Wolfenbüttel

Wolfenbüttel is a town in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is located on the Oker river, just a few kilometres south of Brunswick (Braunschweig) and east of Salzgitter, in the Landkreis (district) of Wolfenbüttel. Population: 53,600. With an area of 47,618 km and nearly eight million inhabitants, Lower Saxony (German Niedersachsen) lies in north-western Germany and is second in area and fourth in population among the countrys sixteen Bundesl nder (federal states). ... The Oker is a river in Lower Saxony, Germany. ... Braunschweig may also refer to the administrative region of Germany. ... Categories: Germany geography stubs | Cities in Germany | Towns in Lower Saxony ... Wolfenbüttel is a Kreis (district) in the southeastern part of Lower Saxony, Germany. ...

It is not known when Wolfenbüttel was founded, but it was first mentioned in 1118 as the water castle Wulferisbutle. The first settlement was probably restricted to a tiny islet in the Oker river. Events Knights Templar founded Baldwin of Le Bourg succeeds his cousin Baldwin I as king of Jerusalem John II Comnenus succeeds Alexius I as Byzantine emperor Gelasius II succeeds Paschal II as pope Births December 21 - Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury Taira no Kiyomori, Japanese general Deaths January 21 - Pope...

Wolfenbüttel became the residence of the dukes of Brunswick in 1432. Over the following three centuries it grew to be a center of the arts, and personages such as Michael Praetorius, Gottfried Leibniz, and Gotthold Ephraim Lessing lived there. Though the ducal court eventually moved to Brunswick in 1753 and Wolfenbüttel subsequently lost in importance, the baroque Schloss (http://www.schloss-wolfenbuettel.de/) (castle) remains. Today part of the building is used as a school, and the state apartments are open to the public as a museum. This article needs cleanup. ... Events June 1 - Battle of San Romano - Florence defeats Siena foundation of Université de Caen In the end of the Hook and Cod wars, Jacqueline, Countess of Hainaut and Holland is forced by Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, to abdicate all her estates in his favour; end of Hainaut... Michael Praetorius (probably February 15, 1571 – February 15, 1621) was a German composer and writer on music. ... Gottfried Leibniz Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz (also Leibnitz) (Leipzig July 1, 1646 – November 14, 1716 in Hannover) was a German philosopher, scientist, mathematician, diplomat, librarian, and lawyer of Sorb descent. ... Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (January 22, 1729 - February 15, 1781), writer, philosopher, publicist, and art thinker, is the most outstanding German representative of the Enlightenment era. ... 1753 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... Adoration, by Peter Paul Rubens: dynamic figures spiral down around a void: draperies blow: a whirl of movement lit in a shaft of light, rendered in a free bravura handling of paint The Baroque was a style in art that used exaggerated motion and clear, easily interpreted detail to produce...

Wolfenbüttel's Herzog August Bibliothek (http://www.hab.de/index-e.htm), the ducal library, has one of the largest and best-known collections of ancient books in the world. It is especially rich in bibles, incunabula, and books of the Reformation period, with some 10,000 manuscripts. It was founded in 1572 and rehoused in an interpretation of the Pantheon in 1723, built facing the castle; the present library building was constructed in 1886. Leibniz and Lessing worked in this library, Lessing as librarian. The Codex Carolinus in the library is one of the few remaining texts in Gothic. A page from a rare Blackletter Bible (1497) printed in Strassburg by J.R.Grueninger. ... Events January 16 - The Duke of Norfolk is tried for treason for his part in the Ridolfi plot to restore Catholicism in England. ... The Pantheon, Rome The Pantheon is a building in Rome which was originally built as a temple to all the gods of the Roman state religion, but has been a Christian church since the 7th century AD. It is the only building from the Greco-Roman world which is completely... 1886 is a common year starting on Friday (click on link to calendar) Events January 18 _ Modern field hockey is born with the formation of The Hockey Association in England. ... A codex (Latin for book; plural codices) is a handwritten book from late Antiquity or the Early Middle Ages. ... The Gothic language (*gutiska razda, 𐌲𐌿𐍄𐌹𐍃𐌺) is an extinct Germanic language that was spoken by the Goths and specifically by the Visigoths. ...

The Battle of Wolfenbüttel during the Thirty Years' War was fought here in June 1641, when the Swedes under Wrangel and the Count of Königsmark defeated the Austrians under the Archduke Leopold of Habsburg. The victory of Gustavus Adolphus at the Battle of Breitenfeld (1631) The Thirty Years War was a conflict fought between the years 1618 and 1648, principally in the Central European territory of the Holy Roman Empire, but also involving most of the major continental powers. ... Carl Gustaf Wrangel (December 23, 1613 _ July 5, 1676) was a Swedish soldier. ... Leopold I Habsburg (June 9, 1640-May 5, 1705), Holy Roman emperor, was the second son of the emperor Ferdinand III and his first wife Maria Anna, daughter of Philip III of Spain. ...

Today Wolfenbüttel is smaller than the neighbouring cities of Brunswick, Salzgitter, and Wolfsburg, but because it was largely undamaged by the war it is rich in half-timber buildings, many dating several centuries back, and still retains its historical character. Braunschweig may also refer to the administrative region of Germany. ... Categories: Cities in Germany | Towns in Lower Saxony | Company towns | Germany-related stubs ...

Wolfenbüttel is home of several departments of the University of Applied Sciences Braunschweig/Wolfenbüttel (http://cms.fh-wolfenbuettel.de/fh/). The well-known Jägermeister comes from Wolfenbüttel. A bottle of Jägermeister Jägermeister (German for hunter master) is a strong 70-proof (35%) liqueur flavored with herbs (similar to Danish so-called stomach bitters such as Gammel Dansk). ...