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2 unusual facts about Swabian


Matthias Klotz

Matthias Klotz did not really build his instruments according to the classical Italian style but rather made them similar to those of masters from Fussen (a town in Bavaria) and Swabian (Southern Germany).

Swabian-Hall Swine

The Swabian-Hall Swine (Schwäbisch-Hällische Landschwein) is a breed of domestic pig originating from Schwäbisch Hall in Baden-Württemberg, Germany.


Außerfern

The regions settled by Upper Bavaria and from the Inn valley, such as the Ehrwald Basin and the tributary valleys of the Lech have similarities with the dialects of the Upper Inn Valley, whilst in the region around Reutte and in the Tannheim valley, a Swabian-Alemannic dialect dominates.

Battle of Calven

12,000; Swabian Landsknechte and knights, Tyrolian soldiers, Italian mercenaries

Brandenburg

Franconian Nuremberg and Ansbach, Swabian Hohenzollern, the eastern European connections of Berlin, and the status of Brandenburg's ruler as prince-elector together were instrumental in the rise of that state.

Burchard II, Duke of Swabia

In 919, King Rudolph II of Upper Burgundy seized the county of Zürich and invaded the region of Konstanz, then the centre and practical capital of the Swabian duchy.

Castle of Melfi

With the decadence of the Swabian and the arrival of new Angevin rulers, the castle of Melfi underwent massive renovations and expansions, as well as being elected by Charles II of Anjou official residence of his wife, Mary of Hungary, in 1284.

Donaueschingen Festival

Instead of the original chamber music series, the National-Socialist party organized its own concerts from 1933 to 1935, called 'Donaueschingen Musical Celebration' or 'Old and new chamber-music from the Swabian-Alemannic region'.

Duke of Teck

Adalbert I, son of Duke Conrad I of Zähringen, inherited his father's Swabian possessions around Teck Castle between Kirchheim and Owen.

Fricktal

After the Habsburg dynasty had lost large parts of its original Swabian possessions south of the Rhine to the Swiss Confederacy at the 1386 Battle of Sempach, the remaining Fricktal was administered from the Oberamt Breisgau of Further Austria (Vorderösterreich) at Freiburg, while the adjacent Unteraargau region to the south was finally conquered by the Swiss at Bern in 1415.

Froben Christopher of Zimmern

Froben Christoph of Zimmern (19 February 1519 at Mespelbrunn Castle in the Spessart – 27 November 1566, probably in Meßkirch) was the author of "Zimmern Chronicle" and a member of the Swabian noble family Zimmern.

Hohenzollern Castle

Two-thirds of the castle belong to the Brandenburg-Prussian line of the Hohenzollern (presently Georg Friedrich, Prince of Prussia), while one-third is owned by the Swabian line of the family (Karl Friedrich, Prince of Hohenzollern).

Hunsrückisch dialect

Throughout its almost 200-year history in Southern Brazil and Espírito Santo, Hunsrückisch has been greatly influenced by other German dialects such as Pomeranian, Swabian, and Austro-Bavarian, by other immigrant languages, and by Portuguese.

Lucera Castle

Even access to these walls - with the bridge over the big dig - reminds the Swabian castles in the homeland of the Emperor, such as the castle of Wildenstein, which has a similar entry.

Ludwig Freiherr Roth von Schreckenstein

Her was the son of Friedrich Freiherr Roth von Schreckenstein (1753–1808) and of Kunigunde von Riedheim (1767–1828) and belonged to old Swabian Reichrsritter family Roth von Schreckenstein, which had its ancestral seat in Immendingen.

Reutlingen

In 1519, a later Swabian League came to Reutlingen's help when Ulrich, Duke of Württemberg attempted to seize the city; the League landed a crushing blow, conquering Württemberg and selling it to Charles V.

Royal Württemberg State Railways

The comic song "Auf der schwäb'sche Eisebahne" (On the Swabian railways) has been sung by many artists, and versions can be seen on YouTube.

Rudolf of Rheinfelden

He was first mentioned in a 1048 deed issued by the Salian emperor Henry III as a count in the Swabian Sisgau on the High Rhine (in present-day Northwestern Switzerland), an estate then held by the Prince-Bishopric of Basel.

Rupertus Meldenius

The son of a Swabian priest, studied in Adelberg and after school visited the lower Konvikts in Maulbronn at the Tübinger Stift, where he met Johann Valentin Andreae.

Schairer

It stems from the German word "Scheuer," or barn, in the Swabian dialect.

Steinheil

Heinrich Steinhowel (aka "Steinhöwel" "Steinhauel", "Steinheil"; 1412, Weil - 1482, Ulm), a Swabian author, humanist, and translator

Swabian German

In 2009 Muggeseggele, literally referring to the scrotum of a male housefly, was elected in a readers survey of Stuttgarter Nachrichten, the largest newspaper in Stuttgart as most beautiful Swabian word, with a large lead on any other expression.

SWR kids website explained Muggeseggele in their Swabian dictionary for the TV series Ein Fall für B.A.R.Z., which takes place in Fellbach.

Swabian–Alemannic Fastnacht

Fastnacht is held in the settlement area of the Germanic tribes of the Swabians and Alemans, where Swabian–Alemannic dialects are spoken.


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