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Encyclopedia: Wetzlar

Wetzlar is a town in the German federal state (Bundesland) of Hesse, capital of the Lahn-Dill district. Located at 8° 30' E, 50° 34' N, there are (as of 2002) approximately 54,000 inhabitants. The town is situated on the Lahn river.

Notable architectural features include the Eisenmarkt and the steep grades and claustrophobic street layout of a medieval town. The sandstone cathedral of St. Mary was commenced in the 12th century as a Romanesque building. In the later Middle Ages the construction was continued under a masterplan in Gothic style. The church was never finished, as one steeple still is uncompleted. The cathedral suffered heavy damage in the Second World War by aerial bombing, but was restored in the 1950s. On the outskirts of town exist the ruins of several masonry towers arranged along the river.

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European route E40

European route E40 passes through the following cities: Calais - Dunkerque - Brugge - Ghent - Brussels - Leuven - Liège - Aachen - Köln - Gummersbach - Olpe - Siegen - Wetzlar - Gießen - Bad Hersfeld - Eisenach - Gotha - Erfurt - Weimar - Jena - Gera - Chemnitz - Dresden - Bautzen - Görlitz...

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Lahn-Dill

Statistics State: Hesse Adm. Region: Gießen Capital: Wetzlar Area: 1,066.51 km�... with the districts Wetzlar and Dillkreis to the new Lahn-Dill-Kreis. However this big district... eagle in the top, a sign for the imperial city Wetzlar. The bottom part - taken from the arms of the...

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Johann Ulrich von Cramer

highest judges of the Holy Roman Empire, both in Vienna and Wetzlar. Publications Johann Ulrich v...

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Gießen

historic buildings. In 1977 Gießen was merged with the neighboring city Wetzlar to form the new...

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Lahn

on January 1 1977 when the two cities Gießen and Wetzlar were merged. It was named after the river...

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Friedrich Wilhelm Gotter

second director of the Gotha Archive. He subsequently went to Wetzlar, the seat of the imperial law... . In 1770 he was once more in Wetzlar, where he belonged to Goethe's circle. Four years later he...

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Nia Künzer

in the Albert-Schweitzer-Kinderdorf (children's village) in Wetzlar-Garbenheim, alongside her... Eintracht Wetzlar and VfB Gießen she has been with 1. FFC Frankfurt (1st Frankfurt Women's Soccer...

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Gießen (district)

Wetzlar and Dillkreis to form the new Lahn-Dill-Kreis. In 1979 it was split again, and the district Gießen was recreated. The city Gießen - temporarily merged with Wetzlar to the city Lahn - was...

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Leica

The Leica was the first practical 35 mm camera. The first prototypes were built by Oskar Barnack at E. Leitz Optische Werke , Wetzlar, in 1913. Barnack used standard cinema film, but extended the... its factory from Wetzlar to the nearby town of Solms. In 1996 Leica Camera separated from the Leica...

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Karl von Abel

Karl von Abel (17 September 1788, Wetzlar - September 3, 1859) was a Bavarian statesman. Abel was the son of a procurator at the superior Court of Justice. He studied from 1806-1809 law in Gießen and became a civil servant of Bavaria in 1810. In 1817 he was appointed city and police commissar in...

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