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Apr 12, 2024 · The two large red areas, plus Hessen-Homberg, became the Duchy of Hessen during the German Empire. For a larger map, click here. This map shows the area included in the modern state of Hesse (Hessen), as it was in 1900. The Duchy of Hesse (Hessen) included the areas of Oberhessen, Rheinhessen, and Starkenburg.
Apr 12, 2024 · For birth, marriage, and death records 1803-1814, and after 1 January 1876, use civil registration. Civil registration records are records of births, marriages, and deaths kept by the government. In Hesse (Hessen), they were 1 January 1876. In addition, Hessen kept civil registration between 1803 and 1815, during the Napoleonic occupation.
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Germany. Hesse-Darmstadt, former landgraviate, grand duchy, and state of Germany. It was formed in 1567 in the division of old Hesse; after Hesse-Kassel was absorbed by Prussia in 1866, Hesse-Darmstadt was usually known simply as Hesse. Hesse-Darmstadt was originally only the small territory of Upper Katzenelnbogen with Darmstadt, being ...
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The present-day state of Hesse was founded on 19 September 1945 under the name of Groß-Hessen and was the first surviving state in the Federal Republic to receive a new democratic constitution. The immediate predecessor states were the People's State of Hesse and the Prussian provinces of Kurhessen and Nassau, which the Free State of Prussia had created on April 1, 1944 by division of the ...
Central Europe A Brief History of Hesse by Peter Kessler, 16 July 2007: While the Hessian people have a history which stretches back to the Teutoberg Forest and the destruction of three Roman Legions in the first century AD, the modern 'Federal German State of Hessen' is a much safer place, one which is divided into three federal administrative districts.
The Jewish population of Hesse-Darmstadt was 19,530 in 1822 and reached a peak of 28,061 in 1849, declining gradually to 20,401 in 1925. Although their percentage of the total population declined from 3.04% to 1.52%, it remained throughout one of the highest in Germany. The Jews, who were settled primarily in rural areas, engaged in peddling ...
The Grand Duchy of Hesse and by Rhine ( German: Großherzogtum Hessen und bei Rhein) was a grand duchy in western Germany that existed from 1806 to 1918. The grand duchy originally formed from the Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt in 1806 as the Grand Duchy of Hesse (German: Großherzogtum Hessen ). It assumed the name Hesse und bei Rhein in 1816 ...
