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Hesse [a] or Hessen [b] (German: Hessen ⓘ), officially the State of Hesse (German: Land Hessen), is a state in Germany.Its capital city is Wiesbaden, and the largest urban area is Frankfurt, which is also the country's principal financial centre.
Hermann Karl Hesse (German: [ˈhɛʁman ˈhɛsə] ⓘ; 2 July 1877 – 9 August 1962) was a German-Swiss poet, novelist, and painter.Although Hesse was born in Germany's Black Forest region of Swabia, his father's celebrated heritage as a Baltic German and his grandmother's French-Swiss roots had an intellectual influence on him.
Although it was a fairly widespread practice at the time to rent out troops to other princes, it was the Landgraves of Hesse-Kassel who became infamous for hiring out contingents of their army as mercenaries during the 17th and 18th centuries. Hesse-Kassel maintained 7% of its entire population under arms throughout the eighteenth century.
The People's State of Hesse (German: Volksstaat Hessen) was one of the constituent states of Germany from 1918 to 1945, as the successor to the Grand Duchy of Hesse (German: Großherzogtum Hessen) after the defeat of the German Empire in World War I, on the territory of the current German states of Hesse and the Rhineland-Palatinate.
Born in Hesse: Philipp der Großmütige - Hieronymus Karl von Colloredo-Mansfeld - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Charlotte Buff - Gebrüder Grimm - Schinderhannes - Johann Christian Senckenberg - Ludwig Erk - Anne Frank - Georg Büchner - Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen, Justus von Liebig, Friedrich Wöhler, Sebastian Vettel, Otto Hahn ...
A Bembel and a traditional ribbed Apfelwein glass. Hessian cuisine is based on centuries-old recipes, and forms a major part of the Hesse identity. Reflecting Hesse's central location within Germany, Hessian cuisine fuses north German and south German cuisine, [1] with heavy influence from Bavarian cuisine and Rhenish Hesse.
The 1,200-square-foot store also will be “more upscale to a luxury retail level,” Hesse said. Cocoa Dolce has always been known for its attractive, creative packaging, and it already seemed ...
The Grand Duchy of Hesse and by Rhine (German: Großherzogtum Hessen und bei Rhein) was a grand duchy in western Germany that existed from 1806 to 1918. The grand duchy originally formed from the Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt in 1806 as the Grand Duchy of Hesse (German: Großherzogtum Hessen).