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Westfalen region
Nassau region
Waldeck region
Paderborn region
Osnabrück region
Germany
Coat of arms of Wetzlar
Coat of arms of Garbenheim
Wetzlar, present day.
Dome of Wetzlar - coloured steelpressure image.
Blaeu Atlas
The historical maps below are part of the Latin edition of Willem Janszoon en Joan Blaeu’s 'Theatrum orbis terrarum, sive, Atlas novus' which was published in the beginning of 1645.
Artist rendering of Wetzlar, date uncertain. Lahn River and bridge in foreground. Earliest Macrander-resident in 1624, was Johann, son of Arnold Langemann (Macrander). Josias Langemann (Macrander), elder step-brother of Johann lived in Giessen, and may have resided briefly in Wetzlar or Garbenheim, but this has not been confirmed from available records.
The geographical map of the German Empire during the thirty year war from 1618 up to 1648.
Regional dress of Wetzlar.
Helsen, the village where Gercke Langemann lived, is today, a neighborhood in the larger community of Bad Arolsen, Waldeck, Hessen, in Germany. The photo was made more than a century ago, but the festivals are a continuing tradition.
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