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Kirchheim An Der Weinstrasse
Kirchheim may refer to: Place name ; Australia *''Kirchheim'' was the name of Haigslea, Queensland until the first World War ; Austria * Kirchheim im Innkreis, a town in Upper Austria ** Ried-Kirchheim Airport, a private-use airport near Kirchheim im Innkreis ; France *Kirchheim, Bas-Rhin, a municipality in the Bas-Rhin department ; Germany * , a borough of Euskirchen in North Rhine-Westphalia *Heidelberg-Kirchheim, a district of the city of Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg ** Heidelberg-Kirchheim/Rohrbach station, a railway station ** SG Heidelberg-Kirchheim, an association football club *Kirchheim, Hesse, a municipality in Hesse * Kirchheim, Lower Franconia, a municipality in the district of Würzburg, Bavaria *Kirchheim, Thuringia, a municipality in Thuringia *Kirchheim am Neckar, a municipality in Baden-Württemberg *Kirchheim am Ries, a municipality in Baden-Württemberg *Kirchheim an der Weinstraße, a municipality in Rhineland-Palatinate *Kirchheim bei München, a municipalit ...
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Haigslea, Queensland
Haigslea is a locality split between the City of Ipswich and the Somerset Region in South East Queensland, Australia. In the , Haigslea had a population of 468 people. History The area was originally called ''Kirchheim'' by the many German people who settled there as immigrants between 1865 and 1873. It was renamed ''Haigslea'' due to anti-German sentiment during the First World War. The locality is named after General Douglas Haig. He served in India in 1887. He was appointed as the regiment's adjutant in 1888, and appointed as Commander-in-chief of the British Army in France from 1915 to 1918. On 9 July 1873, St Paul's Lutheran church was dedicated by Pastor C. Baustadt. A manse was built beside the church in 1874. The manse was replaced with a new building in 1895 (this building was moved to Marburg in 1904). On 17 November 1923, the church was destroyed in a cyclone.  A replacement church was built at Haigslea (formerly Kirchheim) and re-dedicated on 13 April 1924. A n ...
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Kirchheim An Der Weinstraße
Kirchheim an der Weinstraße (or Kirchheim an der Weinstrasse) is an ''Ortsgemeinde'' – a municipality belonging to a ''Verbandsgemeinde'', a kind of collective municipality – in the Bad Dürkheim district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Geography Location The municipality lies in the northwest of the Rhine-Neckar urban agglomeration. It sits at an elevation of just under 150 m above sea level near the north end of the German Wine Route. To the west rises the Haardt at the Palatinate Forest’s eastern edge, and to the east stretches the Upper Rhine Plain. Through the municipality, from west to east, flows the Eckbach, regionally known as ''die Eck''. Kirchheim an der Weinstraße belongs to the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' of Leiningerland, whose seat is in Grünstadt, although that town is itself not in the ''Verbandsgemeinde''. Neighbouring municipalities Clockwise from the north, these are the town of Grünstadt and the villages of Bissersheim, Herxheim am Berg a ...
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Cerkno
Cerkno (; it, Circhina; ger, Kirchheim) is a small town in the Littoral region of Slovenia. It has around 2,000 inhabitants and is the administrative centre of the Cerkno Hills. It is the seat of the Municipality of Cerkno. Cerkno is a small but important local cultural center in the traditional Littoral region near Idrija. It is known for the '' Laufarija'' carnival, a spring festival with carved wooden masks; for Franja Partisan Hospital (''Partizanska bolnica Franja''); for a Partisan hospital from World War II; and as a ski resort. Name Cerkno was attested in written records in 1257 as ''Curchinitz'' (and as ''Chyrchayn'' in 1299, ''Circhinç'' in 1337, and ''Circhiniz'' in 1486). The modern Slovene name is an ellipsis of ''*Cerьkъvьno (selo/polje)''; literally, 'church (village/field)'. The medieval attestations of the name indicate that the settlement was also once called ''Cerknica''. The name indicates that the place was formerly a church property. History Historica ...
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Tittmoning
Tittmoning () is a town in the district of Traunstein, in Bavaria, Germany. Geography It is situated in the historic Rupertiwinkel region, on the left bank of the river Salzach, which forms the border with the municipality of Ostermiething in the Austrian state of Salzburg. The two communes are linked by a bridge. Tittmoning is located about northwest of the Salzburg city centre. History The settlement of ''Titamanninga'' was first mentioned about 790 AD, then a possession of St Peter's Abbey, Salzburg. After the Archbishops of Salzbug had achieved immediate status in the late 13th century, Tittmoning Castle was built as a border fortress against the incursions by the Dukes of Bavaria. The episcopal administrator of the castle and its environs was called burgrave (''Burggraf''), as was Ulrich von Wispeck in 1282. Tittmoning was occupied by the forces of the German king Louis the Bavarian during his conflict with the papacy in 1324; nevertheless, he restored it to the Salzb ...
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Kirchheimbolanden
Kirchheimbolanden (), the capital of Donnersbergkreis, is a town in Rhineland-Palatinate, south-western Germany. It is situated approximately 25 km west of Worms, and 30 km north-east of Kaiserslautern. The first part of the name, ''Kirchheim'', dates back to 774. It became a town in 1368, and the Sponheim family improved its security with many towers and walls. William, Duke of Nassau, ancestor of the royal families of Belgium, Sweden, Denmark and Norway, and of the grand-ducal family of Luxembourg, was born in Kirchheimbolanden. It was also ruled by the First French Empire between 1792 and 1814, before passing to the Kingdom of Bavaria in 1815. It was a rural district centre in the ''Rheinkreis'', which was renamed ''Pfalz'' ( Palatinate) in 1835. Geography Location Kirchheimbolanden lies in the Palatinate at the transition point of the Nordpfälzer Bergland to the Alzeyer Hügelland bordering to the east. The city centre is located about four kilometres (as the cro ...
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VfL Kirchheim/Teck
VfL Kirchheim/Teck is a German association football club from the city of Kirchheim unter Teck, Baden-Württemberg. The football club is part of a larger sports club that has over 4,000 members in 18 departments that include Aikido, athletics, badminton, basketball, bowling, fencing, fistball, gymnastics, handball, Judo, Karate, swimming, table tennis, tennis, triathlon, and wrestling. The club also has sections for leisure sport, seniors, and rehabilitation. __TOC__ History The origins of the club go back to the establishment on 6 July 1881 of the gymnastics club ''Turnverein 1861 Kirchheim''. A football department was formed within the association and in 1911 became independent as ''VfB Kirchheim''. On 20 May 1933 the team merged with ''TSV 1861 Kirchheim'' to create ''Turn- und Sportvereinigung Kirchheim'' which was itself made up of the original parent club ''TV'' and ''TB 1888 Kirchheim 1922''. This union was short-lived and broke up on 26 February 1935, only to be re-made ...
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VfL Kirchheim Knights
VfL Kirchheim Knights is a professional basketball club based in Kirchheim unter Teck, Germany. The team plays in the ProA Proas are various types of multi-hull outrigger sailboats of the Austronesian peoples. The terms were used for native Austronesian ships in European records during the Colonial era indiscriminately, and thus can confusingly refer to the do ..., the second highest stage in Germany. Season by season SourceEurobasket/small> References External linksOfficial site Basketball teams in Germany {{ProA ...
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Schloss Kirchheim (Teck)
Schloss Kirchheim is a castle and palace in the old town of Kirchheim unter Teck, in the German state of Baden-Württemberg. The palace was built in the 16th century by Ulrich, Duke of Württemberg as a castle and part of a greater system of defensive works. Over two centuries later, it became the dower house for the Duchy and later Kingdom of Württemberg. The palace's interior is currently arranged and furnished as it was during the residence of its final dowager, Henriette von Nassau-Weilburg. History On his return from exile, Duke Ulrich of Württemberg ordered the construction of seven fortresses across the Duchy of Württemberg in order to better protect its territory. Those fortresses were to be the castles of , , Hohenneuffen, Hohenasperg and Hohentwiel, and the towns of Schorndorf and Kirchheim unter Teck. Construction of Kirchheim's complex of fortifications began in 1538, and with resources assembled from across the Duchy. This complex was made up deep moats, robus ...
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Kirchheim Unter Teck
Kirchheim unter Teck ( Swabian: ''Kircha'') is a town in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, in the district of Esslingen. It is located on the small river Lauter, a tributary of the Neckar. It is 10 km (6 miles) near the Teck castle, approximately southeast of Stuttgart. It is the fourth city in the Esslingen district, forming a district centre for the surrounding communities. Since 1 April 1956, Kirchheim unter Teck has the status of Große Kreisstadt. The city forms a ''Verwaltungsgemeinschaft'' (administrative community) with the neighbouring municipalities Dettingen and Notzingen. Kirchheim unter Teck was also, for several centuries, seat of the Oberamt (Oa.) Kirchheim. Geography Kirchheim unter Teck is located in the foothills of the central Swabian ''Alb'', north of the Albtrauf escarpment and its foothills: the Teckberg, Breitenstein and Limburg. It is situated in the Lauter valley, at the confluence of the Lindach and several tributary streams with the Lauter. T ...
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Kirchheim In Schwaben
Kirchheim or Kirchheim in Schwaben ( engl. ''Kirchheim in Swabia'') is a municipality and a market town in the district of Unterallgäu in the region of Swabia (Schwaben) in the south-west of Bavaria, Germany. The town was greatly influenced by the Fugger family. North-east of the town lies the Augsburg Western Woods Nature Park. Besides the town of Kirchheim, the municipality encompasses the villages of Derndorf, Hasberg, Spöck und Tiefenried. The town has a municipal association with Eppishausen of which it is the capital and place of administration. The town lies south-west of Augsburg, west of Munich. History Early history Kirchheim's History already begins 8000 BC in the Stone Age with the first traces of hunter-gatherers. In the Bronze Age around 1800 BC the first larger settlement was founded with around 15 homesteads. After the Romans the Alemanni were settling in the town and were establishing the name Kirchheim (German "Heim bei der Kirche", English "home a ...
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Kirchheim Bei München
Kirchheim bei München is a municipality in the district of Munich, in Bavaria, Germany. It is located 14 km east of Munich Munich ( ; german: München ; bar, Minga ) is the capital and most populous city of the States of Germany, German state of Bavaria. With a population of 1,558,395 inhabitants as of 31 July 2020, it is the List of cities in Germany by popu ... (centre). As of 2020 it has a population of 12,787. See also * Heimstettener See References Munich (district) {{Munichdistrict-geo-stub ...
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Kirchheim Am Ries
Kirchheim is a municipality in the district of Ostalbkreis in Baden-Württemberg in Germany. Twin towns — sister cities Kirchheim am Ries is twinned with: * Solarolo Solarolo ( rgn, Slarôl) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Ravenna in the Italy, Italian region of Emilia-Romagna, located about southeast of Bologna and about west of Ravenna. Solarolo borders the following municipalities: Bag ..., Italy References Ostalbkreis Württemberg {{Ostalbkreis-geo-stub ...
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