Domain controlled by the Mōri clan. In February 1691, German explorer Engelbert Kaempfer visited the town as part of his two-year stay in Japan, and described...

three-story noble court; it was demolished at the end of the 19th century. The "Gymnasium Leopoldinum" (a secondary school, which still exists) developed from a...

Tintelnot and his wife Ida, née Dreves. Tintelnot attended the Engelbert-Kaempfer-Gymnasium [de] where Karl Meier was one of his teachers. At his suggestion...