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15 unusual facts about Blieskastel


Arndt Kaspar

Arndt Kaspar (born 23 August 1962 in Blieskastel) is a German former sport shooter who competed in the 1988 Summer Olympics.

Börsborn

Through Georg I von der Leyen’s marriage to Eva von Mauchenheim in 1456, the House of Leyen came into ownership of holdings in the Bliesgau, and once it had taken charge of an inheritance in 1486, it also acquired ownership of a share in Blieskastel Castle.

Only in 1773 did the comital couple, Franz Karl von der Leyen and Marianne, née Dalberg, move their residence from Koblenz to Blieskastel.

Château de La Petite-Pierre

Hugo I of Blieskastel (d.a. 1220), Count of Lützelstein or Lunéville (or both), second son of Folmar I (d.a. 1179), Count of Blieskastel with Clementia of Metz.

Count Hugo, either the son or grandson of the powerful Count of Blieskastel (fr), is held as the constructor.

Günther Hussong

His profession is high-school teacher of geography, Protestant religion and French at the “Von der Leyen Gymnasium” in Blieskastel.

House of Leyen

Prior to 1660, Hugo Ernst (line Leyen-Adendorf) became Lord of Blieskastel and, in 1657, was created Reichsfreiherr (Imperial baron) von der Leyen.

Imagina of Isenburg-Limburg

Imagina was born in about 1255 (probably in Limburg an der Lahn) to Gerlach I of Limburg and Imagina of Blieskastel.

Jack L. Treadwell

During a battle on that day, near Nieder-Wurzbach in Germany, Treadwell single-handedly captured six German bunkers.

Joseph Wendel

Joseph Wendel was born in Blieskastel, and studied at the seminary in Speyer, and the Pontifical German-Hungarian College and the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome.

Landau–Rohrbach railway

Between Einöd and Blieskastel-Lautzkirchen it passes through the broad lowlands of the Blies, which is mainly covered by meadows and pastures.

Nicolaus von Weis

After the early death of the father, his mother went back with the boy to Germany and he grew up in Altheim, now a part of Blieskastel, Saarland.

Palatinate-Lützelstein

Lützelstein Castle, erected by the Counts of Blieskastel at a mountain pass to Lorraine, and the surrounding territory originally were a fief of the Bishopric of Strasbourg.

Philip Francis, Prince of Leyen

Maria Amalia Theodora Maria Antonia Charlotte Friederike Sophie Walpurgis (Blieskastel 2 September 1789 – Sulz 21 July 1870), married at Paris 10 August 1810 to count Louis Tascher de La Pagerie, a first cousin of the French Empress Josephine.

Yvonne Ploetz

In November 2005, Ploetz founded the local chapter of The Left in Blieskastel, and she has been the chairperson of this chapter ever since.


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