Gelnhausen
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Gelnhausen is a town, and the capital of the Main-Kinzig-Kreis, in Hesse, Germany. It is located approximately 40 kilometers east of Frankfurt am Main, between the Vogelsberg mountains and the Spessar
View of Gelnhausen with the Marienkirche
Obermarkt
Monument to Philipp Reis, an early telephone inventor
Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen was a German author. He is best known for his 1669 picaresque novel Simplicius Simplicissimus and the accompanying Simplician Cycle series, including The Life
Gelnhausen
…was acquired in 1435 by Elector Palatine Louis III and the Hanau, since raised to a county. Repeated plundering in the Thirty Years' War as depicted by Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen in his novel Simplicius Simplicissimus made it nearly uninhabitable. In 1736, the extinction of the comital line of Hanau meant the condominium share…
1641 portrait claimed to show Grimmelshausen
Abenteuerlicher Simplicissimus, frontispiece of an early edition
Monument to Grimmelshausen in Oberkirch
1879 Grimmelshausen monument in Renchen