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Birkenau (Odenwald) / 49.56250°N 8.70694°E / 49.56250; 8.70694. Birkenau in the Odenwald is a municipality in the Bergstraße district in southern Hesse, Germany. Its nickname is Das Dorf der Sonnenuhren – “The Sundial Village”.
The Lauter valley (also called the Lautertal in German) begins near the source of the brook called the Lauter, which is found on the Neunkircher Höhe (“Neunkirchen Heights”). The brook then runs first along a broad streambed, but then gets quite narrow and steep as it approaches the Bergstraße, where the brook's name becomes the ...
3 mag 2023 · These are genealogy links to Hesse online databases and indexes that may include birth records, marriage records, death records, biographies, cemeteries, censuses, histories, immigration records, land records, military records, newspapers, obituaries, or probate records. Some subscription websites listed below can be searched for free at a ...
Kronberg im Taunus is a town in the Hochtaunuskreis district, Hesse, Germany and part of the Frankfurt Rhein-Main urban area. Before 1866, it was in the Duchy of Nassau; in that year the whole Duchy was absorbed into Prussia. Kronberg lies at the foot of the Taunus, flanked in the north and southwest by forests.
In 1130 he was raised to the rank of landgrave and recognised as overlord by the Hessians, uniting Hesse and Thuringia between 1130-1247. The male line of Thuringia became extinct with Henry Raspe (the brother-in-law of St Elizabeth of Thuringia) in 1247, so the Hessians selected Henry of Brabant (grandson of Elizabeth) as landgrave.
S. R. I. Circulus Rhenanus Superior in quo sunt landgraviatus Hasso-Casselensis Darmstadiensis et Rhenofeldensis abbatia Fuldensis principatus Waldeck et Hirschfeld Comitatus Nassau-Weilburg Usingen Wisbaden, et Idstein Solmensis Hanoviensis Isenburgensis superior Witgenstein Hatzfeld Westerburg et Hachenburg urbes imperiales: Franckfurt, Fridberg, Wetzlar et Gelenhausen
History. Hessen was originally apart of the Frankish Kingdom during Merovingian and Carolingian times. It was the headquarters for Charlemagne while he campaigned against the Saxons. The treaty of Verdun in 843 caused Hessen to fall to Louis the German. Later it was in the duchy of Saxony and Franconia.
