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	SAXE-WEIMAR-EISENACH - LoveToKnow Article on SAXE-WEIMAR-EISENACH
		Eiscnach fell to Saxe-Weimar in 1644, and although the enlarged principality of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach was temporarily split up into the lines Saxe-Weimar, Saxe-Eisenach and Saxe-Jena, it was again united under Ernest Augustus,, who began to reign in 1728, and the adoption of the principle of primogeniture about this time secured it against further divisions.
		The chief towns are Weimar, the capital, on the Ilm; Jena, with the common university of the Thuringian states, on the Saale; Apolda, the Manchester ofWeimar,tothe east; and Ilmenau,lyingamong the hills on the edge of the Thuringian Forest to the S.W. of Weimar.
		Although John Frederick the Magnanimous was deprived of the electorate in 1547 his sons retained Weimar; and one of them, John William (d.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /S/SA/SAXE_WEIMAR_EISENACH.htm (3231 words)

	EISENACH - LoveToKnow Article on EISENACH
		Eisenach has a school of forestry, a school of design, a classical school (Gymnasium) and modern school (Realgymnasium), a deaf and dumb school, a teachers seminary, a theatre and a Wagner museum.
		The principality of Eisenach fell to the Saxon house of Wettin in 1440, and in the partition of 1485 formed part of the territories given to the Ernestine line.
		The town of Eisenach, by reason of its associations, has been a favorite centre for the religious propaganda of Evangelical Germany, and since 1852 it has been the scene of the annual conference of the German Evangelical Church, known as the Eisenach conference.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /E/EI/EISENACH.htm (505 words)

	Sam Sloan's Big Combined Family Trees - pafg767 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
		Maximilian Heinrich, Prince Of SAXE was born on 17 Oct 1666 in Eisenach, S-W-Es, Thrn.
		Ernst Gustav, Prince Of SAXE was born on 28 Aug 1672 in Marksuhl, S-W-Es, Thrn.
		Johann Georg II, Duke Of SAXE was born on 25 Jul 1665 in Friedewald, Rhnlnd, Prss.
	www.anusha.com /pafg767.htm (1851 words)

	Royal Family of Europe - pafg47 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
		Wilhelmine Eleonore Princess Of SAXE was born on 7 Jul 1636 in, Weimar, Saxe-Weimer-Eisenach, Thuringia.
		Friedrich Prince Of SAXE was born on 19 Mar 1640 in, Weimar, Saxe-Weimer-Eisenach, Thuringia.
		Wilhelm Prince Of SAXE was born on 26 Mar 1626 in, Weimar, Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Thuringia.
	www.ishipress.com /royalfam/pafg47.htm (1381 words)

	Royal Family of Europe - pafg87 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
		Ernst I "The Pious", Duke Of SAXE-GOTHA was born on 25 Dec 1601 in Weimar, S-W-Es, Thuringia.
		Johanne Princess Of SAXE was born on 14 Apr 1606 in, Weimar, Saxe-Weimer-Eisenach, Thuringia.
		Friedrich Prince Of SAXE was born on 1 Mar 1596 in, Altenburg, Saxe-Altenburg, Thuringia.
	www.ishipress.com /royalfam/pafg87.htm (1872 words)

	Saxe Weimar: Free Encyclopedia Articles at Questia.com Online Library
		Duke John of Weimar, who died in 1605, left several sons; one of them was the celebrated Protestant general, Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar, who served in the Thirty Years War.
		An elder brother of Ernest the Pious, William, received Weimar and Eisenach; those duchies, however, were again separated under his heirs until the failure of the Eisenach line in 1741, when its territory (including Jena) reverted to Duke Ernest Augustus I of Saxe-Weimar.
		After the death (1605) of Duke John of Weimar, his territories were divided among his heirs.
	www.questia.com /library/encyclopedia/101269632 (1651 words)

	The Catholic Encyclopedia - Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach
		The best-known ruler of the grand-duchy is Charles Augustus (1758-1828), who made his capital, Weimar, the intellectual centre of Germany by attracting to his court the most famous Germans of his day; the poets Goethe, Schiller, Wieland, and Herder shed luster on his reign.
		In six places, where the Catholics are in a minority (Weimar, Eisenach, Apolda, Jena, Neustadt on the Orla, and Weida), there are Catholic private primary schools, to which the State grants no subsidy.
		In 1819 the seat of the parish was transferred to Weimar.
	www.jcsm.org /StudyCenter/Catholic_Encyclopedia/13495b.htm (1397 words)

	Eisenach on Encyclopedia.com
		The city passed to the house of Wettin in 1440, to the Ernestine branch of the Wettin dynasty in 1485, and to Saxe-Weimar (later Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach) in 1741.
		It often served as a residence of the electors of Saxony and the dukes of Saxe-Weimar.
		Eisenach was founded c.1150 and was chartered in 1283.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/E/Eisenach.asp (423 words)

	Decorations of the Grand Duchy of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach
		Weimar is considered emblematic of the contradictions of the German soul, as Buchenwald concentration camp was located just a few miles from the city, near a former ducal hunting lodge.
		Weimar, the capital of the grand duchy, became the home of Germany's two greatest literary figures.
		In 1919, a National Assembly met in Weimar, avoiding the unrest in Berlin, and established what came to be known as the Weimar Republic.
	home.att.net /~david.danner/militaria/saxeweimar.htm (1693 words)

	Weimar -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust!
		Weimar was the capital of Thuringia from 1920 to 1948.
		Northwest of Weimar, on the 1,568-foot (478-metre) Ettersberg (Etters Hill), is the Buchenwald National Memorial, on the site of one of the largest and most infamous of the Nazi concentration camps (established in 1937), in which about 43,000 persons died.
		Between 1919 and 1925 Weimar was the seat of the Bauhaus architectural school before its move to Dessau.
	www.britannica.com /ebc/article-9076449 (1253 words)

	Karl August (1757-1828)
		Weimar's territories were increased at the Congress of Vienna (1815), and though he became a grand duke, Charles protested the congress's reactionary spirit.
		Introduced to Goethe in 1774, Charles Augustus formed a lifelong friendship with the poet, who shared the grand duke's patronage at Weimar with such other intellectuals as the philosopher Johann Gottfried von Herder and the poet Friedrich Schiller.
		In 1813, however, he sided once again with a resurgent Germany, commanding a corps against Napoleon in the Netherlands.
	www.hfac.uh.edu /gbrown/philosophers/leibniz/BritannicaPages/KarlAugust/KarlAugust.html?eu=22956 (205 words)

	WEIMAR - Online Information article about WEIMAR
		Kuhn, Weimar in Wort and Bild (4th ed., Jena, 1905).
		Various points ih the environs of Weimar are also interestingfrom their associations.
		Saxony in 1485 Weimar, with Thuringia, fell to the See also:
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /WAT_WIL/WEIMAR.html (2033 words)

	Saxe - Weimar - Eisenach - 1808 - 1/48 Thaler
		Saxe - Weimar - Eisenach - 1808 - 1/48 Thaler
		It is made of billon, a metal made up of approximately 25% silver and the rest was usually copper.
	www.napoleonicmedals.org /coins/saxwe08-1.htm (62 words)

	Anna Amalia, Duchess of Saxe-Weimar and Saxe-Eisinach
		The daughter of Karl I, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, she was born at Wolfenbüttel and married Ernest, Duke of Saxe-Weimar and Saxe-Eisenach in 1756.
		Anna Amalia Duchess of Saxe-Weimar and Saxe-Eisenach (October 24, 1739–April 10, 1807) was an influential cultural force in Weimar, Saxe-Weimar, Holy Roman Empire, in the 18th century.
		As a patron of the arts and literature, she attracted to Weimar many of the most eminent men in Germany, including Johann Gottfried Herder, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Friedrich Schiller.
	www.tocatch.info /en/Anna_Amalia,_Duchess_of_Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach.htm (272 words)

	Saxe - Weimar - Eisenach - 1807 - 2 Pfennige
		Saxe - Weimar - Eisenach - 1807 - 2 Pfennige
		The third type was struck only in 1813.
	www.napoleonicmedals.org /coins/saxwe07-1.htm (82 words)

	700000 people connected with European Royalty
		William Of Saxe-Weimar Duke Of Saxe Weimar and Eleonore Dorothea Von Anhalt Princess Anhalt Dessau
		Father: William Of Saxe-Weimar Duke Of Saxe Weimar (1598-1662)
		Spouse: Elisabeth Sofie Princess Of Saxe Altenburg (1619-1680)
	www.e-familytree.net /f7208.htm (2551 words)

	Bach, J. S.: Weimar I (1703)
		There coexisted in Weimar two ducal courts, one of the reigning duke, and the other of his brother.
		For one who had trained as an organist, Bach certainly did not find in Weimar the musical sustenance that he craved.
		He may have been waiting for a church position, having come to an understanding with the Duke that he would be released from service when the offer arrived.
	jan.ucc.nau.edu /~tas3/weimar1.html (251 words)

	Articles - Carl August, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach
		To this end Herder was summoned to Weimar to reform the educational system; and it is little wonder that, under a patron so enlightened, the university of Jena attained the zenith of its fame, and Weimar became the intellectual centre of Germany.
		One of the first acts of the young grand-duke was to summon Goethe to Weimar, and in 1776 he was made a member of the privy council.
		of the Act of Confederation (5 May 1816); and his concession of fildl liberty to the press made Weimar for a while the focus of journalistic agitation against the existing order.
	www.lastring.com /articles/Karl_August?mySession=ea6e6f5c64bab6cb5ed5bc8f7160cfae (1223 words)

	Sam Sloan's Big Combined Family Trees - pafg752 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
		Daughter, Princess Of SAXE was born on 10 Sep 1781 in Weimar, S-W-Es, Thrn.
		Son, Prince Of SAXE was born on 26 Feb 1785 in Weimar, S-W-Es, Thrn.
		Luise Auguste Amalie, Princess Of SAXE was born on 3 Feb 1779 in Weimar, S-W-Es, Thrn.
	www.anusha.com /pafg752.htm (2062 words)

	BERNHARD OF SAXE WEIMAR - LoveToKnow Article on BERNHARD OF SAXE WEIMAR
		BERNHARD OF SAXE-WEIMAR, DUKE (1.604-1639), a celebrated general in the Thirty Years' War, was the eleventh son of John, duke of Saxe-Weimar.
		Bernhard had in the first instance received definite assurances from France that he should be given Alsace and Hagenau, Wurzburg having been lost in the debacle of 1634; he now hoped to make Breisach the capital of his new duchy.
		At the Alte Veste he displayed the greatest courage, and at Lu'tzen, when Gustavus was killed, Bernhard immediately assumed the command, killed a colonel who refused to lead his men to the charge, and finally by his furious energy won the victory at sundown.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /B/BE/BERNHARD_OF_SAXE_WEIMAR.htm (1020 words)

	Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Carl August (Duke of Saxe-Weimar and Eisenach from 1758) 1809-1815
		This page was last modified 20:03, 15 October 2005.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (133 words)

	flag of Grand Duchy of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach 1813-1918 (Germany) flags, Fahnen, Flaggen, FOTW bei Nationalflaggen.de
		Since 1903 the addition 'Weimar' was removed and the state became the Grand Duchy of Saxony (the former duchy of Saxony was now a province of Prussia) until 1920 when it was incorporated in the new State of Thuringia.
		In 1896 (officially from 29 January 1897) the order of the colors was changed (to match the heraldic rule of tincture) to black-yellow-green.
		At the same time the new Grand Duke received a large part of the Duchy of Saxony for his help against Napoleon.
	www.nationalflaggen.de /flags-of-the-world/flags/de-sw_hi.html (186 words)

	Coljs - map
		Saxe-Weimar Eisenach was the largest of the Thuringian states.
		During the Austrian-Prussian War of 1866 all the states less Saxe-Meinegen sided with Prussia.
	www.coljs.com /map/thueringen.htm (259 words)

	SAXHORN - LoveToKnow Article on SAXHORN
		The saxhorns, came into being in 1843, when Sax applied a modification.
		, the generic name of a family of brass wind instruments (not horns but valve-bugles) with cup-shaped mouthpieces, invented by Adolphe Sax and in use chiefly in French and Belgian military bands and in small wind-bands.
		To properly cite this SAXHORN article in your work, copy the complete reference below:
	www.87.1911encyclopedia.org /S/SA/SAXHORN.htm (423 words)

	The Thirty Years War: The Siege of Breisach and the Franco-Swedish Recovery
		On on 8 August, 1638 Saxe-Weimar’s numerically inferior forces defeated first Savello and then Götz in detail as their armies debouched from the defile at Wittenweier.
		Despite his ultimate victory, Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar’s army had been weakened by the battles at Rheinfelden.
		As Bernhard moved forward, the Bavarian Götz and the Imperial general Savello were dispatched with a convoy of reinforcements for Breisach.
	www.pipeline.com /~cwa/Breisach_Phase.htm (1182 words)

	Henri de la Tour d'Auvergne, Vicomte de Turenne - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In the latter part of 1638, serving under Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar (1608 - 1639), he directed the assault on Breisach (reputed the strongest fortress on the upper Rhine), which surrendered on December 17.
		He gained the rank of Marshal of France (December 19 1643) and soon departed to Alsace to re-organize the "Army of Weimar" (the remnant of the late Duke Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar's troops) which had just sufferred a severe defeat at Tuttlingen (November 24/25, 1643).
		The army of Weimar refused to follow its leader and he had to flee into the Spanish Netherlands, where he remained until the (March, 1649) put an end to the first war of the Fronde.
	www.lighthousepoint.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Henri_de_la_Tour_d'Auvergne,_Vicomte_de_Turenne (2811 words)

	boys clothing: European royalty -- German states Saxe
		We are somewhat confused by the different principalities with Saxe in the name.
		Within Saxony are several dukedoms with the name Sachsen are referred to in English as Saxe.
		The German principalities are complicated enough, but several are hyphanated versions of Saxe.
	histclo.hispeed.com /royal/gers/royal-saxe.htm (540 words)

	Germany HQ : Weimar Germany
		An essay that examines the work around the position of the Intellectuals andcultural figures of the Weimar republic, with particular attention to their...
		A Historiography of the Crisis of Weimar's Modernist Culture
		Information on the first president of the Weimar republic.
	germanyhq.com /weimargermany/index.php (729 words)

	The Thirty Years War: The Fall of the Heilbronn League and the Peace of Prague
		Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar fled the field of Nördlingen, hoping to hold the line of the Rhine with the remnants of his shattered army.
		Bernhard continued to retreat, in October, 1634 reaching Mainz and thence across the Rhine to the Lower Palatinate.
		The Fall of the Heilbronn League and the Peace of Prague
	www.pipeline.com /~cwa/Prague_Phase.htm (1355 words)

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