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19 unusual facts about Hanau


Arlissa

Arlissa Ruppert, better known as simply Arlissa (born 21 September 1992 in Hanau, Germany) is an English singer-songwriter of half German and half American descent, raised in Crystal Palace, London.

Battle of Oriskany

British commander Barry St. Leger authorized an intercept force consisting of a Hanau Jäger (light infantry) detachment, Sir John Johnson's King's Royal Regiment of New York, Indian allies from the Six Nations and other tribes to the north and west, and Indian Department Rangers totaling at least 450 men.

Friedrich Anton Ulrich, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont

He married Countess Palatine Louise of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld, daughter of Christian II, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld and Countess Catharine Agathe of Rappoltstein, in Hanau on 22 Oct 1700.

Friedrich Christian Meuschen

Friedrich Christian Meuschen (September 15, 1719 - February 20, 1811) was a German diplomat and conchologist born in Hanau.

Georg Pausch

It details the fate and fortune of Pausch and his men from 15 May 1776, the day they left Hanau, to the close of Burgoyne's last battle, 7 October 1777.

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.

Hanau-Gelnhausen high-speed railway

The Hanau-Gelnhausen high-speed railway is a planned railway connecting Hanau and Gelnhausen in Germany.

Jenny Winkler

Jenny Winkler (* 13 May 1979 in Hanau, Germany) is a German actress and well known for her role as Nathalie von Lahnstein on the soap opera Verbotene Liebe (Forbidden Love), which she portrays since 2004.

Johann Jakob Dorner the Younger

In 1803 he became Restorer, and in 1808 Inspector of the Royal Gallery at Munich, and was subsequently elected a member of the Academies of Hanau, Vienna, Berlin, and Munich.

Leo Niehorster

He served in the US Army from 1968 to 1972, including the 130th Engineer Brigade, at Hanau, Germany, from 1970 to 1972.

Luise von Ploennies

Luise von Ploennies (7 November 1803 – 22 January 1872) was a German poet born at Hanau, the daughter of the naturalist Johann Philipp Achilles Leisler.

Marie of Hesse-Kassel

Maria was the eldest child of Landgrave Charles of Hesse-Kassel and Princess Louise of Denmark, born in Hanau.

Robert Hay Drummond

As royal chaplain he gained the confidence and esteem of George II, whom he attended during the German campaign of 1743, and on 7 July of that year preached the thanksgiving sermon for the victory of Dettingen before the king at Hanau.

Samuel Friedrich Brenz

Solomon Ẓebi Hirsch of Aufhausen wrote a response in Yiddish, Yudisher teryak (The Jewish Antidote; Hanau, 1615), countering Brenz' accusations.

Siege of Fort Stanwix

St. Leger, who was brevetted a brigadier general for the expedition, assembled a diverse force consisting of British regulars from the 8th and 34th Regiments, a number of artillerymen, 80 jäger from Hesse-Hanau, 350 Loyalists from the King's Royal Regiment of New York, a company of Butler's Rangers, and about 100 Canadien laborers.

Sinan Albayrak

Sinan Albayrak was born in Hanau, in the German state Hessen to Ziya Albayrak, who went to Germany in the early 1960s, seeking work as part of a formal guest worker programme, and his wife Gülbeyaz Albayrak.

Torrents of Spring

Sanin scoffs at any notion of apologizing and so a duel is arranged for the following day near Hanau.

William I, Elector of Hesse

During the lifetime of his father, William had already received the Principality of Hanau, south of the Hessian territories near Frankfurt, as successor of its newly extinct princes.

William's grandfather, Landgrave William, granted the newly acquired principality of Hanau to his daughter-in-law and grandsons.


Albert of Hanau-Münzenberg

A compromise was reached, in which Albert received the districts of Schwarzenfels, Ortenberg, the territories of the former monastery in Naumburg and Hanau's share of Assenheim.

Charles Antoine Morand

He joined the retreat from Russia, and later distinguished himself at the battles of Lutzen, Bautzen, Dennewitz, Hanau, and Hochheim in the War of the Sixth Coalition as the Allies defeated Napoleon.

Countess Johanna Magdalene of Hanau-Lichtenberg

## married on 29 May 1727 at Philippsruhe Castle in Hanau-Kesselstadt to Duke John William III of Saxe-Eisenach (born: 17 October 1666 in Friedewald; died: 14 January 1729 in Eisenach), son of the Duke John George I of Saxe-Eisenach (1634–1686) and his wife Countess Johanetta of Sayn-Wittgenstein (1626–1701)

De Dietrich

De Dietrich is the object a Public Tender Offer by the la Société Industrielle du Hanau (SIH), controlled by ABN AMRO Capital Investissement France and the De Dietrich family.

Friedberg–Hanau railway

It forms part of a trunk route from the Ruhr region to Bavaria via the Ruhr–Sieg railway, the Dill Railway and the Main–Weser Railway from Giessen to Friedberg via and continuing from Hanau via the Main–Spessart Railway.

George Christian, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg

George Christian then attempted to purchase the district of Dorheim, including the salt mine of Nauheim, which was very important for the economy of Hanau.

Heinrich Jacob Bashuysen

In 1701 he was appointed ordinary professor of Oriental languages and ecclesiastical history at the Protestant gymnasium of Hanau, and in 1703 became professor of theology in that institution (Bashuysen's father was preacher in the Dutch Reformed Church of the city).

John Frederick, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach

#Margravine Dorothea Friederike of Brandenburg-Ansbach (12 August 1676 – 13 March 1731) married Johann Reinhard III of Hanau-Lichtenberg and had issue, including Charlotte of Hanau, wife of Louis VIII, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt

John II, Count of Ziegenhain

The Counts of Hohenlohe, who based their claim on the fact that Albert I of Hohenlohe had married Elisabeth of Hanau, who was a granddaughter of Count Gottfried VIII of Ziegenhain via her mother, Elisabeth of Ziegenhain, who had married Lord Ulrich V of Hanau.

Kahl am Main

Bundesstraßen 8 (Aschaffenburg - Hanau), 43 and 43A link Kahl am Main to the Frankfurt Rhine Main Region.

Karl Christian von Langsdorf

His father was saltworks archivist and Hesse-Hanau Rentmeister (master of the bursary) (saltworks of Nauheim).

Kazys Binkis

Generalinė repeticija was first time staged abroad, in Hanau camp in 1948, and was published in 1958 in Pergalė journal.

Limburg-Staffel–Siershahn railway

During the period required for its repair, a steam-hauled freight train of the Hanau railway museum (Museumseisenbahn Hanau) railway ran over the Taunus to Steinefrenz station to supply the concrete sleepers.

Main-Kinzig-Kreis

The oldest partnership was inherited from the previous district Hanau, and was formed in 1972 with the Croatian municipality of Kutina - however it took till the 20th anniversary in 1992 that this partnership was officially signed.

Marthe Hanau

A French movie, "La Banquière" (The Lady Banker), by Francis Girod, was made in 1980, starring Romy Schneider as "Emma Eckhert", a thin disguise for Marthe Hanau.

Philip III, Count of Hanau-Münzenberg

They then made a Grand Tour to Antwerp, Mechelen, Lion, Brussels, Breda and Strasbourg and then to Buchsweiler (now: Bouxwiller in France), the "capital" of Hanau-Lichtenberg, where they visited their relatives.

Philip IV, Count of Hanau-Lichtenberg

The Archbishopric of Mainz objected to the reformation policy of Hanau-Lichtenberg and saw to it that Catholicism prevailed in the condominiums of Ober-Roden and Rodgau.

Philip Louis I, Count of Hanau-Münzenberg

During Count Philip Louis I's reign, Hanau could finally definitively purchase the villages of Dorheim, Schwalheim and Rödgen and the former monasteries Konradsdorf and Hirzenhain and one third of the district of Ortenberg from the Count of Stolberg.

Reinhard III, Count of Hanau

A Late Gothic winged altarpiece at Wörth am Main from around 1485-1490 – originally from St. Mary's Church in Hanau – depicts Count Philip the Younger and his ancestors, including Reinhard III and his wife.

Reinhard IV, Count of Hanau-Münzenberg

Count Reinhard IV of Hanau-Münzenberg (born: 14 March 1473 – died: 30 January 1512) succeeded in 1500 his father Philip I of Hanau-Münzenberg (1449–1500) in the government of the County of Hanau-Münzenberg.

Ulrich of Hanau

Ulrich I, Lord of Hanau (c. 1255/1260 – 1305/1306), ruling Lord of Hanau from 1281 until his death

Ulrich III, Lord of Hanau (c. 1310 – 1369 or 1370), Lord of Hanau from 1346 until his death and governor in the Wetterau

Ulrich V, Lord of Hanau (c. 1370 – 1419), ruling Lord of Hanau from 1380 to 1404

Ulrich II, Lord of Hanau (c. 1280/1288 – 1346), Lord of Hanau from 1305/1306 until his death

Ulrich IV, Lord of Hanau (1330/1340 – 1380), Lord of Hanau from 1369/1370 until his death

William Vondenvelden

He was born in Hesse-Kassel (or Hesse-Cassel), Germany in 1753 and came to Quebec as a lieutenant with the Hesse-Hanau Chasseurs, which fought for Britain during the American Revolution.