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    Kaiserswerth is one of the oldest quarters of the City of Düsseldorf, part of Borough 5. It is in the north of the city and next to the river Rhine. It...
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    The ruin of the Kaiserpfalz Kaiserswerth is located in Düsseldorf's city district Kaiserswerth. The Kaiserpfalz dates back to a monastery founded by the...
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    valuable shrine in the former collegiate and current parish church of Kaiserswerth since 1264. The shrine is one of the most important examples of medieval...
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    The Coup of Kaiserswerth (German: Staatsstreich von Kaiserswerth) in 1062 was a hitherto unprecedented action of several secular and ecclesiastical Princes...
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    dates back to 1135. Under Emperor Friedrich Barbarossa the small town of Kaiserswerth to the north of Düsseldorf became a well-fortified outpost, where soldiers...
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    The siege of Kaiserswerth (18 April – 15 June 1702), was a siege of the War of the Spanish Succession. Prussian and Dutch troops numbering 38,000 men and...
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    Guldberg went to Kaiserswerth, (Germany) to educate herself as a nurse and deaconess. She visited the Lutheran religious community at Kaiserswerth-am-Rhein,...
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    an Anglo-Dutch army under the Earl of Athlone. In an attempt to save Kaiserswerth from capture by the Allies, Boufflers, through attacking Nijmegen, hoped...
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    During 1702, the Grand Alliance repelled an assault on Nijmegen, captured Kaiserswerth, a strong town on the eastern side of the Dutch Republic, and took Venlo...
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  • adverse effects. Budwig was born in Essen and at the age of 16 joined the Kaiserswerth Deaconess Institute. She studied pharmacy in Königsberg and Münster where...
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    reputation." Later in 1850, she visited the Lutheran religious community at Kaiserswerth-am-Rhein in Germany, where she observed Pastor Theodor Fliedner and the...
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    nursing was pioneering for Florence Nightingale, who spent a few months in Kaiserswerth in 1850. Fliedner was born in Eppstein in Hesse, Germany. He was the...
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    Succession) in 1702 Boufflers attempted to capture Nijmegen and to save Kaiserswerth, but this was unsuccessful. The next year he led a Franco-Spanish force...
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    2nd Douai 2nd Le Quesnoy 2nd Bouchain Knocke Germany and Upper Rhine Kaiserswerth 1st Landau Friedlingen Rheinberg 1st Trarbach Andernach Neubourg Geldern...
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    Andrew and Mary Magdalene, Knechtsteden Abbey St Suitbert's Basilica, Kaiserswerth St Lambert's Basilica St Margaret's Basilica, Gerresheim Abbey St Vitus...
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    is depicted in the seals of free Imperial cities, including that of Kaiserswerth in the 13th century, Lübeck in the 14th century, Besançon[year needed]...
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    workmanship" and sailed down the Rhine to an island near the royal palace at Kaiserswerth in April 1062. The ship fascinated Henry, so Anno could easily talk him...
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  • Section of an atlas for the 13th century: While Cologne is marked, only Kaiserswerth, which today belongs to the city, is found on the map in the Düsseldorf...
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    served on the continent in the Nine Years' War and fought at the Siege of Kaiserswerth during the War of the Spanish Succession. He then went on to serve as...
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    by the celebrated Dutch engineer Menno van Coehoorn, besieged Kaiserswerth. Kaiserswerth fell on 26 June before the Elector led his army on Bonn, which...
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  • 1702, it took part in hostilities for the first time at the Siege of Kaiserswerth. Hamish Scott & Brendan Simms, Cultures of Power in Europe During the...
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  • 1702 it took part in hostilities for the first time at the Siege of Kaiserswerth. After the death of his father, King Frederick William I joined the coalition...
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    William III of England, and they were first used in action at the siege of Kaiserswerth in 1702. The original was light enough to be moved by as few as two men...
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    2nd Douai 2nd Le Quesnoy 2nd Bouchain Knocke Germany and Upper Rhine Kaiserswerth 1st Landau Friedlingen Rheinberg 1st Trarbach Andernach Neubourg Geldern...
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  • Theodor Fliedner and his wife opened the first deaconess motherhouse in Kaiserswerth on the Rhine. It became a model, and within half a century there were...
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    to provide more advanced training than she saw on the Continent. At Kaiserswerth, where the first German nursing schools were founded in 1836 by Theodor...
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    v t e Nine Years' War Flanders and the Lower Rhine Kaiserswerth Walcourt Bonn Fleurus Mons Leuze 1st Namur Steenkerque Dottignies 1st Huy Landen Charleroi...
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    Deaconess tradition began in 19th-century Europe when Theodor Fliedner of Kaiserswerth, Germany, established the first Deaconess Home and Hospital in 1836....
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    mints, including those of Aachen, Donauwörth, Ulm, Haguenau, Duisburg, Kaiserswerth, Frankfurt, Gelnhausen and Dortmund. He also granted privileges exempting...
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