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38 unusual facts about Birkenfeld


5. Luftwaffendivision

The division headquarters was located in Birkenfeld; up to the time of the first division were also assigned to ground-based air defense forces.

Anna Sophia I, Abbess of Quedlinburg

Anna Sophia was born in Birkenfeld to George William, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld, and his first wife, Countess Dorothea of Solms-Sonnenwalde.

Birkenfeld Railway

The Birkenfelder Eisenbahn (Birkenfeld Railway) was a five kilometer long rail line operating from Neubrücke to Birkenfeld.

Brücken

Brücken, Birkenfeld, in the district of Birkenfeld, Rhineland-Palatinate

Charles I, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld

Charles I of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld (German: Karl I.) (4 September 1560 – 16 December 1600), Count Palatine of the Rhine, Duke in Bavaria, Count to Veldenz and Sponheim was the Duke of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld from 1569 until 1600.

After his father's death in 1569, Charles and his brothers partitioned his territories: Charles received the Palatine share on the Rear County of Sponheim, a small territory around Birkenfeld.

#George William (6 August 1591 – 25 December 1669)

Charles II Otto, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld

Charles II Otto (German: Karl II. Otto) (5 September 1625 – 30 March 1671) was the Duke of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld from 1669 until 1671.

Charles I, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld

Charles Otto was born in Birkenfeld in 1625 as the only son of George William, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld.

George William, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld

Christian I, Count Palatine of Birkenfeld-Bischweiler

Christian was born in Birkenfeld in 1598 as the youngest son of Charles I, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld.

# Christian (1637 – 26 April 1717)

Christian II, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld

In 1671 he inherited Palatinate-Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld from his cousin Charles II Otto.

Christian II (22 June 1637 – 26 April 1717) was the Duke of Birkenfeld-Bischweiler from 1654 until 1717, the Duke of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld from 1671 until 1717, and the Count of Rappoltstein from 1673 until 1699.

Countess Palatine Elisabeth of Simmern-Sponheim

Elizabeth of the Palatinate (born: 30 June 1540 in Birkenfeld; died: 8 February 1594 in Wiener Neustadt) was the second wife of Duke John Frederick II of Saxony.

Duchy of Oldenburg

In 1937 (with the Greater Hamburg Act), it lost the exclave districts of Eutin near the Baltic coast and Birkenfeld in southwestern Germany to Prussia and gained the City of Wilhelmshaven; however, this was a formality, as the Hitler régime had de facto abolished the federal states in 1934.

Eduard Mayer

Eduard Mayer (17 August 1812 in Asbacherhütte – 1881 in Bad Aibling) was a German sculptor.

George William, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld

# Charles Otto (5 September 1625 – 30 March 1671)

George William (German: Georg Wilhelm) (6 August 1591 – 25 December 1669), titular Count Palatine of the Rhine, Duke in Bavaria, Count of Veldenz and Sponheim was the Duke of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld from 1600 until 1669.

In the year 1666 he appointed Günter Heyler as court preacher to Birkenfeld.

George William was born in Ansbach in 1591 as the eldest son of Charles I, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld.

Grand Duchy of Oldenburg

The Grand Duchy of Oldenburg (German: Großherzogtum Oldenburg) (also known as Holstein-Oldenburg) was a Grand Duchy within the German Confederation, North German Confederation, and German Empire, which consisted of three widely separated territories: Oldenburg, Eutin and Birkenfeld.

Gustav Simon

In 1928 he became NSDAP "district leader" (Bezirksleiter) for the Trier-Birkenfeld district, and in 1929 also for the Koblenz-Trier district, as well as a member of the Rhineland Provincial Landtag.

Karl Ludwig Frommel

Karl Ludwig Frommel (29 April 1789 – 6 February 1863) was a German landscape painter and engraver, born at Birkenfeld.

Langweiler

Langweiler, Birkenfeld, a municipality in the district of Birkenfeld, Rhineland-Palitinate, Germany

Lorielle London

Lorielle London (born 24 December 1983 in Birkenfeld, Germany; birth name Lorenzo Woodard) is a German transgender entertainer.

Palatinate-Birkenfeld-Zweibrücken

In 1778/9 the Potato War was fought on Charles' behalf by Prussia and Saxony to prevent Charles Theodore, Duke of Bavaria, exchanging the Duchy of Bavaria for the Austrian Netherlands as Charles was the heir of Bavaria.

Palatinate-Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld

Palatinate-Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld was created in 1569 in the partition of Palatinate-Zweibrücken after the death of Wolfgang for his youngest son Charles I.

After Charles' death in 1600 his state was partitioned into itself and Palatinate-Birkenfeld-Bischweiler by his sons, with George William succeeding him in Birkenfeld.

Palatinate-Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld was a state of the Holy Roman Empire based around Birkenfeld in modern Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

Christian II died in 1717 and was succeeded by his son Christian III.

Two years later he died, and with him the male line of the branch, so the state passed to Christian II of Palatinate-Birkenfeld-Bischweiler.

George William died in 1669 and was succeeded by his son Charles II Otto.

Peter Friedrich Ludwig Tischbein

In 1852 he attained the title of Oberförster, and in 1873 became a senior official of forested areas in the Principality of Birkenfeld.

Trier University of Applied Sciences

The Trier University of Applied Sciences (German: Hochschule Trier) is a University of Applied Sciences (German: "Fachhochschule") located in Trier, Birkenfeld and Idar-Oberstein (Germany).

Two of these areas are at the Environmental Campus Birkenfeld, and gemstone and jewelry design are in the town of Idar-Oberstein.

With 7,000 students the Trier University of Applied Sciences is divided into three campuses in Trier (main campus Schneidershof), Birkenfeld (Environmental Campus Birkenfeld), and Idar-Oberstein (jewellery design).


Count Palatine William of Gelnhausen

Count Palatine William of Birkenfeld-Gelnhausen (4 January 1701 in Gelnhausen – 25 December 1760 in The Hague) was a titular Count Palatine of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld and an Imperial Field Marshal.

Environmental Campus Birkenfeld

Near this location (Baumholder) was the 98th General Hospital, established in Neubrücke (a small town near Birkenfeld).

Friedrich Anton Ulrich, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont

He married Countess Palatine Louise of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld, daughter of Christian II, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld and Countess Catharine Agathe of Rappoltstein, in Hanau on 22 Oct 1700.

Hood to Coast

From there onward, the route passes through hilly rural and sometimes unpaved backroads through the communities of Mist and Birkenfeld on the way to the finish line in Seaside.

UBS tax evasion controversy

Ironically, the DOJ decided to charge Birkenfeld with a felony count of conspiring to abet tax evasion by one of his clients, Igor Olenicoff.

Wolfgang Julius, Count of Hohenlohe-Neuenstein

He was the son of Kraft III of Hohenlohe-Neuenstein (14 November 1582, Langenburg - 11 September 1641, Regensburg) and Sophie of Birkenfeld (29 March 1593, Ansbach - 16 November 1676, Neuenstein).