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unusual facts about Charles William, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen



Adelaide Peninsula

Its namesake is Queen Adelaide, consort of King William IV of the United Kingdom.

Altenstein

It was the summer residence of the Dukes of Meiningen, and is surrounded by a 160 hectares (1.6 square kilometres) noble park, which contains, among other objects of interest, a remarkable underground cavern, 500 ft.

Bernhard II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen

In 12 November 1826, after the redistribution of all the family territories after the death of the last Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg, Bernhard II received Hildburghausen and Saalfeld.

Cathedral of the Holy Trinity, Gibraltar

The church was consecrated in 1838 by Archdeacon Edward Burrow in the presence of the Dowager Queen Adelaide, widow of William IV.

Charles William, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen

In Gedern on 5 June 1780, August Frederick married Louise of Stolberg-Gedern.

Charles William, Prince of Nassau-Usingen

He was the eldest son of Prince Charles of Nassau-Usingen and his wife, Christina Wilhelmina, the daughter of Duke John William III of Saxe-Eisenach.

Caroline (1762-1823), married Prince Frederick of Hesse-Kassel (1747-1837), the son of Landgrave Frederick II and Princess Mary of Great Britain and the founder of the cadet branche Hesse-Kassel-Rumpenheim.

Charles William (9 November 1735 in Usingen – 17 May 1803) was Prince of Nassau-Usingen from 1775 until his death.

Charles, Landgrave of Hesse-Philippsthal-Barchfeld

Charles was a son of the Landgrave Adolph of Hesse-Philippsthal-Barchfeld (1743-1803) from his marriage to Louise (1752-1805 ), the daughter of the Duke Anton Ulrich of Saxe-Meiningen.

DRG Class 61

In 2002, number 18 201 was totally overhauled in the Meiningen steam engine shop and is now in the possession of the Steam Plus company (Dampf-Plus GmbH) owned by Christian Goldschagg and Axel Zwingenberger.

Duchy of Saxe-Meiningen

In the reshuffle of Ernestine territories that occurred following the extinction of the Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg line upon the death of Duke Frederick IV in 1825, Duke Bernhard II of Saxe-Meiningen received the lands of the former Duchy of Saxe-Hildburghausen as well as the Saalfeld territory of the former Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld duchy.

Since 1868 the duchy comprised the Kreise (districts) of Hildburghausen, Sonneberg and Saalfeld as well as the northern exclaves of Camburg and Kranichfeld.

East Franconian German

East Franconian (Ostfränkisch) is a dialect which is spoken in northern Bavaria and other areas in Germany around Nuremberg, Bamberg, Coburg, Würzburg, Hof, Bayreuth, Meiningen, Bad Mergentheim, and Crailsheim.

Edward Breitung

He attended the College of Mining in Meiningen, then one of the celebrated schools in Germany for scientific and classical studies.

Einhausen, Thuringia

Einhausen is a municipality in the district Schmalkalden-Meiningen, in Thuringia, Germany.

Einheitsdampflokomotive

That put it within the range of light express train duties, for which it was often used e.g. on the Thuringian Forest lines (e.g. to Meiningen from Arnstadt and Eisenach).

Electoral district of Adelaide

The electorate's name comes from the city which it encompasses, Adelaide is named after Princess Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen, the German born Queen consort of the King of England, King William IV.

Ellen Franz

On 18 March 1873 she married—as his third wife—Duke Georg II of Saxe-Meiningen in the Villa Feodora in Bad Liebenstein.

Ellingshausen

Ellingshausen is a municipality in the district Schmalkalden-Meiningen, in Thuringia, Germany.

Emil Büchner

On his 80th birthday, he was granted the title of professor by Georg II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen.

Frederick Augustus, Duke of Nassau

On 17 May 1803, he succeed as the Prince of Nassau-Usingen when his elder brother, Charles William died without male heirs.

Fritz Steinbach

He remained there until 1902, during which time he often collaborated with Brahms and gave frequent guest performances at the court of Georg II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen.

Georg II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen

In 1897 the Duke undertook the construction of a Brahms monument in Meiningen's English gardens, sculpted by Adolf von Hildebrand.

George Victor, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont

Amongst her children was Charles Edward, last reigning Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.

Gopsall

Queen Adelaide was a frequent visitor to the Hall during her long widowhood.

Gotthold Gloger

Subsequently he lived as a painter and freelance writer until 1967 in Meiningen and from 1970 predominantly in the city quarter of Kraatz, Gransee in Brandenburg.

Josef Kainz

In 1867 the family returned to Vienna, where Josef started his performance career at the age of 15, followed by engagements at theatres in Maribor (Marburg an der Drau), Leipzig and Meiningen.

Konrad, Prince of Saxe-Meiningen

However, he is the only son by his father's dynastic second wife, Baroness Vera Schäffer von Bernstein (1914–1994).

Prince Konrad was born in Ziegenberg, Hesse, the younger son of Prince Bernhard of Saxe-Meiningen.

Kühn

Kühndorf, a village in the district of Schmalkalden-Meiningen in Germany

Marion van de Kamp

Born in Wuppertal to Dutch parents she attended the drama school in Dresden, East Germany and worked at theaters in Meiningen, Görlitz, Plauen, Schwerin and Leipzig.

Oepfershausen

Oepfershausen is a municipality in the district Schmalkalden-Meiningen, in Thuringia, Germany.

Prince Eugene of Saxe-Hildburghausen

In 1769 he and his great-uncle Joseph and Duchess Charlotte Amalie of Saxe-Meiningen were appointed Commissioner for the completely indebted Principality of Saxe-Hildburghausen by Emperor Joseph II.

Prince William of Hesse-Kassel

His maternal grandparents were Charles William, Prince of Nassau-Usingen and Caroline Felizitas of Leiningen-Dagsburg-Falkenburg

Princess Ida of Saxe-Meiningen

William Augustus Edward (b. 1823 - d. 1902), who entered the British army, served with much distinction in the Crimean War, became colonel of the 1st Life Guards, and later a British Field Marshal.

Queen Adelaide

Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen (1792–1849), Queen consort of William IV of the United Kingdom

Rudolf Kühnhold

A native of Schwallungen in the Meiningen district of Thuringia, Kühnhold received his higher education in physics at the University of Göttingen.

Schweinfurt–Meiningen railway

From then on the Deutsche Reichsbahn (DR) in East Germany only operated the Meiningen–Rentwertshausen–Römhild section.

Following the completion of the railway from Ritschenhausen to Neudietendorf in 1884, express trains ran over the line from Berlin via Meiningen to Stuttgart.

St George's Church, Brighton

After Revd James Anderson became curate of the church in 1828, his close association with Queen Adelaide, the consort of King William IV, made the church very popular.

Thomas Erastus

In 1553 he became physician to the count of Henneberg, Saxe-Meiningen, and in 1558 held the same post with the elector-palatine, Otto Henry, Elector Palatine, being at the same time professor of medicine at Heidelberg.

Veste Heldburg

After several conquests and plundering during the Thirty Years War the castle was held in 1776 and re-attached residence of the Ernestine dukes of Saxe-Hildburghausen and finally in 1871 became the property of the ducal house of Meiningen.


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