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Website. www.dillenburg.de. Dillenburg, officially Oranienstadt Dillenburg, [3] is a town in Hesse's Gießen region in Germany. The town was formerly the seat of the old Dillkreis district, which is now part of the Lahn-Dill-Kreis .
Castle Dillenburg, in the provincial town of Dillenburg in Hesse-Nassau, is situated on a hill (elevation 958 feet) above the Dill river, 25 miles northwest from Gießen on the Giessen-Troisdorf railway line. The main building of the old castle was deconstructed in 1760 after suffering fire from cannon damage in the Seven Years' War. Today the ...
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Dillenburg. The picturesque town of Dillenburg with its half-timbered houses is the original home of the Dutch royal family. In the town where William I of Orange was born you can experience over 660 years of history and tradition.
In 1606, the younger line of Nassau-Siegen was split off from the House of Nassau-Dillenburg for John VII "the Middle". As Dillenburg eventually was inherited by a younger son of John VI (see below), the line of Nassau-Siegen became the elder line of the Ottonian House of Nassau. After John VII of Nassau-Siegen died in 1628, the land was divided:
Count John VI the Elder (born in Dillenburg, 22 November 1536 – died in Dillenburg, 8 October 1606), who succeeded his father in 1559 and inherited the County of Nassau-Beilstein in 1561. He married:
Dillenburg ist eine Mittelstadt im mittelhessischen Lahn-Dill-Kreis. Sie ist ein Mittelzentrum und war Kreisstadt des ehemaligen Dillkreises . Die Stadt ist Endpunkt des Fernwanderwegs Rothaarsteig und liegt an der deutsch-niederländischen Ferienstraße Oranier-Route sowie der Deutschen Fachwerkstraße. Sie trägt seit dem 2.
