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unusual facts about Simon II, Count of Sponheim-Kreuznach



Alsenz Valley Railway

On Sundays and public holidays in the summer, the Rheintalexpress runs on the Bingen–Enkenbach section to Karlsruhe and the Weinstraßen-Express runs to Wissembourg, each stopping in Enkenbach, Rockhausen, Bad Münster and Bad Kreuznach and each consisting of push–pull trains hauled by class 218 locomotives or class 628 diesel multiple units.

Auen

Auen, Germany, in the Bad Kreuznach district, Rhineland-Palatinate

Château de Gerbéviller

There are records of Gerbéviller from 1179, when the Simon II, Duke of Lorraine gave the castle and estate of "Gilbert-Viller" to his son Frideric or Ferri de Bitche.

Gerulf I of Frisia

The Kreuznach document mentions possessions of Gerulf in and around Leeuwarden and between Vlie and Lonbach.

Hindenburg Bridge

On the south (left side) of the Rhine, the line continued south from Büdesheim to Sarmsheim on the Bingerbrück–Bad Kreuznach line.

Isenburg-Kempenich

Simon I was succeeded by his son Simon II in 1341, and his brother John respected the treaty.

Johann Friedrich Abegg

Johann Friedrich Abegg (November 30, 1765 in Roxheim near Kreuznach - December 16, 1840 in Heidelberg) was a German theologian.

Louis Blenker

After being trained as a goldsmith by an uncle in Kreuznach, he was sent to a polytechnical school in Munich.

Simon II, Count of Sponheim-Kreuznach

Simon chose Kastellaun Castle as his residence, even though Kirchberg was the only town in his part of the county.

The dividing line was Soonwald Forest; Simon II ruled the part north of the forest, including Kirchberg and Kastellaun.

Johannes Mötsch: Trier und Sponheim, in: Johannes Mötsch and Franz-Josef Heyen (eds.): Balduin von Luxemburg.

Johannes Mötsch: Die Burg Kastellaun bis 1437, in: Stadt Kastellaun (eds.): Das Wahrzeichen Kastellauns — Seine Burg, in the series Kastellaun in der Geschichte, vol.

Simon II, Duke of Lorraine

His mother wished for her second son, Frederick, to succeed and so Simon was forced to convene an assembly of the nobles to confirm his succession.

He designated his nephew, Frederick, son of Frederick, as his successor and ceded, in 1202, the suzerainty over the county of Vaudémont to Count Theobald I of Bar.

He also gave Bitche as an appanage to Frederick who was not satisfied and revolted against Simon.


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