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    The Sickingen Heights (German: Sickinger Höhe) form a landscape in the western part of the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate. The region was named...
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  • mountains of Rhineland-Palatinate Taubenkopf (Sickingen Heights), a hill in the northern part of the Sickingen Heights This disambiguation page lists articles...
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    and Kirchberg (423 m) in the Steinalb valley, which separates the Sickingen Heights from the Palatinate Forest. Through Bann flows a small stream, the...
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    historic region of Westrich. The Westrich Plateau consists mainly of the Sickingen Heights in the north and the Zweibrücken Hills in the south which, morphologically...
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    joined from the right by the Queidersbach, whose source lies on the Sickingen Heights. Karlstal – upstream of the confluence of the Moosabl with the Aschbach...
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    the Rhine (Upper Rhine) and Moselle (Middle Rhine) comes from the Sickingen Heights in the west and reaches the northern Palatine Forest immediately west...
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    Schmalenberg and Waldfischbach and the agriculture of the neighbouring Sickingen Heights and services for visitors to the waterfalls of the region. In 1866...
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    Salmwald Schneifel Schönecken Switzerland Schwarzwälder Hochwald Sickingen Heights Siegerland Soonwald Stumpfwald South Palatinate Trier valley Lower...
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    edge of the Palatinate Forest, which merges in this area into the Sickingen Heights. Almost two-thirds of the 1500 hectare district is covered with forest...
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    Palatinate Forest, approx. 15 km northeast of Pirmasens, on top of the Sickingen Heights, and biggest settlement on top. 69% of the population in Hermersberg...
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    (12) Bann End of the motorway Kaltenborngraben Viaduct 13 Weselberg Sickingen Heights parking area 13a Höheinöd Schwarzbach Viaduct 600 m 14 Thaleischweiler-Fröschen...
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    known exhibits is the Krähenberg meteorite which impacted on the Sickingen Heights in 1869. In 1998 the GEOSCOPE Prehistoric Museum was opened at Lichtenberg...
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    Großer Hausberg (471 m) between Kaiserslautern and Landstuhl. On the Sickingen Heights it runs close to its northern edge to the Saarland border at Homburg...
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    when Prussian troops were in the Kusel area, the farmers from the Sickingen Heights drove their livestock before the French advance to Dietschweiler and...
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    the Gelterswoog lake. It then runs along the northern edge of the Sickingen Heights past the town of Landstuhl, only to descend near Vogelbach to the...
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  • climb gradually from the lowland. In the south, by contrast, the Sickingen Heights form a very clear escarpment of about 200 metres height. The region...
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    Wiese) and brook (German: Bach). Wiesbach lies in a depression of the Sickingen Heights (German: Sickinger Höhe) at the confluence of several streams called...
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    municipality") Zweibrücken-Land. The village lies at the foot of the Sickingen Heights and is crossed from northeast to southwest by the Lambsbach. The village...
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    into his frame of rulership. In 1517, he lifted the ban on Franz von Sickingen, a leading figure among the knights and took him into his service. In...
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    came to support Martin Luther, Maximilian, Franz von Sickingen in a 1523 setting. Hutten und Sickingen is an 1889 dramatisches Festspiel (dramatic festival...
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    for some in the Eßweiler Tal belonging to Baron Johann Gottfried von Sickingen in Schallodenbach. Oberweiler also suffered in the Thirty Years' War....
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    the middle of the 16th century, under the pledge-lords Schwickard von Sickingen's (1549-1562) and Georg Johannes I's (Palatinate-Veldenz, 1543-1592) influence...
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    to the Upper Rhenish Circle. Baron Johann II, who had been Franz von Sickingen’s contemporary, died in 1568. In the time that followed, tight bonds were...
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    Palatinate to be preserved as an open-air museum. In 1523, Franz von Sickingen sent the Reformer Johann Schwebel from his fortress at Ebernburg to Zweibrücken...
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    16th century, the knight Sir Johannes, who was now and then Franz von Sickingen’s brother-in-arms, was important for the Imperial lordship's, and therefore...
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    middle of the 16th century, the villages were pledged to the County of Sickingen, and then in the mid 17th century to the House of Palatinate-Simmern....
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    likewise a reference to a former allegiance, this one to the Lords of Sickingen. The arms have been borne since 27 April 1964. To the northwest runs Bundesstraße...
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    for some in the Eßweiler Tal belonging to Baron Johann Gottfried von Sickingen in Schallodenbach. Hundheim, too, suffered in the Thirty Years' War, although...
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    issue was Johannes (or Johann) II, who as a young knight led Franz von Sickingen’s army for a time. By exchange in 1553 with Waldgrave-Rhinegrave Philipp...
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