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    1. Ortenau -- Baden -- Tuerkenlouis -- A bit of History
    2. djweber
    3. In 1701 the Habsburg lands of the Ortenau were given in fief to the Margrave of Baden-Baden, Ludwig Wilhelm. These Habsburg Ortenau lands did not revert to the Habsburg family until 1771 with the death of the last Margrave of Baden-Baden. In searching for interesting or valuable web pages for the Links at your companion page, I found the Schoessler Magazine which prints "thumb nail" portions of its magazine articles into its on-line site and has some articles on and pictures of Margrave Ludwig Wilhelm von Baden, known as Türkenlouis, in their current issue. The "nickname" Türkenlouis resulted from his victory leading Empire troops in 1691 during the "Great Turkish War". That victory also may be one of the reasons the Emperor gave the Ortenau lands in fief to Ludwig Wilhelm. The magazine offers both English and German on-line information. The home address for the English version is at < http://www.schloesser-magazin.de/eng/ >. General information on Ludwig Wilhelm and Baden of his time can be found from a click at "Additional Properties" and further clicks at "Site Map", at "Rastatt Palace" and from that page to "Famous Persons" and to "Anecdotes". For information from the current issue about Türkenlouis, a direct URL there would be < http://www.schloesser-magazin.de/eng/quartalsmagazin/magazin.php > although using the links from the earlier pages of this site, into New and Newsletter, would give you the opportunity of finding this page and finding other pages which might be of interest pertaining to other areas and other historic figures of Baden and of Wuerttemberg. The in-site Search capability can lead to numerous short articles of this overall area of Baden and Württemberg djweber [email protected]

    01/19/2005 05:46:31