north of Halle. It is known for Wettin Castle (German: Burg or Schloss Wettin), the ancestral seat of the House of Wettin, the former ruling dynasty of...
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Wettin Castle is a former castle that stood near the town of Wettin on the Saale river in Germany, and which is the ancestral home of the House of Wettin...
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Falkenstein Castle (Harz) (redirect from Burg Falkenstein (Pansfelde))
Stekovics, ISBN 978-3-89923-131-1 Winfried Korf (1997), Burg Falkenstein (in German), Wettin: Stekovics, ISBN 3-929330-79-2 Berent Schwineköper (Hrsg...
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Electorate of Saxony (section Beginning of Wettin rule)
of Ascania in 1422, the duchy and the electorate passed to the House of Wettin. The electoral privilege was tied only to the Electoral Circle, specifically...
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second half of the 10th century, which fell into the possession of the Wettin margraves in 1143. Its appearance, which includes several Romanesque wings...
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Saxe-Weissenfels (category House of Wettin)
Albertine House of Wettin, the duchy passed to the Electorate of Saxony upon the extinction of the line. John George I of Wettin, Saxon prince-elector...
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region of Bavaria, Germany. Long part of one of the Thuringian states of the Wettin line, it joined Bavaria by popular vote only in 1920. Until the revolution...
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appeared in the rank of a Thuringian margrave. From 953 to 955, he and several Wettin counts joined the revolt of Duke Liudolf of Swabia against King Otto the...
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among the nobles who, without success, offered the Bohemian crown to the Wettin elector John George I of Saxony. After the loss of Czech independence in...
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June 1794 – 4 April 1852), was a German princess, a member of the House of Wettin, and by marriage Princess of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach. Ida was born on 13 August...
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main church by Pope Boniface IX in 1400. When in the late 15th century the Wettin prince Frederick III the Wise, elector of Saxony from 1486, had the former...
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founded with authority over all Saxony, but after the Partition of the Wettin lands, it applied only to the Albertine lands (including collateral lines...
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Balga (Russian: замок Бальга; German: Burg Balga; Lithuanian: Balga; Polish: Balga) was a medieval castle of the Teutonic Knights in Kaliningrad Oblast...
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In 1353, Coburg fell to Friedrich, Markgraf von Meißen of the House of Wettin. His successor, Friedrich der Streitbare was awarded the status of Elector...
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Severinus of Saxony (category House of Wettin)
1533, Innsbruck) was a Saxon prince of the Albertine line of the House of Wettin. Severinus was the second son of the Duke Henry of Saxony (1473–1541) from...
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of 1354–1357, Lobeda came into the hands of the Wettins in 1358. With the Leipzig division of the Wettin total state in 1485, Lobeda came to the Ernestine...
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Offener Kanal Magdeburg Offener Kanal Merseburg-Querfurt Offener Kanal Wettin punktum RAN1 Regionalfernsehen Bitterfeld-Wolfen (RBW Regionalfernsehen)...
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34603 Nauendorf 34604 Niemberg 34605 Kabelsketal-Gröbers 34606 Teicha 34607 Wettin 34609 Salzmünde 3461 Merseburg 3462 Bad Dürrenberg 3463 34632 Mücheln (Geiseltal)...
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the German state of Saxony. Its history is closely linked to the House of Wettin. After several conversions the castle is now a stately home with four wings...
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During the early modern period, Eisenach was a residence of the Ernestine Wettins and was visited by numerous representatives of Weimar classicism like Johann...
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Sibylle of Cleves (category House of Wettin)
was betrothed to Electoral Prince John Frederick of Saxony in the Schloss Burg an der Wupper. After lengthy negotiations about the dowry, the lavish wedding...
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Dohna Castle (German: Burg Dohna, Czech: hrad Donín) on the once important medieval trade route from Saxony to Bohemia was the ancestral castle seat of...
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(Lower Saxony) Wetter (Ruhr) (North Rhine-Westphalia) Wetter (Hesse) (Hesse) Wettin-Löbejün (Saxony-Anhalt) Wetzlar (Hesse) Widdern (Baden-Württemberg) Wiehl...
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The ruins of Frauenstein Castle (German: Burg Frauenstein) are located on a 680 metres (2,230 ft) high granite rock on the crest of the Eastern Ore Mountains...
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guests of honour to a dinner at the White House with Chief Justice Warren E. Burger, Charles Lindbergh, Alice Roosevelt Longworth, Arnold Palmer, George H....
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was present together with his father and brothers at the funeral of the Wettin margrave Conrad of Meissen. Two years later, Bernhard accompanied Emperor...
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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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The literal translation of "Glücksburg" is "Luck's Castle" (Glück = luck; Burg = castle). Glücksburg is officially bilingual and since 2016, there are German/Danish...
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Stein Castle (German: Burg Stein or Burg und Schloss Stein) is a Saxon castle located southeast of Zwickau in the village of Stein in the municipality...
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castle in 1471. Albrechtsburg Castle never actually became a centre of Wettin's court. While construction was still in progress, the builders agreed in...
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