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3 unusual facts about Wittlich


Georg Meistermann

In 1994, the Georg-Meistermann-Museum was opened in Wittlich.

Hanin Elias

Hanin Elias (born on the 31st of May, 1972 in Wittlich, Rhineland-Palatinate) is a German industrial/techno artist.

Wurzelpeter

Wurzelpeter is a herbal liqueur with all the flavour of the forest and is a product of Franz Wilhelm Langguth Erben, with its headquarters in Traben-Trarbach, a municipality in the district Bernkastel-Wittlich.


Alfons Heck

Heck was born in the Rhineland, he was raised by his grandmother at her farm in the crossroads wine country community of Wittlich, Germany.

Gladbach

Gladbach, Rhineland-Palatinate, a municipality in the district Bernkastel-Wittlich, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

Jakob von Eltz-Rübenach

Following the death of Archbishop of Trier Johann von der Leyen, the cathedral chapter of the Cathedral of Trier met in Wittlich on 7 April 1567 and elected Jakob von Eltz-Rübenach as the new Archbishop of Trier.

Johann Hugo von Orsbeck

During the course of this occupation, the towns of Cochem, Mayen, and Wittlich were burned.

Manderscheid

County of Manderscheid, historical state of the Holy Roman Empire centered on Manderscheid, Bernkastel-Wittlich

Moselle Viaduct

Moselle Viaduct is also the name of the 1974 bridge where Bundesautobahn 1 between Wittlich and Trier crosses the river Moselle near Schweich.

Schloss Veldenz

The town of Bernkastel-Kues is located four km northeast, the county town of Wittlich is about 15 km northwest, and the nearest big city is Trier 31 km southwest (all distances in a straight line).

The Willing Flesh

The literary and cinematic "Sergeant Steiner" character may be based upon Johann Schwerdfeger (b. 24 November 1914, in Plein bei Wittlich) who soldiered from 1935 to 1937 in Infanterie Regiment 84, and in 1939 was transferred to the Third Company of Infanterie Regiment 186 of the 73rd Infantry Division, at the Polish Campaign's start.

VII Corps Observation Group

Further movements were that Headquarters moved to Grevenmacher, Luxembourg on 4 December and from there to Wittlich, Germany on the 12th.

Wittlich Hauptbahnhof

In the morning peak a regional service runs from Cochem via Wittlich and Trier to Luxembourg and returns on the same route in the evening.

Due to the extensive meandering of the middle Moselle, the line left the Moselle valley at Pünderich and was then built on a relatively straight route through the Wittlich valley (Wittlicher Senke) to Trier.


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