Wartenberg

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Wartenberg may refer to:

Buildings

  • Wartenberg castles, situated on the Wartenberg hill in the municipality of Muttenz near Basel
  • Wartenberg Castle built in the present day Kaiserslautern and destroyed in 1522; former seat of Counts of Wartenberg
  • Wartenberg Manor situated in present day Denmark (Sønderjylland/Nordslesvig, German: Nordschleswig) near the town of Haderslev. The main building was rebuilt in 1874 after a fire. In the Middle Ages Wartenberg also served as an inn for travelers along the oldest Danish road (The Army Road/Hærvejen), near which it is situated. Wartenberg has also been spelled Vartenberg or Vartenbjerg. (Source: Større Danske Landbrug)

Places

  • Wartenberg, Hesse in the district Vogelsbergkreis, Hesse, Germany
  • Wartenberg, a locality in the borough of Lichtenberg in Berlin, Germany
  • Wartenberg, Bavaria in the district Erding, Upper Bavaria, Germany
  • Wartenberg am Rollberg, the German name of Stráž pod Ralskem, Czech Republic
  • The mediæval County of Wartenberg, a fief of the Holy Roman Empire, mediatised to Kingdom of Westphalia in 1806 and subsequently to Prussia in 1814
  • Otyń, Poland (German: Deutsch-Wartenberg)
  • Syców, Poland (German: Polnisch-Wartenberg until 1888, then Groß-Wartenberg)

People

  • Franz Wilhelm, Count of Wartenberg, Catholic clergy, Prince-Bishop of Minden, Osnabrück and Verden as well as Vicar Apostolic of the Archdiocese of Bremen
  • Robert Wartenberg, neurologist
  • Thomas E. Wartenberg, professor of philosophy
  • Lisa Wartenberg, stage actress
  • Counts of Wartenberg, (since 1802 known as Counts of Wartenberg-Roth) an aristocratic family from Rhenish Hesse, Palatine and Upper Swabia
  • Counts of Wartenberg of the Wittelsbach dynasty, aristocratic title given to the descendants of Ferdinand of Bavaria (1550-1608)
  • House of Wartenberg, extinct aristocratic family from Bohemia

Other

See also

  • Wartenburg (disambiguation)
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