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Kalkar is a municipality in the district of Kleve, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is located near the Rhine, approx. 10 km south-east of Cleves. The catholic church St. Nicolai has preserved o
Marktplatz in Kalkar
St. Nicolai church
The Kalkar reactor in 2004
Windmill of Kalkar
Friedrich Wilhelm Freiherr von Seydlitz was a Prussian officer, lieutenant general, and among the most renowned of the Prussian cavalry generals. He commanded one of the first hussar squadrons of Fred
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…Diederik Sonoy (1529–1597), Dutch-German leader of the Geusen Friedrich Wilhelm von Seydlitz (1721–1773), Prussian general Ludger Rémy (1949–2017), German cembalist and orchestra dirigent…
1854 portrait
Seydlitz smoked a pipe, and when he tossed it away, it was the sign for his troopers to proceed. Depicted here at the Battle of Rossbach, in a section of a history painting by Richard Knötel.
Statue of Seydlitz at Wilhelmplatz in Berlin (painting from 1872)
Statue of Seydlitz at Wilhelmplatz in Berlin in 2018