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    Franzburg ( German pronunciation: [ˈfʁantsbʊʁk]) is a municipality in the Vorpommern-Rügen district of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. It is situated 20 km southwest of Stralsund. Before the Protestant Reformation, later Franzburg was the site of Neuenkamp Abbey .

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  4. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › FranzensburgFranzensburg - Wikipedia

    Franzensburg is a medieval style castle in Laxenburg, Lower Austria, Austria . Built between 1801 and 1836, it was named in memory of the last Holy Roman Emperor, Francis II, who died in 1835. History. The Franzensburg castle is the best-known building in the Laxenburg Castles Park.

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    The Duchy of Pomerania adopted Protestantism in 1534. With the Second Defenestration of Prague in 1618, the Thirty Years' War started as a primarily Catholic-Protestant conflict between Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor and the Catholic League on the one side and Protestant nobility and states on the other. Pomerania was a member of the internally d...

    The treaty ruled on the conditions of the billeting ("hospitatio") of the Imperial troops. Sources vary on whether Bogislaw XIV obliged himself to the intake of eight or ten regiments (approximately 24,000 soldiers). According to Herbert Langer, twenty multi-ethnic regiments with a total of 31,000 infantry and 7,540 cavalry were actually counted.To...

    The towns of Anklam, Demmin, Greifswald and Kolberg (now Kolobrzeg) were made seats of a garrison each, while in other towns, smaller units took quarter. Cavalry was stationed primarily in villages due to both the easier handling of the horses and the lower proportion of desertioncompared to infantry. Although not ruled out verbatim in the capitula...

    The capitulation of Franzburg marked the beginning of the Thirty Years' War in the Duchy of Pomerania. The severe plight the capitulation inflicted on the peopleonly foreshadowed the utter devastation of the duchy by the end of the war, when two thirds of the population were left dead. The successful resistance of Stralsund to the terms of the capi...

  6. Nov 15, 2021 · English: Franzburg is a town in the Nordvorpommern district, in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany. It is situated 20 km southwest of Stralsund.

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    Frankfurt am Main (German: [ˈfʁaŋkfʊʁt ʔam ˈmaɪn] ⓘ; lit. "Frank ford on the Main") is the most populous city in the German state of Hesse. Its 773,068 inhabitants as of 2022 make it the fifth-most populous city in Germany, and it is the only city in the country rated as an "alpha world city" according to GaWC.

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