Taunusstein () is the biggest town in the
Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis
Rheingau-Taunus is a Kreis (district) in the west of Hesse, Germany. Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis is part of the Darmstadt region; its main administrative seat is Bad Schwalbach. Outposted sections of the local administration are located in Idstein and R ...
in the ''
Regierungsbezirk
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Saxony has ' (directorate districts) with more res ...
'' of
Darmstadt
Darmstadt () is a city in the States of Germany, state of Hesse in Germany, located in the southern part of the Frankfurt Rhine Main Area, Rhine-Main-Area (Frankfurt Metropolitan Region). Darmstadt has around 160,000 inhabitants, making it th ...
in
Hesse
Hesse (, , ) or Hessia (, ; german: Hessen ), officially the State of Hessen (german: links=no, Land Hessen), is a States of Germany, state in Germany. Its capital city is Wiesbaden, and the largest urban area is Frankfurt. Two other major histor ...
n,
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 ...
. It has 30,068 inhabitants (2020).
Geography
Location
Taunusstein lies roughly 10 km northwest of
Wiesbaden
Wiesbaden () is a city in central western Germany and the capital of the state of Hesse. , it had 290,955 inhabitants, plus approximately 21,000 United States citizens (mostly associated with the United States Army). The Wiesbaden urban area ...
and about 10 km west of
Idstein
Idstein () is a town of about 25,000 inhabitants in the Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis in the ''Regierungsbezirk'' of Darmstadt in Hesse, Germany. Because of its well preserved historical Altstadt (Old Town) it is part of the ''Deutsche Fachwerkstraße'' ...
and the
Autobahn
The (; German plural ) is the federal controlled-access highway system in Germany. The official German term is (abbreviated ''BAB''), which translates as 'federal motorway'. The literal meaning of the word is 'Federal Auto(mobile) Track'. ...
A 3. It is part of the Untertaunus (lower Taunus) range.
Taunusstein itself is a rural area and is about 30 km from the river
Rhine
), Surselva, Graubünden, Switzerland
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. The lowest point in Taunusstein is 310 m above
sea level
Mean sea level (MSL, often shortened to sea level) is an average surface level of one or more among Earth's coastal bodies of water from which heights such as elevation may be measured. The global MSL is a type of vertical datuma standardised g ...
, and the highest 613.9 m.
Neighbouring communities
Taunusstein borders in the north on the communities of
Hohenstein and
Hünstetten
Hünstetten is a municipality in the Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis in the ''Regierungsbezirk'' of Darmstadt in Hesse, Germany.
Neighbouring communities
Hünstetten borders in the north on the community of Hünfelden, in the northeast on the town of Bad C ...
and the town of
Idstein
Idstein () is a town of about 25,000 inhabitants in the Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis in the ''Regierungsbezirk'' of Darmstadt in Hesse, Germany. Because of its well preserved historical Altstadt (Old Town) it is part of the ''Deutsche Fachwerkstraße'' ...
, in the east on the community of
Niedernhausen
Niedernhausen im Taunus is a municipality in the Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis in the ''Regierungsbezirk'' of Darmstadt in Hesse, Germany, with almost 15,000 inhabitants.
Geography
Location
Niedernhausen lies in the Rhein-Taunus Nature Park in the west o ...
, in the south on the district-free city of
Wiesbaden
Wiesbaden () is a city in central western Germany and the capital of the state of Hesse. , it had 290,955 inhabitants, plus approximately 21,000 United States citizens (mostly associated with the United States Army). The Wiesbaden urban area ...
and in the west on the community of
Schlangenbad
Schlangenbad is a municipality in the Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis in the ''Regierungsbezirk'' of Darmstadt in Hesse, Germany.
Geography
Location
The community, which is a health resort (''Kurort''), lies above sea level in a sheltered location on ...
and the town of
Bad Schwalbach
Bad Schwalbach (called Langenschwalbach until 1927) is the district seat of Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis, in Hesse, Germany.
Geography
Geographic location
Bad Schwalbach is a spa town some 20 km northwest of Wiesbaden. It lies at 289 to 465&nbs ...
.
Constituent communities
Taunusstein is made up of ten ''
Stadtteile'':
History
The town of Taunusstein came into being on 1 October 1971 through the merger of the formerly self-governing communities of Bleidenstadt, Hahn, Neuhof, Seitzenhahn, Watzhahn and Wehen, whereupon Taunusstein was also given town rights. On 1 July 1972, the communities of Hambach, Niederlibbach, Orlen and Wingsbach were amalgamated into the town of Taunusstein.
In 1991, Dr.-Peter-Nikolaus-Platz, a square in the constituent community of Hahn, was dedicated and named after the longtime mayor of Taunusstein. Fronting onto it are the "Taunus" community centre, the
Catholic
The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.3 billion baptized Catholics worldwide . It is among the world's oldest and largest international institutions, and has played a ...
church centre of St. Johannes Nepomuk and the New Town Hall, whose functions together make the square into the new town centre. The "Taunus" community centre was opened in 1989, the church centre in 1991, both designed by the Hamburg architect Bernhard Hirche, from whom also sprang the whole concept of planning the new town centre. It was not until 1998, on the other hand, that the Town Hall, designed by another architect, could be dedicated.
Population development
Each time at 31 December (counting only those with their main residences in the town)
Religion
* There are several
Lutheran
Lutheranism is one of the largest branches of Protestantism, identifying primarily with the theology of Martin Luther, the 16th-century German monk and reformer whose efforts to reform the theology and practice of the Catholic Church launched th ...
and Catholic churches in almost every constituent community.
*
Baháʼí community in Hahn
*
New Apostolic
The New Apostolic Church (NAC) is a Christian church that split from the Catholic Apostolic Church during an 1863 schism in Hamburg, Germany.
The church has existed since 1863 in Germany and since 1897 in the Netherlands. It came abo ...
church in Wehen
*
Kingdom Hall
A Kingdom Hall is a place of worship used by Jehovah's Witnesses. The term was first suggested in 1935 by Joseph Franklin Rutherford, then president of the Watch Tower Society, for a building in Hawaii. Rutherford's reasoning was that these bu ...
of
Jehovah's Witnesses
Jehovah's Witnesses is a millenarian restorationist Christian denomination with nontrinitarian beliefs distinct from mainstream Christianity. The group reports a worldwide membership of approximately 8.7 million adherents involved in ...
in Neuhof (Triebgewann industrial park)
Politics
Town council
The municipal election held on 27 March 2016 yielded the following results:
Mayor
Mayor Sandro Zehner (CDU), running unopposed, was elected to a second term on 26 May 2019 on the
first vote with 79.1% of the vote. Voter turnout was 58.8%.
River Aar
The
Aar (Lahn)
The Aar is a river in western Germany, left tributary of the Lahn. It rises in the Taunus mountains, near Taunusstein. It flows generally north through the towns Taunusstein, Bad Schwalbach, Aarbergen and Hahnstätten. It flows into the Lahn in D ...
has its source in the stadtteil Orlen 500 meters from the ruins of Roman Castle Zugmantel and the Bundesstraße 417 in the Orlen part of Taunusstein.
Limes
![Karte limes](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/40/Karte_limes.jpg)
The north of Taunusstein is crossed by the
Upper Germanic Limes
The Upper Germanic-Rhaetian Limes (german: Obergermanisch-Raetischer Limes), or ORL, is a 550-kilometre-long section of the former external frontier of the Roman Empire between the rivers Rhine and Danube. It runs from Rheinbrohl to Eining on the ...
, a line of frontier forts begun in AD 86 by the Romans which stretched from near
Bonn
The federal city of Bonn ( lat, Bonna) is a city on the banks of the Rhine in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, with a population of over 300,000. About south-southeast of Cologne, Bonn is in the southernmost part of the Rhine-Ruhr r ...
on the
Rhine
), Surselva, Graubünden, Switzerland
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to near
Regensburg
Regensburg or is a city in eastern Bavaria, at the confluence of the Danube, Naab and Regen rivers. It is capital of the Upper Palatinate subregion of the state in the south of Germany. With more than 150,000 inhabitants, Regensburg is the f ...
on the
Danube
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. It divided the
Roman Empire
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from the unconquered
Germanic tribes
The Germanic peoples were historical groups of people that once occupied Central Europe and Scandinavia during antiquity and into the early Middle Ages. Since the 19th century, they have traditionally been defined by the use of ancient and ear ...
. Close to Orlen and the Bundesstraße 417 is a replica of a Limes watchtower, right beside the remains of the
castrum
In the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire
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''Zugmantel''.
The Upper-Germanic-Rhaetian Limes (the Limes Germanicus) is a
UNESCO
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World Heritage Site
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.
Coat of arms
The town's
arms
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*Arm or arms, the upper limbs of the body
Arm, Arms, or ARMS may also refer to:
People
* Ida A. T. Arms (1856–1931), American missionary-educator, temperance leader
Coat of arms or weapons
*Armaments or weapons
**Fi ...
might be described thus: Azure a lion rampant Or armed and langued gules, in his forepaws an escutcheon, argent a cross gules.
The golden lion recalls the centuries-long overlordship of the Counts and Princes of Nassau, and at the same time draws on the old arms borne by the Nassau ''
Amt
Amt is a type of administrative division governing a group of municipalities, today only in Germany, but formerly also common in other countries of Northern Europe. Its size and functions differ by country and the term is roughly equivalent to ...
'' seat of Wehen and the communities of Hahn and Seitzenhahn, all of which were
charge
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Arts, entertainment, and media Films
* ''Charge, Zero Emissions/Maximum Speed'', a 2011 documentary
Music
* ''Charge'' (David Ford album)
* ''Charge'' (Machel Montano album)
* ''Charge!!'', an album by The Aqua ...
d with a lion or a lion's head. The cross is an attribute of Saint Ferrutius, the Bleidenstadt Monastery's patron saint. This monastery was founded as early as the 8th century and earned much credit for bringing
Christianity
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and culture into the region on the upper Aar. The former community of Bleidenstadt bore this cross in its former coat of arms.
The official blazon reads: '
Economy and infrastructure
Transport
There are two
railway station
Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport that transfers passengers and goods on wheeled vehicles running on rails, which are incorporated in tracks. In contrast to road transport, where the vehicles run on a pre ...
s (in Hahn and Bleidenstadt) which lie on the stretch of the ''
Aartalbahn'' running through Taunusstein, however since 1983 the line was only used for steam tourist trips run by the
Nassauische Touristik-Bahn (NTB). But since a truck damaged a bridge on the line in
Wiesbaden-Dotzheim
Dotzheim is a western borough of Wiesbaden, capital of the state of Hesse, Germany. It is the second largest borough of the city by area and, with over 27,000 inhabitants the second-most populated of Wiesbaden's suburban boroughs. It was the larges ...
on 20 November 2009 then the line had to be closed completely. Despite promises from the city council of
Wiesbaden
Wiesbaden () is a city in central western Germany and the capital of the state of Hesse. , it had 290,955 inhabitants, plus approximately 21,000 United States citizens (mostly associated with the United States Army). The Wiesbaden urban area ...
money to replace the bridge has not been forthcoming, and the NTB are themselves facing financial problems due to not being able to run any trains on the line.
In 1998 it was proposed that the line be reopened to form part of a new light rail line into Wiesbaden
Stadtbahn
' (; German for "city railway"; plural ') is a German word referring to various types of urban rail transport. One type of transport originated in the 19th century, firstly in Berlin and followed by Vienna, where rail routes were created that co ...
, this was however dropped in 2001. Although some plans for such a line have been revived since the 2011 election, these do not currently involve this section of the line.
The town is also linked to Wiesbaden over ''
Bundesstraße
''Bundesstraße'' (German for "federal highway"), abbreviated ''B'', is the denotation for German and Austrian national highways.
Germany
Germany's ''Bundesstraßen'' network has a total length of about 40,000 km.
German ''Bundesstraßen'' ...
n'' 417 (Neuhof/Wehen) and 54 (Hahn). The nearest
Autobahn
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interchange is on the
A 3 (
Cologne
Cologne ( ; german: Köln ; ksh, Kölle ) is the largest city of the German western States of Germany, state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) and the List of cities in Germany by population, fourth-most populous city of Germany with 1.1 m ...
–
Frankfurt
Frankfurt, officially Frankfurt am Main (; Hessian: , "Frank ford on the Main"), is the most populous city in the German state of Hesse. Its 791,000 inhabitants as of 2022 make it the fifth-most populous city in Germany. Located on its na ...
) in Idstein.
The nearest international airport is
Frankfurt Airport
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, about 25 miles away. The smaller
Mainz Finthen Airport
Mainz-Finthen Airport ''(German: Flugplatz Mainz-Finthen)'' is an airport in Germany, located about southwest of Mainz and approximately southwest of Berlin.
The airport serves the general aviation community, with no commercial airline servic ...
, a regional public airfield, is about 15 miles away.
Established businesses
*Institut Fresenius in Neuhof
*
Motorola
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Deutschland (German business headquarters, advertising and marketing) in Neuhof
*
Brita GmbH water filtration, international headquarters in Neuhof and
Wiesbaden
Wiesbaden () is a city in central western Germany and the capital of the state of Hesse. , it had 290,955 inhabitants, plus approximately 21,000 United States citizens (mostly associated with the United States Army). The Wiesbaden urban area ...
Education
*Silberbachschule,
primary school
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in Wehen
*Obere Aar integrated
comprehensive school
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in Hahn
*Regenbogenschule, primary school in Bleidenstadt
*
Gymnasium in Bleidenstadt
*Sonnenschule primary school in Neuhof
*Untertaunus vocational schools in Hahn
*Europa-Schule Taunusstein - bilingual
Realschule
''Realschule'' () is a type of secondary school in Germany, Switzerland and Liechtenstein. It has also existed in Croatia (''realna gimnazija''), the Austrian Empire, the German Empire, Denmark and Norway (''realskole''), Sweden (''realskola''), ...
in Neuhof
Sport and leisure facilities
*
Stadion am Halberg
Stadion am Halberg is a multi-use stadium in Taunusstein, Germany. It is the former home venue of the footballclub of SV Wehen, before the team moved to the newly built BRITA-Arena in Wiesbaden
Wiesbaden () is a city in central western G ...
in Wehen, former home stadium to
SV Wehen Wiesbaden's first team
*Outdoor swimming pool in Hahn
*''Silberbachhalle'' in Wehen
*''Aartalhalle'' in Neuhof
*Sporting grounds in almost every centre
*Sport and youth centre in Bleidenstadt
Culture and sightseeing
Museum
In 1995, the Museum of the Town of Taunusstein, with permanent rooms at the Wehen Castle, was established. Since then, there has been a thematic emphasis on more recent regional history as seen in a permanent exhibit featuring this, which lately has also presented information about Taunusstein's condition in, before and after the
World War II
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. This it does mainly by exhibiting everyday culture in the first half of the 20th century. A second and equally valid pillar is the displays in the series ''Kunst im Schloss'' ("Art at the Palace") through which contemporary art – not only from the local region – is offered a forum in Taunusstein.
Buildings
![Wehener-schloss](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c3/Wehener-schloss.jpg)
;Wehen Castle
: Formerly used for, among other things, a widow's seat and a hunting palace, it now houses the Taunusstein Museum.
;Wehen
Evangelical
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church
: This was built by using stones from the old town fortifications, with a black
marble
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altar brought from the Idstein palace church in 1722 and furnishings from the secularized monasteries at Marienhausen and Eberbach. The historic Voigt
organ
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* Organ (biology), a part of an organism
Musical instruments
* Organ (music), a family of keyboard musical instruments characterized by sustained tone
** Electronic organ, an electronic keyboard instrument
** Hammond ...
is one of the few instruments by Wiesbaden organ builder Heinrich Voigt still preserved in its original state. It was built in 1890 for the
Old Catholic
The terms Old Catholic Church, Old Catholics, Old-Catholic churches or Old Catholic movement designate "any of the groups of Western Christians who believe themselves to maintain in complete loyalty the doctrine and traditions of the undivide ...
congregation of Wiesbaden and acquired by the Wehen congregation in 1899. In October 1999 it was restored to its original condition.
;Former Wehen school
: Built about 1900, this building is transitional in design between the
Gründerzeit
(; "founders' period") was the economic phase in 19th-century Germany and Austria before the great stock market crash of 1873. In Central Europe, the age of industrialisation had been taking place since the 1840s. That period is not precisely ...
and
Art Nouveau
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.
;Former monastery with church, Bleidenstadt
: (Nowadays parish church of the
Catholic
The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.3 billion baptized Catholics worldwide . It is among the world's oldest and largest international institutions, and has played a ...
parish of St. Ferrutius). Above the church's main door is the statue of Saint Ferrutius, the patron saint, from the 17th century. Inside the building are a wall
tabernacle
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from High
Gothic
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**Gothic language, an extinct East Germanic language spoken by the Goths
**Crimean Gothic, the Gothic language spoken b ...
times, made of
sandstone
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Most sandstone is composed of quartz or feldspar (both silicates) ...
and built into the quire, a baptismal font from 1696, a Late Baroque Madonna and an organ remodelled in the Baroque style. In the belfry are two bells from 1309 and 1411.
;Evangelical church, Bleidenstadt
: (Formerly Catholic parish church of Saint Peter on the Mountain, after 1530 relinquished to the new
Protestant
Protestantism is a Christian denomination, branch of Christianity that follows the theological tenets of the Reformation, Protestant Reformation, a movement that began seeking to reform the Catholic Church from within in the 16th century agai ...
community). The church has the constituent community's oldest stone memorial, a tomb slab commemorating the Minister Johannes von Spangenberg, who died in 1363. The lower part of the churchtower is of
Romanesque Revival
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origin and built with a decorative
rose window
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with sandstone ornamentation.
Jewish graveyard in Wehen
The Jewish graveyard in the constituent community of Wehen on the Halberg is roughly as old as the community itself.
In 1329, Count Gerlach of Nassau-Weilburg mandated the settlement of
Jew
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s. The gravestones from that time no longer exist. The oldest one still standing is from 1694. Today, 55 graves are still to be seen in the graveyard. Until 1749, Jews from Wiesbaden were also buried here. In 1726, the Jews applied for leave to build a wall around the graveyard; however, they were forbidden to do so, as it would not have done for the Jewish cemetery to look nicer than the
Christian
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one. So, they simply dug a ditch. After 1933, when the
Nazis
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had come to power, the graveyard was still used for burials; however, it was forbidden to put gravestones on these newer graves.
Regular events
*Bleischter Kerb (
kermis
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)
*Orlener Markt (market)
*Orlener Kerb (kermis)
*Hahner Kerb (kermis)
*Zentrumsfest ("Centre Festival")
*Weher Markt (With this market it is a tradition for companies in Weher to take their employees for brunch at the market)
*Weher Kerb (kermis)
*Wingsbacher Kerb (kermis)
*Neuhofer Kerb (kermis)
*TIGA (Taunusstein industrial and business exhibition; in even-numbered years)
*Waldweihnachtsmarkt Hahn ("Forest Christmas Market", at the Altenstein Forest House)
Sport
One of the local
football
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clubs, located in Wehen, is called
SV Wehen and in April 2007 they won promotion into the 2nd tier of the German Football League (
Second Bundesliga). As such the local facilities that they had been using were no longer sufficient for professional football, prompting relocation to
Wiesbaden
Wiesbaden () is a city in central western Germany and the capital of the state of Hesse. , it had 290,955 inhabitants, plus approximately 21,000 United States citizens (mostly associated with the United States Army). The Wiesbaden urban area ...
, where they became known as SV Wehen-Wiesbaden. As of 2020–21 season, they however play in the
3rd tier.
The team is sponsored by one of the major companies of the area,
Brita, with the founder of Brita, Heinz Hankammer, being a former chairman of the football club. During his time he made funds available which allowed the team it to outdo most teams at this level for many years, and gain promotion into the professional leagues.
Twin towns – sister cities
Taunusstein is
twinned with:
*
Herblay-sur-Seine
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Geography Cl ...
, France (1973)
*
Yeovil
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, England, United Kingdom (1987)
*
Caldes de Montbui
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, Spain (1989)
*
Wünschendorf/Elster
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Municipal associations (german: Verwaltungsgemeinschaften) are statutory corporations or public bodie ...
, Germany (1991)
*
Toro, Italy (2016)
*Merkwiller Pechelbronn 2022 France
Notable people
*
Carl Friedrich Emil von Ibell
Carl Friedrich Justus Emil von Ibell (29 October 1780 – 6 October 1834) was a senior government official (''Amtmann'') who famously survived an assassination attempt in 1819, and who ended up as president of the government in Hesse-Homburg whi ...
(1780–1834), government president of the
Duchy of Nassau
The Duchy of Nassau (German: ''Herzogtum Nassau'') was an independent state between 1806 and 1866, located in what is now the German states of Rhineland-Palatinate and Hesse. It was a member of the Confederation of the Rhine and later of the G ...
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Hesse-Homburg
Hesse-Homburg was formed into a separate landgraviate in 1622 by the landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt; it was to be ruled by his son, although it did not become independent of Hesse-Darmstadt until 1668. It was briefly divided into Hesse-Homburg and H ...
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Emil Erlenmeyer
Richard August Carl Emil Erlenmeyer (28 June 182522 January 1909), known simply as Emil Erlenmeyer, was a German chemist known for contributing to the early development of the theory of structure, formulating the Erlenmeyer rule, and designing ...
(1825–1909), chemist
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Horst Arndt
Horst Arndt (19 September 1934 – 18 October 2014) was a West German rower who competed for the United Team of Germany in the 1956 Summer Olympics.
Arndt was born in Königsberg in 1934, which was then part of Prussia and is now located in Ru ...
(1934–2014), rower, Olympic medalist, died here
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Johannes Hill (born 1988), baritone
References
External links
Official websiteTaunusstein-Niederlibbach’s homepageRheingau-Taunus websiteTaunusstein-Wehen: history, photo gallery
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