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8 unusual facts about Schwalmstadt


1. FC Schwalmstadt

FC Schwalmstadt is a German association football club from the city of Schwalmstadt, Hesse which was established in 1970 through the amalgamation of the towns of Treysa and Ziegenhain together with some smaller outlying villages.

Amöneburg

Somewhat north of Amöneburg runs Federal Highway B 62 (Biedenkopf - Alsfeld) with connections to B 454 to Schwalmstadt and B 3 towards Marburg.

Lower Hesse

The term Lower Hesse originated in the Middle Ages for the so-called "lower principality" of Hesse, which was separated until 1450 from the so-called "upper principality" (later Upper Hesse) by the comital lands of Ziegenhain.

Martin Grzimek

Martin Grzimek, German author, born in Trutzhain in 1950.

Neustadt, Hesse

Neustadt borders in the north on the community of Gilserberg, in the east on the town of Schwalmstadt and the community of Willingshausen (all three in the Schwalm-Eder-Kreis), in the southeast on the community of Antrifttal, in the south on the town of Kirtorf (both in the Vogelsbergkreis), and in the west on the town of Stadtallendorf (Marburg-Biedenkopf).

Protestant Reich Church

After World War II, Theophil Wurm, Landesbischof of Württemberg, invited representatives of the surviving German regional Protestant church bodies to Treysa (a part of today's Schwalmstadt) for August 31, 1945.

Rohde Shoes

Erich Rohde GmbH has 3 200 trading partners in Europe and morewover two Outlets stores, one at its headquarters in Schwalmstadt and another one in the German town of Borken (Hesse).

Erich Rohde GmbH is a German shoe manufacturer headquartered in Schwalmstadt (Hesse).



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