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Idstein, the Glossary

Idstein is a town of about 25,000 inhabitants in the Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis in the Regierungsbezirk of Darmstadt in Hesse, Germany.^[1]

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Adolf, King of the Romans

Adolf (c. 1255 – 2 July 1298) was the count of Nassau from about 1276 and the elected king of Germany from 1292 until his deposition by the prince-electors in 1298.

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During the Middle Ages, an (sometimes given as modern English: advocate; German:; French) was an office-holder who was legally delegated to perform some of the secular responsibilities of a major feudal lord, or for an institution such as an abbey.

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Aktion T4

Aktion T4 (German) was a campaign of mass murder by involuntary euthanasia in Nazi Germany.

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Albert I of Germany

Albert I of Habsburg (Albrecht I.) (July 12551 May 1308) was a Duke of Austria and Styria from 1282 and King of Germany from 1298 until his assassination.

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Amarcord (ensemble)

Amarcord is a German male classical vocal ensemble based in Leipzig, founded in 1992 by five former members of the Thomanerchor.

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Amt

Amt is a type of administrative division governing a group of municipalities, today only in Germany, but formerly also common in other countries of Northern Europe.

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Andreas Pruys

Andreas Pruys (born in Kleve) is a German classical bass singer.

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Andreas Scholl

Andreas Scholl (born 10 November 1967) is a German countertenor, a male classical singer in the alto vocal range, specialising in Baroque music.

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Arbeitseinsatz

Arbeitseinsatz (for 'labour deployment') was a forced labour category of internment within Nazi Germany (Zwangsarbeit) during World War II.

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Arnold I, Count of Laurenburg

Arnold I of Laurenburg, Arnold I. von Laurenburg (died before 1154),Hesselfelt (1965).

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Austro-Prussian War

The Austro-Prussian War, also by many variant names such as Seven Weeks' War, German Civil War, Brothers War or Fraternal War, known in Germany as Deutscher Krieg ("German War"), Deutscher Bruderkrieg ("German war of brothers") and by a variety of other names, was fought in 1866 between the Austrian Empire and the Kingdom of Prussia, with each also being aided by various allies within the German Confederation.

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Autobahn

The Autobahn (German plural) is the federal controlled-access highway system in Germany.

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Şile

Şile is a municipality and district of Istanbul Province, Turkey.

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Bad Camberg

Bad Camberg is, with 14,500 inhabitants, the second largest town in Limburg-Weilburg district in Hesse, Germany, as well as the southernmost town in the Regierungsbezirk of Gießen. Idstein and Bad Camberg are towns in Hesse.

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Bad Schwalbach

Bad Schwalbach (called Langenschwalbach until 1927) is the district seat of Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis, in Hesse, Germany. Idstein and Bad Schwalbach are Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis and towns in Hesse.

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Baroque architecture

Baroque architecture is a highly decorative and theatrical style which appeared in Italy in the early 17th century and gradually spread across Europe.

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Bayreuth Festival

The Bayreuth Festival (Bayreuther Festspiele) is a music festival held annually in Bayreuth, Germany, at which performances of stage works by the 19th-century German composer Richard Wagner are presented.

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Bergfried

Bergfried (plural: bergfriede; English: belfry; French: tour-beffroi; Spanish: torre del homenaje) is a tall tower that is typically found in castles of the Middle Ages in German-speaking countries and in countries under German influence.

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Biomass

Biomass is a term used in several contexts: in the context of ecology it means living organisms, and in the context of bioenergy it means matter from recently living (but now dead) organisms.

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Black+Decker

Black+Decker is an American manufacturer of power tools, accessories, hardware, home improvement products, home appliances and fastening systems headquartered in Towson, Maryland, north of Baltimore, where the company was originally established in 1910.

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Bonn

Bonn is a federal city in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, located on the banks of the Rhine.

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Bundesautobahn 3

is an autobahn in Germany running from the Germany-Netherlands border near Wesel in the northwest to the Germany-Austria border near Passau.

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Bundesstraße

Bundesstraße (German for "federal highway"), abbreviated B, is the denotation for German and Austrian national highways.

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Carmina Burana (Orff)

Carmina Burana is a cantata composed in 1935 and 1936 by Carl Orff, based on 24 poems from the medieval collection Carmina Burana.

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Carsten Koch (musician)

Carsten Koch (born 1975) is a German organist, choral conductor and academic.

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Castra

In the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire, the Latin word castrum (castra) was a military-related term.

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Chanticleer (ensemble)

Chanticleer is a full-time male classical vocal ensemble based in San Francisco, California, founded in 1978.

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Christiane Kohl

Christiane Kohl is a German soprano in opera and concert.

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Christmas Oratorio

The Christmas Oratorio (German: Weihnachtsoratorium),, is an oratorio by Johann Sebastian Bach intended for performance in church during the Christmas season.

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Coat of arms

A coat of arms is a heraldic visual design on an escutcheon (i.e., shield), surcoat, or tabard (the last two being outer garments).

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Cologne–Frankfurt high-speed rail line

The Cologne–Frankfurt high-speed rail line (Schnellfahrstrecke Köln–Rhein/Main) is a railway line in Germany, connecting the cities of Cologne and Frankfurt.

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Comprehensive school

A comprehensive school is a secondary school for pupils aged 11–16 or 11–18, that does not select its intake on the basis of academic achievement or aptitude, in contrast to a selective school system where admission is restricted on the basis of selection criteria, usually academic performance.

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Confederation of the Rhine

The Confederated States of the Rhine, simply known as the Confederation of the Rhine or Rhine Confederation, was a confederation of German client states established at the behest of Napoleon some months after he defeated Austria and Russia at the Battle of Austerlitz.

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Countess Henriette Charlotte of Nassau-Idstein

Henriette Charlotte of Nassau-Idstein (9 November 1693 – 8 April 1734), was a German noblewoman member of the House of Nassau and by marriage Duchess of Saxe-Merseburg.

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Crunk

Crunk is a subgenre of southern hip hop that emerged in the early 1990s and gained mainstream success during the early to mid 2000s.

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Danube

The Danube (see also other names) is the second-longest river in Europe, after the Volga in Russia.

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Darmstadt (region)

Darmstadt is one of the three Regierungsbezirke of Hesse, Germany, located in the south of the state.

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Demand-responsive transport

Demand-responsive transport (DRT), also known as demand-responsive transit, demand-responsive service, US National Transit Database Dial-a-Ride transit (sometimes DART), flexible transport services,.

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Dendrochronology

Dendrochronology (or tree-ring dating) is the scientific method of dating tree rings (also called growth rings) to the exact year they were formed in a tree.

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Dietzenbach

Dietzenbach is the seat of Offenbach district in the Regierungsbezirk of Darmstadt in Hesse, Germany and lies roughly 12 km southeast of Frankfurt am Main on the waterstream Bieber. Idstein and Dietzenbach are towns in Hesse.

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Dog Latin

Dog Latin or cod Latin is a phrase or jargon that imitates Latin, often by what is referred to as "translating" English words (or those of other languages) into Latin by conjugating or declining them, as if they were Latin words.

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Duchy of Nassau

The Duchy of Nassau (German: Herzogtum Nassau) was an independent state between 1806 and 1866, located in what is now the German states of Rhineland-Palatinate and Hesse.

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Dutch Golden Age painting

Dutch Golden Age painting is the painting of the Dutch Golden Age, a period in Dutch history roughly spanning the 17th century, during and after the later part of the Eighty Years' War (1568–1648) for Dutch independence.

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Edinburgh

Edinburgh (Dùn Èideann) is the capital city of Scotland and one of its 32 council areas.

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Ehrenbach

Ehrenbach is a village, first mentioned in 1371, that became in 1971 part of Idstein, Hesse, Germany. Idstein and Ehrenbach are Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis.

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Elisabeth Scholl

Elisabeth Scholl (born 1966 in Kiedrich) is a German soprano and academic teacher.

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Elizabeth Parcells

Elizabeth Parcells (December 28, 1951 in Detroit, Michigan – December 29, 2005 in Detroit, Michigan) was an American coloratura soprano.

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Eppstein

Eppstein is a town in the Main-Taunus-Kreis, in Hesse, Germany. Idstein and Eppstein are towns in Hesse.

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Erivan Haub

Erivan Karl Matthias Haub (29 September 1932 – 6 March 2018) was a German billionaire businessman, and the managing director and part owner of Tengelmann Group, one of Germany's largest retailers.

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Ernst Toepfer

Ernst Toepfer (4 June 1877 – 6 August 1955) was a German painter.

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European Heritage Days

European Heritage Days (EHD) is a joint action of the Council of Europe and the European Commission involving all 50 signatory states of the European Cultural Convention under the motto, Europe: a common heritage.

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Euthanasia

Euthanasia (from lit: label + label) is the practice of intentionally ending life to eliminate pain and suffering.

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Folk high school

Folk high schools (also adult education center, folkehøjskole; volkshogeschool; kansanopisto and työväenopisto or kansalaisopisto; Volkshochschule and (a few) Heimvolkshochschule; folkehøgskole, folkehøgskule; Universidad popular; folkhögskola; Uniwersytet ludowy; népfőiskola) are institutions for adult education that generally do not grant academic degrees, though certain courses might exist leading to that goal.

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Frankfurt

Frankfurt am Main ("Frank ford on the Main") is the most populous city in the German state of Hesse.

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Frankfurt Airport

Frankfurt Airport (Flughafen Frankfurt Main), is Germany's main international airport by passenger numbers, located in Frankfurt, Germany's fifth-largest city.

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Frankfurt Rhine-Main

The Rhine-Main Metropolitan Region, often simply referred to as Frankfurt Rhine-Main, Frankfurt Rhine-Main area or Rhine-Main area (German: Rhein-Main-Gebiet or Frankfurt/Rhein-Main, abbreviated FRM), is the second-largest metropolitan region in Germany after Rhine-Ruhr, with a total population exceeding 5.8 million.

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Friedrich August Wilhelm Wenck

Friedrich August Wilhelm Wenck (4 September 1741, in Idstein – 15 June 1810, in Leipzig) was a German historian.

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German Timber-Frame Road

The German Timber-Frame Road (Deutsche Fachwerkstraße) is a German tourist route leading from the river Elbe in the north to the Black Forest and Lake Constance in the south. Idstein and German Timber-Frame Road are timber framed buildings in Germany.

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German War Graves Commission

The German War Graves Commission (Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge) is responsible for the maintenance and upkeep of German war graves in Europe and North Africa.

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Germanic peoples

The Germanic peoples were tribal groups who once occupied Northwestern and Central Europe and Scandinavia during antiquity and into the early Middle Ages.

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Giora Feidman

Giora Feidman (גיורא פיידמן; born 25 March 1936) is an Argentine-born Israeli clarinetist who specializes in klezmer music.

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Glashütten (Taunus)

Glashütten is a small municipality in the Hochtaunuskreis.

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Gothic architecture

Gothic architecture is an architectural style that was prevalent in Europe from the late 12th to the 16th century, during the High and Late Middle Ages, surviving into the 17th and 18th centuries in some areas.

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Graham Waterhouse

Graham Waterhouse (born 2 November 1962) is an English composer and cellist who specializes in chamber music.

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Gustav Kobbé

Gustav Kobbé (March 4, 1857Lewis Randolph Hamersly, et al.. New York: L.R. Hamersly, 1904. p. 353. – July 27, 1918) New York Times.

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Gymnasium (school)

Gymnasium (and variations of the word) is a term in various European languages for a secondary school that prepares students for higher education at a university.

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Hadamar killing centre

The Hadamar killing centre (NS-Tötungsanstalt Hadamar) was a killing facility involved in the Nazi involuntary euthanasia programme known as Aktion T4.

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Hauptschule

A Hauptschule ("general school") is a secondary school in Germany, starting after four years of elementary schooling (Grundschule), which offers Lower Secondary Education (Level 2) according to the International Standard Classification of Education.

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Hünstetten

Hünstetten is a municipality in the Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis in the Regierungsbezirk of Darmstadt in Hesse, Germany. Idstein and Hünstetten are Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis.

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Health informatics

Health informatics is the study and implementation of computer structures and algorithms to improve communication, understanding, and management of medical information.

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Helfrich Bernhard Wenck

Helfrich Bernhard Wenck Helfrich Bernhard Wenck (19 June 1739 – 27 April 1803) was a German historian and educator born in Idstein, Hesse.

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Hermann Müller (politician, born 1935)

Hermann Müller (17 October 1935 – 31 December 2013) was a German politician (CDU), who served from 1978 to 2002 as mayor of Idstein.

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Hesse

Hesse or Hessia (Hessen), officially the State of Hesse (Land Hessen), is a state in Germany.

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Hessentag

The Hessentag (Hesse Day) is an annual event, both fair and festival, organized by the German state of Hesse to represent the different regions of Hesse.

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Heusden

Heusden is a municipality and a city in the South of the Netherlands.

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Hochtaunuskreis

The Hochtaunuskreis is a Kreis (district) in the middle of Hesse, Germany and is part of the Frankfurt/Rhine-Main Metropolitan Region.

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Holy Roman Empire

The Holy Roman Empire, also known as the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation after 1512, was a polity in Central and Western Europe, usually headed by the Holy Roman Emperor.

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House of Nassau

The House of Nassau is a diversified aristocratic dynasty in Europe.

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Idstein Castle

Idstein Castle (Burg Idstein), later the Renaissance style Schloss Idstein, is located in Idstein in the county of Rheingau-Taunus, Germany.

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Idsteiner Kantorei

Idsteiner Kantorei (Idstein chorale) is a mixed choir in Idstein, Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis, Germany. Idstein and Idsteiner Kantorei are Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis.

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Imagina of Isenburg-Limburg

Imagina of Isenburg-Limburg (ca. 1255 – 29 September 1313?) was the Queen consort of Adolf of Nassau, King of Germany.

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Inescutcheon

In heraldry, an inescutcheon is a smaller escutcheon that is placed within or superimposed over the main shield of a coat of arms, similar to a charge.

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Interchange (road)

In the field of road transport, an interchange (American English) or a grade-separated junction (British English) is a road junction that uses grade separations to allow for the movement of traffic between two or more roadways or highways, using a system of interconnecting roadways to permit traffic on at least one of the routes to pass through the junction without interruption from crossing traffic streams.

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International Women's Day

International Women's Day (IWD) is a holiday celebrated annually on March 8 as a focal point in the women's rights movement.

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Jack Wolfskin

Jack Wolfskin is a German producer of outdoor wear and equipment headquartered in Idstein.

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Jazz

Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues, ragtime, European harmony and African rhythmic rituals.

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Johann Andreas Benignus Bergsträsser

Johann Andreas Benignus Bergsträsser (21 December 1732, in Idstein – 24 December 1812, in Hanau) was a German educator, philologist, and entomologist.

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Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi

Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi (12 January 1746 – 17 February 1827) was a Swiss pedagogue and educational reformer who exemplified Romanticism in his approach.

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Kalevi Kiviniemi

Kalevi Ilmari Kiviniemi (30 June 1958 – 3 April 2024) was a Finnish concert organist.

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Karl Brandt

Karl Brandt (8 January 1904 – 2 June 1948) was a German physician and Schutzstaffel (SS) officer in Nazi Germany.

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Karl Christian von Langsdorf

Karl Christian von Langsdorf, also known as Carl Christian von Langsdorff (18 May 1757 in Nauheim – 10 June 1834 in Heidelberg), was a German mathematician, geologist, natural scientist and engineer.

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Karl Hill

Karl Hill (9 May 1831 – 12 January 1893) was a German baritone opera singer.

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Katia Plaschka

Katia Plaschka is a German coloratura soprano who performs in opera, especially contemporary opera, and concert performances of oratorios.

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Keep

A keep is a type of fortified tower built within castles during the Middle Ages by European nobility.

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King of the Romans

King of the Romans (Rex Romanorum; König der Römer) was the title used by the king of East Francia following his election by the princes from the reign of Henry II (1002–1024) onward.

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Klaus Mertens

Klaus Mertens (born 25 March 1949, in Kleve) is a German bass and bass-baritone singer who is known especially for his interpretation of the complete works of Johann Sebastian Bach for bass voice.

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Lahn

The Lahn is a, right (or eastern) tributary of the Rhine in Germany.

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Lana, South Tyrol

Lana is a comune (municipality) and a village in South Tyrol in northern Italy.

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Limburg an der Lahn

Limburg an der Lahn (officially abbreviated Limburg a. d. Lahn) is the district seat of Limburg-Weilburg in Hesse, Germany. Idstein and Limburg an der Lahn are towns in Hesse.

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Limburg-Weilburg

Limburg-Weilburg is a Kreis (district) in the west of Hesse, Germany.

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Limes Germanicus

The Limes Germanicus (Latin for Germanic frontier), or 'Germanic Limes', is the name given in modern times to a line of frontier (limes) fortifications that bounded the ancient Roman provinces of Germania Inferior, Germania Superior and Raetia, dividing the Roman Empire and the unsubdued Germanic tribes from the years 83 to about 260 AD.

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List of statistical offices in Germany

The statistical offices of the German states (German: Statistische Landesämter) carry out the task of collecting official statistics in Germany together and in cooperation with the Federal Statistical Office.

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Ludwig van Beethoven

Ludwig van Beethoven (baptised 17 December 177026 March 1827) was a German composer and pianist.

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Lutheranism

Lutheranism is a major branch of Protestantism that identifies primarily with the theology of Martin Luther, the 16th-century German monk and reformer whose efforts to reform the theology and practices of the Catholic Church ended the Middle Ages and, in 1517, launched the Reformation.

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Main-Lahn Railway

The Main-Lahn railway (Main-Lahn-Bahn), also called the Limburg railway (Limburger Bahn), is a double-track, electrified main railway line in Germany.

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Main-Taunus-Kreis

Main-Taunus is a Kreis (district) in the middle of Hessen, Germany and is part of the Frankfurt/Rhine-Main Metropolitan Region as well as the Frankfurt urban area.

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MAN SE

MAN SE (abbreviation of Maschinenfabrik Augsburg-Nürnberg) was a manufacturing and engineering company based in Munich, Germany.

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Markus Flaig

Markus Flaig (born 1971) is a German bass-baritone who has focused on concerts and recordings of sacred music.

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Martin of Tours

Martin of Tours (Martinus Turonensis; 316/3368 November 397), also known as Martin the Merciful, was the third bishop of Tours.

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Matthias Eisenberg

Matthias Eisenberg (born 15 January 1956) is a German concert organist and harpsichordist, and a cantor.

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Maurice Wilhelm, Duke of Saxe-Merseburg

Maurice Wilhelm, Duke of Saxe-Merseburg (5 February 1688 – 21 April 1731) was a duke of Saxe-Merseburg and member of the House of Wettin.

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Max van Egmond

Max van Egmond (born 1 February 1936 in Semarang) is a Dutch bass and baritone singer.

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Maximilian von Welsch

Johann Maximilian von Welsch (1671 – 15 October 1745) was a German architect, construction director and fortress master builder.

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Messiah (Handel)

Messiah (HWV 56) is an English-language oratorio composed in 1741 by George Frideric Handel.

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Middle Ages

In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period (also spelt mediaeval or mediæval) lasted from approximately 500 to 1500 AD.

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Nazism

Nazism, formally National Socialism (NS; Nationalsozialismus), is the far-right totalitarian socio-political ideology and practices associated with Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party (NSDAP) in Germany.

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Niedernhausen

Niedernhausen im Taunus is a municipality in the Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis in the Regierungsbezirk of Darmstadt in Hesse, Germany, with almost 15,000 inhabitants. Idstein and Niedernhausen are Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis.

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Organic farming

Organic farming, also known as ecological farming or biological farming,Labelling, article 30 of is an agricultural system that uses fertilizers of organic origin such as compost manure, green manure, and bone meal and places emphasis on techniques such as crop rotation and companion planting.

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Orgelbau Mebold

Orgelbau Mebold is a company building pipe organs in Siegen, Germany.

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Parsifal

Parsifal (WWV 111) is a music drama in three acts by the German composer Richard Wagner and his last composition.

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Pediatrics

Pediatrics (also spelled paediatrics or pædiatrics) is the branch of medicine that involves the medical care of infants, children, adolescents, and young adults.

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Peteca

Peteca is a traditional sport in Brazil, played with a "hand shuttlecock" from indigenous origins and reputed to be as old as the country itself.

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Peter Paul Rubens

Sir Peter Paul Rubens (28 June 1577 – 30 May 1640) was a Flemish artist and diplomat.

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Piscine Tournesol

A Piscine Tournesol or Sunflower Pool is a type of pool built in France on an industrial scale in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

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Power station

A power station, also referred to as a power plant and sometimes generating station or generating plant, is an industrial facility for the generation of electric power.

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Primary school

A primary school (in Ireland, India, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, South Africa, and Singapore), elementary school, or grade school (in North America and the Philippines) is a school for primary education of children who are 4 to 10 years of age (and in many cases, 11 years of age).

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Protestant Church in Hesse and Nassau

The Protestant Church in Hesse and Nassau (Evangelische Kirche in Hessen und Nassau, EKHN) is a United Protestant church body in the German federal states of Hesse and Rhineland-Palatinate.

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Protestantism

Protestantism is a branch of Christianity that emphasizes justification of sinners through faith alone, the teaching that salvation comes by unmerited divine grace, the priesthood of all believers, and the Bible as the sole infallible source of authority for Christian faith and practice.

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Province of Hesse-Nassau

The Province of Hesse-Nassau was a province of the Kingdom of Prussia from 1868 to 1918, then a province of the Free State of Prussia until 1944.

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Prussia

Prussia (Preußen; Old Prussian: Prūsa or Prūsija) was a German state located on most of the North European Plain, also occupying southern and eastern regions.

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Real school

Real school (Realschule) is a type of secondary school in Germany, Switzerland and Liechtenstein.

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Regensburg

Regensburg (historically known in English as Ratisbon) is a city in eastern Bavaria, at the confluence of the Danube, Naab and Regen rivers, Danube's northernmost point.

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Regierungsbezirk

A Regierungsbezirk means "governmental district" and is a type of administrative division in Germany.

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Renaissance

The Renaissance is a period of history and a European cultural movement covering the 15th and 16th centuries.

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Rheingau

The Rheingau is a region on the northern side of the Rhine between the German towns of Wiesbaden and Lorch near Frankfurt, reaching from the Western Taunus to the Rhine.

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Rheingau Musik Festival

The italic (RMF) is an international summer music festival in Germany, founded in 1987.

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Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis

Rheingau-Taunus is a Kreis (district) in the west of Hesse, Germany.

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Rhine

--> The Rhine is one of the major European rivers.

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Roman Empire

The Roman Empire was the state ruled by the Romans following Octavian's assumption of sole rule under the Principate in 27 BC, the post-Republican state of ancient Rome.

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Roundabout

A roundabout, a rotary and a traffic circle are types of circular intersection or junction in which road traffic is permitted to flow in one direction around a central island, and priority is typically given to traffic already in the junction.

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Rudolf I of Germany

Rudolf I (1 May 1218 – 15 July 1291) was the first King of Germany from the House of Habsburg.

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Scottish National Gallery

The National (formerly the Scottish National Gallery) is the national art gallery of Scotland.

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Sea level

Mean sea level (MSL, often shortened to sea level) is an average surface level of one or more among Earth's coastal bodies of water from which heights such as elevation may be measured.

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Sebastian Stoskopff

Sebastian (or Sébastien) Stoskopff (July 13, 1597 – February 10, 1657) was an Alsatian painter.

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Sister city

A sister city or a twin town relationship is a form of legal or social agreement between two geographically and politically distinct localities for the purpose of promoting cultural and commercial ties.

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St Matthew Passion

The St Matthew Passion (Matthäus-Passion), BWV 244, is a Passion, a sacred oratorio written by Johann Sebastian Bach in 1727 for solo voices, double choir and double orchestra, with libretto by Picander.

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St. Martin, Idstein

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States of Germany

The Federal Republic of Germany, as a federal state, consists of sixteen states.

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Strasbourg

Strasbourg (Straßburg) is the prefecture and largest city of the Grand Est region of eastern France, at the border with Germany in the historic region of Alsace.

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Tag des offenen Denkmals

The Tag des offenen Denkmals (Day of Open Monuments) is an annual event all over Germany.

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Taunus

The Taunus is a mountain range in Hesse, Germany, located north west of Frankfurt and north of Wiesbaden.

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Taunusstein

Taunusstein is the biggest town in the Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis in the Regierungsbezirk of Darmstadt in Hessen, Germany. Idstein and Taunusstein are Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis and towns in Hesse.

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Technisches Hilfswerk

The Bundesanstalt Technisches Hilfswerk ((THW), English: Federal Agency for Technical Relief) is the federal civil protection organisation of Germany.

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Tengelmann Group

Tengelmann Warenhandelsgesellschaft KG, doing business as the Tengelmann Group, is a holding company based in Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany.

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The Complete Opera Book

The Complete Opera Book is a guide to operas by American music critic and author Gustav Kobbé first published (posthumously) in the United States in 1919 and the United Kingdom in 1922.

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Timber framing

Timber framing and "post-and-beam" construction are traditional methods of building with heavy timbers, creating structures using squared-off and carefully fitted and joined timbers with joints secured by large wooden pegs.

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Titleist

Titleist (pronounced "title-ist") is an American brand of golf equipment produced by the Acushnet Company, headquartered in Fairhaven, Massachusetts, United States.

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Train station

A train station, railroad station, or railroad depot (mainly North American terminology) and railway station (mainly UK and other Anglophone countries) is a railway facility where trains stop to load or unload passengers, freight, or both.

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Uglich

Uglich (p) is a historic town in Yaroslavl Oblast, Russia, located on the Volga River.

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Ulrich Cordes

Ulrich Cordes (born 1980) is a German tenor, focused on concerts and sacred music.

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UNESCO

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO; pronounced) is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) with the aim of promoting world peace and security through international cooperation in education, arts, sciences and culture.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idstein

Also known as Niederauroff, Wörsdorf, Wörsdorf (Idstein).

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