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unusual facts about Egon VIII of Fürstenberg-Heiligenberg


Egon VIII of Fürstenberg-Heiligenberg

He was Chorbishop of Magdeburg and Strasbourg, treasurer and prebendary, Provost at St. Gereon in Cologne and of Archduke Leopold, Bishop of Passau and Strasbourg, Council and the governor in the autonomous Cathedral district of Rouffach.


Alexander Catsch

As early as 1956, Catsch was at the Biophysikalische Abteilung des Heiligenberg-Instituts, in Heiligenberg, Baden, Germany.

Anton Egon, Prince of Fürstenberg-Heiligenberg

Anton Egon died on 10 October 1716 in the Hunting Lodge Wermsdorf and, because he was a Roman Catholic, he was buried in the Sankt Marienstern Abbey in Panschwitz-Kuckau.

Deutscher Eisenbahn-Verein

On 2 July 1966, museum railway services began on the narrow gauge section of line from Bruchhausen-Vilsen to Heiligenberg operated by the Verkehrsbetriebe Grafschaft Hoya, about 35 km south of Bremen, using the steam locomotive Bruchhausen and one coach.

Eppenberg Charterhouse

In the Seven Years' War (1756–63) French troops were holed up here for seven weeks after losing the Battle of Grebenstein; two dugouts on the slopes of the Heiligenberg remain as a reminder of their camp.

Heiligenberg

Christianity arrived at the village around AD 600 through the Irish disciple Saint Gall.


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