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unusual facts about William Maurice, Prince of Nassau-Siegen



Abellio Deutschland

Abellio Deutschland operates several regional railway lines in Northrhine-Westfalia, notably the line between Essen and Siegen / Iserlohn along the Ruhr and Lenne rivers.

Adolph Diesterweg

Friedrich Adolph Wilhelm Diesterweg (born October 29, 1790 in Siegen, died July 7, 1866 in Berlin) was a German educator and thinker who, also a progressive liberal politician, campaigned for the secularization of schools, and is said to be precursory to the reform of pedagogy.

Akif Çağatay Kılıç

Akif Çağatay Kılıç was born on 15 June 1976 to Sinan Kılıç and Behire Yıldız in Siegen, North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany.

Anna Angelina Wolfers

Anna Angelina Wolfers (born November 8, 1978 in Siegen) is a German actress, model and entrepreneur.

Avanti Air

Avanti Air (named after the Italian word for ahead) is an airline based in Burbach, Siegen-Wittgenstein, Germany, operating ad hoc charter and aircraft wet-lease services with a maintenance base at Siegerland Airport.

Bietschhorn

It was first climbed on 13 August 1859 by Leslie Stephen, with guides Anton Siegen, Johann Siegen and Joseph Ebener.

Charles Henry of Nassau-Siegen

Probably to escape his creditors, he joined the 1766 expedition of Louis Antoine de Bougainville to explore the South Pacific Ocean.

Christian, Prince of Nassau-Dillenburg

In 1711, Francis Alexander, the last Prince of Nassau-Hadamar had died and his territory had been divided among the surviving Ottonian lines of Nassau: Nassau-Dietz, Nassau-Dillenburg and Nassau-Siegen.

Christoph Pezel

Pezel, who had hitherto been at Zeitz, now went to Eger; but in 1577, like his fellow exiles, received a position from Count John of Nassau, first at the school in Siegen and later at Dillingen.

Cologne-Minden Railway Company

The Cologne-Minden Railway Company built the 183 kilometre long railway between 1859 and 1862 from Deutz via Betzdorf, Dillenburg and Wetzlar to Gießen, with a branch to the mines in Siegen.

Countess Juliane of Nassau-Dillenburg

Countess Juliane of Nassau-Dillenburg (3 September 1587, Dillenburg – 15 February 1643, Rotenburg an der Fulda), was the fifth child and second daughter of Count John VII of Nassau-Dillenburg (1561–1623), who became Count John I of Nassau-Siegen when his father's inheritance was divided in 1606, and his wife Countess Magdalena of Waldeck (1558–1599).

County of Nassau

The boundary line was essentially the Lahn, with Otto receiving the northern part of the county with the cities of Siegen, Dillenburg, Herborn and Haiger and Walram retaining the section south of the river, including the cities of Weilburg and Idstein.

Dautphetal

This interregionally important road leads from eastern North Rhine-Westphalia (Siegen) through Middle Hesse (Dautphetal, Marburg) and East Hesse (Alsfeld, Bad Hersfeld) to Thuringia (Bad Salzungen) thereby fulfilling the function of interregional transportation axis.

E-class Melbourne tram

They are being built at Bombardier's Dandenong factory with local design input, with propulsion systems and bogies coming from Bombardier’s German factories in Mannheim and Siegen respectively.

Epcard

This software package was developed by scientists of the Institute of Radiation Protection of the Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health (former GSF - National Research Center for Environmet and Health) with support from the European Commission and University of Siegen, Germany.

Ernst Achenbach

Ernst Achenbach (April 9, 1909, Siegen, Westphalia – December 2, 1991, Essen) was a German lawyer and politician of the Nazi Party, and after World War II, the Free Democratic Party.

Francis Alexander, Prince of Nassau-Hadamar

Franz Alexander was the son of prince Maurice Henry of Nassau-Hadamar (23 April 1626 – 24 January 1679) and his second wife Maria Leopoldine of Nassau-Siegen (1652–1675).

Francisco de Moncada, 3rd Marquis of Aitona

On 12–13 March 1631, his seamen were defeated at the Battle of the Slaak, the commander being then a Catholic member of the House of Orange-Nassau, namely Count Jan VIII van Nassau-Siegen, (Dillenburg, Germany, 1583 - Count successor 1623 - Siegen, Belgium, 27 September 1623).

Frederick Augustus, Duke of Nassau

On 17 May 1803, he succeed as the Prince of Nassau-Usingen when his elder brother, Charles William died without male heirs.

Haiger

To the North Haiger borders with the town of Netphen (Siegen-Wittgenstein in North Rhine-Westphalia) and the community of Dietzhölztal, to the east with the community of Eschenburg and the town of Dillenburg, to the south with the community of Breitscheid (all in the Lahn-Dill-Kreis), and to the west with the communities of Burbach and Wilnsdorf (both in the Siegen-Wittgenstein district of North Rhine-Westphalia).

Haiger station

Haiger station is on the Siegen–Gießen main line (Dill line) and the Heller Valley Railway from Haiger to Betzdorf, now classified as a single track main line, which was originally part of the Deutz–Giessen line.

Heinfried Birlenbach

Heinfried Birlenbach (born May 24, 1940 in Siegen) is a retired West German shot putter.

Henry III of Nassau-Breda

Count Henry III of Nassau-Dillenburg-Dietz (12 January 1483, Siegen – 14 September 1538, Breda), Lord (from 1530 Baron) of Breda, Lord of the Lek, of Dietz, etc. was a count of the House of Nassau.

House of Nassau

1255–1290: Otto I, Count of Nassau in Siegen, Dillenburg, Beilstein, and Ginsberg

Johan Ernst van Nassau-Siegen

John Ernst of Nassau came with his 3,100 men, including his brother William and Joachim Ernst of Schleswig-Holstein, for Gradisca d'Isonzo, a small but powerful Hapsburg city in the county of Gorizia and Gradisca, on the River Isonzo.

Johan Ernst was granted the rank and title of General by the Doge of Venice, Giovanni Bembo.

Johann Heinrich Bisterfeld

Johann Heinrich Bisterfeld (1605 – 16 February 1655) was a German philosopher, logician and encyclopedic writer from Siegen.

John Ernst, Count of Nassau-Weilburg

John Ernst of Nassau-Weilburg (Weilburg, June 13, 1664 – Heidelberg, February 27, 1719) was an Imperial Generalfeldmarschall, from 1675 to 1688 Count and from 1688 till his death Prince (Fürst) of Nassau-Weilburg.

John Louis of Nassau-Hadamar

William Louis received Nassau-Dillenburg, John received Nassau-Siegen, George received Nassau-Beilstein, Ernst Casimir received Nassau-Dietz and John Louis received Nassau-Hadamar.

Karl Heinrich von Nassau-Siegen

He sailed around the world with Bougainville, "fought tigers bare-handed" in Central Africa and reportedly seduced the Queen of Tahiti.

Kerstin Szymkowiak

Kerstin Szymkowiak (born Kerstin Jürgens on 19 December 1977 in Siegen) is a German skeleton racer who has competed since 2002.

Krombach

Kreuztal-Krombach, a locality in Kreuztal, in the Siegen-Wittgenstein district, North Rhine-Westphalia

Main–Weser Railway

From December 2009 to December 2011 a pair of Euro City trains on line 62 ran from Siegen to Klagenfurt over the line between Giessen and Frankfurt, stopping at Bad Nauheim.

Martin Krampen

Martin Krampen (born on March 9, 1928, Siegen) is a leading German semiotician, semiotics Professor in Göttingen.

Milan Matulović

Matulović's sharp attacking play is shown in a more favorable light in this game against the Bulgarian grandmaster Georgi Tringov from the 1970 Chess Olympiad at Siegen.

Olinda

John Maurice, Prince of Nassau-Siegen was appointed as the governor of the Dutch possessions in Brazil in 1637 by the Dutch West India Company on recommendation of Frederick Henry.

PMDTechnologies

The corporate headquarters of the company is located in Siegen, Germany.

Principality of Orange-Nassau

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.

Siegen station

The station was opened on 10 January 1861 simultaneously with the opening of the branch line from Siegen to Betzdorf, now part of the Sieg Railway.

Steigt freudig in die Luft, BWV 36a

The cantata was written for the 24th birthday of the prince's second wife, Princess Charlotte Friederike Amalie of Nassau-Siegen on 30 November 1726, the likely date of the work's premiere, albeit undocumented.

Stein-Neukirch

Right near the community, Bundesstraßen 54, linking Limburg an der Lahn with Siegen, and 414, leading from Driedorf-Hohenroth to Hachenburg, cross each other.

Troisdorf station

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.

Victor I, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym

In Birstein on 22 November 1714 Victor Amadeus Adolph married firstly with Charlotte Louise (b. Büdingen, 31 July 1680 - d. Schaumburg, 2 January 1739), daughter of William Maurice, Count of Isenburg-Büdingen-Birstein.

William Hyacinth, Prince of Nassau-Siegen

William Hyacinth himself fled to Hadamar, to his cousin Francis Alexander.

Prince William Hyacinth of Nassau-Siegen (7 April 1666 in Brussels – 18 February 1743 in Hadamar) was a Prince of Nassau-Siegen.


see also

William Maurice, Prince of Nassau-Siegen

William Maurice, Prince of Nassau-Siegen (18 January 1649 in Terborg – 23 January 1691 in Siegen) was a Count of Nassau-Siegen.