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Encyclopedia > Wildeshausen
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Basisdaten
States of Germany: Niedersachsen
Regierungsbezirk: Weser-Ems
Landkreis: Oldenburg
Inhabitant: 17,914 (31.12.2004)
Postal codeen: 27793
Telephone numbering plan: 04431
License plate: OL
Official Website: [1] (http://www.wildeshausen.de/)
Politics
mayor: Heinz Freese

Wildeshausen is the capital of the Oldenburg district in north western Germany, located by the river Hunte. Karte from the Deutsch Wikipedia File links The following pages link to this file: Wildeshausen Uplengen Jemgum Moormerland Ostrhauderfehn Rhauderfehn Hesel Filsum Hatten Harpstedt Ganderkesee Hude Bad Fallingbostel Munster, Lower Saxony Schwarmstedt Walsrode Neuenkirchen Bomlitz Ahlden Rethem ... Germany is a federation of 16 states called Länder (singular Land) or unofficially Bundesländer (singular Bundesland, German federal state). ... With an area of 47,618 km² 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 Bundesländer (federal states). ... A Regierungsbezirk is an administrative region of Germany, a subdivision of certain federal states (Bundesländer). ... Weser-Ems is the most westerly of the four Regierungsbezirke of Lower Saxony, Germany, bordering the Dutch provinces of Groningen, Drenthe and Overijssel. ... There are 439 German districts, administrative units in Germany. ... Oldenburg is a district in Lower Saxony, Germany. ... 2004 is a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A postal code is a series of letters and/or digits appended to a postal address for the purpose of sorting mail. ... A telephone numbering plan is a system that allows subscribers to make and receive telephone calls across long distances. ... A license plate, licence plate, number plate or registration plate (often referred to simply as a plate, or colloquially tag) is a small metal or plastic plate attached to a motor vehicle for official identification purposes. ... A mayor (from the Latin maīor, meaning larger,greater) is the politician who serves as chief executive official of some types of municipalities. ... Oldenburg is a district in Lower Saxony, Germany. ...


In 1648 Wildeshausen and the surrounding district was ceded to Sweden, in the Peace of Westphalia, where it given as a fief to Gustav Gustavsson af Vasaborg, an illegitimate son of King Gustavus Adolphus, as a part of the Swedish Dominion of Bremen-Verden. In 1679, following the Treaty of Nijmegen, it was pawned, to the Prince-Bishop of Münster, in exchange for a loan of 100,000 Riksdaler. Events Peace treaty signed at Westphalia ends the Thirty Years War. ... The Ratification of the Treaty of Münster by Gerard Terborch (1648) Banquet of the Amsterdam Civic Guard in Celebration of the Peace of Münster by Bartholomeus van der Helst, 1648 The Peace of Westphalia, also known as the treaties of Münster and Osnabrück, is the series of treaties that ended... Count Gustav Gustavsson of Nystad (1616-1653), an illigitimate son of King Gustavus Adolphus (Gustav II Adolf) and his mistress Margareta Slots. ... Gustav II Adolph Gustav II Adolph (December 9, 1594 - November 6, 1632) (also known as Gustav Adolph the Great, under the Latin name Gustavus Adolphus or the Swedish form Gustav II Adolf) was a King of Sweden. ... The Dominions of Sweden or Svenska besittningar were territories that historically came under control of the Swedish Crown, but never became fully integrated with Sweden. ... Bremen-Verden was a dominion of Sweden from 1648 to 1719, when it was ceded to Hanover in the Treaty of Stockholm. ... Events January 24 - King Charles II of England disbands Parliament August 7 - The brigantine Le Griffon, which was commissioned by René Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, is towed to the southern end of the Niagara River, to become the first ship to sail the upper Great Lakes. ... The Treaty of Nijmegen (1678) was signed in Nijmegen, and ended the Dutch War. ... Münster is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. ... The daler or the Riksdaler was the name of the currency used in Sweden until 1873 when it was replaced with the krona as an effect of the Scandinavian Monetary Union. ...


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Wildeshausen at AllExperts (1174 words)
Wildeshausen is the capital of the Oldenburg district in Lower Saxony, Germany, located by the river Hunte.
In 1648, Wildeshausen and the surrounding district was ceded to Sweden, in the Peace of Westphalia, where it given as a fief to Gustav Gustavsson af Vasaborg, an illegitimate son of King Gustavus Adolphus, as a part of the Swedish Dominion of Bremen-Verden.
Waltbert, a grandson of Widukind, brought the relics of St. Alexander from Rome to Wildeshausen to further Christianity in the sparsely populated area.
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