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Encyclopedia > Breitenau

Coordinates: 50°30′N 07°40′E Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically), Eckert VI projection; large version (pdf, 1. ...

Breitenau
Coat of arms of Breitenau Location of Breitenau in Germany

Country Germany
State Rhineland-Palatinate
District Westerwald
Population 706 (2004-12-31)
Area 6.06 km²
Population density 117 /km²
Elevation 243 m
Coordinates 50°30′ N 07°40′ E
Postal code 56237
Area code 02623
Licence plate code WW
Mayor Jürgen Berleth
Website Gemeinde Breitenau

Breitenau is a municipality in Westerwaldkreis, Rhineland-Palatinate, in western Germany. This is an alphabetical list of countries of the world, including both internationally recognized and generally unrecognized independent states, inhabited dependent territories, as well as areas of special sovereignty. ... Germany is a Federal Republic made up of 16 States, known in German as Länder (singular Land). ... The Rhenish Palatinate (Rheinpfalz, sometimes Lower Palatinate or Niederpfalz) occupies rather more than a quarter of the German Bundesland (federal state) of Rhineland-Palatinate (Rheinland-Pfalz) and contains the towns of Ludwigshafen, Kaiserslautern, Neustadt an der Weinstrasse, Pirmasens, Landau and Speyer. ... There are 439 German districts (Kreise), administrative units in Germany. ... The Westerwaldkreis is a district (Kreis) in the east of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... December 31 is the 365th day of the year (366th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Area is a physical quantity expressing the size of a part of a surface. ... Square kilometre (US spelling: Square kilometer), symbol km², is an SI unit of surface area. ... Square kilometre (US spelling: Square kilometer), symbol km², is an SI unit of surface area. ... Basic Definition In geography, the elevation of a geographic location is its height above mean sea level (or some other fixed point). ... The metre, or meter (US), is a measure of length. ... See Cartesian coordinate system or Coordinates (elementary mathematics) for a more elementary introduction to this topic. ... German Postleitzahl map of the first two digits Postal codes in Germany, known as Postleitzahl (pl. ... see also Telephone numbering plan of Germany for further codes including service numbers, cell phones etc. ... German car number plates (Kfz-Kennzeichen) show the place where the car carrying them is registered. ... A mayor (from the Latin māior, meaning larger,greater) is in modern times the title of the highest ranking municipal officer, who discharges certain judicial and administrative functions, in many systems an elected politician, who serves as chief executive and/or ceremonial official of many types of municipalities. ... This page as shown in the AOL 9. ... The Westerwaldkreis is a district (Kreis) in the east of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. ... The Rhenish Palatinate (Rheinpfalz, sometimes Lower Palatinate or Niederpfalz) occupies rather more than a quarter of the German Bundesland (federal state) of Rhineland-Palatinate (Rheinland-Pfalz) and contains the towns of Ludwigshafen, Kaiserslautern, Neustadt an der Weinstrasse, Pirmasens, Landau and Speyer. ...


Breitenau is also part of the Ransbach-Baumbach Verbandsgemeinde ("collective municipality. A Verbandsgemeinde (plural Verbandsgemeinden) is an administrative unit unique to the German Bundesland (federal state) of Rhineland-Palatinate. ...


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Gedenkstätte Breitenau (584 words)
In Breitenau waren in der Zeit von Juni 1933 bis März 1934 nachweislich 470 politische Gefangene inhaftiert.
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Establishment of the Breitenau Memorial by the "Project Group" of the Gesamthochschule/ Kassel University with support from the Hessen State Welfare Organization (Landeswohlfahrtsverband} and the state of Hessen.
The Breitenau memorial is located in the town of Guxhagen, approximately 15 kilometers south of Kassel.
The memorial was founded by the University of Kassel with financial support from the Landeswohlfahrtsverbandes Hessen in October 1984 on the property of the former Benedictine monastery of Breitenau.
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