episode

Film

• Edelweiss (film), a 1987 Taiwanese film starring Michael Miu

Brands and enterprises

• Edelweiss, a beer produced by the Schoenhofen Brewing Company
• 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 Pianos or Edelweiss, a British piano company
• 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 (skyscraper), a building in Moscow
• Edelweiss (political party), a regional political party of Aosta Valley (Italy)
• EDELWEISS, a European experiment searching for dark matter
• 10th Mountain Assault Brigade (Ukraine), a unit of the Ukrainian Ground Forces known as Edelweiss
• (previously "Edelweiss"), a special unit of the National Guard of Russia

See also

• • Eidelweiss, New Hampshire, village district