Wallerstein

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Wallerstein can refer to:

Contents 1 Places 2 House of Oettingen-Wallerstein 3 Other Persons 4 Other use

[edit] Places

• Wallerstein (Schwaben), a town and castle near Nördlingen in Germany, related to the House of Ottingen-Wallerstein, see also German article

[edit] House of Oettingen-Wallerstein

Fürst zu Oettingen-Wallerstein is a German nobility family [1] which

• owns Wallerstein castle in Wallerstein (Schwaben), as well as the castles in Schloß Baldern and Harburg, Bavaria
• owns the brewery Fürst Wallerstein Brauhaus located inside the castle walls
• hosts the Wallersteiner Landsknechtstreffen at Wallerstein castle [2]
• owns large forests [3]

[edit] Other Persons

• Abraham ben Asher Wallerstein, German scholar and rabbi of the 18th century ([4])
• Immanuel Wallerstein (born 1930), U.S. sociologist
• Jim Wallerstein (born 1968), guitarist and vocalist
• Michael Wallerstein (1951 – 2006), political scientist
• Samuel Wallerstein
• Wallerstein is one of Jewish pedigrees^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Other use

• Codex Wallerstein, a 15th century fechtbuch illustrating techniques of fighting with the longsword