The terms landwehr ("land defence"), landgraben ("land ditch") and landhege ("land enclosure") refer to border demarcations or border defences and enclosures...
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Kirchwehrener Landwehr, a stream in Hanover Region, Germany Landwehr (Wachau) [de], a woodland in Wachau, Saxony near Radeberg, Saxony, Germany Landwehr (border),...
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Fortifications of Frankfurt (section Landwehr)
by an additional wall with five gates. In the fifteenth century, a "landwehr border" was created around the entire territory of the Free City of Frankfurt...
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is a small canal in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. It was part of the Landwehr (border fortification) of the city of Lübeck. List of rivers of Schleswig-Holstein...
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Austro-Hungarian Army (section Imperial-Royal Landwehr)
Armee, recruited from all parts of Austria-Hungary), the Imperial-Royal Landwehr (recruited from Cisleithania) and the Royal Hungarian Honvéd (recruited...
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known as a Landwehr (border). In some places, gaps were made which had portcullises. One such passageway was supposed to have been on the border at the Großer...
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Baltische Landeswehr (redirect from Baltische Landwehr)
The Baltic Landwehr or Baltische Landeswehr ("Baltic Territorial Army") was the name of the unified armed forces of Couronian and Livonian nobility from...
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Kaiserlich-königliche Gebirgstruppe) were founded in 1906 as part of the Austrian Landwehr, the territorial army of the Cisleithanian half of the Austro-Hungarian...
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Landwehr Commander 3 (3rd Landwehr Division) 17th Landwehr Infantry Brigade 18th Landwehr Infantry Brigade Senior Landwehr Commander 4 (4th Landwehr Division)...
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Father Gordian Landwehr (born Hermann Landwehr: 30 December 1912 – 11 June 1998) was a German Dominican friar and, for over a decade, the Prior of the...
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"fortifications"; mostly a concentration of better armed border guards (an over simplification) Landwehr: (Defence of the Land) a national guard/militia type...
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42nd Home Guard Infantry Division (redirect from 42nd Landwehr Division)
in Croatian, or Home Defense Infantry Division, Honvéd in Hungarian and Landwehr in German. The division was created shortly before World War I, within...
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through their zone. The Landwehr regiments formed the area-bound Landwehr and fielded the following types of Landwehr units: Landwehr battalions (Landwehrbataillone)...
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Berlin, a border crossing was erected on the bridge over the Landwehr canal to control the passage of these freight trains. The remains of this border crossing...
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Park, in the north-east by the Spree River and in the south-east by the Landwehr Canal. Wrangelkiez has an above-average proportion of younger residents;...
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forces from 1867 to 1914, the other two elements being the Imperial-Royal Landwehr (of Austria) and the Royal Hungarian Honvéd. However, it was simply known...
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The Anhalter Güterbahnhof (goods station), also opened, south of the Landwehr Canal on the same date as the passenger station. Initially the rebuilt...
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George Landwehr von Pragenau (January 5, 1927 - July 11, 2013) was an Austrian-American engineer and rocket scientist. Brought to the U.S. by the Army...
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Army. During his service in the March Battalion of the Bochnia-based 32nd Landwehr Regiment, he passed his matura exams and in February 1918 graduated from...
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a reorganization of the army that integrated the regular army and the Landwehr reserves. The second was the provision for the conscription of every male...
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Strasbourg and Neuf-Brisach. The 1st and 2nd Bavarian brigades, 55th Landwehr Brigade, Landwehr Regiment 110 and a battery of heavy field howitzers were also...
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163,000-strong Landwehr served a few weeks annually for seven years. Boyen and Blücher strongly supported the civilian army of the Landwehr, which was to...
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(CSV) (in German). Statistisches Landesamt Baden-Württemberg. June 2023. Landwehr, Andreas (24 July 2021). "'Great Spas of Europe' awarded UNESCO World Heritage...
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Rural Letter Carriers' Association) Edward Landwehr. Landwehr was the son of Herman and Anna Helene Landwehr, both German immigrants and early settlers...
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Canal Südende to Blankenfelde Priesterweg Südkreuz to Wannsee Yorckstraße Landwehr Canal Anhalter Bahnhof Potsdamer Platz Brandenburger Tor Friedrichstraße...
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des 17. Juni to the east of the Charlottenburg Bridge, which spans the Landwehr Canal. To the west of the Bridge are two lavish street lights known as...
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a strength of 3 squadrons. Finally, there were 38 Landwehr squadrons (assigned to the mixed Landwehr brigades) and 19 Ersatz detachments (assigned to the...
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divisions probing westwards. On 8 October at Antwerp, Landwehr Brigade 37 was reinforced by Bavarian Landwehr Brigade 1 and Ersatz Brigade 9 from the 4th Ersatz...
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process of being absorbed into the line, along with many Landwehr (militia) regiments. The Landwehr were mostly untrained and unequipped when they arrived...
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Grenz infantry (category Border guards)
Grenz infantry or Grenzers or Granichary (from German: Grenzer "border guard" or "frontiersman"; Serbo-Croatian: graničari, krajišnici, Hungarian: granicsár...
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