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2 unusual facts about Stolpe


Madeleine Truel

Madeleine Truel (Lima, Peru, 28 August 1904 - Stolpe, Germany, 1945), was a Peruvian woman with French ancestry, who fought with the French Resistance against the abuses of the Nazis in France.

Wartislaw I, Duke of Pomerania

The site of Wartislaw's death near Stolpe in the modern district of Vorpommern-Greifswald, where he is said to be slain by pagans, is marked by a rock called Wartislawstein with an engraved Christian cross in remembrance of his missionary efforts.


Gustav Stolpe

Gustav Stolpe is most frequently remembered as the composer of When Through the Torn Sail which was written with lyricist, Reginald Heber.

Tarnitz

The roughly 14 kilometre long river has its source in a small, wooded area on the municipal boundary between Muchow and Stolpe at a height of about 42 metres above sea level.


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