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unusual facts about Liebenau, Hesse


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.


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.

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.

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

Botho zu Eulenburg

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

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).

Consulate General of the United States, Frankfurt

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

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.

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.

Hermann Hesse

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

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.

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.

Langendernbach

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

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.

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.

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).

Ringkirche

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Wilhelm Leuschner

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

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.


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