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6 unusual facts about Idar


Daulat Singh

Daulat Singh (12 May 1875–14 April 1931) was the Maharaja of Idar, India, from 1911 to 1931.

Field kitchen

Karl Rudolf Fissler of Idar-Oberstein invented a mobile field kitchen in 1892 that the Germans came to refer to as a Gulaschkanone (Goulash Cannons) because the chimney of the stove resembled ordnance pieces when disassembled and limbered for towing.

Freisen

It is situated approximately 12 km northeast of Sankt Wendel, and 20 km southwest of Idar-Oberstein.

Pratap Singh of Idar

1902-1911: Major-General His Highness Maharajadhiraja Maharaja Shri Sir Pratap Singh Sahib Bahadur, Maharaja of Idar, GCSI, KCB

Sayyed Ahmad Khan Barha

After the Ahmadabad victory, the king sent him in pursuit of the sons of Sher K. Fuladi who had gone to Idar.

Takht Singh

The son of Sagram Singh, a Maharaja of Idar, who himself was the son of Anand Singh, the first Maharaja of Idar and a younger son of Maharaja Ajit Singh, Raja of Jodhpur), however, he had to cede Ahmednagar back to the state of Idar to be recognized in Jodhpur by the British.


Emich Christian of Leiningen-Dagsburg

Emich Christian of Leiningen-Dagsburg (29 March 1642 in Dagsburg – 27 April 1702) was, by descent, Count of Leiningen and Dagsburg and, by inheritance, Lord of Broich, Oberstein and Bürgel.

Gallery of Contemporary Sculpture and Plastic Arts

Marina Spivak (sculpture), Alexander Pozin (sculpture), Inna Pozina (sculpture), Galina Pisareva (sculpture, painting), Sergey Borisov (sculpture), Idar Ishemgulov (sculpture), Vitaly Vargachev (sculpture), Andrey Efimov (sculpture), Mikhail Edomsky (sculpture, painting), Yevgeny Rotanov (sculpture)

Gopalanand Swami

Born Khushal Bhatt, he was born in the village of Torda in Idar Tehsil (Pre-Independence Era), Currently in Bhiloda Taluka, Sabarkantha district, in north-eastern Gujarat.

Hunsrück

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

Leonard Goffiné

He left Coesfeld in 1691, when, at the urgent request of the Archbishop of Trier, he undertook the charge of the parishes, first of Wehr, then of Rheinböllen, and afterwards of Idar-Oberstein, from December, 1696, until his death in 1719.

Saurashtra State

The large Kathiawar peninsula consisted of some prominent Princely States of India like the Baroda State, Nawanagar State, Bhavnagar State, Wadhwan, Porbandar, Idar, Dhrangadhra State, Rajpipla, Cambay, Gondal, Morvi, Wankaner, Baria, Dharampur, Dhrol, Limbdi, Rajkot, Palitana, Sachin and many others.

Trier University of Applied Sciences

The Trier University of Applied Sciences (German: Hochschule Trier) is a University of Applied Sciences (German: "Fachhochschule") located in Trier, Birkenfeld and Idar-Oberstein (Germany).

Two of these areas are at the Environmental Campus Birkenfeld, and gemstone and jewelry design are in the town of Idar-Oberstein.

With 7,000 students the Trier University of Applied Sciences is divided into three campuses in Trier (main campus Schneidershof), Birkenfeld (Environmental Campus Birkenfeld), and Idar-Oberstein (jewellery design).

Veldenz Castle

The hill castle is first mentioned in 1285, in a document stipulating that its builder, Count William Bossel II of Stein from Oberstein an der Nahe had to allow his liege lord, the Count of Veldenz to use the castle in case of war or a feud.


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