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    Hohnstein (German pronunciation: [ˈhoːnˌʃtaɪ̯n] ) is a town located in the Sächsische Schweiz-Osterzgebirge district of Saxony, in eastern Germany. As...
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    Hohnstein Castle (German: Burg Hohnstein) is one of the largest and best-preserved castle ruins in Germany and is located near Neustadt in the vicinity...
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    Christian V, Count of Oldenburg (sometimes called Christian VI; c. 1342 – 1423) was the ruling count of Oldenburg from 1368 until 1398. He was born sometime...
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  • Hohnstein/Südharz is a former Verwaltungsgemeinschaft ("collective municipality") in the district of Nordhausen, in Thuringia, Germany. The seat of the...
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  • c. 1360 to Count Heinrich/Henry of Hohnstein (de) (d. 1408). They had about six children, two counts of Hohnstein. Sophie (c. 1340 – c. 1394), married...
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  • Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein was a county and later principality between Hesse-Darmstadt and Westphalia. The county with imperial immediacy was formed...
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    Holstein clan. Adelheid (1425–1475), first married Ernest III, the Count of Hohnstein (d. 1454) and then, in 1474, Gerhard VI, Count of Mansfeld (d. 1492)....
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    claims as elected King of the Romans, in condominium with the counts of Hohnstein, who sold their share to Schwarzburg in 1431. Schwarzburg was acquired...
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    Nachbargebiete geographisch dargestellt. Klindworth's Verlag, Hannover 1867. Otto Hohnstein: Geschichte des Herzogtums Braunschweig. F. Bartels, Braunschweig 1908...
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  • Anhalt-Bernburg Agnes, married in 1360 to Count Henry of Hohnstein Sophie, married Count Dietrich V of Hohnstein Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, vol. 20, pp. 62–64[permanent...
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    their way to these sites up steep climbing paths. These castles include: Hohnstein, Hockstein, Neurathen, Altrathen, Königstein, Lilienstein, Falkenstein...
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    Hohnstein Castle (German: Burg Hohnstein) is a medieval castle in the village of the same name, Hohnstein in Saxon Switzerland in the Free State of Sachsen...
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    IV-E Altenburg Stalag IV-F Hartmannsdorf Stalag IV-G Oschatz Oflag IV-A Hohnstein Oflag IV-B Koenigstein Oflag IV-C Colditz Castle Oflag IV-D Elsterhorst...
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    beaked and membered Gules (Diepholz eagle); 9th, Chequy Argent and Gules (Hohnstein); 10th, Argent, a stag's attire in bend Gules (Regenstein); 11th, Argent...
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    bordered by Wehlen and Lohmen, in the north by Lohmen and Hohnstein, in the east by Hohnstein and Goßdorf and in the south by Porschdorf, Rathen and Wehlen...
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    in the 15th-century Burg Hohnstein, in Hohnstein, Saxony. The castle was first used as a camp in 1933–34, named KZ Hohnstein. As a Schutzhaftlager ("protective...
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  • 1914 UQ The city of Moscow in Russia DMP · 787 788 Hohensteina 1914 UR Hohnstein Castle near Bad Schwalbach in Hesse, Germany, hometown of the wife of...
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    (Saxony-Anhalt) Hohen Neuendorf (Brandenburg) Hohenstein-Ernstthal (Saxony) Hohnstein (Saxony) Höhr-Grenzhausen (Rhineland-Palatinate) Hollfeld (Bavaria) Holzgerlingen...
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    1726 the church in Forchheim was built, as well as more in Königstein, Hohnstein and Kesselsdorf (all in Saxony) and a considerable amount of housing in...
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    of Hohnstein County (based in near Ilfeld), who extorted funds from Nordhausen during the 14th century. On the other hand, the debts of the Hohnstein Counts...
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  • Vallendar Government Principality Historical era Middle Ages • Partitioned from     S-W-Wittgenstein   1657 1657 • Inherited by     S-W-Hohnstein   1775 1775...
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  • County, first named Bilstein, then Ilfeld and, from 1160 on, the County of Hohnstein by marriage. By the end of the 13th century, the counts had split their...
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  • Christoph Schaffrath (1709 in Hohnstein  – 7 February 1763 in Berlin) was a German musician and composer of the late Baroque to Classical transition era...
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    Halberstadt, large parts of the Prince-Bishopric of Hildesheim, the counties of Hohnstein and Regenstein, the baronies of Klettenberg and Lohra and parts of Hoya...
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  • Because of his language skills he was sent to Oflag IV-A Hohnstein as a translator. The POWs at Hohnstein were mostly French officers, including 28 generals...
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  • Ulbersdorf (category Hohnstein)
    was mentioned first in 1432 as Olbersdorff and is part of the town of Hohnstein since 1994. Ulbersdorf has the form of a Reihendorf (row village) and...
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    Kurt Krjeńc (category Hohnstein concentration camp survivors)
    Kurt Krjeńc (7 July 1907 – 28 November 1978) was an East German communist politician who served as Chairman of Domowina from 1951 to 1973. Krjeńc was born...
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    died in 1302 and passed it to his two daughters: Irmgard's part went to Hohnstein family; Adelaide's part went to the County of Weimar-Orlamünde; Adelaide's...
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    − 22 June 1538), nicknamed "the Blissful", was Count of Stolberg and Hohnstein and Lord of Wernigerode from 1511 until his death. He was born in Stolberg...
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    no authority there, and relinquished his claims in 1275. Elisabeth von Hohnstein (died c. 4 April 1380). She was the wife of Günther von Schwarzburg, who...
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