Battenberg
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Places
- Battenberg, HesseBattenberg, HesseBattenberg is a small town in the Waldeck-Frankenberg district in Hesse, Germany. The town is noted for giving its name to the Battenberg family, a morganatic branch of the ruling House of Hesse-Darmstadt, and through it, the name Mountbatten used by members of the British royal family, a literal...
, a town in Hesse, Germany - Battenberg, Rhineland-PalatinateBattenberg, Rhineland-PalatinateBattenberg is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Bad Dürkheim district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.- Location :...
, a town in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany - Battenberg MausoleumBattenberg MausoleumThe Memorial Tomb of Alexander I of Battenberg , better known as the Battenberg Mausoleum in Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria, is the mausoleum and final resting place of Prince Alexander I of Bulgaria , the first Head of State of modern Bulgaria.Commissioned to the Swiss architect Hermann Mayer,...
, mausoleum of Prince Alexander of Battenberg in SofiaSofiaSofia is the capital and largest city of Bulgaria and the 12th largest city in the European Union with a population of 1.27 million people. It is located in western Bulgaria, at the foot of Mount Vitosha and approximately at the centre of the Balkan Peninsula.Prehistoric settlements were excavated...
, BulgariaBulgariaBulgaria , officially the Republic of Bulgaria , is a parliamentary democracy within a unitary constitutional republic in Southeast Europe. The country borders Romania to the north, Serbia and Macedonia to the west, Greece and Turkey to the south, as well as the Black Sea to the east... - Battenberg Palace, the popular name of the RousseRousseRuse is the fifth-largest city in Bulgaria. Ruse is situated in the northeastern part of the country, on the right bank of the Danube, opposite the Romanian city of Giurgiu, from the capital Sofia and from the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast...
Regional Historical Museum building - Battenberg Chapel in St. Mildred's Church WhippinghamWhippinghamWhippingham is a village and civil parish on the Isle of Wight. It is located two kilometres south of East Cowes in the north of the Island.Whippingham is best known for its connections with Queen Victoria, especially its church, redesigned by Prince Albert. The church has a tower reminiscent of a...
on the Isle of WightIsle of WightThe Isle of Wight is a county and the largest island of England, located in the English Channel, on average about 2–4 miles off the south coast of the county of Hampshire, separated from the mainland by a strait called the Solent... - Battenberg SquarePrince Alexander of Battenberg SquarePrince Alexander I Square , often called simply Battenberg Square is the largest square of Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria...
, central square in Sofia, Bulgaria (named after Prince Alexander of Battenberg) - Battenberg, an old name of the Bulgarian village of Blagoevo, Razgrad Province (1880–1947)
People
- BattenbergBattenberg familyThe Battenberg family was a morganatic branch of the House of Hesse-Darmstadt, rulers of the Grand Duchy of Hesse in Germany. The first member was Julia Hauke, whose brother-in-law Grand Duke Louis III of Hesse created her Countess of Battenberg with the style Illustrious Highness in 1851, at her...
, a GermanGermanyGermany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
noble family from HesseHesseHesse or Hessia is both a cultural region of Germany and the name of an individual German state.* The cultural region of Hesse includes both the State of Hesse and the area known as Rhenish Hesse in the neighbouring Rhineland-Palatinate state...
- Julia Hauke Countess of Battenberg, 1825-1895
- Prince Louis of Battenberg 1854–1921
- Princess Marie of BattenbergPrincess Marie of BattenbergPrincess Marie Caroline of Battenberg was a Princess of Battenberg and, by marriage, The Princess of Erbach-Schönberg. She worked as a writer and translator.-Early life:...
1852–1923 - Prince Alexander of BattenbergAlexander, Prince of BulgariaAlexander Joseph, Prince of Bulgaria GCB , known as Alexander of Battenberg, was the first prince of modern Bulgaria, reigning from 29 April 1879 to 7 September 1886.-Early life:...
, 1857–1893 - Prince Henry of BattenbergPrince Henry of BattenbergColonel Prince Henry of Battenberg was a morganatic descendant of the Grand Ducal House of Hesse, later becoming a member of the British Royal Family, through his marriage to Princess Beatrice.-Early life:...
1858–1896 - Prince Francis Joseph of BattenbergPrince Francis Joseph of BattenbergPrince Francis Joseph of Battenberg, also known as Prince Franz Joseph of Battenberg, , was the youngest son of Prince Alexander of Hesse and by Rhine and Countess Julia von Hauke.-Biography:...
1861–1924
- John Nelson BattenbergJohn Nelson BattenbergJohn Nelson Battenberg is an American sculptor.Battenberg was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1931. An artist named John Goray first influenced him when Battenberg was about 10 years old. Battenberg did his undergraduate work in art at various Midwestern universities. He also attended the Ruskin...
, (b. 1931) an American artist
Other uses
- Battenberg cake, a light sponge cake with a quartered cross section
- Battenburg markingsBattenburg markingsBattenburg refers to a pattern of high-visibility markings used to maximise conspicuity, primarily used on vehicles of the emergency services, but also in other applications such as uniforms...
, spelt with a "u" in "burg", the high-visibility markings on many emergency service vehicles, the name is derived from its similarity to the pattern in Battenberg cake. - Battenberg CupBattenberg CupThe Battenberg Cup is an award given annually as a symbol of operational excellence to the best ship or submarine in the United States Navy Atlantic Fleet. The cup was originally awarded as a trophy to the winner of cutter or longboat rowing competitions between crews of American and British naval...
, an AmericanUnited StatesThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
naval award (named after Prince Louis of Battenberg) - Battenberg lace, a type of needle lace
See also
- MountbattenMountbattenMountbatten is the family name originally adopted by a branch of the Battenberg family due to rising anti-German sentiment among the British public during World War I...
, United KingdomUnited KingdomThe United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
branch of the German family - Mountbatten-WindsorMountbatten-WindsorMountbatten-Windsor is the personal surname of some of the descendants of Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh under an ambiguously-worded Order in Council issued in 1960, and as such a cadet branch of the House of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg , which in turn is a branch of...