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unusual facts about Berthold VII, Count of Henneberg-Schleusingen



Berthold VII, Count of Henneberg-Schleusingen

Berthold VII, Count of Henneberg-Schleusingen (nicknamed the Wise, born: 1272 in Schleusingen; died: 13 April 1340, ibid.) was Count of Henneberg- Schleusingen from 1284 to 1340.

Elisabeth of Brandenburg, Duchess of Brunswick-Calenberg-Göttingen

Elisabeth died a year later, in 1558, in Ilmenau, apparently completely exhausted and with a "broken heart." Her children commissioned an epitaph with her portrait by the sculptor Sigmund Linger from Innsbruck, which was erected in 1566 in the St. Giles Chapel of the St. John's Church in Schleusingen.

Elisabeth of Brunswick-Calenberg

Elisabeth of Brunswick-Calenberg (8 April 1526 in Nienover – 19 August 1566 in Schleusingen) was a princess of Brunswick-Calenberg by birth and by marriage a Countess of Henneberg.

Joachim Mörlin

Mörlin went to Erfurt, thence to Arnstadt, and finally to Schleusingen, where he lived and preached in the castle of the count of Henneberg.

Jutta of Thuringia

Jutta of Thuringia (born: 1184; died: 6 August 1235 in Schleusingen) was the eldest daughter of Landgrave Hermann I of Thuringia and his first wife, Sophia of Sommerschenburg, a daughter of Fredrick II of Sommerschenburg.

Marie Amalie of Brandenburg

She died in 1739, at the age of 68, at the castle in Schleusingen that had earlier served as the seat of the Counts of Henneberg-Schleusingen.

In 1709, while she was a duchess, she visited the William Fountain, a medicinal spring in Schleusingen.

Maria Amalia of Brandenburg-Schwedt (26 November 1670 in Cölln – 17 November 1739 at Bertholdsburg Castle in Schleusingen) was a princess from the Brandenburg-Schwedt line of the House of Hohenzollern and by marriage a Duchess of Saxe-Zeitz.

Melchior Vulpius

After marrying in 1589, he obtained a position at the Gymnasium in Schleusingen.

Prussian T 16.1

In addition to heavy shunting and line duties the locomotives were also employed on steep lines such as the Friedbergbahn (SuhlSchleusingen), Scheldetalbahn (Dillenburg-Gönnern), Rennsteigbahn (IlmenauSchleusingen), the Erkrath–Hochdahl ramp and the Murgtalbahn (RastattFreudenstadt).

Saxe-Zeitz

He also received the city of Schleusingen in 1660, which had until then been the residence of the County of Henneberg.

Schleusingen

Schleusingen is a town in the district of Hildburghausen, in Thuringia, Germany.

William III, Count of Henneberg-Schleusingen

In 1482, his body was transferred to the Henneberg family vault in the church of the monastery at Kloster Veßra.


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