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unusual facts about Schloss



Altzella Abbey

In 1436 the abbey bought Nossen Castle ("Schloss Nossen") with contents and appurtenances for 4,200 Gulden.

Andrea Lanzani

He had the opportunity during the latter period to work at the most illustrious courts of Central Europe for clients such as Prince Eugene of Savoy, Prince Adam von Liechtenstein and Count Kaunitz, as attested by major works such the frescoes in the Castle of Slavkov near Slavkov u Brna in the present day Czech Republic, and two canvases at the Schloss Galerie, Pommersfelden.

Arenenberg

Her brother, Eugène de Beauharnais, bought the nearby Schloss Sandegg and built a villa close by.

Banz Abbey

Banz Abbey (German: Kloster Banz), now known as Banz Castle (German: Schloss Banz), is a former Benedictine monastery, since 1978 a part of the town of Bad Staffelstein north of Bamberg, Bavaria, southern Germany.

Basilica of the Fourteen Holy Helpers

It sits on a hillside, and on the hillside opposite is Schloss Banz, a former baroque monastery.

Battle for Castle Itter

Itter Castle, Schloss Itter, is a small castle situated on a hill near the village of Itter in Austria.

Bedburg-Hau

One of its main attractions is Moyland Castle (Schloss), which belongs to a very well known family in Germany.

Brunnenburg

Schloss Brunnenburg is actually situated above the city of Meran, on the outskirts of the municipality of Tirol.

Charles III, Duke of Parma

The ceremony took place at Schloss Frohsdorf near Lanzenkirchen in Austria.

Christian Ernst, Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth

#Christiane Eberhardine (Bayreuth, 29 December 1671 – Schloss Pretzsch, 5 September 1727); married on 20 January 1693 to Frederick August of Saxony, later August the Strong, Elector of Saxony and King of Poland.

Christian Heinrich, Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth-Kulmbach

# Frederick Ernest (b. Schönberg, 15 December 1703 - d. Schloss Friedrichsruhe in Drage, 23 June 1762); married on 26 December 1731 to Christine Sophie of Brünswick-Bevern.

Circle Jerks discography

A long period of inactivity ended in 1994, when the Circle Jerks reunited and signed a major label deal with Mercury Records, a move that had a few business complications: Hetson was still with Bad Religion, who had signed a long-term contract with Atlantic Records, while Schloss had been part of a band contracted to Interscope.

Deutsche Harmonia Mundi

During the war Ruby had been imprisoned as a member of the Kreisau Circle of anti-Nazi resistance, and at a reunion in the 1960s he met fellow resistance member prince Joseph-Ernst Graf Fugger von Glött who invited him to use the Fugger castle, Schloss Fugger, in Kirchheim in Schwaben for his concerts and recordings.

Dorothea von Medem

In 1794 she acquired the Gutsherrschaft Löbichau in Altenburgischen and spent her summers at the newly built Schloss there.

Ermatingen

The UBS Training Center at Schloss Wolfsberg (opened in 1975) and the Entrepreneurs' Forum Lilienberg (since 1989) have turned Ermatingen into a nationally known training site (in 2000 almost two thirds of jobs were in the services sector).

Free State of Coburg

He received 1.5 million Marks as his compensation for his following properties – approximately 4500 hectares (11,120 acres) of forests, numerous buildings and individual properties as well as the art treasures of the Veste Coburg, the Veste’s courtyard garden museum, his personal library, the Ducal Theater, the Schloss Rosenau and its estate, the Veste Coburg, the Schloss Ehrenburg, and the State Archives of Coburg.

George Frederick Charles, Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth

Schloss Weferlingen had been assigned to his family as an appanage by King Frederick I of Prussia, after George Frederick Charles's heavily indebted father had renounced his succession rights to the Franconian Hohenzollern estates of Bayreuth and Ansbach in favour of Prussia in the Contract of Schönberg.

Good Days At Schloss Elmau

Good Days At Schloss Elmau is a 2011 album by British jazz and classical pianist and composer Gwilym Simcock.

Güstrow

The Güstrow Castle or Schloss Güstrow (a German word for palace), built in 1589 in Renaissance style, as a residence for the dukes of Mecklenburg.

Here I Am, Here I Stay

Filming took place from 16 October to 11 November 1958 in Bamberg and Schloss Seehof in Franconia, as well as at the CCC-Studios in Berlin.

House of Ascania

The Ascanians are named after Ascania (or Ascaria) Castle, Schloss Askanien, which is located near and named after Aschersleben.

Idiot Flesh

Anderson went on to work with Les Claypool, Cirque du Soleil, The Fuxedos, Casino Royale, Kehoe Nation, and Schloss.

John George II, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau

In Groningen on 9 September 1659 John George married Henriette Katharina (b. The Hague, 10 February 1637 – d. Schloss Oranienbaum, 3 November 1708), daughter of Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange.

John, Count of Leiningen-Dagsburg-Falkenburg

John Charles August was a son of Count George William of Leiningen-Dagsburg (born 8 March 1636 in Heidesheim am Rhein; died 18 July 1672 in Oberstein) and his wife Countess Anna Elisabeth von Daun-Falkenstein (born: 1 January 1636; died: 4 June 1685 at Schloss Broich).

Joseph Fassbender

In 1947 Fassbender founded at Schloss Alfter near Bornheim, together with Hann Trier, Hubert Berke and some other artists and men of letters, the "Donnerstagsgesellschaft" in order to revive, and promote, modern painting in the Rhineland.

Kammeroper Schloss Rheinsberg

Kammeroper Schloss Rheinsberg is an international opera festival for young talented singers, founded and directed by German composer Siegfried Matthus.

Siegfried Matthus has been the Artistic Director of the Chamber Opera Schloss Rheinsberg since 1990, Claudia Eder is the Voice Advisor and Rainer Schwarz the Festival Manager and Executive Director.

Kostel Castle

After the extinction of the Counts Ortenburg on 28 April 1418, the Counts of Celje inherited their area holdings, expanding the castle into a formidable fortress and renaming it Schloss Grauenwarth, although the surrounding settlement retained the Slavicised Latin name Kostel.

Lothar von Metternich

Lothar von Metternich was born in Schloss Vettelhoven in Grafschaft on August 31, 1551, the son of Johann von Metternich (1500-1562), Lord of Vettelhoven and bailiff of Saffenberg, and his fourth wife, Katharina von der Leyen zu Adendorf (1528-1567).

Marienau Charterhouse

The former Schloss Hain in Düsseldorf-Unterrath was established under the name of Kartause Maria Hain (Maria Hain Charterhouse) as a Carthusian monastery in 1869, where despite the threats of the Kulturkampf in the 1880s and of World War II, it survived until 1964, when the site was required for the expansion of Düsseldorf Airport and the monks were forced to leave.

Nikolaus Gromann

As late work he built masterful Renaissance building, which are considered his masterpieces : the Town Hall in Altenburg and the so-called New buildings in Weimar, the Grünes Schloß (now the “Duchess Anna Amalia Library” ) and the Französischen Bau of the Veste Heldburg ( today : German Castle Museum under construction) .

Oliver Crosthwaite-Eyre

He married, in 1939, Baroness Maria Alexandra, the daughter of Baron Heinrich von Puthon, of Schloss Mirabel, Salzburg, and had two sons and two daughters.

Pachira

The Margrave of Baden, Karl Wilhelm (1709 – 1738) founded the Karlsruhe Palace (Karlsruher Schloß) in 1715.

Reichenberg Fellowship

Translation of: Joseph Nicolosi: Homosexualität muss kein Schicksal sein, Gesprächsprotokolle einer alternativen Therapie. Eine Veröffentlichung des Deutschen Instituts für Jugend und Gesellschaft, Schloss Reichenberg. Titel der amerikanischen Originalausgabe: Healing Homosexuality. Case Stories of Reparative Therapy. Mit einem Vorwort zur deutschen Ausgabe von Roland Werner und einem Geleitwort von Christl Ruth Vonholdt.

Reinhardsbrunn

In 1827 Duke Ernst I of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, who had inherited the site, built a country house here - Schloss Reinhardsbrunn - in the English style, surrounded by a pleasure garden.

Renate Hoy

She was in such films as Abbott and Costello Go to Mars, Missile to the Moon, The Golden Blade, The Birds and the Bees, The Sea Chase, A Certain Smile, and had a leading role in the German classic German film Schloß Hubertus.

Robert Hugo, Duke of Parma

Robert Hugo was born at Schloss Weilburg in Baden bei Wien, the second but eldest surviving son of Elias of Bourbon-Parma and Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria (1882–1940).

Rosenegg

Schloss Rosenegg, a schloss (castle) in Rosenegg, Fieberbrunn, Austria

Rotary Wind Quintet

It was first performed by musikFabrik (Helen Bledsoe, flute, Peter Veale, oboe, Nina Janßen, clarinet, Jan Babinec, horn, and Alban Wesley, bassoon) on 25 October 1997 at a meeting of the club held at the Schloss Dyck in Jüchen in the Rhein-Kreis Neuss (Stockhausen 1998).

Schloss Eichtersheim

Since the purchase by the town of Angelbachtal vast parts of Schloss Rheydt have been converted into office space as the manor now accommodates the townhall.

Schloss Krumbach

Schloss Krumbach is a castle located in the market town of Krumbach in the state of Lower Austria in Austria.

Schloss Lieser

Schloss Lieser (Castle of Lieser) in the Mosel valley nearby Bernkastel-Kues is one of the most striking buildings within the village of Lieser, Germany.

Schloss Nordkirchen

Schloss Nordkirchen is a palace situated in the town of Nordkirchen in the Coesfeld administrative district in the state of North Rhine Westphalia, Germany.

Schloss Ringberg

He was therefore confronted with the choice of either selling Schloss Ringberg to the Confederation of German Trade Unions or leaving it as gift to the Max Planck Society.

Sibylle of Cleves

John Frederick II, Duke of Saxony (b. Torgau, 8 January 1529 – d. as imperial prisoner at Schloss Steyr, Upper Austria, 19 May 1595);

Theodor Friedrich Ludwig Nees von Esenbeck

Theodor Friedrich Ludwig Nees von Esenbeck (26 July 1787 – 12 December 1837, Hyères) was a German botanist and pharmacologist who was a native of Schloss Reichenberg in Reichelsheim (Odenwald).

Wechselburg Priory

After the Thirty Years' War (1618-48) the lords of Schönburg built a Baroque castle (Schloss Wechselburg) on the foundations of the ruined abbey, which remained in the same family until their dispossession in 1945.

Willy Decker

He staged the world premieres of Hans Werner Henze's Pollicino (Montepulciano, 1980), Antonio Bibalo's Macbeth (Oslo, 1990), and Aribert Reimann's Das Schloss (The Castle) (Berlin, 1992).


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