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unusual facts about Johann Reinhard I, Count of Hanau-Lichtenberg



Agatha Christine of Hanau-Lichtenberg

#Elisabeth Johanna (22 February 1653 in Lauterecken – 5 February 1718 in Morchingen; buried in Diemeringen), married on 27 July 1669 to Wild- and Rhinegrave John XI of Salm-Kyrburg (d. 16 September 1688 in Flonheim; buried in the town church in Kirn)

Alexey Dushkin

Dushkin and Yakov Lichtenberg, two junior architects, were awarded the honorable task of designing the Palace of Soviets metro station (now Kropotkinskaya).

Alt-Hohenschönhausen

On 1 January 2001 the former borough of Hohenschönhausen consisting of Alt-Hohenschönhausen as well as the localities Neu-Hohenschönhausen, Malchow, Wartenberg and Falkenberg was merged with the borough of Lichtenberg into the contemporary borough of Lichtenberg.

Berlin-Lichtenberg station

Lichtenberg was featured in the opening scene of the movie "The Bourne Ultimatum" where it was made to look like a Moscow train station.

Catherine of Hanau, Countess of Wied

# William (d. 1612), succeeded his father in 1581 in Runkel and Dierdorf, the so-called "Upper County of Wied"; married Countess Johanna Sibylla of Hanau-Lichtenberg

Countess Johanna Magdalene of Hanau-Lichtenberg

# Christian Karl Reinhard (born: 7 July 1695 at Broich Castle; died: 17 November 1766 in Heidesheim am Rhein)

## married around 1730 to Sofie Eleonore (born: 1710 in Dagsburg; died: 19 June 1768), daughter of Count Leopold Emich of Leiningen (1685–1719) and his wife Countess Charlotte Amalie of Leiningen (1682–1729)

## 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)

Dennweiler-Frohnbach

A village named Ruppertsweiler – not to be confused with Ruppertsweiler just east of Pirmasens, which has not vanished – first mentioned in 1270 as Ruprehtiswilre in a document issued by Count Heinrich of Veldenz and Geroldseck (the same as the one mentioned just above), lay northwest of Dennweiler on the road that went from Lichtenberg towards Baumholder.

DRG Class 62

At the beginning of 1970 only numbers 62 007, 62 014 and 62 015 were still in operation, in the Est Wriezen where they headed trains to Berlin-Lichtenberg.

Johann Reinhard I, Count of Hanau-Lichtenberg

Johann Reinhard also settled a case against the County of Isenburg about conflicting rights in the Dreieich area.

Johann Reinhard II, Count of Hanau-Lichtenberg

On 19 October 1659, he married in Bischweiler (now Bischwiller, France) Countess Palatine Anna Magdalena of Birkenfeld-Bischweiler (1640–1693).

His father's testament awarded him the District of Lichtenau in Hesse and Bischofsheim am Hohen Steg as a residence.

Johanna Sibylla of Hanau-Lichtenberg

William succeeded his father in 1581 as Count of Upper Wied (Runkel and Dierdorf) and in the rest of Wied in 1595.

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

Kimberley Conrad

Just prior to marrying Hefner, Conrad was knighted by his Highness Prince Frederick von Anhalt also known as Robert Hans Lichtenberg, the adult adopted son of Princess Marie-Auguste of Anhalt who was daughter-in-law of German Emperor Wilhelm II.

Küstriner Vorland

Küstrin-Kietz as well as Gorgast also have access to local trains running on the former Prussian Eastern Railway from Berlin-Lichtenberg to Kostrzyn.

Leopold Lichtenberg

After spending three years more in Europe, Lichtenberg gave another series of concerts in America, after which he settled for some time in Boston, Massachusetts, as a member of the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

Lichtenberg, Bavaria

In association with the Upper Franconian government, Lichtenberg is the location of "Haus Marteau", an international music conference center named after the violinist Henri Marteau, a resident of the town.

Lichtenberg, Mittelsachsen

Lichtenberg is a municipality in the district of Mittelsachsen, in Saxony, Germany.

Ludowika Margaretha of Zweibrücken-Bitsch

She married on 14 October 1560 in Bitsch with Count Philip V of Hanau-Lichtenberg (1541–1599).

Paul Frölich

Following the rise to power of Adolf Hitler in 1933, Frölich was imprisoned, remaining in custody in a concentration camp in Lichtenberg until December of that year.

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

He also purchased Falkentein Castle and built the Château du Falkenstein on the castle grounds.

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 participated in the Diet of Augsburg in 1555, where the Peace of Augsburg was agreed, as well as the Diet in Augsburg in 1556, and the Diet of Speyer in 1570.

Reinhard IV, Count of Hanau-Münzenberg

The two lines had existed since the county was divided between Philip the Elder and Philip the Younger in 1458.

Snežnik Castle

The Schnebergs were followed by the houses of Lamberg, Eggenberg, Lichtenberg, and Schönburg-Waldenburg.


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