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3 unusual facts about Lichtenau


Friedrich Simon Archenhold

Friedrich Simon Archenhold (2 October 1861 in Lichtenau, Westphalia - 14 October 1939 in Berlin) was an astronomer who founded the Treptow Observatory (Treptow Sternwarte) in Berlin-Treptow.

Lichtenau, Saxony

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

Rudolf von Auerswald

He was a member of a Meissen family of nobility, first mentioned in 1263, from Auerswalde, now part of Lichtenau, Saxony.


Johann Reinhard II, Count of Hanau-Lichtenberg

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

Nuremberg–Crailsheim railway

Near Lichtenau forest, the line continues to Sachsen bei Ansbach and from there runs parallel with the Fränkische Rezat and from the Ansbach district of Eyb it runs next to the railway line from Treuchtlingen to Ansbach station.

Thuringian Forest

The B 247 from Luisenthal via Oberhof and Zella-Mehlis to Suhl, which follows the Ohra to the north, a section along the Lichtenau to the south and finally the lower reaches of the Mühlwasser, together with the good 10 km long L 1028 road that runs parallel to it to the northwest separates this natural sub-division of the Thuringian Forest from the rest.

Windsbach

The following communities surround Windsbach (beginning north going clockwise direction): Rohr, Kammerstein, Abenberg, Spalt, Mitteleschenbach, Wolframs-Eschenbach, Lichtenau, Neuendettelsau and Heilsbronn.


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