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Rothenburg has an area of 15.5 km 2 (6.0 sq mi). Of this area, 67.8% is used for agricultural purposes, while 16.6% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 15.5% is settled (buildings or roads) and the remainder (0.2%) is non-productive (rivers, glaciers or mountains). [3] In the 1997 land survey, 16.56% of the total land area was forested. Of ...
The district of Rothenburg (Ob. Laus.) was a Prussian district which existed from 1816 to 1947. Today, the territory of the district is split between Germany and Poland by the Lusatian Neisse . When it was founded, there were two towns in the district, Muskau in the north and Rothenburg (Ob. Laus.) in the south.
Rabbi Meir Ben Baruch of Rothenburg (died 1293, buried 1307 in Worms) had a great reputation as a jurist in Europe. In 1274, Rothenburg was accorded privileges by King Rudolf of Habsburg as a free imperial city. Three famous fairs were established in the city and in the following centuries, the city expanded.
www.rotenburg-wuemme.de Rotenburg an der Wümme (also known as Rotenburg (Wümme) ; Rotenburg in Hannover until May 1969; Northern Low Saxon : Rodenborg ) is a town in Lower Saxony , Germany. It is the capital of the district of Rotenburg .
Rothenburg is a village and a former municipality in the Saalekreis district, Saxony-Anhalt, in east-central Germany. Since 1 January 2011, it is part of the town Wettin-Löbejün . The Rothenburg Ferry , a cable ferry , crosses the Saale river at Rothenburg.
The Romantic Road (German: Romantische Straße) is a "theme route" devised by promotion-minded travel agents in the 1950s. It describes the 460 kilometres (290 miles) of surface roads between Würzburg and Füssen in southern Germany, specifically in Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg, linking a number of picturesque towns and castles.
Lutheran Rothenburg was now ruled by the Catholic House of Wittelsbach. [citation needed] Agreements reached on 25 February 1803 saw a massive redistribution of territory within the Holy Roman Empire. [25] The new regime, based in Munich, seeking to address the city of Rothenburg's financial debts, sold off much land owned by its patrician ...
In 1478, Count Palatine Otto II set the condition for Rothenberg Castle to become a joint-fief or Ganerbenburg. 44 co-vassals who, together with the town of Rothenberg and market town of Schnaittach, acquired the castle as a so-called mesne fief or Afterlehen, were given relatively little property and few rights, but the community of co-vassals formed a strong alliance to which other members ...