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Großer Heuberg
Großer Heuberg (Great Heuberg) or Grosser Heuberg, often simply called Heuberg ( Swabian: ''Haiberg''), is the name of a sparsely populated plateau in the southwestern Swabian Jura with mountains of about 1,000 metres above sea level or even higher. The word beginning ''Heu'' is German for ''hay'', which was the major income source for the inhabitants in recent times and is until today formative for the landscape of the Heuberg. The word ending ''berg'' means ''mountain''. Smuggling until 1835 Smuggling across the border (Württemberg, Baden, Province of Hohenzollern) in Meßstetten. 30,000 Bibles (Martin Luther) to Habsburg: Hans Ungnad von Weißenwolff, Freiherr von Sonneck, Hans III (1493–1564), famous Bible printer and smuggler in Bad Urach Smuggler, translator and Slovene refugee Protestant preacher Primož Trubar, who published the first books in Slovene and is regarded as the key consolidator of the Slovene identity, lived in Tübingen Derendingen. The smuggler ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Bachem may refer to: * the Bachem Ba 349 Natter, a German rocket-powered interceptor prototype * Bachem Holding, a Swiss company * Erich Bachem, German engineer * Martha Bachem Martha Bachem, née Marta Musilek (8 June 1924 – 29 May 2015) was an Austrian-German figure skater. She became a three-time German national champion before representing Austria at the 1948 Winter Olympics. Life and career Musilek was born o ..., Austrian-German figure skater * Nick Bachem, German professional golfer {{dab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tieringen
Tieringen is a district of the town of Meßstetten in the Zollernalbkreis district of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. As of 2010 Tieringen had a population of 1069. Tieringen is a capital of textile production. Urtica dioica L. convar. fibra is growing on farms. Sport * trail mountain bike Tieringen Albtrauf to Balingen-Weilstetten Lochenpass 4,7 km car road, bike trail 1,9 km downhill. References Towns in Baden-Württemberg Zollernalbkreis {{Zollernalbkreis-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Teamster
A teamster in American English is a truck driver; a person who drives teams of draft animals; or a member of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, a labor union. In some places, a teamster was called a carter, the name referring to the bullock cart. Originally the term ''teamster'' meant a person who drove a team, usually of oxen, horses, or mules, pulling a wagon, replacing the earlier ''teamer''. This term was common by the time of the Mexican–American War (1848) and the Indian Wars throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries on the American frontier. Another name for the occupation was ''bullwhacker'', related to driving oxen. A teamster might also drive pack animals, such as a muletrain, in which case he was also called a muleteer or muleskinner. Today this person may be called an outfitter or packer. In Australian English, a teamster was also called a bullocker or bullocky and was sometimes used to denote a carrier. From the Revolutionary War at le ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Potsherd
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Cauldron
A cauldron (or caldron) is a large cookware and bakeware, pot (kettle) for cooking or boiling over an open fire, with a lid and frequently with an arc-shaped hanger and/or integral handles or feet. There is a rich history of cauldron lore in religion, mythology, and folklore. Etymology The word cauldron is first recorded in Middle English as ''caudroun'' (13th century). It was borrowed from Norman language, Norman ''caudron''T. F. Hoad, ''English Etymology'', Oxford University Press, 1993 (). p. 67. (Picard language, Picard ''caudron'', ). It represents the phonetical evolution of Vulgar Latin ''*caldario'' for Classical Latin ''caldārium'' "hot bath", that derives from ''cal(i)dus'' "hot". The Norman-French word replaces the Old English ''ċetel'' (German ''(Koch)Kessel'' "cauldron", Dutch ''(kook)ketel'' "cauldron"), Middle English ''chetel''. The word "kettle" is a borrowing of the Old Norse variant ''ketill'' "cauldron". History From Latin origin, the term cauldron i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meßstetten
Meßstetten () is a town in the Zollernalbkreis district, in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, which is situated in the Swabian Jura, 24 km southeast of Balingen. At an altitude of , Meßstetten is the highest city (of more than 10,000 inhabitants) in Germany. It is close to the Heuberg Training Area with the Lager Heuberg. Within the Heuberg Training Area there is the legendary ''Dreibannmarke'', also called the "Bahn", a 17th-century border, which today marks the border between three different municipalities, formerly in the three states of Württemberg, Baden, and Hohenzollern. The meadow at the Dreibannmarke served as a stopping place for traveling merchants, wagons and craftsmen. With care it is possible to identify traces of the border. After the inauguration of the firing ranges, a meadow in Meßstetten was allocated as a camping site at the edge of the restricted area. Until 1835 merchandise was smuggled over the customs borders guarded by local hunters. Coffee smuggler Ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heuberg Training Area
The Truppenübungsplatz Heuberg is a training ground of the Bundeswehr in the districts of Sigmaringen and Zollernalbkreis in Baden-Württemberg. Since the establishment of the Wilhelminism, Wilhelmine Empire it has always been a reflection of German history.Gerd Feuerstein: ''Die Opfer nicht vergessen. SPD-Bundestagskandidatin legt Blumen am Mahnmal beim Truppenübungsplatz nieder''. In: ''Südkurier'' of 19 November 2008 Geography On the Großer Heuberg, a plateau in the southwest of the Swabian Jura in an altitude of , is the area between Albstadt in the north, Meßstetten in the west, Schwenningen (Heuberg), Schwenningen in the south and Stetten am kalten Markt on the south-east, where the Bundeswehr, army installations at Lager Heuberg and Albkaserne are located. The barracks, the training area and the proving ground comprise approximately .Total area: Of these, are exercise area, of which are suitable for tracked vehicles. The two sites of the Bundeswehr in Stetten am k ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Upper Danube Nature Park
The Upper Danube Nature Park (German: ''Naturpark Obere Donau''), founded in 1980, is located in the south of Baden-Württemberg in Germany and encloses primarily the districts of Tuttlingen and Sigmaringen. It encompassed initially 860 km2 that were increased by about 500 km2 in 2005. The headquarters of the nature reserve association is at Beuron. The highest proportion of the nature park is taken up by the Heuberg, the south-western plateau of the Swabian Alb, and is punctuated by the Danube. Geography Two small rivers, the Brigach and the Breg at the eastern border of the Black Forest unite at Donaueschingen to form the Danube. The Danube passes through the Upper Danube Nature Park between Immendingen and Ertingen, its deep bed dug deep into the Jurassic stone of the Swabian Alb. In this break-through valley of the still narrow river mighty rocks like chalk rocks ("Kalkfelsen") are exposed: One of it is the " Knopfmacherfelsen" at Beuron. Beuron with it ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heuneburg
The Heuneburg is a prehistoric Celtic hillfort by the river Danube in Hundersingen near Herbertingen, between Ulm and Sigmaringen, Baden-Württemberg, in the south of Germany, close to the modern borders with Switzerland and Austria. It is considered to be one of the most important early Celts, Celtic centres in Central Europe, particularly during the Iron Age Europe, Iron Age Hallstatt culture period. Apart from the fortified citadel, there are extensive remains of settlements and burial areas spanning several centuries. The fortified citadel measures about . It stood on a strategically positioned mountain spur that rises steeply above the Danube. It is at the centre of a fertile river plain, surrounded by rolling hill country. During the Iron Age the Heuneburg is thought to have controlled a surrounding area of over including other hilltop settlements, hamlets, villages, roads, cemeteries and cult or gathering places. The settlement has been called "oldest city north of the a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Celts
The Celts ( , see Names of the Celts#Pronunciation, pronunciation for different usages) or Celtic peoples ( ) were a collection of Indo-European languages, Indo-European peoples. "The Celts, an ancient Indo-European people, reached the apogee of their influence and territorial expansion during the 4th century BC, extending across the length of Europe from Britain to Asia Minor."; . "[T]he Celts, were Indo-Europeans, a fact that explains a certain compatibility between Celtic, Roman, and Germanic mythology."; . "The Celts and Germans were two Indo-European groups whose civilizations had some common characteristics."; . "Celts and Germans were of course derived from the same Indo-European stock."; . "Celt, also spelled Kelt, Latin Celta, plural Celtae, a member of an early Indo-European people who from the 2nd millennium bce to the 1st century bce spread over much of Europe." in Europe and Anatolia, identified by their use of Celtic languages and other cultural similarities.. "C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
