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unusual facts about Friedrich Wilhelm, Fürst zu Hohenlohe-Kirchberg



Aefligen

The Low justice court (petty crimes and punishments) for Aefligen was in Bätterkinden, it belonged to the county of Landshut and was part of the parish of Kirchberg.

Belg

It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Kirchberg, whose seat is in the like-named town.

Duke Christian Louis of Mecklenburg

Friedrich Wilhelm, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg

Friedrich Gustav von Bramann

In 1887-88 he was attending surgeon to the Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm (1831–1888) in San Remo.

Friedrich Wilhelm, Fürst zu Hohenlohe-Kirchberg

As part of the Belgian Corps under Field Marshal Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld he played a decisive role in the action at Avesnes-le-Sec and later at the Battle of Fleurus (1794).

In combination with the Army of Condé and Hessian troops, a portion of his force, 15,000, covered the left (southern) flank of the Prussian advance on Valmy.

Heinrich LXII, Prince Reuss Younger Line

Heinrich LXII was born at Schleiz, Reuss, eldest surviving son of Heinrich XLII, Prince Reuss of Schleiz (1752–1818), (son of Count Heinrich XII Reuss of Schleiz, and Countess Christine of Erbach-Schönberg) and his wife, Princess Caroline of Hohenlohe-Kirchberg (1761–1849), (daughter of Christian Friedrich Karl, Prince of Hohenlohe-Kirchberg and Princess Louise Charlotte of Hohenlohe-Langenburg).

Heinrich LXVII, Prince Reuss Younger Line

Heinrich LXVII was born at Schleiz, Reuss, younger surviving son of Heinrich XLII, Prince Reuss of Schleiz (1752–1818), (son of Count Heinrich XII Reuss of Schleiz, and Countess Christine of Erbach-Schönberg) and his wife, Princess Caroline of Hohenlohe-Kirchberg (1761–1849), (daughter of Christian Friedrich Karl, Prince of Hohenlohe-Kirchberg and Princess Louise Charlotte of Hohenlohe-Langenburg).

Hunsrück

Notable towns located within the Hunsrück include Simmern, Kirchberg, and Idar-Oberstein, Kastellaun, and Morbach.

Johann Gottfried Schadow

His sons Rudolph and Friedrich Wilhelm were notable for sculpture and painting, respectively.

Kirchberg bei Mattighofen

Kirchberg bei Mattighofen is a municipality in the district of Braunau am Inn in the Austrian state of Upper Austria.

Kirchberg, Bern

A textile mill opened in 1871, followed by a consumer coop in 1872 and in 1890 an aluminum rolling mill and a weaving factory in Wydenhof.

Lustgarten

Berlin was redeveloped by Friedrich Wilhelm (the Great Elector) and his Dutch wife, Luise Henriette of Nassau.

Maitzborn Airfield

Maitzborn Airfield is a former military airfield, located 1.7 km east-southeast of Kirchberg in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

Ohlweiler

Ohlweiler lies roughly 3 km southwest of Simmern and 7 km northeast of Kirchberg.

Olivier, Count of Wallis

In the 1792 campaign of the War of the First Coalition, Wallis commanded a mixed division in the corps of Friedrich Wilhelm, Fürst zu Hohenlohe-Kirchberg on the upper Rhine and the Moselle, stationed on the Rhine river between Basel and Strassburg.

Princess Louise Caroline of Hesse-Kassel

Princess Louise Caroline of Hesse-Kassel (28 September 1789, Gottorp – 13 March 1867, Ballenstedt) was the consort of Friedrich Wilhelm, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg and the matriarch of the House of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, which would eventually become the ruling house of the kingdoms of Denmark, Greece, Norway, and, barring unforeseen circumstances, the United Kingdom.

Ravengiersburg

The municipality lies in the central Hunsrück in the Simmerbach valley, roughly 5 km east of Kirchberg and 6 km southwest of Simmern.

Reich, Germany

The rural residential community lies roughly 6 km north-northeast of Kirchberg and 7 km west-northwest of Simmern.

Roman Sebastian Zängerle

Roman Sebastian Zängerle (January 20, 1771, Ober-Kirchberg near Ulm – April 17, 1848 at Seckau in Austria) was Prince-Bishop of Seckau.

Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hachenburg

It passed to the Burgraves of Kirchberg in 1715, to the Counts of Nassau-Weilburg in 1799, and to the Counts of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg in 1803.

Schönborn, Rhein-Hunsrück

To the east lies Simmern, some 4 km away, and to the west, Kirchberg, also some 4 km away.

Simon II, Count of Sponheim-Kreuznach

Simon chose Kastellaun Castle as his residence, even though Kirchberg was the only town in his part of the county.

The dividing line was Soonwald Forest; Simon II ruled the part north of the forest, including Kirchberg and Kastellaun.

Spertental

The Aschauer Ache rises at the foot of the Großer Rettenstein and then flows to Kirchberg, continuing to Reith bei Kitzbühel before discharging into the Kitzbühler Ache near St. Johann in Tirol.

Stiftung Louisenlund

Advised by Kurt Hahn, in 1949 Friedrich Wilhelm, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg decided to build a boarding school on the grounds and established the Louisenlund Foundation.


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