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Kirchhain
Kirchhain () is a town in Marburg-Biedenkopf district in Hesse, Germany. Geography Kirchhain is located in the heart of the state of Hesse in Marburg-Biedenkopf district. Geographically, it is surrounded by the Amöneburg Basin on the southeast edge of the ''Burgwald'' (a low mountain range) about 15 km east of Marburg on the rivers Ohm River, Ohm and Wohra. Neighbouring communities In the north, Kirchhain borders on the town of Rauschenberg, Hesse, Rauschenberg, in the east on the town of Stadtallendorf, in the south on the town of Amöneburg and the community of Cölbe. Town divisions Besides the main centre of Kirchhain with about 8,300 inhabitants, 12 further constituent communities share another 8,900 people: History In prehistoric times a network of long-distance and connecting trails crossed back and forth over the area where the town of Kirchhain was later to be founded. Since the early New Stone Age, there is evidence of almost continuous settlement in the area ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doberlug-Kirchhain
Doberlug-Kirchhain ( dsb, Dobrjoług-Góstkow) is a Germany, German town in the district of Elbe-Elster, Lower Lusatia, Brandenburg. History 937. The town of Kirchhain was built by Margrave Gero. A document written in 1005 mentions the town Doberlug (''Dobraluh'') for the first time. In 1165 the Cistercians, Cistercian Dobrilugk Abbey was founded by Margrave Dietrich of Landsberg. 1235. Kirchhain received market-rights. In 1431 the Hussites destroyed the town of Doberlug and the abbey was devastated. In 1637 and 1643 the Sweden, Swedes destroyed Kirchhain. From 1815 to 1947, Doberlug and Kirchhain were part of the Prussia, Prussian Province of Brandenburg. 1848. The jurisdictions of Doberlug and Kirchhain were unified, but the actual merger of the two towns did not take place until over one hundred years later, in 1950. During World War II, Kirchhain was taken by the Red Army on 23 April 1945. From 1952 to 1990, Doberlug-Kirchhain was part of the Bezirk Cottbus of East Germany ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rauschenberg, Hesse
Rauschenberg is a town in the north of Marburg-Biedenkopf district in Hesse, Germany. Geography Location Rauschenberg lies at the southern edge of the ''Burgwald'', a low mountain range, near Marburg and Kirchhain. Neighbouring communities Rauschenberg borders in the north on the town of Rosenthal (Waldeck-Frankenberg) as well as on the communities of Wohratal (Marburg-Biedenkopf) and Gilserberg (Schwalm-Eder-Kreis), in the east on the town of Stadtallendorf, in the south on the town of Kirchhain, in the southwest on the community of Cölbe, and in the west on the town of Wetter (all in Marburg-Biedenkopf). Municipality divisions Rauschenberg consists out of following villages: * Albshausen * Bracht * Ernsthausen * Josbach * Rauschenberg (town) * Schwabendorf * Wolfskaute History Even as far back as 1000, a castle was built in what is now Rauschenberg. After a fire about 1250, almost the whole settlement was destroyed. Shortly after Rauschenberg was founded by the Counts of Z ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Transformatorenhäuschen (Anzefahr)
The Transformatorenhäuschen (literally ‘little transformer house’) is a former electrical distribution substation on the Sindersfelder Straße in Anzefahr, a borough of the Hessian city of Kirchhain in Marburg-Biedenkopf district. The tower-like building was erected during the first quarter of the 20th century and connected Anzefahr to the power grid. Built from brick, the is plastered. Both the corners and window cutouts feature sandstone. As a “witness of the beginning of electrification in rural areas” (), the is protected as a cultural heritage monument A national heritage site is a heritage site having a value that has been registered by a governmental agency as being of national importance to the cultural heritage or history of that country. Usually such sites are listed in a heritage registe .... Literature * Helmuth K. Stoffers: ''.'' Published by the Landesamt für Denkmalpflege Hessen. Konrad Theiss Verlag, 2002. , S. 249. {{DEFAULTSORT:Transform ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amöneburg
Amöneburg () is a town in the Marburg-Biedenkopf district in Hesse, Germany. It lies on a mountain and is built around the castle of the same name, ''Burg Amöneburg''. Geography Location Amöneburg lies on a basalt cone that can be seen from a great distance, below which flows the river Ohm, a tributary to the Lahn. From the Vogelsberg massif in the southeast, Amöneburg is split by the Amöneburg Basin, a hollow suspected of being a meteorite craterIn the southwest rise the Lahn Mountains. Neighbouring communities In the north, Amöneburg borders on the town of Kirchhain, in the east on the town of Stadtallendorf (both in Marburg-Biedenkopf), in the southeast on the town of Homberg (Vogelsbergkreis), and in the west on the community of Ebsdorfergrund (Marburg-Biedenkopf). Communities within town * Erfurtshausen * Mardorf * Roßdorf * Rüdigheim Coat of arms Amöneburg's coat of arms, like many throughout western Germany, depicts the Wheel of Mainz and Saint Martin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eberhard Werner Happel
Eberhard Werner Happel (12 August 1647 in Kirchhain – 15 May 1690 in Hamburg) was a German author, novelist, journalist and polymath A polymath ( el, πολυμαθής, , "having learned much"; la, homo universalis, "universal human") is an individual whose knowledge spans a substantial number of subjects, known to draw on complex bodies of knowledge to solve specific pro .... Happel wrote fiction and nonfiction. He included many aspects of contemporary knowledge in his many works which therefore had an encyclopaedic form and dealt with historical and current political themes, compilations of anecdotes about famous people past and present, descriptions of exotic regions, and popular treatises on natural science. Works *Der asiatische Onogambo. 1673 *Sogenannter christlicher Potentaten Kriegsroman. 2 volumes, 1681 *Der insulanische Mandorell. 1682 *Der ungarische Kriegsroman. 6 volumes, 1685-1697 *Der italienische Spinelli oder so genannte Europäische Geschicht-Romans ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Timber Framing
Timber framing (german: Holzfachwerk) and "post-and-beam" construction are traditional methods of building with heavy timbers, creating structures using squared-off and carefully fitted and joined timbers with joints secured by large wooden pegs. If the structural frame of load-bearing timber is left exposed on the exterior of the building it may be referred to as half-timbered, and in many cases the infill between timbers will be used for decorative effect. The country most known for this kind of architecture is Germany, where timber-framed houses are spread all over the country. The method comes from working directly from logs and trees rather than pre-cut dimensional lumber. Hewing this with broadaxes, adzes, and draw knives and using hand-powered braces and augers (brace and bit) and other woodworking tools, artisans or framers could gradually assemble a building. Since this building method has been used for thousands of years in many parts of the world, many styles ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ohm River
The Ohm (older ''Amana''GREULE, Albrecht 2014. "Deutsches Gewässernamenbuch: Etymologie der Gewässernamen und der zugehörigen Gebiets-, Siedlungs- und Flurnamen". Ed. Walter de Gruyter GmbH) is a river in Hesse, Germany. It is a right tributary of the Lahn. Its total length is . The Ohm originates in the Vogelsberg Mountains, east of the town Ulrichstein. It flows generally northwest through Ulrichstein, Mücke, Homberg, Amöneburg, Kirchhain, and joins the Lahn in Cölbe, near Marburg. Its largest tributaries are the Seenbach, Felda, Klein, Wohra Wohra is a river of Hesse, Germany. It flows into the Ohm near Kirchhain. See also *List of rivers of Hesse A list of rivers of Hesse, Germany: A *Aar, tributary of the Dill *Aar, tributary of the Lahn *Aar, tributary of the Twiste * Aarbach ... and Rotes Wasser. References Rivers of Hesse Rivers of the Vogelsberg Vogelsberg Marburg-Biedenkopf Rivers of Germany {{Hesse-river-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marburg-Biedenkopf
Marburg-Biedenkopf is a ''Kreis'' (district) in the west of Hesse, Germany. Neighboring districts are Waldeck-Frankenberg, Schwalm-Eder, Vogelsbergkreis, Gießen, Lahn-Dill, Siegen-Wittgenstein. History The district was created in 1974 when the districts Marburg, Biedenkopf and the former urban district of Marburg were merged. The district has partnerships with Huntingdonshire in the United Kingdom, the borough of Charlottenburg in Berlin, and the district of Kościerzyna in Poland. Geography The main river in the district is the Lahn. Coat of arms The coat of arms shows the lion of Hesse, as Marburg was the seat of the landgraves of Hesse, and also their tomb is located in a church in Marburg. The coat held by the lion shows the black cross of the Counts of the Teutonic Knights The Order of Brothers of the German House of Saint Mary in Jerusalem, commonly known as the Teutonic Order, is a Catholic religious institution founded as a military society in Acre, King ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stadtallendorf
Stadtallendorf is a town in the district of Marburg-Biedenkopf, Hesse, Germany. It lies about east of Marburg. In 2010, the town hosted the 50th Hessentag state festival. Geography Location Under the German system of ''Naturräume'', Stadtallendorf lies in the West Hesse Depression zone (''westhessische Senkenzone'') which is divided into basins and ridges. With respect to these, the town lies on the Upper Hesse Ridge which separates the Amöneburg Basin in the west from the ''Schwalmbecken'' (another basin) in the east. On this ridge may also be found the Neustadt Saddle, abutted by the town's northeast edge. This upland is part of the divide between the Rhine and Weser watersheds. Neighbouring communities 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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cölbe
Cölbe () is a municipality in Marburg-Biedenkopf district in Hesse, Germany. Location Cölbe's municipal area lies on the southern edge of the ''Burgwald'', a low mountain range and part of the ''Hessisches Bergland'' (Hessian Highland), and borders directly on the university city of Marburg to the south. The namesake constituent community is found on a bow in the river Lahn where it bends from its mainly easterly flow to a mainly southerly one. Neighbouring communities Cölbe borders in the northwest on the town of Wetter, in the northeast on the town of Rauschenberg, in the east on the town of Kirchhain, in the south on the town of Marburg, and in the west on the community of Lahntal (all in Marburg-Biedenkopf). Divisions The community consists of six constituent communities named Bernsdorf, Bürgeln, Cölbe, Reddehausen, Schönstadt and Schwarzenborn. Coat of arms Cölbe's civic coat of arms might be described thus: ''Gules a bend argent surmounted by six hearts r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thirty Years' War
The Thirty Years' War was one of the longest and most destructive conflicts in European history The history of Europe is traditionally divided into four time periods: prehistoric Europe (prior to about 800 BC), classical antiquity (800 BC to AD 500), the Middle Ages (AD 500 to AD 1500), and the modern era (since AD 1500). The first early ..., lasting from 1618 to 1648. Fought primarily in Central Europe, an estimated 4.5 to 8 million soldiers and civilians died as a result of battle, famine, and disease, while some areas of what is now modern Germany experienced population declines of over 50%. Related conflicts include the Eighty Years' War, the War of the Mantuan Succession, the Franco-Spanish War (1635–1659), Franco-Spanish War, and the Portuguese Restoration War. Until the 20th century, historians generally viewed it as a continuation of the religious struggle initiated by the 16th-century Reformation within the Holy Roman Empire. The 1555 Peace of Augsburg atte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Plomelin
Plomelin (; ''Ploveilh'' in Breton) is a commune in the Finistère department of Brittany in north-western France. It lies near the Odet river, about southwest of Quimper. International relations Plomelin is twinned with the village of Crymych in Wales and the village of in Germany. Population Inhabitants of Plomelin are called in French ''Plomelinois''. Breton language The municipality launched a linguistic plan concerning the Breton language through Ya d'ar brezhoneg on 3 July 2008. See also *Communes of the Finistère department *Buckwheat whisky Buckwheat whisky is a type of distilled alcoholic beverage made entirely or principally from buckwheat. It is produced in the Brittany region of France and in the United States. Soba shōchū is a similar but weaker beverage produced in Japan. ..., produced in Plomelin by ''Distillerie des Menhirs''. References External linksOfficial website *Mayors of Finistère Association Communes of Finistère {{Finist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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