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unusual facts about Werra-Meißner-Kreis



Abtsteinach

As part of the Überwald, Abtsteinach borders in the north on the community of Mörlenbach, in the east on the community of Wald-Michelbach, in the south on the community of Heiligkreuzsteinach (Rhein-Neckar-Kreis in Baden-Württemberg) and in the west on the communities of Gorxheimertal and Birkenau.

Alfdorf

With the new arrangement of the administrative districts the municipality Alfdorf came to the Rems-Murr-Kreis and therefore to Stuttgart Region.

Alfréd Meissner

In 1930 Meissner was made honorary president of the conference of the International Association of Penal Law in Prague.

Allerbach

Allerbach, alternative name for the Wallesbach, headstream of the Todbach in Hirstein and Namborn, Kreis St. Wendel, Saarland

Berka/Werra

Berka/Werra (also Berka an der Werra) is a town in the Wartburgkreis district, in Thuringia, Germany.

Bischofsheim, Hesse

Bischofsheim borders in the north on the town of Hochheim (Main-Taunus-Kreis), in the east on the town of Rüsselsheim, and in the south and west on the municipality of Ginsheim-Gustavsburg.

Blankenberg, Thuringia

Blankenberg is a municipality in the district Saale-Orla-Kreis, in Thuringia, Germany.

Blankenburg

Blankenburg, Unstrut-Hainich-Kreis, a German municipality in the Unstrut Hainich district of Thuringia

Boris Meissner

Boris Meissner (August 10, 1915 Pskov - September 10, 2003 Cologne) was a German lawyer and social scientist, specializing in international law and Eastern European history and politics.

Bösleben-Wüllersleben

Bösleben-Wüllersleben is a municipality in the district Ilm-Kreis, in Thuringia, Germany.

Bruno Meissner

Bruno Meissner also Bruno Meißner (25 April 1868 Graudenz - 13 March 1947 Zeuthen) was a German assyriologist.

Cielcza

It was administered within Reichsgau Wartheland as part of the district or county (kreis) of Jarotschin.

Ciświca

Administered within Reichsgau Wartheland as part of the district or county (kreis) of Jarotschin, it was renamed Schoberdorf.

EISER Infrastructure

In 2009, Hans Meissner struck a deal to buy out the fund management company from Fortis/BNP Paribas.

Frederick Philip Grove

After studying Classical Languages & Archaeology in Bonn, he became a prolific translator of World Literature and a member of Stefan George's homoerotic group, the George-Kreis, around 1900.

Friedrich Hermann Wölfert

Friedrich Hermann Wölfert (17 November 1850 in Riethnordhausen, Kreis Sangerhausen - 12 June 1897 in Tempelhof (in Berlin)) was a German publisher and aviation pioneer.

Gladenbach

In the north, Gladenbach borders on the community of Dautphetal, in the northeast on the town of Marburg, in the east on the community of Weimar, in the southeast on the community of Lohra (all in Marburg-Biedenkopf), in the southwest on the community of Bischoffen (Lahn-Dill-Kreis), and in the west on the community of Bad Endbach (Marburg-Biedenkopf).

Hagen-Dahl

After 1817, Dahl was an independent settlement, with its own mayor, within the district of Breckerfeld, but by order of the government of the Kingdom of Prussia was administratively subordinate to the district (Kreis) of Hagen.

Henry III, Margrave of Meissen

The Thuringian acquisition significantly increased the Wettin territorial possessions, which now reached from the Silesian border at the Bóbr river in the east up to the Werra in the west, and from the border with Bohemia along the Erzgebirge in the south to the Harz range in the north.

Heuchelheim bei Frankenthal

Heuchelheim bei Frankenthal is a municipality in the Rhein-Pfalz-Kreis, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

History of superconductivity

In 1935, F. and H. London showed that the Meissner effect was a consequence of the minimization of the electromagnetic free energy carried by superconducting current.

Hochdorf-Assenheim

Hochdorf-Assenheim is a municipality in the Rhein-Pfalz-Kreis, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

Hohenlohisch dialect

It is spoken in Landkreis Schwäbisch Hall, Hohenlohekreis and what was formerly the Bad Mergentheim Landkreis (now in the Main-Tauber-Kreis), although the latter has recently been assumed into the Tauber-Franconian dialect group.

Hünstetten

Hünstetten borders in the north on the community of Hünfelden, in the northeast on the town of Bad Camberg (both in Limburg-Weilburg), in the east on the town of Idstein, in the south on the town of Taunusstein and in the west on the communities of Hohenstein and Aarbergen (all in the Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis).

Jason Kreis

As a freshman at Burke High School in Omaha, Kreis was selected First Team All-State.

Johann Tserclaes, Count of Tilly

"Count Tilly" besieged and captured Münden on 30 May 1626, whereupon local and refugee Protestant ministers were thrown into the river Werra, but could not lay a siege to Kassel.

Karl Wittgenstein

The grandfather of Karl Wittgenstein was an estate manager named Moses Meyer, who came from Laasphe in the former Wittgenstein kreis (county).

Katrin Göring-Eckardt

In 2009, she sought again to win a constituency seat in her state, this time Gotha – Ilm-Kreis; she still could not gain a constituency-based seat but once again got re-elected on the state list.

Lohra

Among its neighbouring communities are Weimar an der Lahn in the northeast, Fronhausen in the southeast and in the northwest Gladenbach, all in the Marburg-Biedenkopf district, as well as the town of Lollar, Wettenberg and Biebertal in Gießen district, and Bischoffen in Lahn-Dill district.

Main-Kinzig-Kreis

The oldest partnership was inherited from the previous district Hanau, and was formed in 1972 with the Croatian municipality of Kutina - however it took till the 20th anniversary in 1992 that this partnership was officially signed.

A friendship was signed in 1997 with the Russian city Troitsk, together with the partnership of the city Wächtersbach with Troitsk.

Mieszków, Greater Poland Voivodeship

The town was administered as part of the district or county (kreis) of Jarotschin within the Reichsgau Wartheland.

Neustadt, Hesse

Neustadt borders in the north on the community of Gilserberg, in the east on the town of Schwalmstadt and the community of Willingshausen (all three in the Schwalm-Eder-Kreis), in the southeast on the community of Antrifttal, in the south on the town of Kirtorf (both in the Vogelsbergkreis), and in the west on the town of Stadtallendorf (Marburg-Biedenkopf).

Oberoppurg

Oberoppurg is a municipality in the district Saale-Orla-Kreis, in Thuringia, Germany.

Pennewitz

Pennewitz is a municipality in the district Ilm-Kreis, in Thuringia, Germany.

Peter Fliesteden

He was born in a tiny place also called Fliesteden (now part of Bergheim, Rhein-Erft-Kreis) on an unknown date.

Rockhausen

Rockhausen is a municipality in the district Ilm-Kreis, in Thuringia, Germany.

Royal Division of the Aachen-Düsseldorf-Ruhrort Railway

Ruhrort-Crefeld District Gladbach Railway Company (Ruhrort–Crefeld−Kreis Gladbach Eisenbahngesellschaft, RCG), founded in 1844, approved by the Prussian government on 21 August 1846 and granted a concession on 8 January 1847 to build the line from Homberg via Trompet, Uerdingen and Viersen to Gladbach.

Ruhrort–Homberg train ferry

While the Cologne-Minden Railway Company (Cöln-Mindener Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft, CME) was building its trunk line between Cologne and Minden via Duisburg between 1843 and 1847, the shareholders of the Ruhrort-Crefeld District Gladbach Railway Company (Ruhrort–Crefeld−Kreis Gladbach Eisenbahngesellschaft, RCG) were looking for a way to bring coal from the Ruhr to industries on the western bank of the Rhine cheaply.

Stadtallendorf

Stadtallendorf borders in the north on the town of Rauschenberg (Marburg-Biedenkopf) and the community of Gilserberg (Schwalm-Eder-Kreis), in the east on the town of Neustadt, in the southeast on the town of Kirtorf, in the south on the town of Homberg (Ohm) (both in the Vogelsbergkreis), and in the west on the towns of Amöneburg and Kirchhain (both in Marburg-Biedenkopf).

The Gourd and the Palm-tree

However, not only is the poem very obviously derived from Meissner's German fable, but its original (and unacknowledged) Scottish author, Charles Mackay, nowhere credits it with an Eastern origin in the collection in which it first appeared.

Wartburg

From 1540 until his death in 1548, Fritz Erbe, an Anabaptist farmer from Herda, was held captive in the dungeon of the south tower, because he refused to abjure anabaptism.

Weser

Towns along the Weser, from the confluence of Werra and Fulda to the mouth, include: Hann. Münden, Beverungen, Höxter, Holzminden, Bodenwerder, Hameln, Hessisch Oldendorf, Rinteln, Vlotho, Bad Oeynhausen, Porta Westfalica, Minden, Petershagen, Nienburg, Achim, Bremen, Brake, Nordenham, Bremerhaven.

Wilhelmsdorf, Thuringia

Wilhelmsdorf is a municipality in the district Saale-Orla-Kreis, in Thuringia, Germany.

Witzleben

Witzleben is a municipality in the district Ilm-Kreis in Thuringia, Germany.

Wohratal

In the north, Wohratal borders on the towns of Rosenthal and Gemünden, both in Waldeck-Frankenberg district, in the east on the community of Gilserberg in Schwalm-Eder district, and on Rauschenberg, also in Marburg-Biedenkopf district, in the south and west.


see also

Haferberg

The densely wooded Haferberg, which is the highest hill in the Münden Nature Park, is located on the border of north Hesse (Werra-Meißner district) and south Lower Saxony (Göttingen district), 1.25 km northwest of the pass of Umschwang, around 4.5 km east of Nieste and just under 4 km (all distances as the crow flies) west of Kleinalmerode.