• Thumbnail for Wesel
    Wesel (German pronunciation: [ˈveːzl̩] ) is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is the capital of the Wesel district. Wesel is situated at the...
    11 KB (1,194 words) - 10:41, 18 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Wesel transmitter
    TV-mast Wesel is a 320.8 metre tall guyed steel framework radio mast of the Deutsche Telekom AG at Wesel-Büderich, Germany. FM and TV-mast Wesel was built...
    1 KB (125 words) - 15:11, 25 November 2023
  • Thumbnail for Wesel (district)
    Wesel (German pronunciation: [ˈveːzl̩]) is a Kreis (district) in the northwestern part of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Neighboring districts are Borken...
    2 KB (186 words) - 20:00, 26 March 2024
  • Wesel is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Wesel may also refer to: Wesel (district), North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany Wesel station, Wessel, Germany...
    625 bytes (107 words) - 12:21, 16 March 2020
  • Thumbnail for Operation Plunder
    Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery. The crossing of the river was at Rees, Wesel, and south of the river Lippe by the British Second Army under Lieutenant...
    16 KB (1,633 words) - 21:41, 16 June 2024
  • Hermann Wesel (died June 1563) was a German ecclesiastic in Livonia, and the last Roman Catholic Bishop of Dorpat (Tartu). Hermann Wesel is presumed to...
    2 KB (243 words) - 13:00, 21 January 2022
  • Thumbnail for Operation Varsity
    divisions on its eastern bank near the village of Hamminkeln and the town of Wesel. The plans called for dropping two divisions from U.S. XVIII Airborne Corps...
    56 KB (6,723 words) - 21:55, 16 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Andreas Vesalius
    Andreas Vesalius (redirect from Van Wesel)
    court of Emperor Charles V. Vesalius was born as Andries van Wesel to his father Anders van Wesel and mother Isabel Crabbe on 31 December 1514 in Brussels...
    39 KB (4,833 words) - 02:18, 30 June 2024
  • Uwe Wesel (2 February 1933 – 11 September 2023) was a German academic, lawyer, and legal historian. He taught at the Free University of Berlin (FU). Born...
    6 KB (522 words) - 03:37, 4 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Wesel–Datteln Canal
    The Wesel–Datteln Canal (German: Wesel-Datteln-Kanal) is a 60-kilometre (37 mi) long canal in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It runs along the northern...
    3 KB (187 words) - 00:26, 1 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Bombing of Wesel in World War II
    The German town of Wesel was heavily bombed in Allied air raids during World War II. Between this and the attacks in support of the crossing of the Rhine...
    3 KB (344 words) - 14:18, 20 December 2022
  • Thumbnail for Wesel station
    Wesel is a railway station in Wesel, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. The station is located on the Arnhem-Oberhausen railway and the Bocholt-Wesel railway...
    42 KB (5,573 words) - 07:01, 5 June 2024
  • The Wesel Convention was a secret gathering of leading church people from Dutch refugee communities, believed to have taken place in November 1568 in...
    12 KB (1,583 words) - 08:48, 8 February 2024
  • Johann Ruchrat von Wesel (died 1481) was a German Scholastic theologian. He objected to the system of indulgences, and has been called a "reformer before...
    5 KB (629 words) - 17:27, 31 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Naphtali Hirz Wessely
    father), Reis later settled in Wesel on the Rhine, whence the family name "Wessely" originated. In the synagogue at Wesel (destroyed during Kristallnacht)...
    8 KB (887 words) - 08:19, 13 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Wesel Railway Bridge
    The Wesel Railway Bridge was a bridge on the Haltern–Venlo railway, built as part of the Hamburg–Venlo railway by the Cologne-Minden Railway Company,...
    6 KB (728 words) - 09:46, 7 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Attack on Pearl Harbor
    Osnabrück Paderborn Peenemünde Pforzheim Potsdam Rostock Saarbrücken Schweinfurt Siegen Stuttgart Ulm Wesel Wiener Neustadt Wilhelmshaven Worms Würzburg...
    154 KB (16,144 words) - 14:14, 3 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Wesel I
    Wesel I is an electoral constituency (German: Wahlkreis) represented in the Bundestag. It elects one member via first-past-the-post voting. Under the...
    28 KB (373 words) - 20:41, 26 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Bocholt–Wesel railway
    The Bocholt–Wesel railway is a single-track branch line in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia from Wesel in the Lower Rhine region to Bocholt in...
    14 KB (1,338 words) - 15:08, 27 February 2022
  • Thumbnail for Roer (department)
    the duchy of Guelders and some smaller territories. In 1805 the city of Wesel was added to the department. The capital was Aix-la-Chapelle (Aachen). The...
    4 KB (277 words) - 15:04, 24 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Wesel citadel
    The Wesel citadel is the largest intact fortification system of the Rhineland and was built 1688–1722 in Wesel according to plans by Johan de Corbin, in...
    5 KB (590 words) - 14:47, 28 March 2023
  • Thumbnail for Oberhausen–Arnhem railway
    main line railway running close to the lower Rhine from Oberhausen via Wesel, Emmerich and the German–Dutch border to Arnhem and forms part of the line...
    16 KB (1,524 words) - 06:41, 11 May 2024
  • Jeżewo-Wesel [jɛˈʐɛvɔ ˈvɛsɛl] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Raciąż, within Płońsk County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central...
    1 KB (43 words) - 03:50, 24 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
    Osnabrück Paderborn Peenemünde Pforzheim Potsdam Rostock Saarbrücken Schweinfurt Siegen Stuttgart Ulm Wesel Wiener Neustadt Wilhelmshaven Worms Würzburg...
    219 KB (25,220 words) - 01:20, 30 June 2024
  • This incomplete list of characters from the Star Wars franchise contains only those which are considered part of the official Star Wars canon, as of the...
    137 KB (18,877 words) - 19:43, 26 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Western Allied invasion of Germany
    the center, and Wesel in the south. The two 9th Army divisions tasked for the assault concentrated in the Rheinberg area south of Wesel. At the northern...
    88 KB (11,817 words) - 23:26, 2 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Hamburg
    Osnabrück Paderborn Peenemünde Pforzheim Potsdam Rostock Saarbrücken Schweinfurt Siegen Stuttgart Ulm Wesel Wiener Neustadt Wilhelmshaven Worms Würzburg...
    152 KB (14,592 words) - 10:21, 27 June 2024
  • Turin Berengar of Tours and Berengarians Wessel Gansfort Johann Ruchrat von Wesel Johannes von Goch Friends of God Pataria Beginning Ninety-five Theses Diet...
    237 KB (28,689 words) - 18:06, 23 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Siege of Aachen (1614)
    heritage, including Neuss, Mülheim, and the important German fortress-city of Wesel, whish was garrisoned by troops of Brandenburg, As a consequence, the Protestant...
    16 KB (1,918 words) - 13:54, 30 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Rhine
    agricultural. In Wesel, 30 km downstream of Duisburg, is located the western end of the second east–west shipping route, the Wesel-Datteln Canal, which...
    95 KB (10,751 words) - 19:19, 22 June 2024