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.

Taunus was also sometimes adopted as the brand-name in export markets, particularly where British and North American Fords were also available.

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.

The Taunus TC along with the Cortina Mk III and their successors have been produced in slightly updated forms in Europe, Argentina and widely across Asia by Ford or their local co-operators.

Ford Taunus, last edition produced in Turkey until 1994

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.

In Argentina the non-injected XR4 model was equipped with the Taunus 2. 3 engine and was produced between 1986 and 1991.

Although not the first Ford vehicle to feature front-wheel drive ( the 1960s Taunus produced by Ford of Germany laid claim to that title ), the Fiesta is widely credited as being Ford's first globally successful front-wheel-drive model.

Also in that year, Ford of Europe ( produced by the merging of Ford national operations in Europe ) launched their first front-wheel-drive small car, the Ford Fiesta, having gained experience from the Ford of Germany 1960s European mid sized Ford Taunus P4 and Ford of Brazil Ford Corcel.

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.

Taunus 2300GT coupe in Argentina with its unique taillights and bumpers built from 1974 up until the end of 1984

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.

** Ford Taunus Argentina models

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

The city center, the Stadtmitte, lies about from the Rhine, in a wide lowland between the Taunus heights in the north, the Bierstadter Höhe and the Hainerberg in the east, the Mosbacher Mountain in the south, and the Schiersteiner Mountain in the west, an offshoot of the Taunus range.

Scriptor-Verlag, Kronberg im Taunus 1979 ( Reprint of the Hamburg edition from 1795 )

It is found south of the Rothaargebirge, southwest of the Lahn-Dill-Bergland ( another low mountain range ), north of the Taunus and east of the Middle Rhine and stretches more or less southwards from Siegen and Burbach, southwestwards from Haiger, northwestwards from Weilburg, northwards from Limburg an der Lahn, northeastwards from Koblenz, eastwards from Linz am Rhein, southeastwards from Wissen and southwards from Betzdorf.

At a time when competitors boasted that all four corners of the vehicles were visible from the driver's seat, the new Taunus instead offered a streamlined form.

As from the 1976 model year the Taunus and Cortina were almost identical, apart from regional variations ( in terms of specification changes and trim levels ).

At the closing of the eighties it had evolved visually from its all-western origin to the point that it took on a slightly new persona as the Taunus 2000, later on badged Taunus GLS for the top-of-the-line.

Image: Taunus_von_Karben-i. jpg | The Taunus with Grosser Feldberg, view from Karben

In fact, this new Taunus – Cortina used the doors and some panels from the 1970 Taunus.

The dashboard was carried over intact from the last of the Mark III Cortinas while the estate used the rear body pressings of the previous 1970 release Taunus.

* 1974 – 1982 Ford Taunus / Ford Cortina ( engine codes NEG, NER )