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Bavaria (Bayern) Germany
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Introduction
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The Free State of
Bavaria (German: Freistaat
Bayern), with an area of 70,553 km² (27,241 square miles) and 12.4
million inhabitants, forms the southernmost state of today's Germany.
Its capital is Munich. The
region north of the Alps was inhabited by Celts and was part of the Roman
Empire until (probably Slavonic) tribes from the East, the so-called 'Bayuvaren'
started to settle in the region in the 6th century AD. A later mention was
made by the Franks
ca. 520. Saint Boniface
completed the people's conversion to Christianity in the early 8th century.
Bavaria withstood the Protestant Reformation,
and even today is strongly Roman Catholic. From
about 550 to 788, the house of Agilolfing
ruled the duchy of Bavaria,
ending with Tassilo III who was
deposed by Charlemagne. For the
next 400 years numerous families held the duchy, rarely for more than three
generations. The last, and one of the most important, of these dukes was Henry
the Lion of the house of Welf, founder of
Munich. When
Henry the Lion was deposed as duke of Saxony and Bavaria by
his cousin, Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor,
in 1180, Bavaria was awarded as fief to the Wittelsbach
family, which ruled from 1180 to 1918. The first of several divisions of the
duchy occurred in 1255 but in 1506 Bavaria was reunited and Munich became the
sole capital. In 1623 the dukes replaced their relative, the Count Palatine of the Rhine
in the early days of the Thirty
Years War and acquired the powerful prince-electoral
dignity in the Holy Roman Empire,
determining its Emperor thence forward, as well as special legal status under
the empire's laws. When Napoleon
abolished the Empire, Bavaria became a kingdom
in 1806, and in 1815 the Rhenish Palatinate
was annexed to it. In between 1799 and 1817 the leading minister count Montgelas followed a
strict policy of modernisation and laid the foundations of administrative
structures that survived even the monarchy and are (in their core) valid
until today. In 1818 a modern constitution (by the standards of the time) was
passed, that established a bicameral Parliament with a House of Lords
("Kammer der Reichsräte") and a House of Commons ("Kammer der
Abgeordneten"). The constitution was valid until the collapse of the
monarchy at the end of the First World War. After
the rise of Prussia to prominence Bavaria managed to preserve its
independence by playing off the rivalries of Prussia
and Austria,
but defeat in the 1866
Austro-Prussian War
led to its incorporation into the German
Empire in 1871. In the early 20th century Wassily Kandinsky, Paul
Klee, Henrik Ibsen, and
other notable artists were drawn to Bavaria, notably to the Schwabing
district of Munich, but the region was devastated by World
War I. |
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The
following are surnames of persons, found within our databases, as having been either born, married or
died in this location. |
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Arnold: Dellinger; Katterman |
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To find out more about each surname listed
above click on the corresponding LINK. Additional information regarding these
surnames may also be found at: |
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Free Genealogy Surname Search Help from Google |
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free genealogy site to help you
get the best genealogy searches from Google™
by using your family tree, for your research. It
will create a series of different searches using tips or "tricks"
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will
likely improve your results. The different searches will give you many
different ways of using Google and the Internet to find ancestry information
about this or any other Surname. |
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Bavaria (Bayern)
Ancestral
Districts (Kreise)
The following named
districts are associated with the history of our DIRECT
ancestors. To select a specific
ancestral district, click on the following link. There you will find
additional links where you can obtain information about our family gen-sites,
images of localities, and surnames of persons, in our database, who have
lived in the selected district. |
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1 = Dillingen; 2 = Erlangen-Höchstadt |
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To find out more about
each county listed here use the following LINK |
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Bavaria (Bayern), Germany
List of Places
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The links below may assist
you with your research within the various districts of this state. |
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See also: List of places in Bavaria |
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Bavaria (Bayern), Germany Website Resources
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We
recommend that you use the following search engine and external-links
to obtain additional knowledge about this place.
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General |
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Wikipedia, the free
encyclopedia ·
Free Genealogy Search Help
For Google |
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