Its source is at an elevation of approximately 470 metres above sea level in Blankenheim in the Eifel, in the cellar of a timber-frame house near the castle of Blankenheim.
More recently, Sonfist has continued to create artworks within the natural landscape, inaugurating a one acre (4,000 m²) landscape project titled "The Lost Falcon of Westphalia" on Prince Richard's estate outside Cologne, Germany in 2005.
After graduating, 1911–1913 and 1918–1919, Prof. Hoffman worked as an engineer for the Garbe Lahmeyer company in the electric machine laboratory and in the construction department, in Aachen, Westphalia.
The line is disused and dismantled between Paderborn and Büren-Weiberg, but it has not been formally closed.
Anni Pede-Erdkamp (born January 14, 1940) is a former West German long-distance runner who is recognized by the International Association of Athletics Federations as having set a world best in the marathon on September 16, 1967 with a time of 3:07:27 in Waldniel, West Germany.
In 1742 he arrived in London after narrowly escaping being burnt at the stake by the authorities in Westphalia who charged him with sorcery.
'Panhas', 'Pannas' or 'Möppkenbrot' are widely known in the whole northwest of Germany, the last variety is a speciality of middle Westphalia.
Bielefeld Hauptbahnhof is the main station in the in the region of Ostwestfalen-Lippein the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia.
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Buses run from the station forecourt to, among other places, Bad Salzuflen, Leopoldshöhe, Borgholzhausen, Gütersloh and Steinhagen.
Coins found at Bornais and nearby Cille Pheadair were produced in Norway, Westphalia, and England, although there were none from Scotland.
At the Treaty of Westphalia, his envoy Joachim Friedrich von Blumenthal negotiated the acquisition of several important territories such as Halberstadt.
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The Hohenzollerns expanded their territory by acquiring the Duchy of Prussia in 1618, the Duchy of Cleves (1614) in the Rhineland, and territories in Westphalia.
Charles George Herbermann (1840–1916) was born in Saerbeck near Münster, Westphalia, Prussia, the son of George Herbermann and Elizabeth Stipp.
In 1644, at the Treaty of Munster in Westphalia, the Emperor of Austria yielded the county of Ferrette to the King of France, Louis XIV, who gave it to his minister, Cardinal Mazarin, who offered it to his niece.
Christian Ahlmann (born December 17, 1974 in Marl, North Rhine-Westphalia) is a German equestrian who competes in the sport of show jumping.
Christina Sussiek (born 4 March 1960 in Werther) is a retired athlete who represented West Germany.
Confirmation in the context of Reform Judaism is mentioned officially for the first time in an ordinance issued by the Jewish consistory of the kingdom of Westphalia at Cassel in 1810.
Dahlem is located in the northern Eifel region in the High Fens – Eifel Nature Park between Blankenheim in the Northeast and Stadtkyll the southwest.
After the Allies' victory over Nazi Germany, Strangeways was given the role of political adviser to the Allied Commissioners for Westphalia and the Rhine.
These include many international global players such as 3M, BP, Ericsson, Ford, LG Electronics, QVC, Sony, Renault, Toyota, and Vodafone.
It is situated approximately 5 km south-west of Bergheim and 30 km west of Cologne.
His fame, however, rests chiefly on his smaller pieces, which were received with much favor, especially in Germany, where he officiated for some time as chapelmaster at the courts of the elector of the Bavarian Electorate of the Palatinate, and of the king of Westphalia.
The flag is a combination of the two former provinces of Prussia that comprise most of the state: the Rhine Province and Westphalia, which unfortunately can easily be confused with the much older Flag of Hungary, but which is inverted relative to the NRWF flag, and with the plain version (not currently used) of the flag of Iran.
Friedrich Simon Archenhold (2 October 1861 in Lichtenau, Westphalia - 14 October 1939 in Berlin) was an astronomer who founded the Treptow Observatory (Treptow Sternwarte) in Berlin-Treptow.
Bednorz was born in Neuenkirchen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany to elementary-school teacher Anton and piano teacher Elisabeth Bednorz, as the youngest of four children.
In 1444 he won the Battle of Linnich but was unable to prevail in his fight for Guelders and ultimately sold his claim to Burgundy and acquired Blankenheim-Löwenberg and Heinsberg from Guelders.
Gerleve Abbey (in German Kloster or Abtei Gerleve) is a monastery of the Benedictine Order situated between Coesfeld and Billerbeck in Westphalia (North Rhine-Westphalia), in Germany.
The abbey and its adjoining villages grew into the town of Gladbach, incorporated in the 1360s, the origin of the present city of Mönchengladbach in North Rhine-Westphalia.
The victorious German troops who defended the village during the battle were the 52nd Infantry Division from Baden together with 2nd Guards Reserve Division from Westphalia; the British Army force taking part in the attack comprised the 56th (London) Division and the 46th (North Midland) Division.
Groesbeek and Kranenburg are situated on the banks of the Groesbeek, a small stream in the Groesbeek valley, a large valley between the Nijmeegse heuvelrug and Reichswald.
The skeleton was discovered in Gronau, North Rhine-Westphalia in 1912 by paleontologist Theodor Wegner (the namesake of the species), but it was originally identified as that of Brancasaurus brancai, a plesiosaur that had been named in 1910 from fossils in the same locality.
The family has taken its name from the former Havkenscheid castle in the hamlet of the same name near Bochum, Westphalia.
The head office is situated in Oerlinghausen, in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia.
Hans Weiner (born November 29, 1950 in Neuenkirchen) is a German former footballer who played as a defender.
The Henry Heide Candy Company was founded in 1869 by Henry Heide, an immigrant from Obermarsberg, Westphalia, Germany.
His parents, Henry and Angela Peitz, were natives of Westphalia in what is now Germany.
He was instrumental in the planning and development of institutions at Lengerich (1864), Eberswalde (1865), Andernach (1867), Schwerin (1874), Merzig (1876), Düren and Owinsk (1880), Berlin-Dalldorf, Grafenberg (1882) and Potsdam (1886).
He is said to have been the son of a Westphalian who married an Englishwoman, and to have been born at St. Petersburg in 1783.
Westfaling was born in London, England, the son of Harbert Westphaling, whose family originated in Westphalia (Germany).
Famous Hernians or Wanne-Eickelians include Jürgen von Manger, Kurt Edelhagen, Jürgen Marcus, Heinz Rühmann, Dr. Heinz Dieter Meyer, Tana Schanzara, Rudolf Witzig, Andrea Jürgens, Dr. Claudia Dollins (Geier), Yıldıray Baştürk, Jan Zweyer, Peavy Wagner, Leonie Saint and Bärbel Beuermann.
Born as Isaak Leeser in Neuenkirchen/Rheine, Westphalia, Isaac Leeser received his education at the primary school of nearby Dülmen and thereupon at a gymnasium in Münster.
Rising rapidly through the ranks, he served in northern Germany, and commanded an artillery brigade at Austerlitz in 1805 before becoming governor of Magdeburg in 1806 and Minister of War for Westphalia in 1808.
Johann Heinrich van Ess (February 15, 1772 – October 13, 1847), was a German Catholic theologian, born at Warburg, Westphalia.
On 30 November 1942 Goyeneche met with Ribbentrop at the latter's Westphalian estate, with the Hispanophone Sandstede present as an interpreter.
Julius Smend (10 May 1857 - 7 June 1930) was a German theologian born in Lengerich, Westphalia.
Count Sternberg-Manderscheid acquired in the 1803 Reichsdeputationshauptschluss as the landholder, among other things, the holdings formerly belonging to the monasteries at Weissenau and Schussenried in Upper Swabia to offset his loss of Blankenheim, Jünkerath, Gerolstein and Dollendorf.
Kall, North Rhine-Westphalia, a municipality in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
The realised route corresponded to the proposed option C. There were also considerations for a short time of building a branch line from Lobberich via Boisheim to Waldniel.
Kerken with the towns of Aldekerk, Eyll, Nieukerk and Stenden, is a municipality in the district of Kleve in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
Kirchsahr consists of the districts Kirchsahr, Binzenbach, Burgsahr, Hürnig and Winnen, and lies near the state border of Rhineland-Palatinate and North Rhine-Westphalia.
Sizeable Dutch communities exist in the area around Kranenburg to the west of Kleve.
Köln West (Cologne West) station is located in the northwestern edge of the Innenstadt of Cologne in the district of Neustadt-Nord in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia.
Lengerich, Westphalia, in the Steinfurt district, North Rhine-Westphalia.
A Marshal of France since 24 February 1757, he was commander of the armies in Westphalia during the Seven Years' War.
10 Centre Party (Germany), 2 Social Democratic Party of Germany, 1 Reich Party of the German Middle Class, 4 Communist Party of Germany, 1 independent .
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These incidents were documented by the German artist Gunter Demnig and his project "Stolpersteine" (stumbling blocks).
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The mass production of the Low-energy vehicle Loremo was planned for 2010 in a yet-to-be-constructed car factory in the industrial complex of Dorsten/Marl, but looks now into uncertain future.
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The second largest producer of synthetic rubber (17% of Axis supply), the plant was 240 miles closer to Allied bomber bases than the larger synthetic rubber plant at Schkopau.
The opera Blume und Weissblume was presented in 1910 in Hagen, Westphalia, and in 1912 in Bielsko, and was popular not only because of these two performances, but also because of sensationalist coverage in the press.
The comic was last produced by the advertising agency genokom from Münster in Westphalia, which also publishes the sequel comic Primax together with the DG VERLAG.
A post Rosewood Scrub was opened there in 1878, but changed to Minden in 1879, after the town of Minden in Westphalia, Germany.
Moriz Lieber (b. at the castle of Blankenheim in the Eifel, 1 Oct., 1790, d. Kamberg, in Hesse-Nassau, 29 Dec., 1860) was a German Catholic politician and publisher.
Niederaußem is a city part of Bergheim, North Rhine-Westphalia, located 18 km west of Cologne.
Not included in the transition fares are the neighbouring municipalities of Werther, Versmold, Bad Iburg and Bad Laer.
a native of North Rhine-Westphalia who, in the 1880s, left his hometown of Ennepetal and emigrated to Porto Alegre, Brazil, where he became Guillermo Lenninghaus, and collected cacti for the German grower Haage.
He was born in a tiny place also called Fliesteden (now part of Bergheim, Rhein-Erft-Kreis) on an unknown date.
By German Mediatisation, the county Dietz and its dependencies, and the Lordships Wehrheim and Burbach, all came under the sovereignty of the Duke of Nassau-Usingen and the Prince of Nassau-Weilburg.
Roetgen is a municipality in the district of Aachen, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
Schwalmtal, North Rhine-Westphalia, in the district of Viersen, North Rhine-Westphalia
Schwalmtal is situated approximately 12 km west of Mönchengladbach.
The following year, several families from Baden joined him, and in the early 1860s, another group arrived from Westphalia.
They were founded on 21 August 1849, by Mallinckrodt (b. 3 June 1817, at Minden, Westphalia; d. 30 April 1881), sister to the famous Hermann von Mallinckrodt.
The alley is named after Staffan Sasse, a man originating from Westphalia in Germany, who is mentioned as having bought a house belæget paa køpmana gatwne ("situated on Köpmangatan" (Merchant's Street)) in 1524, and the alley was associated with his name from 1569.
He was born in Westphalia in western Germany, where his parents had gone to look for work in the wealthy mining regions, as many Poles—known as Ruhr Poles—did in the 19th century.
Stefan Heidemann (born 1961 in Versmold in Westphalia) is a German orientalist at Hamburg University, Hamburg.
Steinhagen, North Rhine-Westphalia, in the district of Gütersloh, North Rhine-Westphalia
The name is derived from the Westphalian municipality of Steinhagen, the only place where it is permitted to be produced.
In 2009, the Left Party participated in its first municipal and federal elections in North Rhine-Westphalia, and after the state elections in May 2010, they entered the Landtag of North Rhine-Westphalia with 5.6% of the vote.
While Susato's place of birth is unknown, some scholars believe that because of his name—Susato meaning de Soest, of the town of Soest — he may be from the town of that name in Westphalia, or the town of Soest in The Netherlands.
He was allowed to study in France, and later moved to Germany to begin his novitiate with the Dominicans on 28 September 1969 in Warburg in Westphalia, where his family came to escape the dictatorship in their country.
Jülich-Cleves-Berg was the name of two former territories across the modern German state of North Rhine-Westphalia and the modern Dutch province of Gelderland.
Varensell Abbey (Abtei Varensell) is a house of Benedictine nuns, located near Rietberg in the district of Gütersloh in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
Additionally, in some regions or states, as there are Hessen, Westphalia and Schleswig-Holstein the Verbandsliga is operated in two or more groups running in parallel.
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In North Rhine-Westphalia (Middle Rhine and Lower Rhine), Saxony, Thuringia, Hamburg, Lower Saxony, Bremen and Bavaria, the corresponding sixth tier is called the Landesliga, whereas the Landesliga is only a tier-seven league in most of the other German states.
Vettweiß (alternative spelling: Vettweiss) is a municipality in the district of Düren in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
It is best known for the Werther's Original caramel sweets, which are, however, produced in the nearby city of Halle today.
WestBam, real name Maximilian Lenz (born 4 March 1965, Münster, Westphalia, Germany), is a techno DJ from Germany.
The region is also home to the headquarters of Westfalia-Werke, the contractor that built the VW Westfalia camper vans.
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Candide: the protagonist of Voltaire's novella of the same name, resides in Westphalia in the beginning of the story.
The Westphalia Waltz is an historic Texas waltz by Cotton Collins named after the town of Westphalia, Texas.
Windsor School opened in September 1985 with the merging of two long established Service Children's Schools; Queen's School, JHQ and Kent School which was in Hostert near Schwalmtal, North Rhine-Westphalia.
Winfried Berkemeier (born 22 January 1953 in Gronau (Westf.)) is a former German footballer.
Wolperath is the third largest urban subdivision (Ortsteil) of the Neunkirchen-Seelscheid municipality in North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhein-Sieg, Germany.
In March 1990, the inaugural WPA World Nine-ball Championship was held in Bergheim, Germany.
Wyler is a village along the Dutch/German border, 7 km SE of Nijmegen, Netherlands, and 5 km west of Kranenburg, North Rhine-Westphalia
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Adam Pastor was born Roelof Martens or Martin, at Dörpen, Westphalia, and was a Catholic priest at Aschendorf till 1533 when he joined the peaceful wing of the Anabaptists.
Alpen, Germany, a municipality in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Euler was born at Oelde in Westphalia and was educated at Oelde and at public schools in Cologne and Aachen and from 1885 started a career in engineering.
Bentheim-Tecklenburg was a German district based in the region around Tecklenburg in northern North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
Buses run from the bus station on the station forecourt city to all the city’s districts and regional buses run to Augustdorf, Blomberg, Horn-Bad Meinberg and Barntrup.
Diana Sorbello (born June 27, 1979 in Bocholt, North Rhine-Westphalia) is a German schlager singer.
The area Kapellen lies in the Niederrhein (Lower Rhine) in the northwest part of German Federal State of Nordrhein-Westfalen.
When the war ended, Simon went into hiding using his mother's maiden name in Upsprunge, a community in Salzkotten, Westphalia, where he posed as a gardener.
In particular, a local scene of Germanophone bands had developed in the small town of Bad Salzuflen in Eastern Westphalia, which was centered around the label Fast Weltweit.
The Hanoverian Western Railway was a line from the Löhne to Emden, built by the Royal Hanoverian State Railways in the mid-19th century in the west of the Kingdom of Hanover in the modern German states of Lower Saxony and North Rhine-Westphalia.
The Carolingian west end of the abbey, with its landmark matching towers (built 873–885) survives, the earliest standing medieval structure in Westphalia, but the abbey church is now Baroque.
As the eldest son of Jérôme Bonaparte, Jérôme Napoléon had stood to inherit his titles and claims; instead his younger brother Napoléon Joseph Charles Paul Bonaparte succeeded to the Westphalia claim, and his son Napoléon Victor Bonaparte eventually became head of the House of Bonaparte.
Kreuztal-Krombach, a locality in Kreuztal, in the Siegen-Wittgenstein district, North Rhine-Westphalia
The Mönchengladbach–Düsseldorf railway is a 24 km long main line on the left (western) bank of the Rhine in the Lower Rhine region of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia.
After Nic Romm finished the gymnasium in Jülich, a town in the district of Düren, in the federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia, he visited the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hannover.
The Red-Green coalition formed a minority government with Hannelore Kraft as Minister President after emerging one seat short of a governing majority in the previous election.
Obermarsberg, previously Eresburg, is one of seventeen quarters in the municipality of Marsberg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
Petra Hammesfahr (born 10 May 1951 in Titz, North Rhine-Westphalia) is an acclaimed German crime writer, winner of several awards including the Crime Prize of Wiesbaden and Rhineland Literary Prize.
Rahul Peter Das (born 7 July 1954 in Haan, North Rhine-Westphalia) is the professor of South Asian studies at the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg, where he is also the Dean of Studies of the Faculty of Philosophy I and erstwhile Director of the Centre for Languages of the University.
The cities of Bochum, Castrop-Rauxel, Dortmund, Duisburg, Essen, Gelsenkirchen, Herne, Mülheim an der Ruhr, Oberhausen, Recklinghausen and Wattenscheid founded the Stadtbahngesellschaft Ruhr in 1969 for coordinating the plans to transform tram routes into Stadtbahn routes.
The company's head office is located in Horstmar, Germany, and its registered office is in the neighbouring city of Altenberge in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia.
After some preliminary work starting in 1535, from 1556 on the Italian fortress master builder Alessandro Pasqualini and his son managed the reconstruction, which was finished in 1578 and created the largest fortress in Westphalia.
Spich station is a railway junction in the district of Spich of the town of Troisdorf in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, on the Sieg Railway.
SV Lippstadt is a German association football club from the city of Lippstadt, North Rhine-Westphalia.
SV Schermbeck is a German association football club from Schermbeck, North Rhine-Westphalia.
After the King's arrest and execution, he fled to the continent and married Anna Petronilla the daughter of Baron von Pöllnitz from Westphalia (Governor of Lippstadt, 20 miles east of Dortmund in Germany).
Troisdorf station is a railway junction in the town of Troisdorf in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, where the line from Cologne separates into the East Rhine Railway to Neuwied and the Sieg Railway to Siegen.
The Viersen Jazz Festival is a music festival held every autumn in Viersen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
North to south through the town's municipal area runs the Federal Highway (Bundesstraße) B 252 from eastern Westphalia by way of Korbach and Frankenberg and on to Göttingen (in the community of Lahntal).
The Wiehltal Bridge is a highway bridge on the A 4 motorway between Cologne and Olpe over the Wiehltal valley at Engelskirchen (Oberbergischer Kreis), North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.