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Waldeck (Odenwald)
Waldeck may refer to: Places Canada * Waldeck, Nova Scotia, rural community in Nova Scotia, Canada * Waldeck, Saskatchewan, a village in Saskatchewan, Canada Europe * Free State of Waldeck-Pyrmont, a constituent state of the Weimar Republic * Principality of Waldeck and Pyrmont, a principality in the German Empire and German Confederation, and a state in the Weimar Republic * Waldeck, Palatinate, a village in the Upper Palatinate, Bavaria, Germany **Waldeck Castle (Upper Palatinate), the remains of a castle near the village * Waldeck Castle (Hunsrück), a medieval fortress/castle in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany * Waldeck-Eisenberg, a medieval principality of the Holy Roman Empire * Waldeck-Frankenberg, a Kreis (district) in the north of Hesse, Germany * Waldeck, Hesse, a town in Hesse, Germany ** Waldeck Castle (Waldeck), a medieval fortress/castle in Waldeck, Hesse, Germany * Waldeck, Moselle, a hamlet in Lorraine, France ** Waldeck Castle (Lorraine), a medieval fortress/cast ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Waldeck, Nova Scotia
Waldeck is a Canadian dispersed rural community located in Annapolis County, Nova Scotia. Nearby are the communities of Waldeck East and Waldeck West. It was settled after the American Revolution by disbanded German troops ( Hessians) from the Principality of Waldeck The County of Waldeck (later the Principality of Waldeck and Principality of Waldeck and Pyrmont) was a state of the Holy Roman Empire and its successors from the late 12th century until 1929. In 1349 the county gained Imperial immediacy and in 1 ... who had fought on the British side during the war. References Communities in Annapolis County, Nova Scotia {{AnnapolisNS-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Waldeck, Thuringia
Waldeck is a municipality in the district of Saale-Holzland, in Thuringia, Germany Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, and the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany is situated betwe .... References Municipalities in Thuringia Saale-Holzland-Kreis {{SaaleHolzland-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christian Louis, Count Of Waldeck
Count Christian Louis of Waldeck (29 July 1635 – 12 December 1706) was from 1645 Count of Waldeck-Wildungen and from 1692 Count of Waldeck and Pyrmont. Life He was born in Waldeck, the eldest son of the Count Philip VII of Waldeck-Wildungen (1613–1645) and his wife Anna Catherine of Sayn-Wittgenstein (1610–1690) and is the ancestor of all living Princes and Counts of Waldeck. The Arolsen princely house stems from his first marriage, while the Waldeck-Bergheim line, which resides in Bergheim near Bad Wildungen and died out in the male line in 1966, stems from his second marriage via his son Josias I. After his father's death in 1645 Christian Louis inherited the county of Waldeck-Wildungen. His education and the regency until 1660 were in the hands of his mother and Henry Wolrad, a cousin of his father. Christian Louis later resided mostly at Christiansburg Castle, which he had built in Kleinern, near Wildungen. On 12 June 1685, he closed an inheritance treaty wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Portugal
Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic ( pt, República Portuguesa, links=yes ), is a country whose mainland is located on the Iberian Peninsula of Southwestern Europe, and whose territory also includes the Atlantic archipelagos of the Azores and Madeira. It features the westernmost point in continental Europe, and its Iberian portion is bordered to the west and south by the Atlantic Ocean and to the north and east by Spain, the sole country to have a land border with Portugal. Its two archipelagos form two autonomous regions with their own regional governments. Lisbon is the capital and largest city by population. Portugal is the oldest continuously existing nation state on the Iberian Peninsula and one of the oldest in Europe, its territory having been continuously settled, invaded and fought over since prehistoric times. It was inhabited by pre-Celtic and Celtic peoples who had contact with Phoenicians and Ancient Greek traders, it was ruled by the Ro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Austria
Austria, , bar, Östareich officially the Republic of Austria, is a country in the southern part of Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine states, one of which is the capital, Vienna, the most populous city and state. A landlocked country, Austria is bordered by Germany to the northwest, the Czech Republic to the north, Slovakia to the northeast, Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the west. The country occupies an area of and has a population of 9 million. Austria emerged from the remnants of the Eastern and Hungarian March at the end of the first millennium. Originally a margraviate of Bavaria, it developed into a duchy of the Holy Roman Empire in 1156 and was later made an archduchy in 1453. In the 16th century, Vienna began serving as the empire's administrative capital and Austria thus became the heartland of the Habsburg monarchy. After the dissolution of the H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christian August, Prince Of Waldeck And Pyrmont
Christian August, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont (german: Christian August Prinz zu Waldeck; 6 December 1744, Arolsen – 24 September 1798, Palácio Nacional de Sintra, Sintra, near Lisbon) was a general in the Austrian service, and last commander and Field Marshal of the Portuguese land army. Life Christian August was the son of Prince Karl August of Waldeck and Pyrmont and his wife Countess Palatine Christiane Henriette of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld. He was a friend of the arts, and how his parents he was inspired by antiquity. Therefore, his Grand Tour brought him to Italy where he was one of the temporary companions of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe on his Italian Journey. Goethe spoke approvingly of a common trip to Pozzuoli and "the company of such a perfect and well educated prince". Waldeck suggested to Goethe to travel together to Croatia and Greece. Goethe declined: "If one looks out into the world and enters the world enters, then one should be wary, so one is isn't ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christian, Count Of Waldeck-Wildungen
Count Christian of Waldeck-Wildungen (24/25 December 1585 – 31 December 1637), german: Christian Graf von Waldeck-Wildungen, official titles: ''Graf zu Waldeck und Pyrmont'', was since 1588 Count of Waldeck-Eisenberg and after the division with his brother in 1607 Count of . He founded the new cadet branch of Waldeck-Wildungen and is the progenitor of the princes of Waldeck and Pyrmont.Haarmann (2014), p. 24. Never before was the independence of the county of Waldeck more threatened by Hesse than during the reign of Count Christian. Together with his younger brother Wolrad IV, however, he later successfully continued the sovereignty-oriented territorial policy of their father Josias I. They made use of the legal possibilities and chose during the for Waldeck disastrous Thirty Years’ War the for them favourable side of Sweden. However, neither count lived to see the end of the war and with it the conflict with Hesse. Biography Christian was born ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prussian National Assembly
The Prussian National Assembly (German: ''Preußische Nationalversammlung''), came into being after the revolution of 1848 and was tasked with drawing up a constitution for Prussia. It first met in the building of the ''Sing-Akademie zu Berlin'' (later the Maxim Gorki Theater). On 5 November 1848 the Government ordered the expulsion of the Prussian National Assembly to Brandenburg an der Havel and on 5 December 1848 it was dissolved by royal decree A decree is a legal proclamation, usually issued by a head of state (such as the president of a republic or a monarch), according to certain procedures (usually established in a constitution). It has the force of law. The particular term used for .... Elections and task of the National Assembly The main goal of King Frederick William IV and the liberal March Ministry under Ludolf Camphausen in calling elections to the National Assembly was to steer the often spontaneous and unpredictable revolutionary movement into controllable c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benedict Waldeck
Benedikt Franz Leo Ignatz Waldeck (31 July 1802 – 12 May 1870) was a left-leaning deputy in the Prussian National Assembly and later in the Second Chamber of the Landtag of Prussia. He is considered one of the leading left-wing liberals in Prussia during the German revolutions of 1848–1849. In May 1849 he was arrested in Berlin for high treason, but was acquitted in December. Waldeck is an important figure in German constitutional history and in the 1860s he became one of Otto von Bismarck's most important domestic political opponents. Life Family, education and career His father, Johann Heinrich Waldeck, was a professor of law in Münster. His mother, Gertrudis Lindenkampf, came from a Westphalian patrician family. On 1 August 1802 Benedikt Waldeck was baptised in the Roman Catholic St Lambert's Church in Münster. Waldeck attended the Gymnasium Paulinum in Münster, finishing his schooling in 1817. Afterwards he attended philosophical lectures at the University of Müns ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liège
Liège ( , , ; wa, Lîdje ; nl, Luik ; german: Lüttich ) is a major city and municipality of Wallonia and the capital of the Belgian province of Liège. The city is situated in the valley of the Meuse, in the east of Belgium, not far from borders with the Netherlands (Maastricht is about to the north) and with Germany (Aachen is about north-east). In Liège, the Meuse meets the river Ourthe. The city is part of the '' sillon industriel'', the former industrial backbone of Wallonia. It still is the principal economic and cultural centre of the region. The municipality consists of the following districts: Angleur, , Chênée, , Grivegnée, Jupille-sur-Meuse, Liège, Rocourt, and Wandre. In November 2012, Liège had 198,280 inhabitants. The metropolitan area, including the outer commuter zone, covers an area of 1,879 km2 (725 sq mi) and had a total population of 749,110 on 1 January 2008. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adolf II Of Waldeck
Adolf II of Waldeck (c. 1250 – 13 December 1302) was count of Waldeck from 1270 to 1276 and prince-bishop of Liège from 1301 to 1302. Life Adolf was a son of Count Henry III and of Mechthild of Cuyk-Arnsberg. In 1270 he succeeded his grandfather Adolf I of Waldeck as Count of Waldeck. He arranged a treaty with his brothers Otto and Gottfried, which stipulated that one brother would marry Sophia of Hesse (a daughter of Landgrave Henry I of Hesse), and that the other brother would follow suit and also marry. The brother to marry Sophia eventually turned out to be Otto. In 1276 Adolf fell from Otto's favour and became a priest, at first a canon (') of Liège Cathedral, and later a provost (') in the cathedrals of Trier and Utrecht. His other brother Gottfried also entered the church, becoming a canon in Cologne and Liège Cathedrals, treasurer (') in Münster Cathedral and in 1304 bishop of Minden. On the death of William II, Adolf was initially his intended successor as bi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
