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Neuwied is the native town of paternal ancestors of John D. Rockefeller, traced to the 16th century and possible French Huguenot refugees.
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Neuwied and is
The Westerwald lies mostly southwest of the point where three states converge, that is Rhineland-Palatinate, Hesse and North Rhine-Westphalia in the districts of Altenkirchen, Lahn-Dill, Limburg-Weilburg, Neuwied, Rhein-Lahn, Rhein-Sieg, Westerwaldkreis and partly in Siegen-Wittgenstein.
The Battle of Neuwied is inscribed on the Arc de Triomphe in Paris.
Neuwied () is a town in the north of the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate, capital of the District of Neuwied.
Since the inner city of Neuwied is situated on a former bed of the river Rhine, it is at great risk of flooding.
Neuwied is twinned with the London Borough of Bromley.
The mayor of Neuwied is the social democrat Nicolaus Roth.
Neuwied is connected to the German network of Bundesstraßen ( national routes ) ( here: B9, B42 and B256 ).
Within the bounds of Neuwied are two railway stations, Neuwied and Engers on the Right Rhine line, and a third station is under consideration by the state agency for northern commuter railway services ( SPNV Nord ), which is responsible for the service on the railway lines connecting to Koblenz Central Station in the south and Cologne Central Station in the north.
Neuwied is twinned with:
It is bounded by ( from the north and clockwise ) the districts Euskirchen, Rhein-Sieg and the city Bonn in the state North Rhine-Westphalia, and the districts of Neuwied, Mayen-Koblenz and Vulkaneifel.
It is bounded by ( from the north and clockwise ) the North Rhine-Westphalian districts Rhein-Sieg, Oberbergischer Kreis, Olpe and Siegen-Wittgenstein, and the districts of Westerwaldkreis and Neuwied.
Neuwied is a district ( Kreis ) in the north of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
Linz am Rhein ( in English Linz on the Rhine ) is a municipality in the district of Neuwied, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
However, in the same year, mtDNA research revealed that a lion specimen from Neuwied Zoo ( which originated from the collection of the King of Morocco ) is not of sub-Saharan origin according to its mitochondrial lineage and, thus, very likely a descendant of a Barbary lion.
Hammerstein is a municipality on the Rhine River in the district of Neuwied in Rhineland-Palatinate in Germany.
It is situated towards the end of the Neuwied basin on the left bank of the Rhine between the former tiny fishing village of Fornich in the north and the mouth of the small river Nette in the southeast, just north of Koblenz, with its five external town districts: Kell, Miesenheim, Eich, Namedy, and Bad Tönisstein.
Engers is an district of Neuwied on the right banks of the river Rhine in Germany located next to Koblenz in Rhineland-Palatinate.
A well known tourist attractions in the region of Neuwied and Koblenz is the Engers chateau.
Neuwied and town
Neuwied was also the birth town of William of Wied, who briefly held the title of King of Albania in 1914.
It was located to the east of the town of Neuwied, due north of Vallendar.
Neuwied and paternal
The Rockefellers trace their paternal line to Goddard Rockenfeller ( 1590 ) of Fahr, today part of Neuwied, Germany.
Neuwied and .
* 1797 – The Battle of Neuwied – French victory against the Austrians.
* Bereich Hauptsitz Koblenz was the headquarters for 12 Unterregion-Hauptsitze, namely Trier I, Trier II, Koblenz, Neuwied, Kreuznach, Wiesbaden, Limburg an der Lahn, Lahn, Mainz, Worms, Darmstadt and Luxembourg.
The craft and artistry of David Roentgen, Neuwied, ( and later at Paris as well ) was unsurpassed, even in Paris, by any 18th-century marquetry craftsman.
Jourdan held a bridgehead over the Rhine at Neuwied while MG Jean-Baptiste Kléber commanded his left wing based on an entrenched camp at Düsseldorf.
After a series of minor victories at Neuwied, Giessen, and Friedberg in der Wetterau in early July, the French pressed Wartensleben back to Frankfurt am Main.
The Battle of Neuwied was fought on April 18, 1797.
Neuwied lies on the right bank of the Rhine, 12 km northwest of Koblenz, on the railway from Frankfurt am Main to Cologne.
Near Neuwied, one of the largest Roman castra on the Rhine has been excavated by archeologists.
In April 1797 the French, under General Louis Lazare Hoche, defeated the Austrians near Neuwied, this being their first decisive success in the French Revolutionary Wars.
The core of Neuwied and the former village of Heddesdorf, which belonged to the municipality before these districts were added, are not listed as districts themselves.
Originally there were only a few thousand people living in Neuwied with the number not growing significantly because of wars and famines.
As of June 30, 2005 there were officially 66, 455 people living in Neuwied.
The Autobahnen ( motorways ) A3, A48 and A61 are quickly reachable from Neuwied.
Neuwied and Rockefeller
The first Rockefeller to settle in America was Johann Peter Rockefeller ( 1710, Segendorf, Neuwied ; 1787, Amwell Township, New Jersey ).
Neuwied and French
In the subsequent campaigns he commanded the left wing ‘ of the French armies on the Rhine between Neuwied and Düsseldorf, and took a great part in all the successful and unsuccessful expeditions to the Lahn and the Main.
On 17 April 1797, during the Battle of Neuwied, Ney led a cavalry charge against Austrian lancers trying to seize French cannons.
is and native
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Suppose it is something right on the planet, native to it.
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