Electorate of Mainz set up a large defensive forest called the Rheingauer Gebück [de]. Many place names with the endings -hagen and -hain refer to such landwehrs...
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Remains of the Rheingauer Gebück around 1895 by Cohausen...
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Landwehr (border) (section Called "Hecke", "Heg", "Haag", "Hag", "Hagen", "Landheege", "Gedörn" or "Gebück")
Haller Landheeg near Schwäbisch Hall Rheingauer Gebück near Walluf and Eltville am Rhein Bechtheimer Gebück near Bad Camberg Barriers near Springe in the...
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twelfth century, Lorch found itself at the southern end of the Rheingauer Gebück, a kind of border defence made out of an impenetrable “hedge” of stunted...
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preserved parts: on the church hill halfway up to the Felsenkirche, tower Im Gebück (a lane) above Hauptstraße 476 At Alte Gasse 5 – coat of arms of the former...
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traffic into towns. In one instance, the central purpose of the Rheingauer Gebück, a 38-kilometre fence erected in the 12th century, may have been to close...
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area of hinterland forest. North of the summit ridge runs the Rheingau Gebück, the historical Rheingau Landwehr. Hessian Land Surveying Office: District...
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Walluf was also once found the easternmost entrance through the Rheingauer Gebück, an impenetrable 50 to 100 meter-wide "hedge" of stunted trees which formed...
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hedgerows (Gebück), today converted into a pedestrian bypass around the village centre. Remnants of the mediaeval wall ditch fortification with Gebück. former...
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"mountain" in German, and it also refers to the village's high elevation and the Gebück mountain ridge. The wolf's head refers to the Wolfskaul, an area within...
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