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The Mainzer Zitadelle (Citadel of Mainz) is situated at the fringe of Mainz Old Town [de], near Mainz Römisches Theater station. The fortress was constructed in 1660 and was an important part of the Fortress Mainz.

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Mainz Citadel

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The Mainzer Zitadelle (Citadel of Mainz) is situated at the fringe of Mainz Old Town [de], near Mainz Römisches Theater station. The fortress was constructed...

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Mainz

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Mainz (/maɪnts/; German: [maɪnts] ; see below) is the capital and largest city of the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate, and with around 221,000 inhabitants...

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Drususstein

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20 metres high masonry block of Roman origin on the grounds of the citadel of Mainz, Germany. It was originally cased in marble. Researchers now largely...

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Fortress of Mainz

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The Fortress of Mainz was a fortressed garrison town between 1620 and 1918. At the end of the Napoleonic Wars, under the term of the 1815 Peace of Paris...

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Petersberg Citadel

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surrounding area were conquered by the Electorate of Mainz. On 1 June 1665 the foundation stone of Petersberg Citadel was laid. The formal first construction phase...

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Alec Waugh

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the rest of the war in prisoner-of-war camps in Karlsruhe and in the Mainz Citadel. Waugh married his first wife, Barbara Annis Jacobs (1900–1996), in...

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Marcelle Lafont

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detained at Oflag XII-B, a German prisoner of war camp for officers in Mainz Citadel. Lafont discovered his presence there in 1942 as part of her work for...

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John Ferrar Holms

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In March 1918 he was captured and was held as a prisoner of war at Mainz Citadel with, among others, Hugh Kingsmill, J. Milton Hayes and Alec Waugh....

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Hugh Kingsmill

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captured in France the next year. He was held as a prisoner of war at Mainz Citadel with, among others, J. Milton Hayes and Alec Waugh. After the war he...

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Timeline of Mainz

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1660 - Citadel built in the Fortress of Mainz. 1670 - Schönborner Hof (Mainz) [de] built. 1678 - Electoral Palace, Mainz built. 1689 - Siege of Mainz (1689) [de]...

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1918 in literature

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novelist Alec Waugh is taken prisoner of war. He will be incarcerated in Mainz Citadel with the monologist J. Milton Hayes, also taken prisoner this year,...

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Zitadelle

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(Berlin U-Bahn), a railway station serving the Spandau Citadel Zitadelle Mainz, a fortress in Mainz Operation Zitadelle, the German offensive operation for...

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Mainz Hauptbahnhof

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Mainz Hauptbahnhof ("Mainz main station", formerly known as Centralbahnhof Mainz) is a railway station for the city of Mainz in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate...

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Heuneburg

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from the fortified citadel, there are extensive remains of settlements and burial areas spanning several centuries. The fortified citadel measures about 300...

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Johannes Gutenberg

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Mainz. In 1997, Time Life magazine picked Gutenberg's invention as the most important of the second millennium. Johannes Gutenberg was born in Mainz (in...

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