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22 unusual facts about Butzbach


Anna Elisabeth of Saxe-Lauenburg

Anna Elisabeth of Saxe-Lauenburg (23 August 1624 in Ratzeburg – 27 May 1688 in Butzbach), was a duchess of Saxe-Lauenburg by birth and by marriage landgravine of Hesse-Homburg.

Augustus, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg

Anna Elisabeth (23 August 1624 – 27 May 1688, Philippseck Castle in today's Butzbach), married on 2 April 1665 in Lübeck, divorced in 1672, William Christoph, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg

Butzbach station

Butzbach station is a station in the town of Butzbach in the German state of Hesse on the Main–Weser Railway.

Daniel Mögling

Daniel Mögling born 1596 in Böblingen, died 1635 in Butzbach, was an alchemist and a Rosicrucian.

He was personal physician and court astronomer to Philip III, Landgrave of Hesse-Butzbach from 1621 to 1635.

Elisabeth Dorothea of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg

After her son attained his majority in 1688, she retired to her dower lands in Butzbach but offered her help in the government to her son, who refused.

Frederick I, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg

Frederick I married on 10 August 1622 in Butzbach with Margaret Elisabeth (1604–1667), daughter of Count Christoph of Leiningen-Westerburg.

Frederick William, Prince of Solms-Braunfels

Financial difficulties forced him to sell the city of Butzbach, which his family had owned since 1478, to Hesse-Darmstadt on 17 March 1741.

Friedrich Ludwig Weidig

Initially working as a teacher in Butzbach, he then spent a short time as a pastor in Ober-Gleen, a district of Gießen.

Gabriel Biel

Later, he became a superior of the canons at Butzbach, and lived in the House of the Brethren on the Rheingau until 1468.

Johann Jakob Griesbach

Johann Jakob Griesbach (January 4, 1745 – March 24, 1812), German biblical textual critic, was born at Butzbach, a small town in the state of Hesse-Darmstadt, where his father, Konrad Kaspar (1705–1777), was pastor.

Legio XXII Primigenia

Around 90, units of the XXII was garrisoned in or around the area of modern-day Butzbach, as part of the Limes Germanicus (a series of forts along the Roman frontier of Germania Superior .

Licher Privatbrauerei

Starting in 1858, Christoph Jakob Melchior ran "Zum goldenen Stern" ("The Golden Star") guesthouse in Butzbach with his self-brewed beer provided to the guests.

Lorenz Diefenbach

Georg Anton Lorenz Diefenbach (19 July 1806, Ostheim, Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt – 28 March 1883, Darmstadt) was a German philologist and lexicographer, as well as a novelist associated with the German Nationalist movement.

Louis, Count of Stolberg

The Counts of Stolberg inherited the districts of Ortenberg and Gedern and shares of Butzbach and Münzenberg.

Margaret Elisabeth of Leiningen-Westerburg

She married on 10 August 1622 at Butzbach to Landgrave Frederick I of Hesse-Homburg.

Philip III, Landgrave of Hesse-Butzbach

Philip's first wife was Anna Margaretha of Diepholz; she died childless in 1629 and was buried in the town church at Butzbach.

Philip III also corresponded with the astronomers Kepler and Galileo.

Landgrave Philip III of Hesse-Butzbach (born 26 December 1581 in Darmstadt; died: 28 April 1643) was Landgrave of Hesse-Butzbach from 1609 to 1643.

For astronomical studies, he built an observatory in his Landgraviate Castle in Butzbach and had some astronomical instruments made.

Werner Heyde

On 13 February 1964, five days before his trial was to start, Dr. Heyde hanged himself at the prison in Butzbach.

William Christoph, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg

In 1672 they were divorced and Anna Elisabeth retired to and later died in Philippseck Castle in today's Butzbach.


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Cohors I Aquitanorum veterana

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