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Altenstein Castle (Eichsfeld)
Altenstein (German for "Old Rock" or "Old Stone") may refer to: Places in Germany Villages and administrative areas * Amt Altenstein, an ''Amt'' in the Duchy of Saxe-Meiningen * Altenstein, village in the municipality of Asbach (Westerwald), Asbach, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany * Altenstein, village in the municipality of Häg-Ehrsberg in the county of Lörrach, Baden-Württemberg, Germany * Altenstein, village in the market town of Maroldsweisach, county of Haßberge, Bavaria Castles * Altenstein Castle (Bad Liebenstein), historical castle site near Schweina and Bad Liebenstein, Wartburgkreis, Thuringia * Altenstein Castle (Southern Black Forest), lost castle near Häg-Ehrsberg, Lörrach, Baden-Württemberg * Altenstein Castle (Lower Franconia), castle ruins in Altenstein between Ebern and Maroldsweisach, Haßberge, Bavaria * Altenstein Castle (Eichsfeld) in the vicinity of Asbach-Sickenberg near Bad Sooden-Allendorf, Eichsfeld, Thuringia * Alte Burg (Altenstein), early medieval ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amt Altenstein
Amt is a type of administrative division governing a group of municipalities, today only in Germany, but formerly also common in other countries of Northern Europe. Its size and functions differ by country and the term is roughly equivalent to a British or U.S. county. Current usage Germany Prevalence The ''Amt'' (plural: ''Ämter'') is unique to the German ''States of Germany, Bundesländer'' (federal states) of Schleswig-Holstein, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and Brandenburg. Other German states had this division in the past. Some states have similar administrative units called ''Samtgemeinde'' (Lower Saxony), ''Verbandsgemeinde'' (Rhineland-Palatinate) or ''Municipal association (Germany), Verwaltungsgemeinschaft'' (Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria, Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, Thuringia). Definition An ''Amt'', as well as the other above-mentioned units, is subordinate to a ''Kreis'' (district) and is a collection of municipalities. The amt is lower than district-level government ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alte Burg (Altenstein)
The Alte Burg ("Old Castle") is an early medieval ringwork between Altenstein (Haßberge), Altenstein and ''Lichtenstein'' in the borough of Market Maroldsweisach in the Lower Franconian county of Landkreis Haßberge, Haßberge in the province of Regierungsbezirk Unterfranken, Lower Franconia in Bavaria, Germany. Location The circular rampart lies at a height of on a rocky spur on the northern slopes of a ridge in the Franconian Haßberge hills, which are also home to the high medieval castles of Altenstein Castle (Lower Franconia), Altenstein, Lichtenstein Castle (Bavaria), Lichtenstein, Rotenhan Castle, Rotenhan and Teufelsstein (Haßberge), Teufelsstein. Only about 150 metres east in the forest is another protected monument, also called the Alte Burg (Hafenpreppach), Alte Burg. Description The medium-sized (ca. 115×150 metres) ringwork, which is assumed to date to the Early Middle Ages, is protected to the northeast and southeast by a steep slope and is surrounded by a s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Namibia
Namibia, officially the Republic of Namibia, is a country on the west coast of Southern Africa. Its borders include the Atlantic Ocean to the west, Angola and Zambia to the north, Botswana to the east and South Africa to the south; in the northeast, approximating a quadripoint, Zimbabwe lies less than 200 metres (660 feet) away along the Zambezi, Zambezi River near Kazungula, Zambia. Namibia's capital and largest city is Windhoek. Namibia is the driest country in sub-Saharan Africa, and has been inhabited since prehistoric times by the Khoekhoe, Khoi, San people, San, Damara people, Damara and Nama people. Around the 14th century, immigration, immigrating Bantu peoples arrived as part of the Bantu expansion. From 1600 the Ovambo people#History, Ovambo formed kingdoms, such as Ondonga and Oukwanyama. In 1884, the German Empire established rule over most of the territory, forming a colony known as German South West Africa. Between 1904 and 1908, German troops waged a punitive ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Altenstein (Namibia)
Altenstein (German for "Old Rock" or "Old Stone") may refer to: Places in Germany Villages and administrative areas * Amt Altenstein, an ''Amt'' in the Duchy of Saxe-Meiningen * Altenstein, village in the municipality of Asbach, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany * Altenstein, village in the municipality of Häg-Ehrsberg in the county of Lörrach, Baden-Württemberg, Germany * Altenstein, village in the market town of Maroldsweisach, county of Haßberge, Bavaria Castles * Altenstein Castle (Bad Liebenstein), historical castle site near Schweina and Bad Liebenstein, Wartburgkreis, Thuringia * Altenstein Castle (Southern Black Forest), lost castle near Häg-Ehrsberg, Lörrach, Baden-Württemberg * Altenstein Castle (Lower Franconia), castle ruins in Altenstein between Ebern and Maroldsweisach, Haßberge, Bavaria * Altenstein Castle (Eichsfeld) in the vicinity of Asbach-Sickenberg near Bad Sooden-Allendorf, Eichsfeld, Thuringia * Alte Burg (Altenstein), early medieval ringwork betw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Altenstein Palace
Schloss Altenstein is a ''schloss'' (a German term for palace) upon a rocky hill on the south-western slope of the Thuringian Forest, not far from Eisenach, Thuringia, Germany. It was the summer residence of the Dukes of Saxe-Meiningen, and is surrounded by 160 hectares (1.6 square kilometres) of English landscape garden, which contain, among other objects of interest, a cavern 300 metres long, through which flows a large and rapid stream. Geography Altenstein is a part of the municipality of Bad Liebenstein in the Wartburgkreis near Eisenach, Thuringia, Germany. It sits on a platform with a height of around 460 metres above sea level, part of the dolomite hills at the western edge of the Thuringian Forest. It is surrounded by 160 hectares of park, which includes several pinnacles of Zechstein rock. History Previous structures A fortified structure, possibly initially a pre-Christian holy site, may have been roughly in the same location as the current house by t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Altenstein (Bad Liebenstein)
Altenstein (German for "Old Rock" or "Old Stone") may refer to: Places in Germany Villages and administrative areas * Amt Altenstein, an ''Amt'' in the Duchy of Saxe-Meiningen * Altenstein, village in the municipality of Asbach, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany * Altenstein, village in the municipality of Häg-Ehrsberg in the county of Lörrach, Baden-Württemberg, Germany * Altenstein, village in the market town of Maroldsweisach, county of Haßberge, Bavaria Castles * Altenstein Castle (Bad Liebenstein), historical castle site near Schweina and Bad Liebenstein, Wartburgkreis, Thuringia * Altenstein Castle (Southern Black Forest), lost castle near Häg-Ehrsberg, Lörrach, Baden-Württemberg * Altenstein Castle (Lower Franconia), castle ruins in Altenstein between Ebern and Maroldsweisach, Haßberge, Bavaria * Altenstein Castle (Eichsfeld) in the vicinity of Asbach-Sickenberg near Bad Sooden-Allendorf, Eichsfeld, Thuringia * Alte Burg (Altenstein), early medieval ringwork betw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taunusstein
Taunusstein () is the biggest town in the Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis in the of Darmstadt (region), Darmstadt in Hessen, Germany. It has 30,068 inhabitants (2020). Geography Location Taunusstein lies roughly 10 km northwest of Wiesbaden and about 10 km west of Idstein and the Autobahn Bundesautobahn 3, A 3. It is part of the Untertaunus (lower Taunus) range. Taunusstein itself is a rural area and is about 30 km from the river Rhine. The lowest point in Taunusstein is 310 m above sea level, and the highest 613.9 m. Neighbouring communities Taunusstein borders in the north on the communities of Hohenstein, Hesse, Hohenstein and Hünstetten and the town of Idstein, in the east on the community of Niedernhausen, in the south on the district-free city of Wiesbaden and in the west on the community of Schlangenbad and the town of Bad Schwalbach. Constituent communities Taunusstein is made up of ten ''Ortsteil, Stadtteile'': History The town of Taunusstein ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ringwall Altenstein
A circular rampart () is an embankment built in the shape of a circle that was used as part of the defences for a military fortification, hill fort or refuge, or was built for religious purposes or as a place of gathering. The period during which these structures were built ranged from the Neolithic to the Middle Ages. Construction The key feature of a circular rampart is that the embankment formed the primary element of the defensive fortification.Radig (1935), pp. 9–10. It can be constructed in various ways: as a simple earth embankment, as a wood and earth structure, or as a wall. Circular ramparts usually have a moat or ditch in front of them; the embankment can be enhanced with a wooden palisade. They are mostly found on lowlands, but sometimes encircle the summit of a hill. Often several concentric rings were built, which produced a more effective defensive position against attackers. The interior of such sites often shows evidence of buildings such as halls, barns, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Asbach-Sickenberg
Asbach-Sickenberg is a municipality in the district of Eichsfeld, in Thuringia, Germany. As a result of the 1945 Wanfried agreement, formerly Hessian Asbach-Sickenberg became part of the Soviet occupation zone and the later German Democratic Republic East Germany, officially known as the German Democratic Republic (GDR), was a country in Central Europe from Foundation of East Germany, its formation on 7 October 1949 until German reunification, its reunification with West Germany (FRG) on .... Population Development Inhabitants as of ''(31. Dezember)'': :Data source: Thüringian Statistics Office References Eichsfeld (district) {{Eichsfeld-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Duchy Of Saxe-Meiningen
Saxe-Meiningen ( ; ) was one of the Saxon duchies held by the Ernestine line of the House of Wettin, located in the southwest of the present-day German state of Thuringia. Established in 1681, by partition of the Ernestine Duchy of Saxe-Gotha among the seven sons of deceased Duke Ernest the Pious, the Saxe-Meiningen line of the House of Wettin lasted until the end of the German monarchies in 1918. History House of Wettin The Wettiner had been the rulers of sizeable holdings in today's states of Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia since the Middle Ages. In the '' Leipziger Teilung'' of 1485, the Wettiner were split into two branches named after their founding princes Albrecht and Ernst (''albertinisch'' and ''ernestinisch''). Thuringia was part of the Ernestine holdings of ''Kursachsen'' (the Electorate of Saxony). In 1572, the branches Saxe-Coburg-Eisenach and Saxe-Weimar were established there. The senior line again split in 1641/41 into three duchies, including the D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Altenstein Castle (Eichsfeld)
Altenstein (German for "Old Rock" or "Old Stone") may refer to: Places in Germany Villages and administrative areas * Amt Altenstein, an ''Amt'' in the Duchy of Saxe-Meiningen * Altenstein, village in the municipality of Asbach (Westerwald), Asbach, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany * Altenstein, village in the municipality of Häg-Ehrsberg in the county of Lörrach, Baden-Württemberg, Germany * Altenstein, village in the market town of Maroldsweisach, county of Haßberge, Bavaria Castles * Altenstein Castle (Bad Liebenstein), historical castle site near Schweina and Bad Liebenstein, Wartburgkreis, Thuringia * Altenstein Castle (Southern Black Forest), lost castle near Häg-Ehrsberg, Lörrach, Baden-Württemberg * Altenstein Castle (Lower Franconia), castle ruins in Altenstein between Ebern and Maroldsweisach, Haßberge, Bavaria * Altenstein Castle (Eichsfeld) in the vicinity of Asbach-Sickenberg near Bad Sooden-Allendorf, Eichsfeld, Thuringia * Alte Burg (Altenstein), early medieval ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
