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Bad Nauheim station

Historical tourist trains are operated from there by Eisenbahnfreunde Wetterau (railway friends of Wetterau, EFW) to Münzenberg.

Freie Waldorfschule Wetterau

The Freie Waldorfschule Wetterau is a private Waldorf school located in Bad Nauheim, Germany.

Georg Ludwig Hartig

In 1786, Hartwig was appointed as Manager of Forests for the Prince of Solms-Braunfels at Hungen, in the Wetterau, Hesse.

Groß Karben station

It is the only station in the Wetterau that has been preserved from the formation of the Main-Weser Railway in its original appearance.

Moss people

Between Leidhecken and Dauernheim in the Wetterau stands the high mountain, and on it a stone, der welle fra gestoil (the wild woman's chairs); there is an impression on the rock, as of the limbs of human sitters.

Nidda station

On the Beienheim–Schotten railway service run every hour via Echzell, Reichelsheim and Beienheim to Friedberg.

Rotliegend

In other parts of Germany contemporaneous basins exist, such as the Saar-Nahe Basin, the Wetterau or the Saale Basin.

Shop 'n Save

In 1983, the retail chain was acquired by Wetterau, Inc. Nine years later, in 1992, Wetterau was acquired by SuperValu, and Shop ’n Save has been a subsidiary of SuperValu since.

Ulrich of Hanau

Ulrich III, Lord of Hanau (c. 1310 – 1369 or 1370), Lord of Hanau from 1346 until his death and governor in the Wetterau

Upper Hessian Railway Company

Whilst the Main-Weser railway had linked Wetterau, a town in the western part of the province of Upper Hesse, to the new mode of transport as early as 1850-1852, much of the area, around the Vogelsberg, remained without any railway connexions for years.

West Hesse Depression

This zone is a succession of grabens that run from the Rhone Valley through the Rhine Rift, the Wetterau and the Gießen Basin, below the Vogelsberg foothills to the Amöneburg Basin, and from there over the Neustadt Saddle in the West Hesse Depression and continuing along the Leine Graben to the Oslo Rift valley.

Wetterau

The first documented reference is from 779 in the Codex Aureus of Lorsch.

The economic power of the Wetterau has increased continuously through specific promotion of its urban centres Frankfurt am Main, Wetzlar, Gelnhausen and Friedberg since Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor.

Many historical findings are exhibited in the Wetterau-Museum in Friedberg.


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