Information about Giebelstadt
Giebelstadt is a town in the district of Würzburg in Bavaria in Germany.
The town is the birthplace of Florian Geyer (1490-1525), also known as "Florian Geier from Giebelstadt", a Franconian nobleman who led the Black Company during the Peasants War resulting from the Protestant Reformation in Germany in the 16th century.
The town is surrounded by fields characterized by a rolling landscape.
In the twentieth century, Giebelstadt hosted a military airfield operated first by the German Luftwaffe in World War II and then by the U.S. forces during the Cold War.
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The town is the birthplace of Florian Geyer (1490-1525), also known as "Florian Geier from Giebelstadt", a Franconian nobleman who led the Black Company during the Peasants War resulting from the Protestant Reformation in Germany in the 16th century.
The town is surrounded by fields characterized by a rolling landscape.
In the twentieth century, Giebelstadt hosted a military airfield operated first by the German Luftwaffe in World War II and then by the U.S. forces during the Cold War.
Würzburg
''Map of Bavaria highlighting the district of Würzburg
State| Bavaria
Adm. region| Unterfranken
Würzburg
Würzburg
967.56 km
159,978 (12/2005)
Pop. density| 165.
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''Map of Bavaria highlighting the district of Würzburg
State| Bavaria
Adm. region| Unterfranken
Würzburg
Würzburg
967.56 km
159,978 (12/2005)
Pop. density| 165.
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Free State of Bavaria
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Free State of Bavaria
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Anthem
"Das Lied der Deutschen" (third stanza)
also called "Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit"
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"Das Lied der Deutschen" (third stanza)
also called "Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit"
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Florian Geyer (born around 1490 in Giebelstadt/Ochsenfurt – 10 June 1525 in Gramschatz Forest near Würzburg), also known as "Florian Geier from Giebelstadt", was a Franconian nobleman, diplomat and knight. He became famous for leading peasants during the Peasants War.
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- The term Franconian (Also:Frankish) usually refers to anything related to the Franks, an ancient Germanic people.
- Franconian is also used to refer to a linguistic marker, the Franconian languages.
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Black Company or the Black Troops was a unit of Franconian mercenaries during the Peasant's Revolt in the 1520s during the Protestant Reformation in Germany.
The original German name of the Black Company was "Schwarzer Haufen".
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The original German name of the Black Company was "Schwarzer Haufen".
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Peasants' War (in German, der Deutsche Bauernkrieg, literally the German Peasants' War) was a popular revolt in the Holy Roman Empire in the years 1524/1525. It consisted, like the preceding Bundschuh movement and the Hussite Wars, of a series of economic as well as
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An aerodrome is any place from and to which flight operations take place. The term is used in Britain as it has the same spelling in French. In the United States, the word was modified into airdrome but has become obsolete since the Second World War.
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Deutsche Luftwaffe or Luftwaffe (German: air force, literally "Air Weapon", pronounced lufft-va-fa, IPA:
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Allied powers:
Soviet Union
United States
United Kingdom
China
France
...et al. Axis powers:
Germany
Japan
Italy
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Soviet Union
United States
United Kingdom
China
France
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Germany
Japan
Italy
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The Cold War was the period of conflict, tension and competition between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies from the mid-1940s until the early 1990s.
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