Bad Frankenhausen - Bauernkriegspanorama, Bad Frankenhausen-Kyffhauser, Oberkirche, Hausmannsturm, Schloss Frankenhausen (English, German, Paperback)

Kapitel: Bauernkriegspanorama, Bad Frankenhausen/kyffhauser, Oberkirche, Hausmannsturm, Schloss Frankenhausen, Flugplatz Bad Frankenhausen, Kyffhauser-Gymnasium. Aus Wikipedia. Nicht dargestellt. Auszug: Bad Frankenhausen (officially: Bad Frankenhausen/Kyffhauser) is a spa town in the German state of Thuringia. It is located at the southern slope of the Kyffhauser mountain range, on an artificial arm of the Wipper river, a tributary of the Saale. Because of the nearby Kyffhauser monument dedicated to Emperor Frederick Barbarossa, it is nicknamed Barbarossastadt. The municipality includes the villages of Seehausen, Udersleben and (since 2007) Esperstedt. Frankenhausen was first attested as a Frankish settlement in the 9th century in deeds of the Abbey of Fulda. It received town privileges in 1282 and from 1340 on was part of the County of Schwarzburg. On May 15, 1525 it was the location of the Battle of Frankenhausen, one of the last great battles of the Peasants' War, when the insurgent peasants under Thomas Muntzer were defeated by troops of the allied Duke George of Saxony, Landgrave Philip I of Hesse and Duke Henry V of Brunswick-Luneburg. Muntzer was captured, tortured and finally beheaded at Muhlhausen on May 27. With the partition of Schwarzburg County in 1599, Frankenhausen became the capital of the Unterherrschaft subdivision of the County of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, which in 1710 was raised to a principality. Prince Gunther Victor was the last German monarch to abdicate, on November 23 (as Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt) and November 25, 1918 (as Prince of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen). The succeeding short-lived Free State of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt merged into the newly created Thuringia in 1920. Since 1818 a saline water well that had been used for centuries to extract salt has been used for saline baths and medical purposes. Therefore in 1927 Frankenhausen received the official title of a spa town (Bad). In the 19th ...http: //booksllc.net/?l=d