Klausen is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde , a kind of collective municipality – in the Bernkastel-Wittlich district in Rhineland-Palatinate , Germany .
26-566: Klausen may refer to: Klausen, Germany , an Ortsgemeinde in Rhineland-Palatinate Klausen, South Tyrol , a municipality in Italy Klausen Pass , Switzerland Klausen (surname) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Klausen . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change
52-614: A court officer, but the outbreak of the War of the Spanish Succession called him into the field again as lieutenant-colonel of an Ansbach regiment, which was taken into the Dutch service. During the War of the Spanish Succession , Seckendorff led Ansbach's regiment and, at the head of his dragoons , conquered 16 standards in the Battle of Blenheim . Promoted to Oberst , Seckendorff participated in
78-513: A fleur-de-lis, the middle petal winged and charged with a cross azure, and doubly seeded vert. Klausen has at its disposal a network of hiking trails roughly 60 km long. Klausen is connected to the Autobahn A ;1 through the Salmtal interchange one kilometre away. Landesstraßen (State Roads) 47 (from Trier to Machern ) and 50 (from Piesport to Binsfeld ) both run right through
104-798: A marriage more favorable to Austria. Seckendorff's diplomatic skill also led to recognition of the Pragmatic Sanction by the courts of numerous German principalities, Denmark , and the Dutch Republic . In 1734, Seckendorff returned to the imperial army and became Governor of Mainz . As imperial general of cavalry during the War of the Polish Succession , he led 30,000 troops against the French at Clausen on 20 October 1735. In 1737, Emperor Charles VI made Seckendorff commander-in-chief in Hungary, at
130-594: A spot where nothing had yet been built (but now the site of the Church of Eberhardsklausen) a wooden figure showing Mary with Jesus in her arms after having been taken off the cross ( Pietà ). The figure was soon moved into a so-called Marienhäuschen (“little Mary house”). Two years later came the building of the first chapel on this spot. On 25 March 1449, the Late Gothic Church of Mary ( Marienkirche ), work on which had begun in 1446 under Antwerp master builder Cluys,
156-463: Is the nearest long-distance station. It can be reached by bus with only one transfer to route 301 or 305 at the Wittlich bus station, and the trip takes, depending on where one transfers, between 20 and 87 minutes. Friedrich Heinrich von Seckendorff Friedrich Heinrich Reichsgraf von Seckendorff (5 July 1673 – 23 November 1763, aged 90) was a Franconian field marshal and diplomat , in
182-646: The Ottoman Turks at Belgrade . In 1718 he successfully fought against Spain in Sicily . Granted the title of Reichsgraf in 1719, Seckendorff was appointed Feldzeugmeister two years later. In 1726, at the instance of Eugene of Savoy, Seckendorff became the imperial ambassador at the Prussian court in Berlin . He gained the trust of King Frederick William I of Prussia ; king and diplomat had fought alongside one another in
208-664: The Seven Years' War . After spending half a year in detention in Magdeburg , he was exchanged for Moritz of Anhalt-Dessau , who had been captured by Austrians at Hochkirch . Returning to Meuselwitz, Seckendorff died at his estate in 1763. Frederick the Great despised Seckendorff, resenting the military diplomat for gaining the trust of Frederick William I and his involvement in the Prussian wedding plans. Regarding Seckendorff, Frederick wrote, "He
234-579: The Treaty of Füssen on 22 April 1745. Emperor Francis I reaffirmed all of Seckendorff's honors, and the diplomat retired to his estate at Meuselwitz in Thuringia . In 1757 the death of his wife, for whom, harsh and unamiable as he was, he had a deep and abiding affection, broke down his already failing health. Frederick the Great directed Prussian hussars to abduct Seckendorff from Meuselwitz in December 1758 during
260-555: The War of the Spanish Succession. Seckendorff also bribed the minister of state, the influential Friedrich Wilhelm von Grumbkow , with an Austrian pension. In order to avoid a potential marriage between Crown Prince Frederick and a princess of the House of Hanover that would have allied Prussia and Great Britain , Seckendorff manipulated Frederick William and his son so that the crown prince instead married Elizabeth Christina of Brunswick-Bevern ,
286-692: The allied army commanded by William III of England , and in 1694 became a cornet in a Gotha cavalry regiment in Austrian pay. Leaving the cavalry, he became an infantry officer in the service of Venice , and in 1697 in that of the Margrave of Ansbach , who in 1698 transferred the regiment in which Seckendorff was serving to the Imperial army . He served under Prince Eugene of Savoy in the Great Turkish War . In 1699, Seckendorff married and returned to Ansbach as
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#1732844713255312-619: The battles of Ramillies and Oudenaarde and the siege of Ryssel . Disappointed with his lack of promotion in the Netherlands and Austria, Seckendorff entered the service of King Augustus II of Poland as a Generalmajor and commanded the king's auxiliary Saxon troops in Flanders , fighting in the siege of Tournai and the battle of Malplaquet . As the Polish envoy to the Hague , he participated in
338-517: The course of the War of the Polish Succession , Imperial troops under Friedrich Heinrich von Seckendorff ’s command beat a French army led by Marshal François de Franquetot de Coigny on 20 October 1735 at the Battle of Clausen (commonly spelt thus in English history texts). In 1802, the Augustinian canons’ monastery was dissolved. The monastery church became a parish church that also ministered to
364-585: The district seat of Wittlich , where transfers are possible in all directions at the bus station. RMV bus route 212 runs direct buses twice daily on weekdays between Klausen and the nearest city, Trier , passing through Esch , Rivenich , Hetzerath , Föhren and Schweich on the way. The nearest Regionalbahn stations are Salmtal and Sehlem (Kr Wittlich) on the Koblenz-Trier railway line, both of which are some 5 km away from Klausen. Wittlich’s main railway station, some 15 km away from Klausen,
390-402: The honorary mayor as chairman. The municipal election held on 7 June 2009 yielded the following results: The Mayor is Alois Meyer, who reached the mayoralty in a runoff election on 27 June 2004. The German blazon reads: In Gold eine zur Kreuzblume erblühte blaue Lilie mit doppeltem grünen Fruchtknoten. The municipality’s arms might in English heraldic language be described thus: Or
416-428: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Klausen&oldid=760722729 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Klausen, Germany The municipality lies in
442-487: The many pilgrims. In 1927, the parish in Klausen was raised to deaconry. On 7 June 1969 came the amalgamation of the municipalities of Krames and Pohlbach into the municipality of Klausen (the old Eberhardsklausen with the monastery zone was not a self-administering municipality, but rather it was shared between the municipalities of Krames and Pohlbach). Until the amalgamation of the municipalities of Krames and Pohlbach, Klausen
468-633: The middle third of the precipitation chart for all Germany. At 51% of the German Weather Service’s weather stations , lower figures are recorded. The driest month is February. The most rainfall comes in August. In that month, precipitation is 1.4 times what it is in February. Precipitation varies only minimally and is spread out quite evenly throughout the year. In 1442, Klausen had its first documentary mention when Eberhard, who revered Mary , put up, on
494-619: The municipality and form the links to the neighbouring municipalities: Salmtal in the north, Piesport in the south, Esch and Sehlem in the east and Osann-Monzel in the west. Klausen lies in cell 338 in the Verkehrsverbund Region Trier (VRT) plan and has all together 5 bus stops at its disposal. Bus route 304 of the Rhein-Mosel Verkehrsgesellschaft (RMV) links Klausen by way of Altrich several times daily (Saturdays only once; Sundays not at all) with
520-451: The negotiations of the 1713 Treaty of Utrecht ; in the same year he suppressed an insurrection in Poland. As a lieutenant general, Seckendorff commanded Saxon troops in the 1715 siege of Stralsund against King Charles XII of Sweden . Seckendorff reentered imperial service as a Feldmarschallleutnant in 1717. Under the command of Eugene of Savoy, Seckendorff led two Ansbach regiments against
546-594: The new Holy Roman emperor, Bavarian Charles VII , the rank of field marshal in the Bavarian service. As commander of the Bavarian army, Seckendorff relieved Munich in the War of the Austrian Succession and, by a series of battles in 1743 and 1744, forced the Austrians back into Bohemia , after which he resigned. Following the death of Charles VII, Seckendorff negotiated a reconciliation between Austria and Bavaria in
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#1732844713255572-716: The same time giving him the baton of Feldmarschall . Although initially successful in the Austrian-Russian campaign against the Ottomans , he was eventually forced to retreat across the Save River. His numerous enemies in Vienna brought about his recall, trial and imprisonment at Graz as punishment for the unsuccessful war. Empress Maria Theresa released Seckendorff from prison in 1740, but, denied his arrears of pay, he laid down all his Austrian and imperial offices and accepted from
598-611: The service of the imperial Habsburg monarchy of Austria . Later he served as commander of the Bavarian army and fought Austria. Seckendorff was born in Königsberg , Franconia , into the Seckendorff family of nobility. His father was an official of Saxe-Gotha and his nephew was Veit Ludwig von Seckendorff . He studied law in Jena , Leipzig , and Leyden . In 1693, Seckendorff served in
624-738: The southern Eifel . The nearest middle centres are Wittlich and Bernkastel-Kues . The Grönbach and the Kramesbach empty into the Salm . Klausen belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Wittlich-Land , whose seat is in Wittlich , although that town is itself not in the Verbandsgemeinde . Klausen’s Ortsteile are Klausen, Pohlbach, Krames, Neu-Minheim, Hof Weidenhaag and Pohlbacher Mühle. Yearly precipitation in Klausen amounts to 749 mm, falling into
650-513: Was consecrated by Archbishop of Trier Jakob von Sierck. About 1480 came the carved high altar, which is still to be found in the church today. It is one of the oldest preserved examples of “Antwerp altarpiece” production. A monastery of Augustinian canons from the Congregation of Windesheim , built near the church, was consecrated in 1461. The church soon developed into a pilgrimage site that still draws worshippers today in some numbers. In
676-424: Was merely the parish’s name. In 1988, Klausen was awarded the statewide first prize in the contest “for exemplary ecological performance” and was the winner in its Regierungsbezirk in the contest Unser Dorf soll schöner werden (“Our village should become lovelier”). The council is made up of 16 council members, who were elected by proportional representation at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009, and
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