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13 unusual facts about Frankenberg


Anja Möllenbeck

Anja Möllenbeck (born Anja Gündler on 18 March 1972 in Frankenberg, Saxony) is a retired German discus thrower, whose personal best throw is 64.63 metres, achieved in May 1998 in Obersuhl.

Biedenkopf transmitter

The Biedenkopf transmitter covers mostly the very mountainous region around the cities of Waldeck and Frankenberg to the north, as well as the area to the south up to the city of Limburg an der Lahn.

Braunshausen

Braunshausen is located in the south-eastern corner of the Hochsauerlandkreis, close to the borders with Hesse and to Rengershausen, a village belonging to the town of Frankenberg.

Eberhard Vogel

Eberhard "Ebse" Vogel (born 8 April 1943 in Altenhain) is a former German footballer.

Edertalschule Frankenberg

It is located in the southwestern part of the district Waldeck-Frankenberg in Hesse, and is the only Gymnasium in the old district of Frankenberg.

Frankenau

Frankenau borders in the north on the community of Vöhl, in the east on the community of Edertal and the town of Bad Wildungen, in the south on the community of Haina, and in the west on the town of Frankenberg (all in Waldeck-Frankenberg).

Frankenberg, Saxony

Frankenberg (also: Frankenberg/Sa.) is a town in the district of Mittelsachsen, in the Free State of Saxony, Germany.

Gebrüder Thonet

Gebrüder Thonet or the Thonet Brothers was a European furniture manufacturer based in the German town of Frankenberg, Hesse.

Gießen station

At that time local freight trains operated from here to several stations in the area (e.g. Frankenberg (Eder), Dillenburg and Nida).

Jochen Sachse

Jochen Sachse (born 2 October 1948 in Frankenberg, Saxony) is an East German former athlete who competed mainly in the hammer throw.

Michael Thonet

Today, a museum in the factory in Frankenberg, Hesse showcases the firm's history and the Thonet design.

Wetter, Hesse

North to south through the town's municipal area runs the Federal Highway (Bundesstraße) B 252 from eastern Westphalia by way of Korbach and Frankenberg and on to Göttingen (in the community of Lahntal).

Wilhelm, Landgrave of Hesse-Philippsthal-Barchfeld

Wilhelm was married on 5 August 1961 at Friedrichshausen, Frankenberg, Hesse, to Oda-Mathilde von Garmissen (born 1935), daughter of Hilmar von Garmissen and his wife Baroness Oda von Houwald.


Battle of Corbach

The Battle of Corbach, or Korbach, a Hanseatic town of Waldeck-Frankenberg in northern Hesse, Germany, was fought on 10 July 1760 during the Seven Years' War.

Sachsenburg concentration camp

The Spanish author Emilio Calderón claims in his novel "La Bailarina y el Inglés" that in the town of Frankenberg the Nazis had a broadcasting facility that helped Subhas Chandra Bose, the assigned leader of India after the Endsieg, to propagate his ideological views to his countrymen all over the globe (see: La Bailarina y el Inglés by Emilio Calderón, ed. Grupo Planeta, Barcelona 2009).

Wohratal

In the north, Wohratal borders on the towns of Rosenthal and Gemünden, both in Waldeck-Frankenberg district, in the east on the community of Gilserberg in Schwalm-Eder district, and on Rauschenberg, also in Marburg-Biedenkopf district, in the south and west.

Ząbkowice Śląskie

The town was located exactly halfways between the sites of two previously existing towns that had failed to attract enough settlers: Frankenberg and Löwenstein, and inherited its German name from both.