Wolfenbüttel

Wolfenbüttel is a town in 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). In rural areas Low Saxon is still spoken, but declining so... Lower Saxony, The Federal Republic of Germany ( German: Bundesrepublik Deutschland) is one of the worlds leading industrialised countries, located in the heart of Europe. Due to its central location, Germany has more neighbours than any other European country: these are Denmark in the north, Poland and the Czech Republic in the... Germany. It is located on the The Oker is a river in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is a tributary of the Aller river and 105 km in length. The source is located in the Harz mountains, where the river winds through a narrow valley called the Okertal. It then runs northwards through Vienenburg and Wolfenbüttel... Oker river, just a few kilometres south of Brunswick ( Braunschweig may also refer to the administrative region of Germany. See Braunschweig (region). Brunswick may refer to several geographic locations, companies and products. See Brunswick (disambiguation). Map of Germany showing Braunschweig Braunschweig [ˈbraunʃvaik] (English: Brunswick) is a city of 239,855 people (as of December 31, 2001... Braunschweig) and east of Categories: Germany geography stubs | Cities in Germany | Towns in Lower Saxony ... Salzgitter, in the Landkreis (district) of Wolfenbüttel. Population: 53,600.

It is not known when Wolfenbüttel was founded, but it was first mentioned in 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... 1118 as the water castle Wulferisbutle. The first settlement was probably restricted to a tiny islet in the Oker river.

Wolfenbüttel became the residence of the This article needs cleanup. Please edit this article to conform to a higher standard of article quality. Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick-Luneburg, (Herzog v. Braunschweig-Luneburg) (October 9, 1735 - 1806) was a German military general born in Wolfenbüttel, Germany. He is a recognized master of the modern... dukes of Brunswick in 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... 1432. Over the following three centuries it became a center of the arts, and personages such as Michael Praetorius (probably February 15, 1571 – February 15, 1621) was a German composer and writer on music. He was one of the most prolific and versatile composers of his time, and was particularly significant in the development of musical forms based on Protestant hymns. He was born in Creuzburg... Michael Praetorius, Gottfried Leibniz Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz (July 1, 1646 in Leipzig - November 14, 1716 in Hannover) was a German philosopher, scientist, mathematician, diplomat, librarian, and lawyer of Sorb descent. Leibniz is credited with the term function (1694), which he used to describe a quantity related to a curve; such as... Gottfried Leibniz, and 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. With his plays and his theoretical writings he substantially influenced the development of German literature. Life Lessing was born in Kamenz, a little town in... Gotthold Ephraim Lessing lived there. Though the ducal court eventually moved to Brunswick in Events January 1 - Britain and its colonies adopt the idea that 1st January should be New Years Day, following adoption of the Gregorian calendar in September 1752. The concept was first conceived in 1582, but suffered from slow public adoption. April 5 – Founding charter of the Sweden adopts... 1753 and Wolfenbüttel subsequently lost in importance, the 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... baroque Schloss[1] (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.

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, A page from a rare Blackletter Bible (1497) printed in Strassburg by J.R.Grueninger. The coloured chapter initials were hand written after the page was printed. An incunabulum is a book, single sheet or image that was printed — not handwritten — before the year 1500 in Europe. These... incunabula, and books of the Reformation period, with some 10,000 manuscripts. It was founded in Events January 16 - The Duke of Norfolk is tried for treason for his part in the Ridolfi plot to restore Catholicism in England. April 1 - The Sea Beggars, Netherlandish Calvinist rebels, capture the port city of Brielle. This leads to a wave of uprisings in Holland and Zealand, leaving most... 1572 and rehoused in an interpretation of the 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... Pantheon in 1723, built facing the castle; the present library building was constructed in 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. January 29 - Karl Benz patents the first successful gasoline-driven automobile. March 17 - Carrollton Massacre: 20 African Americans are killed... 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 The Gothic language (gutiska razda, 𐌲𐌿𐍄𐌹𐍃𐌺) is a Germanic language known to us by a translation of the Bible dating from the 4th century. The language is Germanic but has major differences from other known Germanic languages. It is the only East Germanic language with... Gothic.

The Battle of Wolfenbüttel during the 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. It occurred for a number... Thirty Years' War, was fought here in June 1641, when the Swedes, under Carl Gustaf Wrangel (December 23, 1613 _ July 5, 1676) was a Swedish soldier. He was the son of Herman Wrangel and was descended from a family of Baltic German origin, branches of which settled in Sweden, Russia and Germany. Carl Gustaf was born near Uppsala and at the age... Wrangel and the Count of Konigsmark, defeated the Austrians under the 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. Early life Intended for the Church, he received a good education but his prospects were changed by... Archduke Leopold of Habsburg.

Today Wolfenbüttel is smaller than the neighbouring cities of Brunswick, Salzgitter, and Categories: Cities in Germany | Towns in Lower Saxony | Company towns | Germany-related stubs ... 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.

The headquarters of Mast-Jägermeister is in Wolfenbüttel.