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7 unusual facts about Mansfeld


Bornstedt

Bornstedt, Mansfeld-Südharz, a municipality in the Mansfeld-Südharz district, Saxony-Anhalt

Colloredo-Mansfeld

Hieronymus Graf von Colloredo (1732–1812) was Prince-Bishop of Gurk from 1761 and last Prince-Archbishop of Salzburg from 1771 until 1803, when the Archbishopric was secularized.

Allegedly one Liebhart (Liobardo) of Waldsee came to Italy attendant King Conrad II and about 1031 was enfeoffed by Patriarch Poppo of Aquileia with Mels Castle near Udine in Friuli.

The Colloredo family achieved the elevation to the noble rank of Freiherren by the Habsburg Emperor Rudolf II in 1588 and became immediate Reichsgrafen in 1724.

Conrad Porta

Conrad Porta (1541-1585) was a Lutheran pastor of Mansfeld, and author of theologian tracts of the first generation following Martin Luther.

Mansfeld Castle

The castle, which is surrounded by forest, stands on top of a large rock overlooking the town of Mansfeld.

Walbeck

Walbeck, Mansfeld-Südharz, a municipality in the Mansfeld-Südharz district, Saxony-Anhalt


Battle of Dessau Bridge

Wallenstein and the Imperial Catholic league marched to Dessau, where Mansfeld and the Protestant army would inevitably try to cross in order to reach Magdeburg and the German Catholic League headquarters in Aschersleben.

Béatrix de Cusance

They had no children and in 1679, a widow, she married Count Heinrich Franz von Mansfeld, Prince di Fondi, by whom she had two daughters.

Bennungen

Bennungen is a village and a former municipality in the Mansfeld-Südharz district, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.

Breitenstein, Saxony-Anhalt

Breitenstein is a village and a former municipality in the Mansfeld-Südharz district, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.

Breitungen, Saxony-Anhalt

Breitungen is a village and a former municipality in the Mansfeld-Südharz district, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.

Brücken

Brücken, Saxony-Anhalt, in the district of Mansfeld-Südharz, Saxony-Anhalt

Dietersdorf

Dietersdorf is a village and a former municipality in the Mansfeld-Südharz district, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.

Drebsdorf

Drebsdorf is a village and a former municipality in the Mansfeld-Südharz district, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.

Ernst Rexer

Additionally, Pose procured equipment from the companies AEG, Zeiss, Schott Jena, and Mansfeld, which were in the Russian occupation zone.

Hainrode

Hainrode is a village and a former municipality in the Mansfeld-Südharz district, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.

Hayn

Hayn is a village and a former municipality in the Mansfeld-Südharz district, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.

Kleinleinungen

Kleinleinungen is a village and a former municipality in the Mansfeld-Südharz district, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.

Mansfeld Land

Since the county reform of 2007, Mansfeld Land – after several years as the independent county of Mansfelder Land – has belonged to the county of Mansfeld-Südharz.

After the foundation of East Germany, these 2 counties were disbanded and transferred to the counties of Hettstedt and Eisleben, small areas of Mansfeld Land in the west went to Sangerhausen and in the south to Saalkreis and Querfurt.

Province of Saxony

territory gained from the Kingdom of Saxony after the Battle of Leipzig in 1813: the towns and surrounding territories of Wittenberg, Merseburg, Naumburg, Mansfeld, Querfurt, and Henneberg;

Questenberg

Questenberg is a village and a former municipality in the Mansfeld-Südharz district, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.

Roßla

Rossla (German: Roßla) is a village and a former municipality in the Mansfeld-Südharz district, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.

Rottleberode

Rottleberode is a village and a former municipality in the Mansfeld-Südharz district, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.

Schwenda

Schwenda is a village and a former municipality in the Mansfeld-Südharz district, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.

Seeburg

Seeburg, Saxony-Anhalt, in the district Mansfeld-Südharz, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany

South Harz Karst Landscape Biosphere Reserve

The biosphere reserve has an area of 30,034 hectares and lies in the county of Mansfeld-Südharz on the territory of the towns of Allstedt and Sangerhausen and the municipalities of Berga, Südharz and Wallhausen.

Uftrungen

Uftrungen is a village and a former municipality in the Mansfeld-Südharz district, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.

Wickerode

Wickerode is a village and a former municipality in the Mansfeld-Südharz district, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.

Wilhelm Ule

He studied mathematics and geography in Berlin and Halle, where he graduated in 1888 with a dissertation on the lakes of Mansfeld, Die Mansfelder Seen.

Wolf Heinrich von Baudissin

He fought under Ernst von Mansfeld and led his troops after the death of Mansfeld in 1626.

Wolfgang, Duke of Brunswick-Grubenhagen

Wolfgang was born on 6 April 1531 in Herzberg, the fifth son of Duke Philip I of Brunswick-Grubenhagen and his second wife, Catherine of Mansfeld.


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