Homberg
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In Germany
- Homberg (Efze)Homberg (Efze)Homberg is a small town in northern state of Hesse in central Germany with about 15,000 inhabitants. It is the seat of the Schwalm-Eder district.-Geography:...
, administrative seat of Schwalm-Eder-KreisSchwalm-Eder-KreisSchwalm-Eder is a Kreis in the north of Hesse, Germany. Neighboring districts are Kassel, Werra-Meißner, Hersfeld-Rotenburg, Vogelsbergkreis, Marburg-Biedenkopf, Waldeck-Frankenberg.-History:...
, 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... - Homberg (Ohm)Homberg (Ohm)-Location:The officially recognized climatic spa of Homberg lies from 203 to 350 m above sea level in the valley of the Ohm, a tributary to the Lahn, some 19 km southeast of Marburg.-Neighbouring communities:...
, in the district of VogelsbergkreisVogelsbergkreisThe Vogelsbergkreis is a Kreis in the middle of Hesse, Germany. Neighbouring districts are Schwalm-Eder, Hersfeld-Rotenburg, Fulda, Main-Kinzig, Wetteraukreis, Gießen and Marburg-Biedenkopf.-Geography:...
, 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... - Homberg, WesterwaldkreisHomberg, WesterwaldkreisHomberg is an Ortsgemeinde – a community belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde – in the Westerwaldkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Rennerod, a kind of collective municipality.-Location:...
, in the district of Westerwaldkreis, Rhineland-Palatinate - Homberg, KuselHomberg, KuselHomberg is a municipality in the district of Kusel, in Rhineland-Palatinate, western Germany....
, in the district of Kusel, Rhineland-Palatinate - Homberg (Ratingen), in RatingenRatingenRatingen is a town in the district of Mettmann, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, in the northwestern part of Berg - about 12 km northeast of Düsseldorf...
- Homberg (Duisburg), in DuisburgDuisburg- History :A legend recorded by Johannes Aventinus holds that Duisburg, was built by the eponymous Tuisto, mythical progenitor of Germans, ca. 2395 BC...
Last names
- Wilhelm (Guillaume) HombergWilhelm HombergWilhelm Homberg , also known as Guillaume Homberg in French, was a Dutch natural philosopher.-Life:...
, Dutch chemist - Herz HombergHerz HombergHerz Homberg Herz Homberg Herz Homberg (born at Lieben, near Prague, September 1749; died August 24, 1841 was an Austrian-Jewish educator and writer.-Life:He studied Talmud at Prague, Presburg, and Gross-Glogau, and began the study of general literature in his seventeenth year. The reading of...
, Austrian educator and writer - Joerg Peter Homberg von Thaden
See also
- Homburg (disambiguation)
- Homburg (hat)Homburg (hat)A homburg is a felt hat, a Tyrolean hat-style fedora, characterized by a single dent running down the center of the crown and a stiff brim shaped in a "kettle curl". The Homburg is a stiff, formal felt hat....
- Hamburg (disambiguation)Hamburg (disambiguation)Hamburg, officially the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, is Germany's second-largest city and a federated state.Hamburg may also refer to:-United States:*Hamburg, Alabama*Hamburg, Arkansas*Hamburg, California*Hamburg, Connecticut...