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Oppenheim () is a town in the
Mainz-Bingen
Mainz-Bingen is a district (''Kreis'') in the east of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Neighboring districts are (from north clockwise) Rheingau-Taunus, the district-free cities Wiesbaden and Mainz, the districts Groß-Gerau, Alzey-Worms, Bad Kreuzna ...
district of
Rhineland-Palatinate
Rhineland-Palatinate ( , ; german: link=no, Rheinland-Pfalz ; lb, Rheinland-Pfalz ; pfl, Rhoilond-Palz) is a western state of Germany. It covers and has about 4.05 million residents. It is the ninth largest and sixth most populous of the ...
,
Germany
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. The town is a well-known wine center, being the home of the German Winegrowing Museum, and is particularly known for the wines from the Oppenheimer Krötenbrunnen vineyards.
Geography
Location
The town lies on the
Upper Rhine
The Upper Rhine (german: Oberrhein ; french: Rhin Supérieur) is the section of the Rhine between Basel in Switzerland and Bingen in Germany, surrounded by the Upper Rhine Plain. The river is marked by Rhine-kilometres 170 to 529 (the sc ...
in
Rhenish Hesse
Rhenish Hesse or Rhine HesseDickinson, Robert E (1964). ''Germany: A regional and economic geography'' (2nd ed.). London: Methuen, p. 542. . (german: Rheinhessen) is a region and a former government district () in the German state of Rhineland- ...
between
Mainz
Mainz () is the capital and largest city of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
Mainz is on the left bank of the Rhine, opposite to the place that the Main (river), Main joins the Rhine. Downstream of the confluence, the Rhine flows to the north-we ...
and
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Places
*Worms, Germany, a city
**Worms (electoral district)
*Worms, Nebraska, U.S.
*Worms im Veltlintal, the German name for Bormio, Italy
Arts and entertainme ...
. It is the seat of the
Verbandsgemeinde
A Verbandsgemeinde (; plural Verbandsgemeinden) is a low-level administrative unit in the German federal states of Rhineland-Palatinate and Saxony-Anhalt. A Verbandsgemeinde is typically composed of a small group of villages or towns.
Rhineland- ...
(special administrative district).
History
In 765, the first documented mention of the
Frankish
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** Frankish language or its modern descendants, Franconian languages
* Francia, a post-Roman state in France and Germany
* East Francia, the successor state to Francia in Germany ...
village was recorded in the
Lorsch Codex
The Lorsch Codex (Chronicon Laureshamense, Lorscher Codex, Codex Laureshamensis) is an important historical document created between about 1175 to 1195 AD in the Monastery of Saint Nazarius in Lorsch, Germany. The codex is handwritten in Caroli ...
, in connection with an endowment by
Charlemagne
Charlemagne ( , ) or Charles the Great ( la, Carolus Magnus; german: Karl der Große; 2 April 747 – 28 January 814), a member of the Carolingian dynasty, was King of the Franks from 768, King of the Lombards from 774, and the first Holy ...
to the
Lorsch Abbey
Lorsch Abbey, otherwise the Imperial Abbey of Lorsch (german: Reichsabtei Lorsch; la, Laureshamense Monasterium or ''Laurissa''), is a former Imperial abbey in Lorsch, Germany, about east of Worms. It was one of the most renowned monasteries o ...
. Further portions of Oppenheim were added to the endowment in 774. In 1008, Oppenheim was granted market rights. In October 1076 Oppenheim gained special importance in the
Investiture Controversy
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. At the princely session of
Trebur
Trebur is a municipality in Groß-Gerau district in Hessen, Germany. It is 13 km southeast of Mainz, and 8 km south of Rüsselsheim.
Geography Location
Trebur is located in the Frankfurt Rhein-Main Region. The cities of Mainz, Wiesbade ...
and Oppenheim, the princes called on
King Henry IV to undertake the "
Walk to Canossa
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". After Oppenheim was returned to the
Empire
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in 1147, it became a
Free Imperial City
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in 1225, during the
Staufer
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Emperor
Frederick II's. At this time, the town was important for its imperial castle and the
Burgmann
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en who lived there.
In the 14th century, the town was pledged to the
Electorate of Mainz
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and beginning in 1398, it belonged to the territory of the
Electoral Palatinate
The Electoral Palatinate (german: Kurpfalz) or the Palatinate (), officially the Electorate of the Palatinate (), was a state that was part of the Holy Roman Empire. The electorate had its origins under the rulership of the Counts Palatine of ...
.
In 1621, the Oppenheim town chronicle reports a great fire in which the Oppenheim Town Hall was almost completely destroyed. The Electoral ''
Oberamt'' archive, too, was lost in the fire, and so it was moved to Mainz.
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On 14 September 1620,
Spanish
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troops overran the town in the
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 (80 ...
. The Spaniards occupied Oppenheim until 1632. In 1688,
French troops overran the town in the
Nine Years' War
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(1688–1697). On 31 May 1689, Landskrone Castle and the town were utterly destroyed by the French under General
Mélac. Until 1797, Oppenheim remained an
Electoral Palatinate
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holding. After being in French hands, Oppenheim passed, in 1816, to the
Grand Duchy of Hesse-Darmstadt
The Grand Duchy of Hesse and by Rhine (german: link=no, Großherzogtum Hessen und bei Rhein) was a grand duchy in western Germany that existed from 1806 to 1918. The Grand Duchy originally formed from the Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt in 1806 ...
. It remained Hessian until 1945.
In March 1945, troops of the
3rd Army under General
George S. Patton
George Smith Patton Jr. (November 11, 1885 – December 21, 1945) was a general in the United States Army who commanded the Seventh United States Army in the Mediterranean Theater of World War II, and the Third United States Army in France ...
managed to build a crossing over the Rhine near Oppenheim and to occupy it.
Politics
Town partnerships
*
Givry,
Saône-et-Loire
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Saône-et-Loire is Bo ...
,
France
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*
Adnet
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Geography
Adnet is situated near Hallein in the metropolitan area of Salzburg.
Urba ...
,
Salzburg
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The town is on the site of the ...
,
Austria
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*
Werder,
Potsdam-Mittelmark
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,
Brandenburg
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*
Calp
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,
Alicante
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,
Spain
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, i ...
*
Sant'Ambrogio di Valpolicella
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,
Province of Verona
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,
Veneto
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,
Italy
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Coat of arms
The town's
arms
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might be described thus: Or an eagle displayed sable.
All town seals up until 1925 showed a crowned king's head, but for one, from 1266, that showed the Emperor on his throne. Nevertheless, the town adopted arms with this composition while still using the king's head seal. The arms have not changed since their adoption.
The arms have been borne since 1609.
Wine sponsorship
In Oppenheim, wine was given considerable publicity by Mayor Dr. Heinz Scheller after he took office in 1935: For Scheller, the only city worthy of sponsoring Oppehneim's wine was none other than the capital,
Berlin
Berlin ( , ) is the capital and largest city of Germany by both area and population. Its 3.7 million inhabitants make it the European Union's most populous city, according to population within city limits. One of Germany's sixteen constitue ...
. The town of
Ansbach
Ansbach (; ; East Franconian: ''Anschba'') is a city in the German state of Bavaria. It is the capital of the administrative region of Middle Franconia. Ansbach is southwest of Nuremberg and north of Munich, on the river Fränkische Rezat, a ...
and the city of
Osnabrück
Osnabrück (; wep, Ossenbrügge; archaic ''Osnaburg'') is a city in the German state of Lower Saxony. It is situated on the river Hase in a valley penned between the Wiehen Hills and the northern tip of the Teutoburg Forest. With a population ...
were also subsequently chosen. To revive this wine sponsorship and to give thanks for the commitment to the town of Oppenheim, the Governing Mayor of Berlin,
Klaus Wowereit
Klaus Wowereit (born 1 October 1953) is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) and was the Governing Mayor of Berlin from 21 October 2001 to 11 December 2014. In 2001 state elections his party won a plurality of the votes, 29 ...
, was “knighted” on 11 March 2006 by Mayor Marcus Held, earning the title of "Wine Knight" (''Weinritter'').
The sponsorship has found active expression in, among other things, the town's participation in the estate festivals held by the
Senate of Berlin
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in 2007 and 2008. At the invitation of Berlin's governing mayor, Klaus Wowereit, a citizens’ delegation, under Mayor Marcus Held, took part in the festivities at the German Embassy in
Paris
Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. S ...
on
German Unity Day
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, as well as during the jubilee celebrations of the Berlin-Paris city partnership.
Culture and sightseeing
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Worth seeing are:
*
Katharinenkirche, with the stained glass (the "Oppenheim Rose"), is the most outstanding
Gothic church
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on the
Rhine
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between the
Cologne Cathedral
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and the
Strasbourg Cathedral
Strasbourg Cathedral or the Cathedral of Our Lady of Strasbourg (french: Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Strasbourg, or ''Cathédrale de Strasbourg'', german: Liebfrauenmünster zu Straßburg or ''Straßburger Münster''), also known as Strasbourg ...
.
* Landskron Castle's ruins, with a lovely view over the
Rhine rift
The Upper Rhine Plain, Rhine Rift Valley or Upper Rhine Graben (German: ''Oberrheinische Tiefebene'', ''Oberrheinisches Tiefland'' or ''Oberrheingraben'', French: ''Vallée du Rhin'') is a major rift, about and on average , between Basel in the s ...
and other church buildings in Oppenheim, also a venue for festival plays and other cultural events.
* The old town with its marketplace, town hall from 1621 (with a column from Landskron Castle's hall in front, which reputedly came from the Ingelheim Imperial Palace), the former town fortifications with the Gautor and Rheintorpforte (gates), clocktower and town wall remnants, and unique museums (German Viticultural Museum, Town Museum).
Quite extraordinary is the ''Oppenheimer Kellerlabyrinth'' (“Oppenheim Cellar Labyrinth”) under the Old Town. Underground passageways, stairways and rooms link the houses and facilities with each other on a number of levels. In the heart of Old Town, near the Town Hall, there are altogether roughly 650 m of cellar passageways open to visitors, which are largely preserved in their original state. It is believed, however, that what has been opened to the public is only about 3% of the total underground passages. The exact extent of the passageways is still not known with any great certainty, despite investigations commissioned by the town, but the length is estimated to be at least 40 km. Guided tours through this unique underground labyrinth are offered all year round by the town's Tourism and Festival Play Bureau. There are also town tours and night watchman tours.
Theatre
Annually, between August and October, the ''Oppenheimer Theaterfestspiele'' (“Oppenheim Theatre Festival Plays”) take place in the town's ''Kulturkeller'' (“Culture Cellar”) and at Landskron Castle's ruins.
Museums
Particularly worth visiting, besides Saint Katherine's Church, the Town Museum and the underground labyrinth, is the German Viticultural Museum (''Deutsches Weinbaumuseum'') with the region's oldest wine press from the ''Geistermühle'', a centuries-old mill in
Flonheim. Everything worth knowing about wine can be found here.
Music
In the ''Kultursommer'' (“Cultural Summer”), there are regular concerts in the town's historic marketplace in front of the Town Hall. The Oppenheim Trombone Choir also gives regular performances.
Sport
There are several sport clubs in Oppenheim, e.g., TC Rot-Weiß Oppenheim (Red-White Tennis Club) (
tennis
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), FSV Oppenheim (Football Sport-Verein) (
football
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), and one founded in 1846 that may well have the most members, TV Oppenheim. TV (Turn-Verein= gymnastics and sports association) Oppenheim is successful well beyond its home region in gymnastics, swimming, cycling sports and above all, basketball.
Regular events
Each year in the town at Landskron Castle's ruins, Saint Katherine's Church, the ''Kulturkeller'' under the courthouse square and the marketplace, the ''Festspiele Oppenheim'' (“Oppenheim Festival Plays”) take place.
An Easter Market also takes place annually early in the year and later in the year, the Saint Katherine's Market in the Old Town.
Other regular events in town are:
*The Easter Artists’ Market (''Osterkünstlermarkt''), a fortnight before Easter;
*The well-known and well-loved Oppenheim Wine Festival (''Oppenheimer Weinfest'') during the second weekend of August;
*''Mittelalterspectaculum'' (“Mediaeval Spectacle”) in early May;
*Rhine Bicycle Ride between
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and Oppenheim in mid-May;
*Fairytale Christmas Market (''Märchenweihnachtsmarkt'') at the historic Town Hall, Saint Katherine's Church and the marketplace on the third Sunday of Advent.
Economy and infrastructure
Public institutions
The administration of the
''Verbandsgemeinde'' of Nierstein-Oppenheim is based in Oppenheim.
The State Office for Environment, Water Management and Trade Control, the
Mannheim
Mannheim (; Palatine German: or ), officially the University City of Mannheim (german: Universitätsstadt Mannheim), is the second-largest city in the German state of Baden-Württemberg after the state capital of Stuttgart, and Germany's 2 ...
Water and Shipping Office and
Mainz-Bingen
Mainz-Bingen is a district (''Kreis'') in the east of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Neighboring districts are (from north clockwise) Rheingau-Taunus, the district-free cities Wiesbaden and Mainz, the districts Groß-Gerau, Alzey-Worms, Bad Kreuzna ...
District Vehicle Licensing are all located town.
Education
Besides three
kindergarten
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institutions or kindergartens (of which two are municipal daycare centres), there is the “Am Gautor”
primary school
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.
Oppenheim also has the
Gymnasium zu St. Katharinen, the Professional School for Winegrowing and Agrarian Sciences, the Matthäus-Merian-
Hauptschule
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and the Landskronschule, a special school.
Media
Appearing in Oppenheim is the ''
Allgemeine Zeitung
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The ''Allgemeine ...
'', with local reporting and its own offices. Furthermore, there is the weekly ''Rheinhessisches Wochenblatt'', likewise published by the ''Verlagsgruppe Rhein Main''.
Transport
Oppenheim lies on ''
Bundesstraße
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Germany
Germany's ''Bundesstraßen'' network has a total length of about 40,000 km.
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(Highway)'' 9, which leads from the
Dutch
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border near
Kleve
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to the
French border near
Kandel
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Kandel is twinned with the small Lancashire ...
. Locally it serves foremost as a link to the nearby cities of
Mainz
Mainz () is the capital and largest city of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
Mainz is on the left bank of the Rhine, opposite to the place that the Main (river), Main joins the Rhine. Downstream of the confluence, the Rhine flows to the north-we ...
and
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and the ''Mainzer Autobahnring'' in the north and
A 6 in the south.
Linking Oppenheim to rail transport is a
railway station
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on the Mainz-
Ludwigshafen
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line. Running on it is the RB 44 Mainz-Worms-Ludwigshafen-Mannheim. Furthermore, ORN regional bus routes run from
Dalheim
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, the town of Dalheim, which lies in the centre of the commune, has a population of 1,23 ...
to
Wörrstadt
Wörrstadt is a town in the Alzey-Worms district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
Geography
Location
The town lies in Rhenish Hesse on the northwest edge of the Upper Rhine Plain. It is the seat of the like-named ''Verbandsgemeinde''.
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by way of Oppenheim and towards
Guntersblum
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Geogra ...
and
Undenheim
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.
Famous people
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Johann von Dalberg
Johann von Dalberg (1445–1503) was the Prince-Bishop of Worms from 1482 to 1503.
Biography
Johann von Dalberg was born in 1445, the son of Wolfgang von Dalberg. He studied at Erfurt and in Italy, where he took his degree of ''doctor utriusqu ...
(1455–1503), 1480 cathedral provost in Worms and Chancellor of the University of Heidelberg, 1482 Chancellor of Elector Philipp of the Palatinate, 1482 Bishop of Worms, made Heidelberg and Worms into the then centres of humanism.
* (1481–1523), Imperial
herald
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, guided
Martin Luther
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in 1521 on his way to the
Diet of Worms
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and back.
*
Johann Paulsackel (1805–1855), champion of democratic freedom rights.
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Paul Wallot
Johann Paul Wallot (26 June 1841 Oppenheim am Rhein – 10 August 1912 Bad Schwalbach) was a German architect of Huguenot descent, best known for designing the Reichstag building in Berlin, erected between 1884 and 1894. He also built the adjacent ...
(1841–1912), German architect, builder of the Reichstag building in Berlin.
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Johanna Senfter (1879–1961), outstanding composer of the 20th century
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James Benjamin Oppenheim (1979) entrepreneur
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Carl Wilhelm Witterstätter (1884–1964), aviation pioneer.
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Jakob Steffan (1888–1957), Sozial Democratic politician, beginning in 1933 arrested several times, organized the civil anti-Nazi resistance in South Hesse and Rhenish Hesse, (1946–1950) Interior and Social Minister of Rhineland-Palatinate.
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Paul Witterstätter (1892–1966), expressionist (later realist) painter.
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Susanne Völker (b. 1974),
German Wine Queen
The German Wine Queen (german: Deutsche Weinkönigin) is the representative of the German wine industry. The Wine Queen is supported by two princesses, forming together the German Wine Ambassadors. She is elected, usually in the Palatine town ...
, 1998/1999
People who have worked here
![Friedrich Koch, Apotheker und Erfinder, Porträt](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ef/Friedrich_Koch%2C_Apotheker_und_Erfinder%2C_Portr%C3%A4t.jpg)
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Madern Gerthener
Madern Gerthener (1360/1370 – 1430) was a German stonemason and late Gothic architect.
Biography
Gerthener was born in Frankfurt to Johann Gerthener, a stonemason whose business the younger Gerthener took over by 1391. In 1395 he entered the ...
(b. about 1360; d. 1430), City master builder of the Free Imperial City of Frankfurt am Main, sculptor and one of the most important artists of the Late Gothic on the Middle Rhine, created the west quire at Saint Catherine's Church, beginning in 1414
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Johannes Pauli
Johannes Pauli (about 1455 – after 1530 at Thann in Alsace) was a German Franciscan writer.
Life
What little is known of his life rests upon unreliable information. Ludwig von Pastor rejected the story that he was of Jewish descent, and had be ...
(b. 1450/54; d. after 1530), Franciscan friar, ''Schwank'' poet, trailblazer for the comic, pointed short story (Fazetie) in Early
Renaissance
The Renaissance ( , ) , from , with the same meanings. is a period in European history marking the transition from the Middle Ages to modernity and covering the 15th and 16th centuries, characterized by an effort to revive and surpass ideas ...
Germany (1499 preacher at the Oppenheim Franciscan convent).
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Jakob Köbel (1460–1535), beginning in 1494 active in Oppenheim as town clerk (chancellery chairman), book printer, publisher, important (mathematical) writer, member of the humanistic association Sodalitas litteraria Rhenana and ''hospes'' of the Oppenheim section.
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Anton Praetorius
Anton Praetorius (1560 – 6 December 1613) was a German Calvinist pastor who spoke out against the persecution of witches (witchhunts, witchcraft trials) and against torture.
Life and writings
Praetorius was born in Lippstadt as the son o ...
(1560–1613), clergyman in Oppenheim (1589–1592), fighter against witch trials and torture.
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Johann Theodor de Bry
Johann Theodor de Bry (1561 – 31 January 1623) was an engraver and publisher.
Biography
De Bry was born in Strasbourg, the elder son and pupil of Dirk de Bry. He greatly assisted his father in works such as, the ''Florilegium novum'', which ...
(1561–1623), worked from 1609 to 1619 as publisher and copper engraver in Oppenheim, which was sympathetic to Calvinistic religious refugees. speciality: the richly illustrated scientific book. 1617 Matthäus Merian's father-in-law.
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Hieronymus Galler, printer from Basel, left Frankfurt with
Johann Theodor de Bry
Johann Theodor de Bry (1561 – 31 January 1623) was an engraver and publisher.
Biography
De Bry was born in Strasbourg, the elder son and pupil of Dirk de Bry. He greatly assisted his father in works such as, the ''Florilegium novum'', which ...
in 1609 and from 1610 to 1620 ran a highly productive printshop in Oppenheim.
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Albert Molnár (1574–1634), reformed theologian and itinerant academic from Hungary, from 1615 to 1619 cantor and rector of the
Latin school
The Latin school was the grammar school of 14th- to 19th-century Europe, though the latter term was much more common in England. Emphasis was placed, as the name indicates, on learning to use Latin. The education given at Latin schools gave gre ...
in Oppenheim.
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Matthäus Merian Matthäus is a given name or surname. Notable people with the name include:
;Surname
* Lothar Matthäus, (born 1961), German former football player and manager
;Given name
* Matthäus Aurogallus, Professor of Hebrew at the University of Wittenberg ...
(1593–1650), worked from 1616 to 1619 as copper engraver in Oppenheim.
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Friedrich Koch
Friedrich Ernst Koch (3 July 1862 – 30 January 1927) was a German composer, cello, cellist and teacher.
Biography
He was born in Berlin and studied cello with Robert Hausmann and composition with Woldemar Bargiel at the Berlin Berlin Universit ...
(1786–1865), apothecary, inventor of industrial
quinine
Quinine is a medication used to treat malaria and babesiosis. This includes the treatment of malaria due to ''Plasmodium falciparum'' that is resistant to chloroquine when artesunate is not available. While sometimes used for nocturnal leg cr ...
manufacture.
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Carl Koch (1833–1910), pharmaceutical manufacturer, winery owner, mayor, member of the second chamber of the Hessian ''Landstände'', honorary citizen, ''Patriarch with social conscience'', Friedrich Koch's son.
References
External links
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Vineyards in OppenheimGerman Viticultural MuseumJewish Encyclopedia
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