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Arboretum Main-Taunus

The Arboretum Main-Taunus (76 hectares) is an arboretum located on Am Weissen Stein, just southwest of Eschborn, Hesse, Germany.


Aar Valley Railway

The line passes through Taunusstein, Bad Schwalbach (called Langenschwalbach until 1927), Aarbergen and Hahnstätten, which all lie in the Aar valley in the western Hintertaunus (the lower north-western ridges of the Taunus).

Bischofsheim, Hesse

Bischofsheim borders in the north on the town of Hochheim (Main-Taunus-Kreis), in the east on the town of Rüsselsheim, and in the south and west on the municipality of Ginsheim-Gustavsburg.

Burgholzhausen vor der Höhe

Burgholzhausen vor der Höhe is a quarter of the city of Friedrichsdorf at the foothills of the Taunus mountain range, approx.

Charles, Prince of Nassau-Usingen

He then moved his residence from Usingen in the Taunus to Schloss Biebrich in Biebrich and continued the progressive policies of his mother.

Ford Taunus G93A

In 1949 Ford added a Taunus version with body panels fitted only as far back as the A-pillars, and several alternative body shapes became available, added by traditional coach-builders such as and Karmann of Osnabrück, Drauz of Heilbronn and Plasswilm in Cologne.

Friedrichsdorf station

Friedrichsdorf (Taunus) station is in the centre of Friedrichsdorf on Bahnstraße.

Großer Feldberg

The summit is easily reached from Frankfurt in approximately 30 minutes via roads from Oberursel, Königstein or by bus from these towns.

Hünstetten

Hünstetten borders in the north on the community of Hünfelden, in the northeast on the town of Bad Camberg (both in Limburg-Weilburg), in the east on the town of Idstein, in the south on the town of Taunusstein and in the west on the communities of Hohenstein and Aarbergen (all in the Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis).

International Days of Music Hesse Main-Taunus Hofheim

The event is patronized by the state of Hesse, the county Main-Taunus and the city of Hofheim am Taunus.

Karl Hill

Hill was born in Idstein in the Taunus mountains north of Wiesbaden, but he lived and worked for most of his life in Schwerin, where he died.

Kempinski Hotel Falkenstein

Kempinski Hotel Falkenstein is a luxurious hotel in Königstein im Taunus (Falkenstein im Taunus), Germany.

Limburg-Staffel–Siershahn railway

During the period required for its repair, a steam-hauled freight train of the Hanau railway museum (Museumseisenbahn Hanau) railway ran over the Taunus to Steinefrenz station to supply the concrete sleepers.

Max Oehler

Max Oehler was born in Blessenbach im Taunus (today part of Weinbach).

Otto Scholderer

Starting from 1858, Scholderer worked and lived predominantly in Kronberg in Taunus, where his colleagues included Anton Burger, Peter Burnitz and Louis Eysen; he was close to the Kronberger painter colony.

Schloßborn

On 1 August 1972, under the Hesse territorial reform, Schloßborn became part of the municipality of Glashütten, moving from the Main-Taunus district into the Hochtaunus.

Taunus Railway

The Soden Railway (Sodener Bahn), a 6.6 km long branch line running from the to Frankfurt-Höchst station to Bad Soden, had been operated since its opening in 1847 by the Taunus Railway and in 1862/63 it was taken by it.

Walrad, Prince of Nassau-Usingen

From 1659, the residence of the Usingen branch of House of Nassau was in the town of Usingen in the Taunus mountains.

Werner von Orseln

Von Orseln hailed from a noble family of vogts (reeves) of the Counts of Falkenstein in Oberursel near Frankfurt.


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