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    Electorate of Mainz set up a large defensive forest called the Rheingauer Gebück [de]. Many place names with the endings -hagen and -hain refer to such landwehrs...
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  • Remains of the Rheingauer Gebück around 1895 by Cohausen...
    12 KB (1,509 words) - 19:35, 14 March 2023
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    Haller Landheeg near Schwäbisch Hall Rheingauer Gebück near Walluf and Eltville am Rhein Bechtheimer Gebück near Bad Camberg Barriers near Springe in the...
    32 KB (3,907 words) - 15:03, 27 March 2023
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    preserved parts: on the church hill halfway up to the Felsenkirche, tower Im Gebück (a lane) above Hauptstraße 476 At Alte Gasse 5 – coat of arms of the former...
    91 KB (11,611 words) - 18:38, 2 April 2024
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    area of hinterland forest. North of the summit ridge runs the Rheingau Gebück, the historical Rheingau Landwehr. Hessian Land Surveying Office: District...
    3 KB (319 words) - 19:39, 3 July 2023
  • traffic into towns. In one instance, the central purpose of the Rheingauer Gebück, a 38-kilometre fence erected in the 12th century, may have been to close...
    13 KB (1,749 words) - 19:11, 13 April 2024
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    twelfth century, Lorch found itself at the southern end of the Rheingauer Gebück, a kind of border defence made out of an impenetrable “hedge” of stunted...
    18 KB (2,018 words) - 23:30, 7 March 2024
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    "mountain" in German, and it also refers to the village's high elevation and the Gebück mountain ridge. The wolf's head refers to the Wolfskaul, an area within...
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    Walluf was also once found the easternmost entrance through the Rheingauer Gebück, an impenetrable 50 to 100 meter-wide "hedge" of stunted trees which formed...
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    hedgerows (Gebück), today converted into a pedestrian bypass around the village centre. Remnants of the mediaeval wall ditch fortification with Gebück. former...
    32 KB (3,764 words) - 22:29, 5 December 2023