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Weinsberg is a small town in the north of the German state Baden-Württemberg. It is situated in the district Heilbronn. The town has about 11,800 inhabitants. It is noted for its wine. The town's name itself is derived from the German word "Weinberg", which means "vineyard". Germany is a federation of 16 states commonly called Länder (singular Land, which may be translated as country) or officially Bundesländer (singular Bundesland, German federal state). ...
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Heilbronn is a district (Kreis) in the north of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. ...
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Germany is a federation of 16 states commonly called Länder (singular Land, which may be translated as country) or officially Bundesländer (singular Bundesland, German federal state). ...
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History
The area was first settled by Romans about 150 AD. About 1000 AD, a castle was built (now in ruins). On December 21, 1140, the castle had to surrender to king Conrad III after a long siege. The king ordered all men in the castle executed, but the women were free to go, carrying their most beloved possessions on their backs with them. The women chose to carry their husbands out of the castle on their backs and so saved the mens' lives. The king allowed it because, he said, a king's word should not be altered. The women came to be known as the Treue Weiber von Weinsberg (Faithful Wives of Weinsberg), and the castle is nowadays known as Weibertreu (Womens' Faithfulness). King Conrad III (Miniature, 13th century) Conrad III (1093-1152), the first German king of the Hohenstaufen dynasty, was the son of Frederick I, Duke of Swabia. ...
The town itself was founded about 1200. The German religious reformer Johannes Oecolampadius was born here in 1482 and was a preacher at the local church from 1510 to 1518, the year in which he went to Basel, where he introduced the reformation. Johannes Oecolampadius or Oekolampad (1482 - November 24, 1531) was a German religious reformer, whose real name was Hussgen or Heussgen (changed to Hausschein and then into the Greek equivalent). ...
Basel (English traditionally: Basle , German: Basel , French Bâle , Italian Basilea ) is Switzerlands third most populous city (188,000 inhabitants in the canton of Basel-City as of 2004; the 690,000 inhabitants in the conurbation stretching across the immediate cantonal and national boundaries made Basel Switzerlands second...
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On April 16, 1525 (Easter Sunday), during the great German Peasants' War, the peasants attacked and destroyed the castle, which was already damaged from an earlier attack in 1504. They then proceeded to execute the nobleman who had been in command of both town and castle and who had treated the peasants very badly several times before. The execution was an unprecedented move and shocked and outraged the German nobility and clergy. They had the town destroyed several weeks later, on May 21, even if the townspeople had had nothing to do with the execution. expanding insurgences The Peasants War (in German, der Deutsche Bauernkrieg) was a popular revolt in Europe, specifically in the Holy Roman Empire between 1524-1526 and consisted, like the preceding Bundschuh movement and the Hussite Wars, of a mass of economic as well as religious revolts by peasants, townsfolk and...
From 1819 until his death in 1862, the poet and physician Justinus Kerner lived in Weinsberg. His circle of friends, all of them poets, often met at his house, giving Weinsberg the reputation of being a "Swabian Weimar". Justinus Andreas Christian Kerner (September 18, 1786 - February 21, 1862), was a German poet and medical writer. ...
During the Second World War, Weinsberg was the site of a prison camp for Allied officers (French and British). On April 12, 1945, the town was destroyed by aerial bombings, gunfire and the fires which resulted from this. Mushroom cloud from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rising 18 km (over 11 miles) into the air, August 9, 1945 after the Allied atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. ...
Institutions Weinsberg has a big psychiatric and neurological hospital, founded in 1903. Named "Klinikum am Weissenhof" (since 2002), it is the town's biggest employer. There also is a state institution for teaching and research in winemaking, called the Staatliche Lehr- und Versuchsanstalt für Wein- und Obstbau. Several new grape varieties were bred there since it was founded in 1868.
Town twinnings Weinsberg has official partnerships with the French town of Carignan (département Ardennes) and the Italian town of Costigliole d'Asti (Province of Asti). There are informal relations with Cossebaude (now a part of Dresden) in Germany, Keyworth (Nottinghamshire) in the UK and Lake Crystal, Minnesota in the US. The latter two came about because of student exchange programs between schools in Weinsberg and schools there. Ardennes is a département in the northeast of France named after the Ardennes area. ...
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Brühls Terrace and the Frauenkirche Dresden? [ˈdreËsdnÌ©] (Sorbian/Lusatian Drježdźany = the people who live in the marshy woods), the capital city of the German federal state of Saxony, is situated in a valley on the river Elbe. ...
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The American town of Winesburg, Ohio was originally named after Weinsberg in the early 19th century and had the spelling changed only in 1833. For information on the collection of short stories by the American author Sherwood Anderson, see Winesburg, Ohio (novel). ...
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