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32 unusual facts about Northeim


Arnold Poepke

Arnold Poepke (born November 25, 1901 in Kaminsker Hauland, Kreis Obornik - July 14, 1989 in Northeim) was a German politician and member of the CDU.

August Eberhard Müller

August Eberhard Müller (13 December 1767, Northeim - 3 December 1817, Weimar) was a German composer, organist and choir leader.

Brunonids

Egbert II's sister, Gertrude of Brunswick, had a daughter with her second husband, Henry the Fat, Margrave of Frisia of Northeim.

This daughter, Richenza (d. 1141) married Lothar of Süpplingenburg, who was Duke of Saxony and later became Holy Roman Emperor.

Henry the Fat, Margrave of Northeim (d. 1101); III.

Bundesstraße 248

The Bundesstraße 248 (abbreviation: B 248) is a German federal highway that runs from Northeim to Dannenberg (Elbe) where it ends in the town at its junction with the B 191.

County of Brunswick

The County developed out of the possessions of the Brunonen dynasty centered on the town of Brunswick and was enlarged by the inheritances of Henry the Fat of Northeim around Northeim and Göttingen and a part of the Billung inheritance around Lüneburg, which fell to the House of Welf in 1106.

Echte

In the Middle Ages, it served as a trade node on the east-west road between Einbeck and Osterode and the north-south road from Northeim to Seesen.

Elisabeth of Brandenburg, Duchess of Brunswick-Calenberg-Göttingen

Elisabeth managed to force Eric into giving her a more profitable wittum than their marriage contract required: instead of the district of Calenberg in the Unterwald region, which contained Calenberg Castle, Neustadt and Hanover and provided little revenue, she received Oberwald, with the towns of Münden, Northeim and Göttingen, which provided more revenue and greated political weight.

Ernest I, Duke of Brunswick-Göttingen

It consisted at this time of the former County of Northeim, the cities of Göttingen, Uslar, Dransfeld, Munden and Gieselwerder and one half of Moringen.

Fred Schmitz

Schmitz (December 25, 1820 - February 8, 1905) was an American musician and farmer from Northeim, Wisconsin who served a single term as a Reform Party member of the Wisconsin State Assembly from Manitowoc County.

Fritz Emil Irrgang

Fritz Emil Irrgang (born May 10 1890 in Linderode - died December 16 1951 in Northeim) was a German politician and member of the Nazi Party and the Sturmabteilung (SA).

Georg Diederichs

Georg Diederichs (2 September 1900, Northeim - 19 June 1983) was a German politician, a member of the SPD, who served as Prime Minister of Lower Saxony.

Gertrude of Brunswick

After his death, she again acted as regent, this time for her second son Otto III of Northeim.

Their daughter Richenza of Northeim (d. 1142) married Lothar of Süpplingenburg, Duke of Saxony and future Holy Roman Emperor.

Hartmut Heinrich

Hartmut Heinrich (born March 5, 1952 in Northeim, Lower Saxony) is a German marine geologist and climatologist.

House of Asseburg

The former was initially established at Moringen Castle near Northeim, later also at Neindorf and Ampfurth.

Kreiensen

Kreiensen is a village and a former municipality in the district of Northeim, in Lower Saxony, Germany.

Langenholtensen

Langenholtensen is a village near the town of Northeim and part of that town, in Lower Saxony.

The village of Langenholtensen lies just north of Northeim.

Lutgard of Salzwedel

As a widow, she became the second wife of the widowed Count Herman II of Winzenburg-Northeim in 1148, and had three more daughters with him.

Northeim Lake District

Northeim Lake District is a series of lakes near Northeim, Lower Saxony.

Otto Eissfeldt

Otto Eissfeldt (September 1, 1887 in Northeim – April 23, 1973) was a German Protestant theologian, known for his work on the Old Testament and comparative near-east religious history.

Born in Northeim in Germany, Eissfeldt studied Protestant theology and Oriental languages from 1905 to 1912 at the University of Göttingen and Berlin's Humboldt University.

Otto I, Duke of Brunswick-Göttingen

By this time, he had been excommunicated, which is why he was buried in unhallowed ground north of the church of Wiebrechtshausen monastery at Northeim.

Principality of Göttingen

At this time, the territory consisted of the regions formerly owned by the Counts of Northeim, the towns of Göttingen, Uslar, Dransfeld, Münden, Gieselwerder at the border with Hesse and half of Moringen.

Rhume

The Rhume then flows in northwesterly direction through the municipalities of Gieboldehausen, Katlenburg-Lindau and Northeim.

Richenza of Northeim

She was the daughter of Henry the Fat of Northeim (d. 1101) and Gertrud of Brunswick of the Brunonen dynasty.

Royal Hanoverian State Railways

The Göttingen–Arenshausen and NortheimEllrich lines were not completed until after the transfer of the Hanoverian State Railways to Prussia after the War of 1866.

Tadashi Endo

In 1980, he was hired as head of a theater program for the city of Northeim, where he worked until 1986.

Uslar

Uslar is a town and a municipality in southern Lower Saxony, Germany, in the south-western part of the district of Northeim, and in the south of the hills of Solling forest which are part of the Weser Uplands.

Wilhelm Schneemelcher

In 1939 he was conscripted into the Wehrmacht, and after the war he was a village pastor in Stöckheim near Northeim.


Allerbach

Allerbach (Bewer), tributary of the Bewer, near Deitersen, county of Northeim, Lower Saxony

County of Calvelage

Hermann I, died probably in 1082, Count of Calvelage; after 1070 he married Ethelinde von Northeim, daughter of Otto of Northeim, 1061-1070 Duke of Bavaria, after he had been deposed and his daughter had been repudiated by his son-in-law and successor, Welf I, Duke of Bavaria 1070-1101 (Welf).

Saxon Rebellion

On the Saxon side, in addition to Count Otto of Northeim and Bishop Burchard II von Halberstadt, were Magnus Billung, meanwhile Duke of Saxony, Margrave Lothair Udo II of the Nordmark and Count Gebhard of Supplinburg, who was killed in battle, as well as the Saxon count palatine Frederick II of Goseck and Count Dietrich II of Katlenburg.

Söse

It flows in that direction through Osterode-Dorste before entering the westward-flowing Rhume between the villages of Berka and Elvershausen, both part of the borough of Katlenburg-Lindau in the district of Northeim.

South Harz Railway

Since the completion of the Solling Railway from Ottbergen to Northeim in 1878, it was part of the shortest route between Cologne and Leipzig.