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    Wittelsbach Castle (German: Burg Wittelsbach) was a castle near Aichach in today's Bavarian Swabia. The castle was first mentioned around the year 1000...
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  • House of Wittelsbach is a former German dynasty. Wittelsbach may also refer to: Wittelsbach-class battleship SMS Wittelsbach Burg Wittelsbach, a castle...
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    Duke Maximilian Joseph in Bavaria (category House of Wittelsbach)
    housing a "Sisi" museum) near the site of Burg Wittelsbach, the ancestral seat of the House of Wittelsbach. Maximilian Joseph died in Munich. He and his...
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    Friedberg Wasserschloss Unterwittelsbach, Aichach-Unterwittelsbach Burg Wittelsbach, Aichach-Oberwittelsbach Schloss Altenberg, Syrgenstein Schloss Bächingen...
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    When Haziga, the widowed Countess of Scheyern, left Burg Scheyern in 1119 for Burg Wittelsbach, the castle from which the family subsequently took their...
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  • housing a "Sisi" museum) near the site of Burg Wittelsbach, the ancestral seat of the House of Wittelsbach. His wife, Princess Ludovika of Bavaria, daughter...
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  • Heinrich I, Count of Pegnitz (category House of Wittelsbach)
    Pegnitz (c. 1000 – c. 1043) is a contested early ancestor of the House of Wittelsbach. He was born in Pegnitz to allegedly either Henry von Schweinfurt, Margrave...
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    House of Wittelsbach before its residence function was abandoned in favor of accommodating state authorities and institutions. Herzog-Max-Burg was severely...
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  • young Martin Luther began his study. JPL · 90711 90712 Wittelsbach 1990 TE13 Burg Wittelsbach, a castle ruin near Aichach in Bavaria, Germany, ancestral...
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    Pfalzgrafenstein Castle (German: Burg Pfalzgrafenstein) is a toll castle situated on Falkenau island in the Rhine River, adjacent to Kaub, Germany. Also...
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    Nöhbauer 1998, p. 88. von Burg 1989, p. 308. von Burg 1989, p. 315. von Burg 1989, p. 311. Nöhbauer 1998, p. 86. Desing, 1996. von Burg 1989, p. 331. "Ein ewig...
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    Stahleck Castle (German: Burg Stahleck) is a 12th-century fortified castle in the Upper Middle Rhine Valley at Bacharach in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany...
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    castle situated in Landshut, Bavaria in Germany. It was the home of the Wittelsbach dynasty, and it served as their ducal residence for Lower Bavaria from...
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    Hohenstein Castle (German: Burg Hohenstein) in Middle Franconia is a castle in Bavaria, Germany. The origins of Hohenstein Castle probably go back to the...
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    Neuschwanstein Castle (category House of Wittelsbach)
    Castle fell to the Wittelsbach Compensation Fund [de] (Wittelsbacher Ausgleichsfonds), whose revenues go to the House of Wittelsbach. The visitor numbers...
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    Wittelsbachermuseum (Wittelsbach Museum), founded in 1989, documents the history of the region, in particular Burg Wittelsbach. Amberg: The Archäologisches...
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    funded by Archbishop-Elector of Cologne, Clemens August of Bavaria of the Wittelsbach family, and designed by the architects Johann Conrad Schlaun and François...
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  • Ludwig II Theodor Loos as Doctor von Gudden Eugen Burg Hans Heinrich von Twardowski as Otto von Wittelsbach Hedwig Pauly-Winterstein Trude von Molo as Elisabeth...
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    Thurant Castle (redirect from Burg Thurant)
    The ruins of the Thurant Castle (German: Burg Thurant, also Thurandt or Thurand) stand on a wide slate hill spur above the villages of Alken on the Moselle...
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    assassination on November 7, 1225. In 1280 the counts moved their court from Schloss Burg on the Wupper river to the town of Düsseldorf. Count Adolf VIII of Berg fought...
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    Guttenberg Castle (German: Burg Guttenberg, more rarely, Guttenburg) is a ruined rock castle near the French border in the German part of the Wasgau, which...
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    Grünwald Castle (Burg Grünwald) is a medieval hill castle in Grünwald, Bavaria. The castle square goes probably back to a Roman watchtower on the Isar...
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    Otto I Wittelsbach became Duke of Bavaria, and Munich was handed to the Bishop of Freising. In 1240, Munich was transferred to Otto II Wittelsbach and in...
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    Beatrix of Berg (category House of Wittelsbach)
    of Berg and his wife Anna von Wittelsbach, daughter of the Rupert II, Elector Palatine. She was probably born in Burg Castle on the Wupper, at that time...
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    elected King of the Hellenes on 30 March 1863, succeeding the ousted Wittelsbach Otto of Greece and reigning under the name George I. Prince Carl, the...
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    Baccaracus suggests a Celtic origin. Above the town stands Stahleck Castle (Burg Stahleck), now a youth hostel. The town lies in the Rhine Gorge, 48 km south...
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    being "Salz-" (German for "salt") and the second being "-burg" from Proto-West-Germanic: *burg conveying the same meaning as Latin: oppidum, lit. 'fortified...
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  • Brunswick. (Their heiress would, in turn, pass the inheritance to the Wittelsbach dynasty who thereby became the well-known lords of the Palatinate and...
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    Reichstag. Its capital was Zweibrücken. The reigning house, a branch of the Wittelsbach dynasty, was also the Royal House of Sweden from 1654 to 1720. Palatine...
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    Elisabeth of Hesse, Electress Palatine (category House of Wittelsbach)
    Europe, 1453-1763. Routledge. Thomas, Andrew L. (2010). A House Divided: Wittelsbach Confessional Court Cultures in the Holy Roman Empire, C. 1550-1650. Brill...
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