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10 unusual facts about Fulda


Bernhard von Heß

before he joined the Landwehr of Fulda in 1913, and took part in the campaigns under Prince Schwarzenberg in France.

Hermann Pünder

Hermann Josef Pünder (born 1 April 1888 in Trier; died 3 October 1976 in Fulda) was a German politician in the German Centre Party and the Christian Democratic Union.

Michael Peri

On February 20, 1989, Specialist Michael Peri vanished from the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment (ACR) in Fulda, Germany.

Principality of Nassau-Orange-Fulda

By the German Mediatisation, the Lordship of Weingarten was incorporated into the Kingdom of Württemberg and the Nassau core territories into the Grand Duchy of Berg and the Duchy of Nassau.

In 1795 the William V, Prince of Orange-Nassau, lost all his possessions in the Low Countries because of the rise of the Batavian Republic, a client state of the French Republic.

Schloss Buchenau

In 1680 the castle was sold from the family "Buchenau" to the Fürstabt of Fulda.

TRANSNET Gewerkschaft

On November 30, 2010 the delegates of a union convention in Fulda decided to merge with GDBA to the new union EVG.

Whitcomb Cabin

It is the last building of the former community of Fulda, named for Mr. Whitcomb's home city, Fulda, in Germany.

Wood Duck

Fulda, Minnesota has adopted the Wood Duck as an unofficial mascot, and a large number of nest boxes can be found in the area.

Zánka

This style also can be found in the western European region (for example Fulda, Saint Michele church).


Adam of Fulda

Ach hülf mich leid and other works by Adam of Fulda have been recorded by the German Renaissance-music vocal group "Stimmwerck".

Battle of Hanau

On 26 October, he sent orders to the various corps, directing them to Frankfurt via Eisenach and Fulda.

Carolingian Schools

While still a young monk at Fulda, Rhabanus, learning of the fame of Alcuin, begged to be sent to Tours, where he listened a year to the aged teacher and imbibed some of his zeal for the study of the classics and the cultivation of the sciences.

Christoph Florentius Kött

Christoph Florentius Kött (7 November 1801, St. Martin - 17 October 1873, Fulda) was a bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Fulda from 1848 to 1873.

East Hesse Highlands

South of the Fulda-Haune Plateau and west of the Rhön are the Lower und High Vogelsberg hills, the former encircling the latter.

Ehrenberg, Hesse

Ehrenberg touches the municipalities Hilders (rural district Fulda) in the north, Birx (Thuringia), the town Fladungen (Bavaria), the municipality Hausen (also Bavaria) and the town Oberelsbach (also Bavaria) the east, the town Gersfeld (district Fulda) in the south and the municipality Poppenhausen (district Fulda) in the west.

Flieden station

At the request of the Rhine-Main Transport Association (Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund, RMV) the starting point of the trains was moved to Fulda to Schlüchtern, where there are now connections to Fulda and Frankfurt.

Große Kreisstadt

In Hesse, seven towns with a population of more than 50,000 obtained the status of a Sonderstatusstadt: Bad Homburg vor der Höhe, Fulda, Giessen, Hanau, Marburg, Rüsselsheim and Wetzlar.

Habersack

The American families have differing family origins in the United States - the Ohio and Massachusetts Habersack families find roots in Fulda, Germany; the Michigan Habersacks have roots in Hungary; and the Maryland Habersack families have ancestry in Lieblos, Germany - now called Gründau.

Haferberg

The Wengebach rises southeast of the hill, also near the Umschwang, and to the west, the Endschlagbach, which are eastern and northern feeders respectively of the Fulda tributary, the Nieste.

Hermann Pünder

After his death in Fulda, he was buried in the Melaten-Friedhof in Cologne.

Hersfeld Abbey

Hersfeld Abbey was an important Benedictine imperial abbey in the town of Bad Hersfeld in Hesse (formerly in Hesse-Nassau), Germany, at the confluence of the rivers Geisa, Haune and Fulda.

Hezel of Hildesheim

Hezel's efforts culminated in the Goslar Precedence Dispute with Abbot Widerad of Fulda, which escalated at Pentecost in 1063 in Goslar Cathedral into a bloody massacre in the presence of the young king.

Johann Leonhard Pfaff

Johann Leonhard Pfaff (18 August 1775 in Hünfeld - 3 January 1848 in Fulda) was a bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Fulda from 1832 to 1848.

Johann Ludwig Klüber

Johann Ludwig Klüber (10 November 1762, Tann, near Fulda - 16 February 1837, Frankfurt am Main) was a German law professor, author and state official.

Kott

Christoph Florentius Kött (1801, St. Martin - 1873, Fulda), German bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Fulda

Marco Ambrosini

He is the initiator and conductor of the "European Nyckelharpa Training", that takes place in co-operation of the "Scuola di Musica Popolare di Forlimpopoli", Italy, the academy "Burg Fürsteneck" near Fulda, Germany, and the "Eric Sahlström Institutet" in Tobo, Sweden, as a vocational trainer for musicians on the Nyckelharpa.

Noble rot

A popular myth is that the practice originated independently in Germany in 1775, where the Riesling producers at Schloss Johannisberg (Geisenheim, in the Rheingau region) traditionally awaited the say-so of the estate owner, Heinrich von Bibra, Bishop of Fulda, before cutting their grapes.

Roman Catholic Diocese of Fulda

Only the deanery of Geisa in the Thuringian Rhön Mountains was returned to the diocese of Fulda, by virtue of their very close historical connection.

Schwalmtal, Hesse

Through the community runs Federal Highway (Bundesstraße) 254 from Alsfeld by way of Lauterbach to Fulda.

Selters

The wells are mentioned already in 772 in documents at the nearby monasteries in Fulda and Lorsch.

Sinn Valley Railway

Über die Strecke erfolgte ab 1937 für den Bau der Reichsautobahn FuldaWürzburg und des Training Areaes Wildflecken größtenteils die Anlieferung des Baumaterials.

Ulrich III, Lord of Hanau

From Emperor Charles IV, he received toll privileges in Steinau an der Straße (on the trade route from Frankfurt to Leipzig), in Sterbfritz (on the route from Fulda to Würzburg) and in Kesselstadt at the bank of the river Main.

Weser

Towns along the Weser, from the confluence of Werra and Fulda to the mouth, include: Hann. Münden, Beverungen, Höxter, Holzminden, Bodenwerder, Hameln, Hessisch Oldendorf, Rinteln, Vlotho, Bad Oeynhausen, Porta Westfalica, Minden, Petershagen, Nienburg, Achim, Bremen, Brake, Nordenham, Bremerhaven.

West Hesse Depression

The West Hesse Depression runs along the valleys of the Schwalm, Eder, Fulda, Esse and Diemel roughly from Alsfeld in the south to Bad Karlshafen in the north.

Wieringen

= "I, Gerwic of Friesland, transfer to St. Bonifacius of the monastery of Fulda the land that is under my jurisdiction near the river Marsdiep, and all I had in possession either fields or meadows, forests, houses or serfs.".

Wilhelm Fulda

Fulda was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross for his actions as a glider pilot during the attack on the Isthmus of Corinth, Greece.

Wilhelm von Bibra

Wilhelm was a member of the aristocratic Franconian von Bibra family which among its members were Wilhelm’s half brother, Lorenz von Bibra Prince-Bishop of Würzburg, Duke in Franconia, Conrad von Bibra, Prince-Bishop of Würzburg, Duke in Franconia (1490-1544), Heinrich von Bibra, Prince-Bishop, Prince-Abbot of Fulda (1711-1788) and Ernst von Bibra (1806-1878), naturalist and author.