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Johannes Kühn (writer)
Johannes Kühn (3 February 1934 – 3 October 2023) was a German writer and poet. Biography Born in Tholey on 3 February 1934, Kühn grew up in a family of miners. In 1948, he enrolled at the , but dropped out in 1953 without a diploma. He studied at Saarland University and the University of Freiburg as a guest student from 1956 to 1961. From 1963 to 1973, he worked for his brother's engineering company. During this time, he also wrote dramas, poems, and fairy tales, which failed to gain much attention at first. Following his time as an engineer, Kühn traveled through Saarland Saarland (, ; ) is a state of Germany in the southwest of the country. With an area of and population of 990,509 in 2018, it is the smallest German state in area apart from the city-states of Berlin, Bremen, and Hamburg, and the smallest in ... and wrote poems on nature. However, at the start of the 1980s, he gradually stopped publishing poems. However, his works were published by and he received ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bergweiler
Bergweiler is an ''Ortsgemeinde'' – a municipality belonging to a ''Verbandsgemeinde'', a kind of collective municipality – in the Bernkastel-Wittlich district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Geography Location The municipality lies some 5 km west of the district seat, Wittlich, in the southern Eifel at an elevation of some 300 m above sea level, and affords a raised view into the ''Wittlicher Senke'' ( depression). Bergweiler belongs to the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' of Wittlich-Land, whose seat is in Wittlich, although that town is itself not in the ''Verbandsgemeinde''. Formerly the municipality was called “Bergweiler ''über'' Wittlich” (“above Wittlich”), which expressed both the proximity to the district seat and the municipality's geographical location. Land use The municipal area measures 13.25 km2 of which 5.71 km2 is used for agriculture and 6.33 km2 is wooded. Neighbouring municipalities Bergweiler's neighbours are Wittlich, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tholey
Tholey () is a municipality in the Sankt Wendel (district), district of Sankt Wendel, in Saarland, Germany. It is situated approximately west of Sankt Wendel, and north of Saarbrücken. History Local history The first traces of settlement in the area of today's Tholey go back to the Celts. Multiple archaeological finds show an extended occupation by the Romans. In medieval times, much of today's Saarland was tributary to the Abbey of Tholey. To protect the abbey a castle was constructed on the nearby Schaumberg. Tholey was under control of Lotharingia, Lorraine and of the Archbishop Electorate of Trier, Prince-elector of Trier. Tholey is located on the edge of the Schaumberg, the highest mountain in Saarland and the Hunsrück, Hunsrück range. The name has been derived from the Celtic ''*dol(wo)'' meaning "outstanding", a derivation found also in the name of the neighboring Dollberg hill and in Lorelei (originally Dorley), related to the German ''toll'' or ''doll''. "Ley (landf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Territory Of The Saar Basin
The Territory of the Saar Basin (, ; ) was a region occupied and governed by the United Kingdom and France from 1920 to 1935 under a League of Nations mandate. It had its own flag (adopted on 28 July 1920): a blue, white, and black horizontal tricolour. The blue and white stood for Bavaria, and white and black for Prussia, out of whose lands the Saar Territory was formed. Initially, the occupation was under the auspices of the Treaty of Versailles. Its population in 1933 was 812,000, and its capital was Saarbrücken. The territory closely corresponds with the modern German state of Saarland, but was slightly smaller in area. After a plebiscite was held in 1935, it was returned to Germany. Governing Commission Under the Treaty of Versailles, the highly industrialized Saar Basin, including the Saar Coal District (), was to be occupied and governed by the United Kingdom and France under a League of Nations mandate for a period of fifteen years. Its coalfields were also to be cede ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hasborn-Dautweiler
Hasborn-Dautweiler is a part of the municipality Tholey in the district of Sankt Wendel (district), Sankt Wendel in the northern Saarland, Germany. Until the end of 1973 Hasborn-Dautweiler was an independent municipality. History In connection with the territory and administrative reform in the Saarland in 1974, on January 1, 1974, the thus far independent municipality Hasborn-Dautweiler was associated to the newly created municipality of Tholey Neugliederungsgesetz – NGG vom 19. Dezember 1973, § 37, veröffentlicht iAmtsblatt des Saarlandes 1973, Nr. 48, S. 857(PDF Seite 29; 499 kB) References {{Authority control Former municipalities in Saarland ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
