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2 unusual facts about Burg


Burg, Aargau

It was part of the Oberamt or district of Lenzburg, and the court of Reinach.

Burg, Dithmarschen

It lies at the rim of the Heide-Itzehoe Geest with parts of the village in the marshland below.


Adolf III of Holstein

He is particularly remembered for his establishment of a new settlement for traders on the banks of the Alster near the Neue Burg in Hamburg.

Burg Gutenfels

The Burg Gutenfels (also known as castle Caub) is a castle 110m above the town of Kaub in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

Burg Neuhaus bei Stubenberg

Burg Neuhaus bei Stubenberg is a renovated ruin in Stubenberg, Styria.

Burgruine Waldeck

The ruins of Burg Waldeck are in the Upper Palatinate region of the state of Bavaria in Germany, on a hill overlooking the village of Waldeck, near Kemnath.

Can't Get Over

The song was written by Anoo Bhagavan, Jonas von der Burg and Niklas von der Burg for September's third album Dancing Shoes (2007).

Clang of the Yankee Reaper

Track 10, listed as Pachelbel's Canon in D is in actuality Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott by Martin Luther, or as it is known in English, A Mighty Fortress is Our God.

Counter-World Experience

After many concerts at such prestigious locations as the Burg Herzburg Festival, the Frankfurt Music Fair, the Freakshow Artrock Festival, or as support for Matthias IA Eklundh, Counter-World Experience had the backing of a solid and ever-expanding fan-base.

Dagstuhl Castle

Dagstuhl Castle (in German: Burgruine Dagstuhl or Burg Dagstuhl) is a ruined castle on the top of a hill near the town of Wadern, kreis Merzig-Wadern, in Saarland, Germany.

Dominique Caillat

In 1993 she moved to Germany and established in Burg Namedy, near Koblenz, the youth acting school “Theater in der Vorburg”.

Gable stone

For instance the "Batenburg" stone from Prinsengracht, Amsterdam, shown here puns on the words baten (to profit) and burg (castle), which together make up the name of a village near Nijmegen.

Gnandstein Castle

Burg Gnandstein or Gnandstein Castle is located in Gnandstein, part of the city of Kohren-Sahlis in the Leipziger Land district of Saxony, Germany.

Hanstein Castle

The chronicler Lambert of Hersfeld mentioned the destruction of Burg Hanenstein, then in possession of Saxon Count Otto von Northeim, by King Henry IV in 1070.

Heimburg in Niederheimbach

The Heimburg (also known as Burg Hohneck or Burg Hoheneck) is a castle in the village of Niederheimbach in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

Helm's Deep

When Cirion, Steward of Gondor, gave Calenardhon to the Éothéod, Aglarond was transferred into the care of the Rohirrim, who named it Súthburg (southern burg in their language).

Hermann, Prince of Hohenzollern-Hechingen

Luise Juliane Konstantine, (* 1 November 1774 in Maastricht; † 7 May 1846 in Glogau) ∞ 1806 Baron Ludwig Heer von der Burg (* 16 December 1776; † 13 October 1833)

Herzog Blaubarts Burg

Herzog Blaubarts Burg ("Duke Bluebeard's Castle") (1963) is a film of the opera Bluebeard's Castle by the Hungarian composer Béla Bartók, written in 1911 to a symbolist libretto by the poet and later film theorist Béla Balázs.

Islek

Today the region houses numerous wind energy projects and is a tourist area with ancient cities like Clervaux, Prüm, Burg Reuland and Vianden.

Joachim a Burck

Joachim von Burck, also Joachim a Burgk (Burg, 1546-Mühlhausen, 24 May 1610) was a German composer, notable for an early German Passion setting.

Joachim Walter

Walter's footballing career began in 1947 in Burg bei Magdeburg where he played for BSG Lokomotive Burg (until 1954) and BSG Einheit Burg.

Johann von Schönenberg

Johann von Schönenberg was born in Burg Hartelstein in Schwirzheim in 1525.

Larry Winget

"A Year Of Success" with fellow experts, Mark Sanborn, Bob Burg and Sally Hogshead, a 52 week video series for personal development.

Lou van Burg

When the second German television broadcaster ZDF had launched in 1963, van Burg in the following year became the host of Der goldene Schuss, a game show that quickly reached an immense popularity.

Magdeburg Hauptbahnhof

On 15 May 1873 the first train ran between the new station and the town of Burg.

Michael J. Burg

Burg's career finally gained momentum when he was cast as Truman Capote opposite Jennifer Love Hewitt in The Audrey Hepburn Story.

After his father's death, when he was still in high school, Burg inherited his paternal families 6th generation farmland located in Atchison County, Missouri, which now doubles as a wind farm.

MkLinux

The effort was spearheaded by Brett Halle at Apple, and development was later split between two main people: Michael Burg on device drivers and distribution at Apple in Cupertino, California; and Nick Stephen on Mach porting and development at the OSF in Grenoble, France.

Neu-Baumburg

The Burg Neu Baumburg (also known as Neu-Bamberg, Neuenbaumburg, Novobeimburg and Neubamberg) is a ruined castle in the town of Neu-Bamberg in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

Schaumburg Castle, Lower Saxony

Schaumburg Castle (German: Burg Schaumburg) is a castle in the town of Rinteln in the district of Schaumburg in Lower Saxony, Germany.

Simon II, Count of Sponheim-Kreuznach

Johannes Mötsch: Die Burg Kastellaun bis 1437, in: Stadt Kastellaun (eds.): Das Wahrzeichen Kastellauns — Seine Burg, in the series Kastellaun in der Geschichte, vol.

Theodore Beza

When the edition of the acts of the colloquy, as prepared by Jakob Andrea, was published, Samuel Huber, of Burg near Bern, who belonged to the Lutheranizing faction of the Swiss clergy, took so great offense at the supralapsarian doctrine of predestination propounded at Mömpelgard by Beza and Musculus that he felt it to be his duty to denounce Musculus to the magistrates of Bern as an innovator in doctrine.

Torremaggiore

The history of Torremaggiore is strictly connected to that ot the burg of Fiorentino (also Castel Fiorentino), a Byzantine frontier stronghold founded by the catepan Basil Boioannes in 1018.

Visual pun

For instance the "Batenburg" stone from Prinsengracht, Amsterdam, shown here, puns on the words baten (to profit) and burg (castle) which together make up the name of a village near Nijmegen.

Wilhelm Carl von Rothschild

The couple first resided in the Rothschild house on the Zeil (Zeilpalast), but later moved to a palace in Grü­ne­burg, and also lived in a villa in Königstein im Taunus.

Yarbrough

In English it originated as a habitational or topographic name from Yarborough and Yarburgh in Lincolnshire, named with Old English eorðburg ‘earthworks’, ‘fortifications’, (a compound of eorðe/eorethe ‘earth’, ‘soil’ + burg ‘fortress’, ‘burrow’).

Zinna Abbey

The monastery was built on the northern rim of the Fläming hill range in the marshes of the Nuthe river by Cistercian monks, descending from the monastery on the site of Burg Berge, otherwise Altenberg Abbey, in the County of Berg near Cologne.


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