Swabian

Swabian Castle seeAlso Swabian Castle Swabian Castle The Norman-Hohenstaufen Castle, widely known as the Castello Svevo (Swabian Castle), was built by Roger II of Sicily around 1131.

Fans loved to hear the anecdotes of the modest Swabian, whose life at and with Porsche wrote many special stories.

According to this account, Cisaria was founded by Swabian tribes as a defence against Roman incursions.

Because their linguistic distance to it is greater, they do not mesh with Standard German the way that High German dialects (such as Bavarian, Swabian, Hessian) can.

Clothing Their style of dress reflected their Swabian German roots and traditions and was adapted to their life in America.

Evidence of modern humans, similarly dated, has been found in caves in the Swabian Jura near Ulm.

From right to left the line was held by Duke Conrad's Franconians, the three Bavarian divisions, Otto's division and the two Swabian divisions.

Georg Friedrich, Prince of Prussia is the current head of the royal Prussian line, while Karl Friedrich, Prince of Hohenzollern is the head of the princely Swabian line.

Hermann Hesse's sense of estrangement from the Swabian petty bourgeoisie further grew through his relationship with his maternal grandmother Julie Gundert, née Dubois, whose French-Swiss heritage kept her from ever quite fitting in among that milieu.

He set no great value on money and possessions; his liberality and hospitality were often misused in such a way that his old faithful Swabian servant had sometimes difficulty in managing the household.

Hesse grew up in a Swabian Pietist household, with the Pietist tendency to insulate believers into small, deeply thoughtful groups.

He was confident that the four sponsoring cantons would not intervene with force, due to the prevailing tensions between the Confederation and the Swabian League.

In 1576, when Charles I, Count of Hohenzollern died, his county was divided to form the three Swabian branches.

Many Swabian counts, including his cousin the young Duke of Swabia, Frederick IV, died in 1167, so he was able to organize a new mighty territory in the Duchy of Swabia under his reign in this time.

Meanwhile, the new teachings continued to spread to other parts of the Confederation as well as a number of Swabian towns.

Stuttgart's Swabian cuisine, beer and wine have been produced in the area since the 17th century and are now famous throughout Germany and beyond.

The extreme right flank of the Franco-Bavarian army was covered by the Danube; to the extreme left flank lay the undulating pine-covered hills of the Swabian Jura.

The Ostalb ski lifts are located south of the town centre, at the northern slope of the Swabian Jura.

The Schwäbische Dichterstraße ("Swabian Poets' Route") tourist route established in 1977/78 leads through Aalen.

The south-west is part of the Albuch, the east is part of the Härtsfeld, these two both being parts of the Swabian Jura.