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unusual facts about Saalburg-Ebersdorf


SonneMondSterne

The festival lasts three days and takes place on the second weekend of August in Thüringen at the Bleilochtalsperre near Saalburg-Ebersdorf.


Carl Höckh

Carl Höckh was born in January 1707 to Christoph and Magdalena Höckh of Ebersdorf.

Cohors I Aquitanorum veterana

The following Roman forts have yielded inscriptions attesting the regiment: Arnsburg, Butzbach, Friedburg, Kleestadt, Saalburg and Stockstadt am Main.

Ebersdorf

Ebersdorf, Lower Saxony, in the district of Rotenburg, Lower Saxony, Germany

Ebersdorf, Styria

Ebersdorf is a municipality in the district of Hartberg in Styria, Austria.

Francis, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld

In Ebersdorf on 13 June 1777, Franz Frederick married Augusta Reuss of Ebersdorf und Lobenstein.

Frederick Erdmann, Prince of Anhalt-Pless

#Christian Frederick (Schloss Pless, 14 November 1780 – Ebersdorf (killed in action), 30 August 1813).

Heinrich X, Count of Reuss-Ebersdorf

Henry was the youngest son of Henry X, Count of Reuss-Lobenstein (1621-1671), Lord of Lobenstein, Hirschberg and Ebersdorf and his wife Marie Sibylle of Reuss-Obergreiz.

Heinrich X, Count of Reuss-Ebersdorf (born: 29 November 1662 in Bad Lobenstein; died: 10 June 1711 in Ebersdorf, was a member of the House of Reuss (younger line).

Heinrich XLV, Hereditary Prince Reuss Younger Line

Heinrich XLV was born at Ebersdorf, Reuss Younger Line, only surviving son of Heinrich XXVII, Prince Reuss Younger Line (1858–1928), (son of Heinrich XIV, Prince Reuss Younger Line, and Duchess Agnes of Württemberg) and his wife, Princess Elise of Hohenlohe-Langenburg (1864–1929), (daughter of Hermann, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg and Princess Feodora of Leiningen).

Heinrich XXIV, Count Reuss of Ebersdorf

He was the eldest son of the thirteen children of Heinrich XXIX, Count of Reuss-Ebersdorf and Sophie Theodora of Castell-Remlingen.

#Heinrich LI (b. Ebersdorf, 16 May 1761 — d. Ebersdorf, 10 July 1822), crowned Prince of Reuss-Ebersdorf (German: Fürst Reuß zu Ebersdorf) on 9 April 1806.

#Augusta (b. Ebersdorf, 9 January 1757 — d. Coburg, 16 November 1831), Princess of Reuss-Ebersdorf (German: Fürstin Reuß zu Ebersdorf) on 9 April 1806; married on 13 June 1777 to Duke Franz of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld.

Henry VI, Burgrave of Plauen

His property passed to the Ruess family who contested control of the Lordship of Schleiz with Saalburg and Burgk with his widow for the next twenty years.

Principality of Reuss-Gera

The Counts Reuss of Gera, of Schleiz, of Lobenstein, of Köstritz and of Ebersdorf, each became princes in 1806, and they and their reigning successors bore the title Prince of Reuss-Gera.

Saalburg

Since prehistoric times, trade routes like the Lindenweg or Linienweg connected the Rhine-Main plain with the Usingen basin, which had been a centre of population since the Neolithic.

The Saalburg, located just off the main road roughly halfway between Bad Homburg and Wehrheim is the most completely reconstructed Roman fort in Germany.

Sonnefeld Monastery

Beginning with the former Bamberger fiefs of Sonnefeld, Frohnlach and Ebersdorf, the Monastery multiplied its possessions with other properties from Bamberg, the Banz Abbey and the Benedictine abbey of Saalfeld.


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