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    Ehrenbreitstein Fortress (German: Festung Ehrenbreitstein, IPA: [ˌfɛstʊŋ ˈeːʁənbʁaɪtʃtaɪn] ) is a fortress in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate...
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    Around 1000 BC, early fortifications were erected on the Festung Ehrenbreitstein hill on the opposite side of the Rhine. In 55 BC, Roman troops commanded...
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    museum, the Mutter-Beethoven-Haus. Maria Magdalena Keverich was born in Ehrenbreitstein, a village on the Rhine opposite Koblenz (and now part of Koblenz)...
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    building by the Rhine in Koblenz. The U.S. flag flew over Koblenz's Ehrenbreitstein Fortress on the Rhine's east bank. In July 1919, the Third Army was...
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    Koblenz, the northern gateway to the World Heritage Site, with the Ehrenbreitstein Fortress Deutsches Eck, at the confluence of Rhine and Moselle Stolzenfels...
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    palace in Ehrenbreitstein, a district of the city of Koblenz in Germany. It was situated on the banks of the Rhine river, below the Ehrenbreitstein Fortress...
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    Koblenz-Ehrenbreitstein station is the only station on the right (eastern) bank in the city of Koblenz in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate. It...
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    Volume 8.10:   Echinoderma  –   Edward Volume 9.1:   Edwardes  –   Ehrenbreitstein Volume 9.2:   Ehud  –   Electroscope Volume 9.3:   Electrostatics  –...
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    bank of the Rhine, crossing the river and capturing the fortress of Ehrenbreitstein, on 27 March. It relieved the 80th Division in Kassel, 7 April, seized...
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    his future wife, Maria Magdalena Keverich (1746–1787), on a trip to Ehrenbreitstein. She was the daughter of the head chef to Johann IX Philipp von Walderdorff...
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    connects the banks of the river Rhine and the hill plateau next to Ehrenbreitstein Fortress. The cable car system has an 890m length and elevates 112m...
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    Prince-Electors of Trier relocated their residences to Philippsburg Castle in Ehrenbreitstein, near Koblenz. During the Thirty Years' War, Archbishop-Elector Philipp...
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    Deutsches Eck from US Army boat on River Rhine, and brief view of Fortress Ehrenbreitstein (end of World War I) Marco Zerwas, Iconoclasm Backwards. A Lost Memorial...
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    official Georg Michael Frank von La Roche [de]. From 1771, they lived in Ehrenbreitstein [de] near Koblenz, where her father served at the court of the Electorate...
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    (German: Mutter-Beethoven-Haus) is a cultural heritage monument in Ehrenbreitstein, on the River Rhine opposite Koblenz, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany...
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    Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino performing 2015 at the Horizonte music festival in Koblenz, Ehrenbreitstein Fortress...
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    cannons from the 16th century. Since 1984, it has been in display in the Ehrenbreitstein Fortress in Koblenz. The possession of the cannon moved several times...
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    Fishpond") Old Castle Feste Kaiser Alexander Feste Kaiser Franz Festung Ehrenbreitstein Koblenz Fortress Fort Asterstein Fort Großfürst Konstantin Electoral...
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    Transglobal Underground with Fanfare Tirana 2015 at the Horizonte world music festival at Ehrenbreitstein Fortress...
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    La Yegros at the Horizonte world music festival 2014 at the Ehrenbreitstein Fortress in Koblenz...
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    Prince-Electors of Trier relocated their residence to Philippsburg Castle in Ehrenbreitstein, near Koblenz. A session of the Reichstag was held in Trier in 1512...
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    Koblenz Fortress, was built in the 19th century by the Prussians. Ehrenbreitstein Fortress, once part of the fortification system, dominates the Rhine...
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    high donations. He died in Schloss Philippsburg below the Festung Ehrenbreitstein in 1761. In March 1761, shortly after his death, Pope Clement XIII...
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    Germany which consisted of the city fortifications of Koblenz and Ehrenbreitstein and exterior supporting constructions such as entrenchments and forts...
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    by the three strong fortresses of Cologne with Deutz, Koblenz with Ehrenbreitstein, and Wesel. The province sent 35 members to the German Reichstag and...
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    on the passing of imperial might from Canto IV, stanza 26. Turner's Ehrenbreitstein (1835) was still another landscape carrying an epigraph, this time...
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    Baden (1434 at Hohenbaden Castle in Baden-Baden – 9 February 1503 in Ehrenbreitstein) was a titular Margrave of Baden and was Archbishop and Elector of...
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    promote development. He also had to repair the fortresses Koblenz and Ehrenbreitstein. He founded an orphanage for boys in Trier and endowed scholarships...
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    Troisdorf – Bonn-Beuel – Linz am Rhein – Neuwied – Engers – Koblenz-Ehrenbreitstein – Koblenz RB 38 Erft-Bahn Hourly; 30 min (Bedburg–Horrem on weekdays)...
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    American flag over Festung Ehrenbreitstein after the occupation of Koblenz by the Third Army, 1945...
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