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4 unusual facts about Laubach


Agnes of Solms-Laubach

Matthäus Merian made an embroidery of the countess with her husband and children.

Laubach, Cochem-Zell

Laubach belonged to the high court district of Masburg (which was owned by the Counts of Virneburg), and owed its tithes to Saint Castor’s Monastery in Karden (even after the Electorate of Trier took over).

The outlying area of Leienkaul (formerly part of Laubach) became a separate municipality in June 2004.

It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Kaisersesch, whose seat is Kaisersesch.


Albert II, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach

Born in Ansbach, Albert was the second son of Joachim Ernst, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach (1582–1625) and his wife Sophie (1594–1651), daughter of John George, Count of Solms-Laubach.

Augustus, Prince of Anhalt-Plötzkau

In Ansbach on 25 January 1618 Augustus married Sibylle (b. Laubach, 19 October 1590 - d. Plötzkau, 23 March 1659), daughter of John George I, Count of Solms-Laubach.

Bruno, 3rd Prince of Ysenburg and Büdingen

: ∞ Count Otto of Solms-Laubach (1860-1904) on 14 April 1898 in Büdingen; had issue.

Ruth Johnson Colvin

Laubach Literacy International’s history begins in 1930, when Dr. Frank C. Laubach was a missionary among the Maranao people of the Philippines.

Stephan, Hereditary Prince of Lippe

He married Countess Maria of Solms-Laubach, daughter of Count Otto of Solms-Laubach and Princess Madeleine of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg, on 15 October 1994 in Detmold.

Ueß

In 1103, history tells of an estate named Husenrode (now called Hauroth) with its outlying appurtenances, Zusse (derived from zu Usse, meaning “at Uss”), Berbenbac (Berenbach) and Lupah (Laubach).


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