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21 unusual facts about Prüm


Ammeldingen an der Our

Ammeldingen an der Our is a municipality in the district of Bitburg-Prüm, in Rhineland-Palatinate, western Germany.

Ammeldingen bei Neuerburg

Ammeldingen bei Neuerburg is a municipality in the district of Bitburg-Prüm, in Rhineland-Palatinate, western Germany.

Dancing procession of Echternach

Documents of the fifteenth century speak of it as a long-established custom at that time, and a similar "dancing" procession, which used to take place in the small town of Prüm, in the Eifel, was documented as early as 1342.

Eßlingen

Eßlingen, in English-language works sometimes spelt Esslingen is a municipality in the district of Bitburg-Prüm, in Rhineland-Palatinate, western Germany.

Fischbach-Oberraden

Fischbach-Oberraden is a municipality in the district of Bitburg-Prüm, in Rhineland-Palatinate, western Germany.

Hüttingen an der Kyll

Hüttingen an der Kyll is a municipality in the district of Bitburg-Prüm, in Rhineland-Palatinate, western Germany.

Hüttingen bei Lahr

Hüttingen bei Lahr is a municipality in the district of Bitburg-Prüm, in Rhineland-Palatinate, western Germany.

Islek

The Islek (Aquilania) is a part of the German Eifel region (Rhineland-Palatinate), in the Bitburg-Prüm district next to the Luxembourg and Belgian border.

Today the region houses numerous wind energy projects and is a tourist area with ancient cities like Clervaux, Prüm, Burg Reuland and Vianden.

Kalenborn-Scheuern

Bundesstraße 410 (PrümMayen) lies some 6 km to the south, and Bundesstraße 421 (StadtkyllDaun) at the same distance to the northeast.

Laurensberg

It is mentioned in writing from 17 October 870, in a document from Louis the German giving the church, which was then known as ad antiquum campum, or “Church at the old field”, to the abbey at Prüm.

Lothair I

In 855 he became seriously ill, and despairing of recovery renounced the throne, divided his lands between his three sons, and on the 23rd of September entered the monastery of Prüm, where he died six days later.

Luxembourg annexation plans after the Second World War

The Government of France implemented this decision of the London Conference as follows: under Order No. 212 of the French Military Government of April 23, 1949, the incorporation into the territory of Luxembourg of the Kammerwald together with the settlement of Roth an der Our and the estate of Neuscheuerhof (Bauler) was declared.

Marie-Anne Libert

At the age of eleven her parents sent her to stay in Prüm in Germany to learn German and the violin, both of which she quickly mastered.

Sevenig bei Neuerburg

Sevenig bei Neuerburg is a municipality in the district of Bitburg-Prüm, in Rhineland-Palatinate, western Germany.

Ulrich Roski

Ulrich Roski (4 March 1944, Prüm, Rhine Province – 20 February 2003, Berlin) was a German singer-songwriter who achieved his greatest successes in the 1970s.

Viktor Holtz

In 1875, Holtz returned to Boppard and was transferred in 1877 to Prüm (near Koblenz), in 1889 to Schrimm and in 1902 to Poznań, Poland where he died in 1919.

Waldhof-Falkenstein

Waldhof-Falkenstein is a municipality in the district of Bitburg-Prüm, in Rhineland-Palatinate, western Germany.

Wallenborn

In 1559, Count Hans-Gerhard enfeoffed Hugo Zandt Voit in Hamm (Voit = Vogt) with, among other things, an estate in Wallenborn.

Weidenbach, Vulkaneifel

On 17 October 1016, Weidenbach had its first documentary mention under the name Witenbuoch in a document from Emperor Heinrich II in which he confirmed to Abbot of Prüm Urold holdings in Weidenbach (Witenbuoch), Stadtfeld (Stadefelt) and Ließem (Liudesheim).

West Eifel

In the southern parts - in the valley of the Prüm and its tributaries - there is greater settlement and a degree of non-local traffic on the South Eifel Holiday Route (Ferienstraße Südeifel) and the Eifel-Ardennes Green Road (Grüne Straße Eifel-Ardennen).


Berthold-Bezelin

Jackman cites Berthold of Ham (d. 1101), advocate of Prüm and documented with the Vianden cognomen, as a probable scion of this family and founder of the House of Vianden, a Sponheim branch.

Klerf Formation

The Klerf Formation is an Early Devonian (Emsian) formation that includes a Lagerstätte in the Northern Eifel hills, at Willwerath near Prüm, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

Richard Prum

In his book Survival of the Beautiful, David Rothenberg reflects on Prum's analysis of sexual selection in birds, considering whether female birds are exercising an aesthetic sense when they choose a mate.

Speicher

Speicher, Germany in the district Bitburg-Prüm, Rhineland-Palatinate