The line of Roman frontier fortifications, the Limes Germanicus, was constructed in the Taunus not far north of Wiesbaden.

On 7 July 1947, Kaller died suddenly of a heart attack in Frankfurt upon Main and was buried besides St. Mary's Church in Königstein in the Taunus.

This vehicle employed the German Ford Taunus V4 engine and was very similar in appearance to the much later Pontiac Fiero.

There was threat of war on other frontiers as well — in Britain, and in Raetia and Upper Germany, where the Chatti of the Taunus mountains had recently crossed over the limes.

The model line was named after the Taunus mountain range in Germany and was first made in 1939 and continued through several versions until 1994.

The Ford Taunus G93A was a development of the Ford Eifel and used the same 1172 cc four cylinder engine but in a longer chassis and a streamlined body.

The Taunus 12M presented in 1952 was the first new German Ford after World War II.

Something else the new Ford Taunus 12M had in common with its British Ford cousins was the retention of an old sidevalve engine at a time when competitors were increasingly moving over to ohc units.

The new Ford Taunus 12M P4 was similar in size, but a completely new car based on the Ford Cardinal project.

The Ford Taunus 17M of 1957 was as long as ( though significantly narrower than ) the British Consul Mk2, but a different car.

In 1970 a new Taunus, the Taunus Cortina ( TC ), was introduced, as a two-or four-door sedan, station wagon ( or Turnier ) and coupé.

Also, the Taunus was available as a coupe, a bodystyle that the Cortina was never made in.

From 1976 Taunus and Cortina models were identical in all but name, ' Taunus ' being the name used in left hand drive ( LHD ) markets, and ' Cortina ' in right hand drive ones, although the Cortina name was used in LHD South Korea and Taiwan.

The Mk III was also sold in Scandinavia, alongside the Taunus.

The Ford Taunus TC series was conceived in the late 1960s to be a " world car " alongside its technical sibling the Cortina Mk III, with construction and design work taking place on both sides of the Atlantic.

The car is often nicknamed " Barock 2 " ( pointing back to the Taunus P2 series of the late 1950s, commonly known as the " Barock-Taunus ") or " The Knudsen Nose " by its German owners because of the pointy hood scoop that, as the legend has it, was put there on direct order from Knudsen.

Meanwhile, the European production tools for the Taunus TC3 4-door sedan was shipped to Turkey for a new lease on life as the Ford-Otosan Taunus beginning production in late 1983.

The Taunus / Cortina was replaced in Europe by the Sierra in late 1982.

The Sierra carried over the Cortina / Taunus OHC Pinto Engines and RWD configuration but was otherwise an all new car with independent suspension all round.

Even though the Taunus / Cortina is not a usual sight anymore in many countries where it used to be a best-seller, it is indeed pretty common in Argentina, where a number of Clubs keep the cars in top condition, but it is also a regular transport with many families in the country.

* The German Ford Taunus V4 engine ( also used by Saab, the Matra 530 and in the 1962 Ford Mustang I rear-engine concept roadster )

The third generation Cortina was also sold in some continental European markets, such as Scandinavia, alongside the Taunus.

At the Eighth World Congress, held in the Taunus Mountains in Germany during December 1965, Samarakkody was also the delegate of a new section in Ceylon, the LSSP ( R ), formed by an ' orthodox ' tendency in the LSSP.

This American styling cue had also been adapted by Ford, in Germany, for the ( at the time controversially styled ) 1960 Ford Taunus 17M.

The original Ford Cologne V6, also known as the ' Ford Taunus V6 ', is a series of 60 ° cast iron block V6 engines produced continuously by the Ford Motor Company in Cologne, Germany since 1968.

Kronberg im Taunus has also a friendship with:

Similar " Coke Bottle " styling featured in the larger Cortina Mark III ( also built in West Germany as the Taunus ) that was launched in 1970.

The Elisabethenstraße went from the from Mainz-Kastel through Hofheim am Taunus to the Oppidum Nida and further into the Wetterau ; see also Bundesautobahn 66

Either Hadrian or, more probably, his successor Antoninus Pius pushed out from the Odenwald and the Danube, and marked out a new frontier roughly parallel to, but in advance of these two lines, though sometimes, as on the Taunus, coinciding with the older line.

One was used on the 1970 – 1982 Ford Taunus export version to Sweden — fitted with the Weber DGAV 32 / 32 carburetor and compression ratio lowered to 8. 2: 1 in order to meet the rigorous emission specifications it delivered of power and of torque.

* 1970 – 1982 Ford Taunus Sweden export version ( engine code NA )

The Taunus and Cortina models are very easy to service and share a lot of mechanical components with the other European Ford cars of the period ( excluding the Ford Fiesta ), making them extremely easy to fix, although they are now a rare sight in even the markets where they were most popular.

The former village of Niederhoechstadt ( now part of Eschborn, with a different phone area code, same as the northern neighbour community of Kronberg ) and Schwalbach to the West are particularly green stretches with some pretty houses and nice walks and hills, before you head further north towards Kronberg, in the foothills of the Taunus mountains.

Meanwhile, Germanicus ' troops had built a fort on Mount Taunus from where he marched with about 30, 000 – 35, 000 men against the Chatti.

Those cars are referred to as the Taunus SP 5 and where upgraded with a five-speed manual gearbox ( giving the number to the name ), raised performance and a reworked interior as the most significant changes inside.

On the continent, the Taunus version was competing with more modern and practical designs like the Talbot Alpine, Volkswagen Passat and Opel Ascona, but the brand image of Ford's blue oval ensured the Cortina was a success in virtually every country where it was sold.

Developed by Cibié for the Citroën Ami 6 and by Hella for the German Ford Taunus, they were prohibited in the United States where round lamps were required until 1975.

On the other hand, there are vast woodlands on the crest of the Taunus, where the highest point in Friedrichsdorf's rural areas can be found: the Gickelsburg at 471 m above sea level.

She and her four-years-younger sister Yvonne were primarily raised in Bad Soden am Taunus, where Setlur became acquainted with future Rödelheim Hartreim Projekt members Thomas Hofmann and Moses Pelham in her high school years.

It shows in Sardinia in Italy and in Germany where the Rhine Massif ( Ardennes, Eifel, Hunsrück, Taunus and other regions on both sides of Middle Rhine Valley ), the Black Forest and Harz Mountains remain as testimony.

In the late 1960s, Ford set about developing a third-generation Cortina, which would be produced in higher volumes than before, and following the recent merger of Ford of Britain and Ford of Germany into the modern-day Ford of Europe, the car marked the convergence of the German Taunus and British Cortina platforms with only minor differences between the two, hence the car's internal name TC1, standing for Taunus-Cortina.

The continental model used the Ford Taunus V4 engine in 1. 3, 1. 5 and 1. 7 L engine displacement, while the British versions were powered by the Ford Kent straight-4 in 1. 3 and 1. 6 L form.