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Hohenwerfen Castle (German: Festung Hohenwerfen, lit. 'Hohenwerfen Fortress') is a medieval rock castle, situated at an altitude of 623 metres (2,044 ft), [1] on a 155-metre (509 ft) [2] rock pillar overlooking the Austrian market town of Werfen in the Salzach valley, approximately 40 kilometres (25 mi) south of Salzburg.
Wewelsburg (German pronunciation: [ˈveːvl̩sbʊɐ̯k]) is a Renaissance castle located in the village of Wewelsburg, which is a district of the town of Büren, Westphalia, in the Landkreis of Paderborn in the northeast of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
Appearing exclusively in Zombies mode, dragons appear as a gameplay mechanic on the map Der Eisendrache, and both as a hazard and as a boss on the map Gorod Krovi. The Cave: Unnamed: European: No: Boss: Banjo-Tooie: Chili Billi, Chilly Willy: European: No: Bosses: Twin brothers; one breathes fire, while the other breathes ice. Cobra Triangle ...
Ute Schneider, Die Macht der Karten. Eine Geschichte der Kartographie vom Mittelalter bis heute. Primus Verlag, 2004, ISBN 3-89678-243-6. (in German) R. Shirley, The mapping of the world. Early printed world maps, 1472-1700. London 1983 (in English) F. Wawrik, Berühmte Atlanten. Kartographische Kunst aus fünf Jahrhunderten. Dortmund 1982 (in ...
The text Hic Sunt Dracones on the Hunt–Lenox Globe, dating from 1504 "Here be dragons" (Latin: hic sunt dracones) means dangerous or unexplored territories, in imitation of a medieval practice of putting illustrations of dragons, sea monsters and other mythological creatures on uncharted areas of maps where potential dangers were thought to exist.
The Topographic Atlas of Switzerland (German: Topographischer Atlas der Schweiz), also known as the Siegfried Atlas or Siegfried Map (German: Siegfriedkarte; French: Carte Siegfried), is an official map series of Switzerland. Its publication was begun by the Federal Topographic Bureau under Hermann Siegfried , and continued from 1870 to 1926. [1]
View of the Bastei The Schweizerhaus of the Bastei Hotel on the Bastei The mountain hotel. The Bastei is one of the most prominent lookout points in Saxon Switzerland. In 1819 August von Goethe extolled the views: "Here, from where you see right down to the Elbe from the most rugged rocks, where a short distance away the crags of the Lilienstein, Königstein and Pffafenstein stand scenically ...
Map showing the different borders and territories of Poland and Germany during the 20th century, with the current areas of Germany and Poland in dark gray In March 1990, the West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl caused a storm, when he suggested that a reunified Germany would not accept the Oder–Neisse line, and implied that the Federal Republic ...