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5 unusual facts about Grand Duchy of Oldenburg


Ameli, Duchess of Oldenburg

Duke Anton-Günther is a grandson of the last Grand Duke of Oldenburg, Frederick Augustus II.

Duke Christian of Oldenburg

Christian is a great-grandson of the last Grand Duke of Oldenburg, Frederick Augustus II and through his mother he is related to the Princes of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Freudenberg, who belong to a morganatic branch of the House of Wittelsbach descending from Frederick I, Elector Palatine.

Grand Duchy of Oldenburg

The differences between the two people were mostly perceptible, but Low German was universally spoken, except in Saterland, where the Saterland Frisian language had maintained itself.

The Grand Duchy of Oldenburg (German: Großherzogtum Oldenburg) (also known as Holstein-Oldenburg) was a Grand Duchy within the German Confederation, North German Confederation, and German Empire, which consisted of three widely separated territories: Oldenburg, Eutin and Birkenfeld.

Karl August Nerger

In addition to these highest awards of the major states, he also received the 1914 Iron Cross 1st and 2nd Class, the Knight's Cross with Swords of Prussia's Royal House Order of Hohenzollern, the Military Merit Cross 1st and 2nd Class of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, the Friedrich August Cross 1st and 2nd Class of Oldenburg, and the Hanseatic Crosses of Hamburg, Bremen and Lübeck.


Arthur Fitger

Arthur Fitger was one of the ten children of Delmenhorst (Grand Duchy of Oldenburg) postmaster Ratsherr Peter Diedrich Fitger (born 29 February 1804, died 14 November 1865).

Rudolf Bultmann

Bultmann was born in Wiefelstede, Oldenburg, the son of Arthur Kennedy Bultmann, a Lutheran minister.

Wilhelm Hegeler

Wilhelm Hegeler (February 25, 1870 in Varel, Grand Duchy of Oldenburg - October 8, 1943 in Irschenhausen) was a German novelist.


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Grand Duchy of Oldenburg State Railways

The Grand Duchy of Oldenburg gained an important link to the south in 1876 with the so-called Southern Railway from Oldenburg via Quakenbrück as far as Eversburg on the Osnabrück–Rheine line.