Hermann Karl Hesse was a German-born poet, novelist, and painter. His best-known works include Demian, Steppenwolf, Siddhartha, and The Glass Bead Game, each of which explores an individual's search for authenticity, self-knowledge and spirituality. In 1946, he received the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Hesse or Hessia, officially the State of Hesse, is a parliamentary republic in western Europe and, with just over six million inhabitants, a member state of the Federal Republic of Germany as of 1949. Its capital city is Wiesbaden, the largest metropolitan area is Frankfurt am Main.
The Fulda is a river of Hesse and Lower Saxony, Germany. It is one of two headstreams of the Weser. The Fulda is 220.4 kilometres (137.0 mi) long.
Siddhartha is a novel by Hermann Hesse that deals with the spiritual journey of self-discovery of a man named Siddhartha during the time of the Gautama Buddha. The book, Hesse's ninth novel, was written in German, in a simple, lyrical style. It was published in the U.S. in 1951 and became influential during the 1960s. Hesse dedicated the first part of it to Romain Rolland and the second part to Wilhelm Gundert, his cousin.
Hesse-Homburg was formed into a separate landgraviate in 1622 by the landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt; it was to be ruled by his son, although it did not become independent of Hesse-Darmstadt until 1668.
Rhenish Hesse or Rhine-Hesse is a region and a former government district in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate, made up of those territories west of the Upper Rhine river that from 1816 were part of the Grand Duchy of Hesse and of the People's State of Hesse until 1945. The hilly countryside is largely devoted to vineyards, comprising the Rheinhessen wine region.
Reichenbach may refer to:
Kelkheim is a town in the Main-Taunus district in Hesse, Germany.
Liederbach am Taunus is a town in Hesse, Germany with 8500 inhabitants. It is situated 20 kilometres (12 mi) west of downtown Frankfurt am Main.
Dillendorf is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis (district) in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Kirchberg, whose seat is in the like-named town.
Augraben is a small river of Hesse, Germany. It is a left tributary of the Liederbach in Oberliederbach.
Braubach is a small river of Hesse, Germany. It is a right tributary of the Liederbach near Kelkheim.
Gimbach is a small river of Hesse, Germany. It flows into the Liederbach in Kelkheim.
Liederbach is a river of Hesse, Germany. It is a right tributary of the Main near Höchst.
Rombach is a small river of Hesse, Germany. It flows into the Liederbach in Königstein im Taunus.
The Königstein Railway is a 1902 opened, single-track and non-electrified secondary railway line that connects the town of Königstein im Taunus with the city of Frankfurt am Main on the southern edge of the Taunus in the German state of Hesse.
Braubach is a municipality in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
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