Kastl Abbey (Kloster Kastl) is a former Benedictine monastery in Kastl in the Upper Palatinate, Bavaria.
Cadet branches of the Wittelsbach also ruled over smaller territories in Neuburg and Sulzbach.
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# Sophie (1236, Landshut – 9 August 1289, Castle Hirschberg), married 1258 to Count Gerhard IV of Sulzbach and Hirschberg.
The line leaves Amberg and initially follows the River Vils uphill before bending eastwards and reaching its terminal station at Schnaittenbach via the village of Hirschau.
Meanwhile Christian moved with his troops towards Höchst and destroyed the villages of Oberusel, Eschborn and Sulzbach.
From Geiselhöring a branch also ran in the direction of Regensburg and on through the Upper Palatinate via Schwandorf, Amberg and Neukirchen to Hersbruck (left of the Pegnitz River)—a total of 133 km of line.
Amberg: The Archäologisches Museum der Oberpfalz Amberg (Amberg Archaeological Museum of the Upper Palatinate), founded in 1991 and now housed within the city museum, portrays the history of the Upper Palatinate from the Stone Age to the Middle Ages.
But he was equally respected beyond his native country; and some important pictures of his composition are to be found as far south as Aix en Provence and as far east as Amberg in the Upper Palatinate.
Wolfgang Dinzenhofer (1678-1747) from Plankenhäusel in Au near Aibling, did probably learn at another Wolfgang Dientzenhofer in Amberg, according to documents of the local Salesian monastery.
Eleanor Marie of Anhalt-Bernburg (7 August 1600 in Amberg - 17 July 1657 in Strelitz) was a princess of Anhalt-Bernburg by birth and by marriage Duchess of Mecklenburg-Güstrow.
Elisabeth's son Landgrave Leopold of Leuchtenberg (d. 1463) was a Palatinate governor of Amberg and was later raised to Prince of Leuchtenberg.
Ensdorf, Bavaria, a village in the Amberg-Sulzbach district, Bavaria, Germany
Disbanded users were the Medical Instruction Battalion 851, the Reserve Hospital Group 7609 and a branch of the former Military Hospital Amberg.
He took part in the 1795-1796 campaign with the armies of the Sambre and Meuse, fighting on the Rhine and the Lahn and distinguishing himself alongside Kléber near Neuwied and Sulzbach.
Franz Seraph Freiherr von Pfistermeister was born on 14 December 1820 in Amberg, Germany.
Born in Amberg, his father died in October 1583 and Frederick came under the guardianship of his uncle John Casimir, an ardent Calvinist.
It is situated approximately 10 km north-east of Amberg.
In 1964 the public prosecutor's office in Amberg (West Germany) started an inquiry against Gollwitzer over his alleged involvement in war crimes.
Friedrich Spanheim the elder (January 1, 1600, Amberg – May 14, 1649, Leiden) was a Calvinistic theology professor at the University of Leiden.
The Gregor-Mendel-Gymnasium (GMG, Gregor Mendel High School) is a national, public gymnasium in Amberg, Bavaria.
Henrietta Catharina, Baroness von Gersdorff (maiden name von Friesen auf Roetha, October 6, 1648, Sulzbach, Upper Palatinate – March 6, 1726, Grosshennersdorf, Upper Lusatia, Saxony) was a German Baroque religious poet, an advocate of Pietism and also a supporter of the beginnings of the Moravian Church.
Rudolf Licht (1884-1975) — Licht came from Baumholder, arriving in Sulzbach in 1905 as a young schoolteacher.
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In 1816, Herren-Sulzbach passed under the terms of the Congress of Vienna to the Principality of Lichtenberg, a newly created exclave of the Duchy of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, which as of 1826 became the Duchy of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.
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Young farmers could go to agricultural schools in Meisenheim and Baumholder, and after the 1968 regional reform, in Kusel, too.
After being hospitalized in Amberg for five and a half years, he recovered and emigrated to Norway in 1952 as one of several Jewish Holocaust-survivors of lesser health accepted to Norway with substantial grants from Joint to the Norwegian government.
He remained in Munich till 1650, when he went to live at Landshut and afterwards at Amberg.
He came into conflict with his brother Louis, the Elector Palatine, who ruled some territories of the Upper Palatinate around Amberg.
Kontres 'al Diney Ribbis, a discourse on the laws relating to the prohibition of usury, followed by some "takkanot" (ordinances by the Rabbis), Sulzbach, 1692;
According to the document, the magistrates denied Waldgrave Friedrich of Kyrburg any rights to the villages of Schweinschied, Kappeln, Löllbach, Langweiler, Käsweiler (vanished before 1500), Sulzbach, Homberg, Kirrweiler, Oberjeckenbach (cleared out in 1933 by the Nazis to make way for the Baumholder troop drilling ground) and Unterjeckenbach.
Karl Addicks (born 31 December 1950 in Amberg, Bavaria) is a German politician and member of the FDP.
Kirn-Sulzbach is a Stadtteil of Kirn in the district of Bad Kreuznach, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
Königstein, also referred to as Königstein (Oberpfalz) to distinguish it from other places named Königstein, is a market town in the Amberg-Sulzbach district, Bavaria, Germany.
Maurus von Schenkl (b. at Auerbach in Bavaria, 4 January 1749; d. at Amberg, 14 June 1816) was a German Benedictine theologian and canonist.
As he lacked the funds for an immediate repair, he moved to Amberg, where he accepted the job as a governor of Upper Palatinate.
Michael Mathias Prechtl (April 26, 1926, Amberg – March 19, 2003, Nuremberg) was a German artist, illustrator and cartoonist.
The family left the bombed-out Cologne in 1944, and moved to Amberg.
Since the line between Saarbrücken and Homburg (the Palatine Ludwig Railway) was heavily damaged, the less damaged lines from Saarbrücken to Neunkirchen (the Nahe Valley Railway via Sulzbach and the Fischbach Valley Railway) was repaired and returned to operations on 25 June 1945.
The Nuremberg–Schwandorf railway is a 93.7 km long railway from Nuremberg, running along the Pegnitz river, to Hersbruck and continuing via Neukirchen bei Sulzbach-Rosenberg and Amberg to Schwandorf in the German state of Bavaria.
# Sophie (1236, Landshut – 9 August 1289, Castle Hirschberg), married 1258 to Count Gerhard IV of Sulzbach and Hirschberg.
In 2001 a bad bench press led to a third place finish in Cape Town although in December of that year in Amberg he set the world record for the Masters age category in Deadlift, Squat and Total.
Regensburg was connected to the railway network relatively late; although the first line in Bavaria opened in 1835, it took until 1859 for the Bavarian Eastern Railway (Königlich privilegirte Actiengesellschaft der bayerischen Ostbahnen) to link this east Bavarian metropolis with Nuremberg and Munich, the first line to be built going via Amberg.
Two years later, on 16 November 1852, passenger trains ran on the line, known as the Forbach Railway, via Sulzbach, Dudweiler and St. Johann-Saarbrücken to reach the French border at Forbach.
It is situated approximately 14 km northwest of Amberg, and 50 km east of Nuremberg.
Sulzbach is a town and a municipality in the district of Saarbrücken, in Saarland, Germany.
In 2006 a tangent piano was discovered in the estate of Johann Esaias von Seidel in Sulzbach-Rosenberg in its original state.
Theodor Joseph Martin Kaes (November 7, 1852 – December 22, 1913) was a German neurologist who was a native of Amberg.
His installation at the Aviation Museum in Amberg in 2010 was disrupted when a cleaner mistakenly vacuumed up the two dead hornets he had placed on a loudspeaker: the installation was titled Tanz für Insekten (dance for insects) and the intention was for the dead insects to "dance" as a result of the vibrations.
He was educated at Amberg and Vienna and later became parish priest of St. Martin's Church, Landshut and chaplain to Bishop Sixtus.