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18-538: Colmar-Berg is the site of the Grand Duke of Luxembourg 's principal residence, Berg Castle . It is also the site of a Goodyear tyre factory. The commune was known as simply "Berg" until 25 March 1991. The " Centre de Formation pour Conducteurs " (French for "Drivers' Training Centre") is also in Colmar-Berg. Every person has to make an "Obligatory Course" after they got their driving license in order for it to become

36-628: A cadet branch of the House of Bourbon-Parma. Merenberg Merenberg is a municipality in Limburg-Weilburg district in Hesse , Germany . Merenberg lies on the southern edge of the Westerwald between the district seat of Limburg and Weilburg . Merenberg borders in the north on the community of Mengerskirchen , in the east on the community of Löhnberg , in the south on the town of Weilburg , in

54-567: A grand duchy since 15 March 1815, when it was created from territory of the former Duchy of Luxembourg . It was in personal union with the United Kingdom of the Netherlands until 1890 under the House of Orange-Nassau . Luxembourg is the world's only sovereign Grand Duchy and since 1815, there have been nine monarchs, including the incumbent , Henri . The constitution of Luxembourg defines

72-407: A definitive license. This has to be done in the timespan after three months and before two years after the person passed their practical driving test. This article related to the geography of Mersch canton is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Grand Duke of Luxembourg The Grand Duke of Luxembourg is the head of state of Luxembourg . Luxembourg has been

90-406: A son Georg Nikolaus, Count von Merenberg who was, however, the product of a morganatic marriage , and therefore not legally a member of the House of Nassau. In 1907, Adolphe's only son, William IV, Grand Duke of Luxembourg , obtained passage of a law confirming the right of his eldest daughter, Marie-Adélaïde , to succeed to the throne in virtue of the absence of any remaining dynastic males of

108-530: The grand duke 's position: After a constitutional change (to article 34) in December 2008 resulting from Henri's refusal to assent to a law legalizing euthanasia , laws now no longer require the grand duke's formal assent (implying "approval") but his task of promulgating the law as chief executive remains. The grand duke does not receive a salary, but the grand ducal family receives annually 300,000 gold francs (€281,000) for grand ducal functions. In 2017,

126-465: The 1867 Treaty of London . The Nassau Family Pact itself can be amended by the usual legislative process, having been so on 10 July 1907 to exclude the Count of Merenberg branch of the House, which was descended from a morganatic marriage . An heir apparent may be granted the style 'hereditary grand duke'. The current heir apparent is Hereditary Grand Duke Guillaume . In June 2011, agnatic primogeniture

144-419: The House of Merenberg, a noble family in the 12th and 13th centuries. In connection with this family, the community had its first documentary mention in 1129. In 1290, Merenberg was granted town rights and weekly market rights by King Rudolph I , whereupon a town wall was built. In 1634 the castle was destroyed, and since then it has stood, as a ruin, as Merenberg’s landmark. In the early 19th century, Merenberg

162-496: The House of Nassau, as originally stipulated in the Nassau Family Pact. She became the grand duchy's first reigning female monarch upon her father's death in 1912, and upon her own abdication in 1919, was succeeded by her younger sister Charlotte , who married Felix of Bourbon-Parma , a prince of the former Duchy of Parma . Charlotte's descendants have since reigned as the continued dynasty of Nassau , and also constitute

180-592: The Luxembourg budget included €10.1 million for the grand duke's household costs. Succession to the throne was governed by Salic law , as dictated by the Nassau Family Pact , first adopted on 30 June 1783. The right to reign over Luxembourg was until June 2011 passed by agnatic-cognatic primogeniture within the House of Nassau , as stipulated under the 1815 Final Act of the Congress of Vienna and as confirmed by

198-524: The female line only upon extinction of male members of the dynasty . When William III died leaving only his daughter Wilhelmina as an heir, the crown of the Netherlands, not being bound by the family pact, passed to Wilhelmina. However, the crown of Luxembourg passed to a male of another branch of the House of Nassau: Adolphe , the dispossessed Duke of Nassau and head of the branch of Nassau-Weilburg . In 1905, Grand Duke Adolphe's younger half-brother, Prince Nikolaus Wilhelm of Nassau , died, having left

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216-520: The long-distance road network. Merenberg has, with its Albert-Wagner-Schule , a primary school and a Hauptschule . In 1958, it was dedicated as the first Mittelpunktschule (“midpoint school”, a central school, designed to eliminate smaller outlying schools) in Hesse. It was named after the administrative official and politician Albert Wagner. Merenberg lies in the feeder area of the Westerwaldschule ,

234-463: The new collective community of Merenberg. Allendorf had its first documentary mention in 1250, Rückershausen in 1370 and Reichenborn in 1435. The municipal election held on 14 March 2021 yielded the following results: 2021 2021 The community’s arms are those formerly borne by the Lords of Merenberg, which were also represented in the old Oberlahnkreis district’s (seat: Weilburg) arms. Besides

252-565: The southwest on the community of Beselich , and in the west on the community of Waldbrunn (all in Limburg-Weilburg). The market community of Merenberg consists of the five centres of Merenberg, Barig-Selbenhausen, Allendorf, Reichenborn and Rückershausen. On both the Almerskopf and the Höhburg are found remnants of settlements from La Tène times . In Merenberg stands the family castle of

270-512: The titles are held without regard to the strict rules of Salic inheritance and that most, save for Grand Duke of Luxembourg and Duke of Nassau, are simply not used. Under the 1783 Nassau Family Pact , those territories of the Nassau family in the Holy Roman Empire at the time of the pact (Luxembourg and Nassau ) were bound by semi- Salic law , which allowed inheritance by females or through

288-482: The trade and crafts that are customary for such a place, there are a few small and medium-size industrial businesses. The main fields of activity are mechanical engineering , plant engineering, metalworking , plastics processing and automation . Merenberg’s best known business is the record label ZYX Music . The community lies on Bundesstraße 49, which is currently (February 2006) being widened to four lanes between Limburg and Wetzlar , and which links Merenberg to

306-672: Was replaced with absolute primogeniture , allowing any legitimate female descendants within the House of Nassau to be included in the line of succession. The traditional titulatures of the Grand Duke are By the Grace of God , Grand Duke of Luxembourg, Duke of Nassau , Count Palatine of the Rhine , Count of Sayn , Königstein , Katzenelnbogen and Diez , Burgrave of Hammerstein , Lord of Mahlberg , Wiesbaden , Idstein , Merenberg , Limburg and Eppstein . It should, however, be noted that many of

324-435: Was stripped of town rights. In the late 19th century, the House of Nassau named the children from Prince Nikolaus Wilhelm of Nassau 's marriage to Pushkin 's daughter the “ Counts of Merenberg ”. In the course of administrative reform in Hesse, the formerly autonomous communities of Allendorf, Barig-Selbenhausen, Merenberg, Reichenborn and Rückershausen, which had all belonged to the old Oberlahnkreis (district), merged into

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