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Veste Coburg dominates the town of Coburg on Bavaria's border with Thuringia. It is located at an altitude of 464 meters above NHN , or 167 meters above the town. Its size (around 135 meters by 260 meters) represents one of the medium fortresses in Germany.
Coburg (/ ˈ k oʊ b ɜːr ɡ / KOH-burg, German: [ˈkoːbʊʁk] ⓘ) is a town located on the Itz river in the Upper Franconia region of Bavaria, Germany.Long part of one of the Thuringian states of the Wettin line, it joined Bavaria by popular vote only in 1920.
Seßlach (German pronunciation:) is a town in the district of Coburg, in northern Bavaria, Germany. It is situated 12 km southwest of Coburg and has a population close to 4,000. Seßlach is notable for its largely intact medieval town wall and overall historic appearance with few modern structures.
18th century maps detail the walls enclosing all of St. Augustine [7] New Orleans, Louisiana, planned in 1718 as a walled city. The wall was present during the Battle of New Orleans, but was found to be in such a state of disarray that it could not be used. [8] [9] New York City, in the 17th century New Amsterdam had a defensive wall across ...
Cobourg (/ ˈ k oʊ b ɜːr ɡ / KOH-burg) is a town in the Canadian province of Ontario, located in Southern Ontario 95 km (59 mi) east of Toronto and 62 km (39 mi) east of Oshawa.
The better-known Berlin Wall was a physically separate, less elaborate, and much shorter border barrier surrounding West Berlin, more than 170 kilometres (110 mi) to the east of the inner German border. On 9 November 1989, the East German government announced the opening of the Berlin Wall and the inner German border.
Coburg (German pronunciation: [ˈkoːbʊʁk]) is a Landkreis (district) in Bavaria, Germany. It is bounded by (from the east and clockwise) the districts of Kronach, Lichtenfels, Bamberg and Haßberge, and by the state of Thuringia (districts Hildburghausen and Sonneberg). The district surrounds, but does not include the city of Coburg.
The town of Coburg bought Schloss Ketschendorf at auction, for 45,000 Reichsmark, including the park and furnishings, and set up a shelter for German repatriates from Bessarabia. From 1942 to the end of the war, the Schloss was used as a branch of the main hospital for the Coburger trade school, then until 1955 as the tuberculosis ward of the ...