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77 unusual facts about Hesse


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.

Albert Osswald

From 1962 to 1969, he served as minister in the government of Hesse, first as minister of economic affairs, later as minister of finance.

Albert Praun

At the end of August 1945 he was moved to prison camps at Neustadt, Hesse and Bad Hersfeld and he was released from captivity in June 1947.

Alois Kottmann Award

The competition takes place annually in May and/or June during International Days of Music Hesse Main-Taunus Hofheim in Hofheim am Taunus, Hesse, Germany.

Ambrosius Pelargus

Ambrosius Pelargus (* Nidda, c.1493 † Trier, 5 July 1561) was a German Dominican theologian.

Asbach-Sickenberg

As a result of the 1945 Wanfried agreement, formerly Hessian Asbach-Sickenberg became part of the Soviet occupation zone and the later German Democratic Republic.

Battle of Amberg

After a series of minor victories at Neuwied, Giessen, and Friedberg in der Wetterau in early July, the French pressed Wartensleben back to Frankfurt am Main.

Battle of Germantown

The western wing of the camp, under the command of the Hessian general Wilhelm von Knyphausen, had a picket of two jaeger battalions at its left flank on the high ground above the mouth of the Wissahickon.

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.

Botho zu Eulenburg

From 1881 to 1892 he was the president of the province of Hesse-Nassau.

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.

Charlotte Teske

Charlotte Teske (née Bernhardt; born November 23, 1949 in Sachsenhausen, a neighborhood in Waldeck, Hesse) is a former female long-distance runner from Germany, who represented West Germany at the 1984 Summer Olympics.

Cherry Wilder

Lockett attended Nelson Girls High School in Nelson and the University of Canterbury in Christchurch before first moving to Australia and then, in 1976 to Langen, Hessen, Germany.

Christian, Count of Waldeck

Christian, Count of Waldeck (25 December 1585 in Eisenberg – 31 December 1637 in Waldeck), was Count of Waldeck-Wildungen and also imperial chamberlain.

Conrad III of Dhaun

Mainz had to accept almost all of its possession in Upper and Lower Hesse as Hessian fiefs, only Fritzlar, Naumburg, Amöneburg and Neustadt remained as allodial Mainzer possessions in the area.

Consulate General of the United States, Frankfurt

The Frankfurt Consular district covers the German states of Hesse, Rhineland-Palatinate, Baden-Württemberg, and Saarland.

Daniel, Count of Waldeck

Daniel died on 7 June 1577 and was buried in the family crypt in Marienthal Abbey in Netze (now part of Waldeck).

Daniel of Waldeck (1 August 1530 – 7 June 1577 in Waldeck) was a ruling count of Waldeck-Wildungen.

After his father's death, in 1574, he inherited Waldeck Castle and the half the district of Waldeck, as well as the City and District of and Naumburg.

Doyle Overton Hickey

After World War II the division carried out occupation duty near Langen, and was inactivated in November, 1945.

Edersee Dam

Constructed between 1908 and 1914, it lies near the small town of Waldeck at the northern edge of the Kellerwald.

Ernst Wollweber

Wollweber rose quickly through the party ranks and by 1921 had become a member of the KPD’s Central Committee and Political Secretary of Hesse-Waldeck.

Francis Adam Goodman

He was born March 3, 1827 in Rimbach, Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany, the son of Wilhelm and Mary (Albrecht) Gutmann.

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).

Frederick, Landgrave of Hesse-Eschwege

His full title, as immortalized on his coffin, was: Frederick, the brave hero, Landgrave of Hesse, Prince of Hersfeld, Count of Katzenelnbogen, Diez, Ziegenhain, Nidda and Schaumburg.

Friedrich Ludwig Weidig

Soon afterwards he was arrested in the Klosterkaserne barracks in Friedberg and in June 1835 put into house arrest in Darmstadt, where on 23 February 1837 he committed suicide after two years' questioning and physical abuse by state investigators, including Konrad Georgi, a known alcoholic.

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).

Hans-Christoph Seebohm

In the run-up to the first federal election of 1949, he and his party fellows Hellwege and von Merkatz negotiated a national conservative alliance with the Deutsche Rechtspartei and Hessian National Democrats, which however were aborted by the British occupation forces.

Henry IV, Count of Waldeck

Henry died in 1348 and was buried in the "Waldeck Chapel" in the Marienthal Abbey in Netze (now part of Waldeck).

Henry VI, Count of Waldeck

He was buried in the Waldeck chapel in Marienthal Monastery in Netze (now part of Waldeck).

Henry VII, Count of Waldeck

In 1395, he was made to swear that he would never again invade Paderborn, and Waldeck had to transfer its share in the castle and town of Liebenau to Paderborn.

Henry VIII, Count of Waldeck

Henry died in 1513 and was buried in the Marienthal monastery in Netze (today part of Waldeck).

Herbert Mataré

Later Mataré taught physics and mathematics in Wabern near Kassel and gave lectures at the Aachen university, and he was invited to build a semiconductor diode plant for Compagnie des Freins & Signaux Westinghouse in Aulnay-sous-Bois near Paris.

Hesse-Marburg

When, in 1604 Louis IV, Landgrave of Hesse-Marburg died without male issue, he bequeathed equal shares of his territory to the landgraviates of Hesse-Kassel (Marburg) and Hesse-Darmstadt (Gießen, Nidda), yet under the condition that both territories should remain Lutheran.

Hesse-Rheinfels

In 1627 Ernest (1623–1693), a younger son of Maurice, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel, received Rheinfels and lower Katzenelnbogen as his inheritance, and some years later, on the deaths of two of his brothers, Friedrich, Landgrave of Hesse-Eschwege (1617–1655) and Herman, Landgrave of Hesse-Rotenburg (1607–1658), he added Eschwege, Rotenburg, Wanfried and other districts to his possessions.

Hesse-Wanfried

In 1627 Ernest (1623–1693), a younger son of Maurice, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (or Hesse-Cassel), received Rheinfels and lower Katzenelnbogen as his inheritance, and some years later, on the deaths of two of his brothers, Frederick, Landgrave of Hesse-Eschwege (1617–1655) and Herman IV, Landgrave of Hesse-Rotenburg (1607–1658), he added Eschwege, Rotenburg, Wanfried and other districts to his possessions.

Jean-Baptiste Besard

In 1597 he was in Hesse where he may have taught the lute in addition to practising medicine and law.

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.

Johann Pistorius

He is sometimes called Niddanus from the name of his birthplace, Nidda in Hesse.

Johannes Herber

After being developed by the Langen club in Germany, he received several professional offers in Europe, but turned them down in favor of a U.S. college career.

John Honeyman

Making his way back to Trenton, he told the Hessian commander, Colonel Johann Rall, of his capture and reported that the Continental Army was in such a low state of morale that they would not attack Trenton.

Langendernbach

Langendernbach is a village in the municipality Dornburg, Limburg-Weilburg district, Hesse, in western Germany.

Langenhain

Langenhain is a village and a district in the town of Hofheim, Hesse, near Frankfurt, Germany.

Main-Neckar Railway

It has since been rebuilt as four tracks between Frankfurt and Langen and between Egelsbach and Erzhausen, expanded to three tracks between Langen and Egelsbach and between Erzhausen and Darmstadt.

Mario Szenessy

In 1971, Szenessy received the Hermann-Hesse-Preis for his novel Lauter falsche Pässe oder Die Erinnerungen des Roman Skorzeny.

Master of the Ortenberg Altarpiece

His name is derived from an altarpiece painted between 1410 and 1420 for the church of Ortenberg; this may currently be found in a museum collection in Darmstadt.

Michael Thonet

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

Nidderau station

On the Nidder Valley Railway trains run every hour (every two hours on Sundays and public holidays) from Frankfurt Central Station or Bad Vilbel via Niederdorfelden, Nidderau and Altenstadt to Glauburg-Stockheim.

Philip III, Count of Waldeck

Philip III, Count of Waldeck (born: 9 December 1486 at Waldeck Castle in Waldeck; died: 20 June 1539 in Bad Arolsen), was from 1524 to 1539 Count of Waldeck-Eisenberg.

Philip IV, Count of Waldeck

Count Philip IV of Waldeck (born: 1493 at Friedrichstein Castle in Bad Wildungen; died: 30 November 1574 at Waldeck Castle in Waldeck) was Count of Waldeck-Wildungen from 1513 to 1574.

He was buried on 4 December 1574 in the family burial vault in the Nicholas chapel of the church of Marienthal monastery in Netze (now part of the city of Waldeck.

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.

Potosi, Venezuela

The Edersee Reservoir in Hesse, Germany, which flooded three villages during its creation which can still seen when the water level is low.

Prince Charles William of Hesse-Darmstadt

Karl Wilhelm of Hesse-Darmstadt (17 June 1693, Nidda - 17 May 1707, Gießen) was a Prince of Hesse-Darmstadt.

Prince Friedrich of Hesse and by Rhine

Prince Friedrich of Hesse and by Rhine (Friedrich Wilhelm August Victor Leopold Ludwig; 7 October 1870 – 29 May 1873) was the haemophiliac second son of Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse, and Princess Alice of the United Kingdom, one of the daughters of Queen Victoria.

Ringkirche

Ringkirche (Circle Church) is a Protestant church in Wiesbaden, the state capital of Hesse, Germany.

Salome Kammer

Salome Kammer (born 17 January 1959 in Nidda, Hesse, Germany) is a German actress, singer and cellist.

SC Neukirchen

The SC Neukirchen is a German association football club from the city of Neukirchen, Hesse.

Spezialeinsatzkommando

At the moment, only the SEK units of Hamburg (note: the SEK-equivalent unit in Hamburg is also called MEK), Schleswig-Holstein and Southern Hesse have women in their ranks.

Staufenberg

Staufenberg, Hesse, a town in the district of Gießen, Hesse, Germany

Stuffo

Two mountain-top locations have been proposed as sites of worship for Stuffo: the Staufenberg near Gießen, in Hesse; and the Stuffenberg, now Hülfensberg, in the Eichsfeld district, Thuringia.

Ulrich I, Lord of Hanau

Several properties could be temporarily added under mortgage arrangenments: Ortenberg with its Castle, Birstein Castle, Orb and Besen-Kassel.

Upper Hessian Railway Company

On 29 December 1869 services were opened from Giessen to Hungen, on 29 June 1870 to Nidda and on 30 October 1870 to Büdingen.

Vereinsgewehr 1857

The Vereinsgewehr 1857 (union rifle, mod. 1857) was the commonly developed rifle of Baden, Hesse and Württemberg for their troups of the 8th Bundesarmee corps as a successor of the Musket Model 1777 corrigé.

Vert

For the town of Grünberg, Siebmacher shows a yellow field on which a knight is riding, his horse running on a green "hill" and the knight flying a green banner.

Villa Haas

Villa Haas is a historical villa in the small city of Sinn, Hesse located at the western edge of the Hörre in Germany (Lahn-Dill-Kreis).

Volkenroda Abbey

From 1994 the "Brotherhood of Jesus" ("Jesus-Bruderschaft") from Hünfelden-Gnadental in the district of Limburg-Weilburg in Hesse took over the buildings and set up a community in them.

Wabern

Wabern, Hesse - a community in the Schwalm-Eder district in northern Hesse, Germany

Wenno

Originally from Kassel-Naumburg, Wenno was killed by the knight Wickbert with an axe, in a quarrel caused by some unknown reason.

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).

Wetterau

The economic power of the Wetterau has increased continuously through specific promotion of its urban centres Frankfurt am Main, Wetzlar, Gelnhausen and Friedberg since Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor.

Many historical findings are exhibited in the Wetterau-Museum in Friedberg.

Wilhelm Karpenstein

Wilhelm Karpenstein (born 24 May 1903 in Frankfurt am Main - died 2 May 1968 in Lauterbach, Hesse) was a German Nazi Party politician.

Wilhelm Leuschner

The Bundesland Hesse awards a medal named "Wilhelm-Leuschner-Medaille".

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.

Wolfgang-Ernst Prince of Ysenburg and Büdingen

He had sold all other estates, but in 2010 he repurchased the Castle Ronneburg.


Ausbach

Ausbach is a village and a municipal district of Hohenroda in Hersfeld-Rotenburg district in eastern Hesse, Germany.

Bad Nauheim station

Bad Nauheim station is a station in the town of Bad Nauheim in the German state of Hesse on the Main–Weser Railway.

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.

Bergstraße

Bergstraße Route, "Mountain Road" in the Odenwald of Baden-Württemberg and Hesse, Germany

Charlotte Amalie

Charlotte Amalie of Hesse-Kassel (or Hesse-Cassel) (1650-1714), a queen-consort of Denmark and Norway

Christian Schwarz-Schilling

In 1957 he became manager of the battery manufacturer Accumulatorenfabrik Sonnenschein in Büdingen in Hesse, which he remained until 1982.

Christian, Landgrave of Hesse-Wanfried-Rheinfels

Christian of Hesse-Wanfried-Rheinfels (17 July 1689 in Wanfried – 21 October 1755 in Eschwege) was a son of Landgrave Charles of Hesse-Wanfried (1649-1711) and his second wife Alexandrine Juliane of Leiningen-Dagsburg (d. 1703).

Descendants of Isabella I of Castile and Ferdinand II of Aragon

The Landgraves of Hesse-Darmstadt connection also provides the descent of Albert II, Prince of Monaco from Isabella I and Ferdinand II.

Einloft

The family Einloft is original of Hesse, of the region known as "Hessisches Hinterland", around the municipalities of Gönnern (Angelburg), Dautphetal and Biedenkopf.

Ferdinande Henriette, Countess of Stolberg-Gedern

Ferdinande Henriette, Countess of Stolberg-Gedern, born 2 October 1699 at Gedern, Oberhessen, Hesse-Darmstadt, then in the Holy Roman Empire, was a daughter of Louis Christian, Count of Stolberg-Gedern, and Princess Christine of Mecklenburg-Güstrow.

Formula of Concord

The Formula of Concord was not accepted by Lutherans in Hesse, Zweibrücken, Anhalt, Pommeranian (Land), Holstein, Denmark, Sweden, Nürnberg, Strassburg, and Magdeburg, and the government of Queen Elizabeth I of England lobbied in its German embassies to prevent acceptance of it among the German estates.

Frederick, Landgrave of Hesse-Philippsthal-Barchfeld

Landgrave Frederick of Hesse-Philippsthal-Barchfeld (1717 in Grave – 1777 in Barchfeld) was the oldest son of Landgrave William of Hesse-Philippsthal-Barchfeld and his wife, Charlotte of Anhalt-Bernberg.

Gladenbach

The highway runs thence alongside the Aartalsee (a reservoir) on to Herborn, ending at Montabaur.

Hermann Hesse

One enduring monument to Hesse's lasting popularity in the United States is the Magic Theatre in San Francisco.

History of Hesse

The Landgraviate of Hesse-Kassel expanded in 1604 when Maurice, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel, inherited the Landgraviate of Hesse-Marburg from his childless uncle, Louis IV, Landgrave of Hesse-Marburg (1537–1604).

Holger Geschwindner

Holger Geschwindner (born September 12, 1945 in Bad Nauheim, Hesse) is a former basketball player, and is the mentor, coach and friend of the National Basketball Association's (NBA) Dallas Mavericks power forward Dirk Nowitzki.

Internationaler Sozialistischer Kampfbund

From 1924 to 1933, the ISK (and its forerunner, the ISYL) maintained its rural school, the Walkemühle in the Adelshausen quarter of Melsungen, Hesse and from 1931 to 1933, its own newspaper, Der Funke, both of which were banned by the Nazis.

Jacob Best

He was born in Hesse-Darmstadt where he learned the trade and ran a small brewery in Mettenheim, Rhenish Hesse, until immigrating to Milwaukee in 1844 to join his sons.

Johann Menge

Born in the town of Steinau, Hesse, Germany, Menge had little formal education, but was a keen learner and quickly gained a broad knowledge of languages, philosophy, medicine, religion, and geology.

Johann Weißheimer II

He was also a politician and mayor of Osthofen in the first chamber stalls of the Hesse state parliament during the 1848 revolution.

Landgraviate of Hesse

Hesse-Marburg (line extinct in 1604, incorporated into Hesse-Kassel and Hesse-Darmstadt) to Louis IV

Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt

His eldest brother William IV received the Landgraviate of Hesse-Kassel, while the second son Louis IV obtained Hesse-Marburg, and the third Philipp II became Landgrave of Hesse-Rheinfels.

Lollar–Wetzlar railway

The Lollar–Wetzlar railway was a railway line in the German state of Hesse, connecting the towns of Lollar and Wetzlar via Lahnau.

Lucian Truscott

When the Seventh Army was deactivated in March 1946, Truscott's Third Army took over the Western Military District (the U.S.-occupied parts of Baden, Württemberg and Hesse-Darmstadt).

Main–Weser Railway

Bad Nauheim was a Kurhessen enclave within the Grand Duchy of Hesse exclave of Oberhessen through which the line ran to Gießen.

Margaret Elisabeth of Leiningen-Westerburg

Margaret Elisabeth of Leiningen-Westerburg (30 June 1604 in Schadeck, today part of Runkel – 13 August 1667 at Wiesenburg Castle), was a Countess of Leiningen and regent of the Landgraviate of Hesse-Homburg.

Mullite

In 2006 researchers at University College London and Cardiff University discovered that potters in the Hesse region of Germany since the late Middle Ages had used mullite in the manufacture of a type of crucible (known as Hessian crucibles), that were renowned for enabling alchemists to heat their crucibles to very high temperatures.

Nağaybäk

Here, they founded a chain of villages named after the battles of Napoleonic Wars, including present-day Parizh, named after the Battle of Paris, Fershampenuaz (after the Battle of Fère-Champenoise), Kassel (after engagements near Kassel in Hesse), Trebiy (after the Battle of Trebbia) etc.

Oflag IX-C

Between November 1939 and June 1940 the POW camp at Rotenburg an der Fulda in Hesse was designated Oflag IX-C.

Princess Mafalda of Savoy

Mafalda died during the night of 26–27 August 1944; her body was reburied after the war at Kronberg Castle in Hesse.

Raunheim station

Raunheim station is a railway station in the town of Raunheim in the German state of Hesse on the Main Railway from Mainz to Frankfurt am Main.

Richard Oehler

Richard Oehler (27 February 1878, Heckholzhausen, Hesse-Nassau - 13 November 1948) was a German Nietzsche scholar – an early editor of the philosopher's works, and author of Friedrich Nietzsche und die deutsche Zukunft (Leipzig: Armanen-Verlag, 1935), which has been characterized by Walter Kaufmann as "one of the first Nazi books on Nietzsche" (Basic Writings of Nietzsche, New York: The Modern Library, 2000, p. 387, n. 27).

Stan Tatkin

Additionally, Dr. Tatkin trained in the Adult Attachment Interview through Mary Main and Erik Hesse’s program out of University of California, Berkeley and studied personally with Allan N. Schore, Ph.D.

Vollmarshausen

Vollmarshausen is a village of 3000 inhabitants incorporated into the municipality of Lohfelden in Hesse, Germany.

Wiesbaden-Breckenheim

Breckenheim and other villages in the area were sold in 1492 to William III, the landgrave of Upper Hesse, and was passed to Hesse-Marburg in 1567, then in 1604 to Hesse-Kassel (or Hesse-Cassel), then to Hesse-Darmstadt in 1624.

William Christoph, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg

William Christoph of Hesse-Homburg (13 November 1625, Ober-Rosbach – 27 August 1681, then in Bingenheim, now in Echzell) was the second Landgraf of Hesse-Homburg (then known as "Landgraf of Bingenheim").

Witta of Büraburg

Witta of Büraburg (also known as Albuin or Vito Albinus, a close Latin translation of his Germanic name) (born in Wessex; died 747) was one of the early Anglo-Saxon missionaries in Hesse and Thuringia in central Germany, disciple and companion of Saints Boniface and Lullus.

Wolfgang Popp

Wolfgang Popp (born May 19, 1959, in Neu-Isenburg, Hesse), is a former professional tennis player from Germany.