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3 unusual facts about Saalfeld-Rudolstadt


Altenbeuthen

Altenbeuthen is a municipality in the district Saalfeld-Rudolstadt, in Thuringia, Germany.

Jonathan Carl Zenker

Jonathan Carl (or Karl) Zenker (1 March 1799 – 6 November 1837) was a German naturalist born in Sundremda, located in the Saalfeld-Rudolstadt district.

Wittgendorf, Thuringia

Wittgendorf is a municipality in the district Saalfeld-Rudolstadt, in Thuringia, Germany.


Antje Zöllkau

Antje Zöllkau, née Kempe (born 22 June 1963 in Saalfeld, Thuringia) is a retired javelin thrower who represented East Germany.

Bamberg–Hof railway

Its expansion into a double-tracked railway followed in 1891 and the line was electrified from Bamberg to Lichtenfels and beyond that via the Franconian Forest Railway to Saalfeld on 10 May 1939.

Bernhard II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen

In 12 November 1826, after the redistribution of all the family territories after the death of the last Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg, Bernhard II received Hildburghausen and Saalfeld.

Blankenburg

Bad Blankenburg, a German town in the Saalfeld-Rudolstadt district of Thuringia

Charles Günther, Count of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt

Charles Günther was the eldest son of Count Albert VII of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt and his first wife Juliana of Nassau-Dillenburg.

Christian Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld

Christian Ernst died childless and all his inheritance has taken by his half-brother, Franz Josias.

Christiana of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg

# Sophie Hedwig (4 August 1660 in Merseburg – 2 August 1686 in Saalfeld), married on 18 February 1680 to Duke John Ernest of Saxe-Saalfeld

Christoph Franz von Buseck

In 1796, when Bamberg was invaded by the French, von Buseck fled to Prague and when the French invaded Prague in 1799, he fled to Saalfeld.

Clarence House

It passed to his sister Princess Augusta Sophia and, following her death in 1840, to Queen Victoria's mother, the Duchess of Kent.

Couper baronets

He was a Colonel in the Army and fought in the Peninsular War, served as Military Secretary to the Governor Generals of Canada, Sir James Kempt and Lord Durham, and was Comptroller of the Household and Equerry to Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent.

DR Class 22

However in 1970 only a few machines were still working, at Halberstadt and Saalfeld.

Duchess of Kent's Annuity Act 1838

It empowered the Queen to grant an annuity of £30,000 to her mother, the Duchess of Kent, on the condition that all previously existing annuities to the Duchess were to cease.

Duchy of Saxe-Meiningen

In the reshuffle of Ernestine territories that occurred following the extinction of the Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg line upon the death of Duke Frederick IV in 1825, Duke Bernhard II of Saxe-Meiningen received the lands of the former Duchy of Saxe-Hildburghausen as well as the Saalfeld territory of the former Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld duchy.

Since 1868 the duchy comprised the Kreise (districts) of Hildburghausen, Sonneberg and Saalfeld as well as the northern exclaves of Camburg and Kranichfeld.

Easter egg tree

A notable example is the Saalfelder Ostereierbaum (Saalfeld Easter egg tree) in Saalfeld, Thuringia.

Emilie of Oldenburg-Delmenhorst

Emilie Antonia of Oldenburg-Delmenhorst (15 June 1614 in Delmenhorst – 4 December 1670 in Rudolstadt), was regent of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt from 1646 to 1662.

Francis Josias, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld

#Charlotte Sophie (b. Coburg, 24 September 1731 – d. Schwerin, 2 August 1810), married on 13 May 1755 to Ludwig of Mecklenburg-Schwerin

Francis, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld

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

Friedrich Wilhelm, Fürst zu Hohenlohe-Kirchberg

As part of the Belgian Corps under Field Marshal Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld he played a decisive role in the action at Avesnes-le-Sec and later at the Battle of Fleurus (1794).

George Dawe

He enjoyed the patronage of the Duke and Duchess of Kent and also that of Princess Charlotte and Prince Leopold.

Georgiana Harcourt

In 12 September 1835 when Princess Victoria visited Harewood House in Yorkshire with her mother, the Duchess of Kent she attended the local church service.

Grit Hammer

Grit Hammer, née Haupt (born 4 June 1966 in Saalfeld, Thuringia) is a retired German shot putter.

Herren-Sulzbach

In 1816, Herren-Sulzbach passed under the terms of the Congress of Vienna to the Principality of Lichtenberg, a newly created exclave of the Duchy of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, which as of 1826 became the Duchy of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.

Herzeleid Tour

During their third performance on December 31st, 1994 in Saalfeld, Rammstein met their manager, Emanuel Fialik.

House of Schwarzburg

He was succeeded by his eldest son Günther XLI, however after his death in 1583 his younger brothers again divided the county: John Günther I received the territory around Arnstadt, later called Schwarzburg-Sondershausen, while Albrecht VII inherited the lands of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt.

The Schwarzburg lands were again divided among his successors until in 1538 Count Günther XL the Rich was able to unite the territories including Frankenhausen and Rudolstadt under his rule.

Johann Caspar Vogler

He was born in Hausen, near Arnstadt; from 1706 he studied with Johann Sebastian Bach, who was at that time organist there, and was also taught, in Rudolstadt, by P. H. Erlebach and Nicolaus Vetter.

John Frederick, Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt

John Frederick himself acted as a director for this company, which still exists under the name of Aelteste Volkstedter Porzellanmanufaktur.

Louis Günther I, Count of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt

Louis Günther I was the son of Count Albrecht VII of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt and his wife Juliana of Nassau-Dillenburg.

Marxgrün station

From 1901 it became the junction for the railway line through the Höllen valley to Gera and, later, also Saalfeld.

Max Wandrer

Max Carl Herman Wandrer (10 February 1894 in Rudolstadt – October 1978 in Middle River, Maryland) was an American gymnast who competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics.

Nuremberg–Erfurt high-speed railway

The 83 km long line is part of the existing railway highway circuit from Nuremberg via Saalfeld to Halle and is being upgraded to a maximum speed up to 230  km/h trains.

Princess Anna Sophie of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt

Prince Friedrich Josias of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (Ehrenburg Palace, Coburg, 26 December 1737 – Coburg, 26 February 1815)

On 2 January 1723 in Rudolstadt, she married Franz Josias, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld.

Princess Juliane of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld

Princess Juliane Henriette Ulrike of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (Coburg, 23 September 1781 – Elfenau, near Bern, Switzerland, 15 August 1860), also known as Grand Duchess Anna Feodorovna of Russia, was a German princess of the ducal house of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (after 1826, the house of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha) who became the wife of Grand Duke Constantine Pavlovich of Russia.

Princess Marie of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt

Princess Marie of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt the first child of Prince Adolph of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, and his wife, Princess Mathilde of Schonburg-Waldenburg, was born at Raben Steinfeld, Mecklenburg-Schwerin.

The royal hearse brought the body from Noordeinde Palace to the railway station.

Princess Sophia Wilhelmina of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld

The bond between the two families was further strengthened three years later, when her brother, Francis Josias, married her husband's sister, Anna Sophia.

Sophia Wilhelmina of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (9 August 1693 in Saalfeld – 4 December 1727 in Rudolstadt), was a Princess of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld by birth, and Princess of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt by marriage.

The close bond with the very pious court at Rudolstadt also meant that pietism gained a foothold in Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld.

Princess Sophie of Saxe-Hildburghausen

Princess Ernestine Friederike Sophie of Saxe-Hildburghausen (22 February 1760, Hildburghausen – 28 October 1776, Coburg), was a Princess of Saxe-Hildburghausen by birth, and by marriage Duchess of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld.

On 6 March 1776, she married at the age of 16 in Hildburghausen the hereditary prince and later Duke Francis Frederick Anthony of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld.

Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt

After their brother Count William of Schwarzburg-Frankenhausen had died in 1597, the surviving brothers Albert VII and John Günther I established the two counties of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt and Schwarzburg-Sondershausen by the 1599 Treaty of Stadtilm.

Thuringian sausage

The oldest known reference to a Thuringian sausage is located in the Thuringian State Archive in Rudolstadt in a transcript of a bill from an Arnstadt convent from the year 1404.

Wallendorfer Porzellan

In 1761, almost 50 years after the invention of porcelain manufacturing by Ehrenfried Walter von Tschirnhaus and Johann Friedrich Böttger, Johan Wolfgang Hammann from Katzhütte applied to the house of Scharzburg-Rudolstadt for the concession of porcelain manufacturing.

Westenfeld

The baptismal font is from the 16th Century, the first bell is from 1777 (J.A. Mayer, Coburg), the second from 1850 (R. Mayer, Rudolstadt).

William I, Count of Nassau-Dillenburg

# Juliana (10 August 1546 – 31 August 1588), married 14 June 1575 to Count Albrecht VII of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt

Wolfram Grandezka

Wolfram Grandezka (born on 17 December 1969 in Saalfeld, Thuringia) is a German actor.


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