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Also Known As Franken

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Rothenburg ob der Tauber
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Schlossplatz with the Jubilee Column and (left) Neues Schloss (New Castle), Stuttgart, Ger.
Baden-Württemberg
state, Germany
Mainz: St. Martin's Cathedral
Rhineland-Palatinate
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Frankfurt
Hessen
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Key People

Görtz, portrait by an unknown artist; in Gripsholm Castle, Sweden
Georg Heinrich, baron von Görtz
German statesman
Eberhard
duke of Franconia
St. Kilian
St. Kilian
Irish missionary