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Lich in the Topographia Hassiae from Matthäus Merian 1655 Remnants of the limes near Lich. The region is known to have been settled for more than 100,000 years. Tools found in several places in and around Lich were dated to the Neanderthal period, others to the Aurignacian culture, Linear Pottery culture, the Bronze Age, the Hallstatt culture and the La Tène culture.
Eleonore of Solms-Hohensolms-Lich (Eleonore Ernestine Marie; 17 September 1871 – 16 November 1937) was Grand Duchess of Hesse and by Rhine as the second wife of Grand Duke Ernest Louis. She was nicknamed "Onor" by her family. She was regent of Hesse in the absence of her spouse during World War I. [1]
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Louis, Prince of Hesse and by Rhine (Ludwig Hermann Alexander Chlodwig, 20 November 1908 – 30 May 1968) was the youngest son of Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse by his second wife, Princess Eleonore of Solms-Hohensolms-Lich.
Prince Charles Ferdinand William of Solms-Lich-Hohensolms (27 June 1866, in Lich – 26 July 1920) was a German politician. He was president of the First Chamber of the Estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse. His sister, Princess Eleonore of Solms-Hohensolms-Lich married Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse
Hermann was the eldest son of Prince Ferdinand of Solms-Lich-Hohensolms (1806-1876) and his wife Caroline, Countess of Collalto and San Salvatore (1818-1855). As a Hessian nobleman, Hermann of Solms-Lich-Hohensolms was a member of the first chamber of the Estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse from 1872 to 1874 and from 1880 until his death in 1899.
Prince Charles of Hesse and by Rhine: 9. Princess Wilhelmine of Baden: 2. Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine: 10. Prince Wilhelm of Prussia: 5. Princess Elisabeth of Prussia: 11. Princess Maria Anna of Hesse-Homburg: 1. Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine: 12. Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha: 6. Prince Albert of Saxe ...
Lich is an archaic English word for "corpse"; the gate at the lowest end of the cemetery where the coffin and funerary procession usually entered was commonly referred to as the lich gate. This gate was quite often covered by a small roof where part of the funerary service could be carried out.