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unusual facts about Upper Rhine


Bingerbrück–Rüdesheim train ferry

Both rail lines could be used to supply the demand for coal in the Middle and Upper Rhine.



see also

Andreas Gruschke

Other books and reports deal with Korea and the Himalayas and China, as well as two picture albums about his homeland: the Hegau and the upper Rhine.

Bundschuh movement

Under this flag, peasants and city dwellers had defeated the troops of the French count of Armagnac along the upper Rhine in 1439, 1443 and 1444.

Floodplain restoration

Early floodplain restoration schemes were undertaken in the mid-1990s in the Rheinvorland-Süd on the Upper Rhine, the Bourret on the Garonne, and as part of the Long Eau project in England.

Friedrich Karl Wilhelm, Fürst zu Hohenlohe

During the French Revolutionary Wars, he served in the Imperial Army of the Upper Rhine, under command of General of Cavalry Dagobert Sigmund von Wurmser.

Fürstenbund

For Karl Theodor, his interest in the projected deal was mostly a matter of prestige as he envisioned himself as the ruler, possibly with the title of king, of a reconstructed Duchy of Burgundy composed of the Southern Netherlands plus his existing possessions in the Lower and Upper Rhine region, such as the Palatinate of the Rhine and the duchy of Berg-Jülich.

Gorxheimertal

The nearest big town is Weinheim, and the way there also marks the division between the Odenwald and the Hessisches Ried (part of the Upper Rhine valley), as well as the boundary between Hesse and Baden-Württemberg.

Medal for civilian prisoners, deportees and hostages of the 1914-1918 Great War

The Medal for civilian prisoners, deportees and hostages of the 1914-1918 Great War was awarded to the inhabitants of all the regions invaded by the enemy, including those from the Upper-Rhine, Lower-Rhine and Moselle regions, deported civilian prisoners, brought as hostages or interned in concentration camps.

Michael von Fröhlich

In 1796 Fröhlich was promoted to Feldmarschall-Leutnant and commanded a mixed column of Austrian, Émigré and Kreis-Armee soldiers on the left wing of the Army of the Upper Rhine under Dagobert Sigmund von Wurmser.

Olivier, Count of Wallis

In the 1792 campaign of the War of the First Coalition, Wallis commanded a mixed division in the corps of Friedrich Wilhelm, Fürst zu Hohenlohe-Kirchberg on the upper Rhine and the Moselle, stationed on the Rhine river between Basel and Strassburg.

Operation Nordwind

By 15 January at least seventeen German divisions (including units in the Colmar Pocket)from Army Group G and Army Group Upper Rhine, including the 6th SS Mountain, 17th SS Panzergrenadier, 21st Panzer, and 25th Panzergrenadier Divisions were engaged in the fighting.