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My Favorite Cities in GermanyHere are details about the cities of this country where I have visited and had the best times. Your experiences may be different. But then you can put your favorite cities on your web site. These are the places I want to share with you.WiesbadenWiesbaden’s special attraction was discovered as early as 2000 years ago, when the Romans found springs that carried hot thermal water to the surface. Between 1200 and 1243 the Dukes of Nassau set up a number of castles and fortresses. In 1866 the new Prussian rulers supported the development of the city. Wiesbaden’s magnificent buildings emerged from both world wars almost unscathed. More
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Zweibrucken, a town of Germany, in the Palatinate, on the Schwarzbach, and on the railway between Germersheim and Saarbrucken. Pop. (1905) 14,711. The town was the capital of the former duchy of Zweibriicken, and the Alexander-Kirche contains the tombs of the dukes. The ducal castle is now occupied by the chief court of the Palatinate. There is a fine Gothic Catholic church. Weaving and brewing and the manufacture of machinery, chicory, cigars, malt, boots, furniture and soap are the chief industries.
Zweibriicken (" two bridges ") is the Latin Bipontinum; it appears in
early documents also as Geminus Pans, and was called by the French Deux-Ponts.
The independent territory was at first a countship, the counts being descended
from Henry I., youngest son of Simon I., count of Saarbriicken (d. 1180). This
line became extinct on the death of Count Eberhard (1393), who in 1385 had sold
half his territory to the count palatine of the Rhine, and held the other half
as his feudatory. Louis (d. 1489), son of Stephen, count palatine of
Zimmern-Veldenz, founded the line of the dukes of Zweibriicken, which became
extinct in 1731, when the duchy passed to the Birkenfeld branch, whence it came
under the sway of Bavaria in 1799. At the peace of Luneville Zweibriicken was
ceded to France; on its reunion with Germany in 1814 the greater part of the
territory was given to Bavaria, the remainder to Oldenburg and Prussia. At the
ducal printing office at Zweibriicken the fine edition of the classics known as
the Bipontine Editions was published (1799 sqq.).
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founding is attributed to the Guelph Duke, Henry of the Lions, who was appointed
Duke of Bavaria in 1156. On the site where Munich stands, now a town of
approximately 1,4 million inhabitants, there existed at this time only a small
settlement and a Benedictine monastery. A few kilometres afar, the salt road
that was the route the salt traders used to transport their goods, wound past.
This white gold was carried to Augsburg and further inland from the salt
mines in Bad Reichenhall and Hallein. Along this route it was necessary to cross
the river Isar. The only possibility was a bridge, which was subject to tolling
and lay in the territory of the Bishop of Freising.
