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unusual facts about Walbeck, Mansfeld-Südharz


Walbeck

Walbeck, Mansfeld-Südharz, a municipality in the Mansfeld-Südharz district, Saxony-Anhalt


Amtsgericht Nordhausen

The jurisdiction of the district court of Nordhausen includes the core city of Nordhausen, Ellrich and Bleicherode, the management communities of Goldene Aue and Hohnstein/Südharz, the unified communities of Werther and Hohenstein, and the community of Sollstedt.

Battle of Dessau Bridge

Wallenstein and the Imperial Catholic league marched to Dessau, where Mansfeld and the Protestant army would inevitably try to cross in order to reach Magdeburg and the German Catholic League headquarters in Aschersleben.

Béatrix de Cusance

They had no children and in 1679, a widow, she married Count Heinrich Franz von Mansfeld, Prince di Fondi, by whom she had two daughters.

Bennungen

Bennungen is a village and a former municipality in the Mansfeld-Südharz district, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.

Since 1 January 2010, it is part of the municipality Südharz.

Bernard, Margrave of the Nordmark

He was the son of Dietrich of Haldensleben and a rival of the counts of Walbeck, one of whom, Werner, he succeeded in the march following his deposition.

Bornstedt

Bornstedt, Mansfeld-Südharz, a municipality in the Mansfeld-Südharz district, Saxony-Anhalt

Breitenstein, Saxony-Anhalt

Breitenstein is a village and a former municipality in the Mansfeld-Südharz district, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.

Breitungen, Saxony-Anhalt

Breitungen is a village and a former municipality in the Mansfeld-Südharz district, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.

Brücken

Brücken, Saxony-Anhalt, in the district of Mansfeld-Südharz, Saxony-Anhalt

Colloredo-Mansfeld

Hieronymus Graf von Colloredo (1732–1812) was Prince-Bishop of Gurk from 1761 and last Prince-Archbishop of Salzburg from 1771 until 1803, when the Archbishopric was secularized.

Allegedly one Liebhart (Liobardo) of Waldsee came to Italy attendant King Conrad II and about 1031 was enfeoffed by Patriarch Poppo of Aquileia with Mels Castle near Udine in Friuli.

The Colloredo family achieved the elevation to the noble rank of Freiherren by the Habsburg Emperor Rudolf II in 1588 and became immediate Reichsgrafen in 1724.

Dietersdorf

Dietersdorf is a village and a former municipality in the Mansfeld-Südharz district, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.

Drebsdorf

Drebsdorf is a village and a former municipality in the Mansfeld-Südharz district, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.

Eichsfeld-Südharz

The Verwaltungsgemeinschaft was disbanded on 1 December 2011, when its constituent municipalities (except Am Ohmberg) merged into the new municipality Sonnenstein.

Hainrode

Hainrode is a village and a former municipality in the Mansfeld-Südharz district, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.

Hayn

Hayn is a village and a former municipality in the Mansfeld-Südharz district, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.

Hohnstein/Südharz

The seat of the Verwaltungsgemeinschaft is in Ilfeld (part of Harztor).

Kleinleinungen

Kleinleinungen is a village and a former municipality in the Mansfeld-Südharz district, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.

Mansfeld Castle

The castle, which is surrounded by forest, stands on top of a large rock overlooking the town of Mansfeld.

Mansfeld Land

Since the county reform of 2007, Mansfeld Land – after several years as the independent county of Mansfelder Land – has belonged to the county of Mansfeld-Südharz.

After the foundation of East Germany, these 2 counties were disbanded and transferred to the counties of Hettstedt and Eisleben, small areas of Mansfeld Land in the west went to Sangerhausen and in the south to Saalkreis and Querfurt.

Province of Saxony

territory gained from the Kingdom of Saxony after the Battle of Leipzig in 1813: the towns and surrounding territories of Wittenberg, Merseburg, Naumburg, Mansfeld, Querfurt, and Henneberg;

Questenberg

Questenberg is a village and a former municipality in the Mansfeld-Südharz district, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.

Roßla

Rossla (German: Roßla) is a village and a former municipality in the Mansfeld-Südharz district, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.

Rottleberode

Rottleberode is a village and a former municipality in the Mansfeld-Südharz district, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.

Sangerhausen

On the same date Breitenbach, Großleinungen and Wolfsberg also joined, coming from the municipal association Roßla-Südharz.

Schwenda

Schwenda is a village and a former municipality in the Mansfeld-Südharz district, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.

Seeburg

Seeburg, Saxony-Anhalt, in the district Mansfeld-Südharz, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany

South Harz Karst Landscape Biosphere Reserve

The biosphere reserve has an area of 30,034 hectares and lies in the county of Mansfeld-Südharz on the territory of the towns of Allstedt and Sangerhausen and the municipalities of Berga, Südharz and Wallhausen.

Thietmar of Merseburg

Thietmar was a son of Siegfried the Elder, count of Walbeck (d. 15 March 991), and was related to the family of the emperor Otto the Great, and Kunigunde (ca. 956–13 July 997), daughter Henry I the Bald, Count of Stade (House of Udonids).

Uftrungen

Uftrungen is a village and a former municipality in the Mansfeld-Südharz district, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.

Walbeck

Walbeck, Börde, a municipality in the Börde district, Saxony-Anhalt

Wickerode

Wickerode is a village and a former municipality in the Mansfeld-Südharz district, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.

Since 1 September 2010, it is part of the municipality Südharz.

Wilhelm Ule

He studied mathematics and geography in Berlin and Halle, where he graduated in 1888 with a dissertation on the lakes of Mansfeld, Die Mansfelder Seen.

Wolf Heinrich von Baudissin

He fought under Ernst von Mansfeld and led his troops after the death of Mansfeld in 1626.

Wolfgang, Duke of Brunswick-Grubenhagen

Wolfgang was born on 6 April 1531 in Herzberg, the fifth son of Duke Philip I of Brunswick-Grubenhagen and his second wife, Catherine of Mansfeld.


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