KYFFHÄUSER

kĭfˈhoizər, forested mountain, c.1,550 ft (470 m), Saxony-Analt, central Germany. It is crowned by the two ruined castles of Rothenburg (7th cent.) and Kyffhausen (12th cent.) and by a huge monument to Emperor William I (erected 1896). According to legend, Emperor Frederick I (Frederick Barbarossa) sleeps bewitched in a limestone cave in the mountain, sitting at a stone table through which his beard has grown; there he awaits the time when he will go forth to restore German greatness. The legend, treated in poems by Uhland, Heine, and others, probably originally applied to Emperor Frederick II (reigned 1220–50).

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After Unity: Reconfiguring German Identities
Book by Konrad H. Jarausch; Berghahn Books, 1997
Subjects: Germany--Ethnic Relations, Germany--Politics And Government--1990-, Political Culture--Germany
...anti-Semitic students gathered on the Kyffhauser mountain to pledge eternal loyalty to...awakening and William Is triumph: "On the Kyffhauser, where according to myth Emperor Frederick...has fulfilled the legend." 43 The Kyffhauser manifests a series of correspondences...
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Through Thirty Years, 1892-1922: A Personal Narrative - Vol. 1
Book by Henry Wickham Steed; Doubleday, Page & Company, 1924
Subjects: Europe--Politics And Government--1871-1918, World War, 1914-1918
...wrote: Many centuries ago, on the Kyffhauser Hill that rises in the midst of the...has unveiled a monument erected on the Kyffhauser Hill to the memory of the white-bearded...have helped to defray the cost of the Kyffhauser Denkmal. None of the numerous anniversaries...
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Dada Culture: Critical Texts on the Avant-Garde
Book by Dafydd Jones; Rodopi, 2006
Subjects: Avant-Garde (Aesthetics)--History--20th Century, Dadaism--History, Dadaism--Influence, Human Figure In Art
...hoard with its gleaming treasure; the Kyffhauser with the stone table; the Goethe Grotto...1931: 423) 15 Schwitters mentions the Kyffhauser, alluding to the Barbarossa legend...crusade, is sleeping in a cave within the Kyffhauser mountain range, ready to wake up when...
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Urban Avant-Gardes Art, Architecture and Change
Book by Malcolm Miles; Routledge, 2004
Subjects: Architecture And Society, Art And Society, City Planning--Environmental Aspects, City Planning--Social Aspects
...I Barbarossa sleeps in a cave in the Kyffhauser Mountain in the Harz region; more orthodox...then, proceeding northward, into the Kyffhauser. Ancient, cthonic images were associated...times a mountain cult was at home on the Kyffhauser Frederick II took his place and only...
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From Monuments to Traces: Artifacts of German Memory, 1870-1990
Book by Rudy Koshar; University of California Press, 2000
Subjects: Germany--History--1871-1918--Historiography, Germany--History--20th Century--Historiography, National Monuments--Germany, National Socialism--Moral And Ethical Aspects, Political Culture--Germany, Symbolism In Politics--Germany, War And Civilization, War Memorials--Germany
...to the deceased kaiser built atop the Kyffhauser. The iconography reflected Prussias...national state, monuments such as the Kyffhauser relied heavily on popular action, and...campaign relied on many donations. The Kyffhauser had been started through the initiative...
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A Combined Zircon Shrimp and Sm-nd Isotope Study of High-grade Paragneisses from the Mid-german Crystalline Rise: Evidence for Northern Gondwanan and Grenvillian Provenance
Journal article by A. Zeh, H. Bratz, I. L. Millar, I. S. Williams; Journal of the Geological Society, Vol. 158, 2001
Subjects: Africa, Geology, Isotopes, Studies
...complex, exposed in the Palatinate, Odenwald, Spessart and Kyffhauser mountains and in the Ruhla Crystalline Complex (Fig. 2...Hansch Zeh 2000). Rock unit I, exposed in the Odenwald, Kyffhauser and in parts of the Ruhla Crystalline complexes, consists...
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Memory in an Amnesic World: Holocaust, Exile, and the Return of the Suppressed
Journal article by Erika Bourguignon; Anthropological Quarterly, Vol. 78, 2005
Subjects: Exile, Holocaust, Jews, Memory, Mythology, World War II
...Barbarossa, drowned in Asia Minor while leading the Third Crusade. According to German legend he sits in a cavern in the Kyffhauser Mountains in Thuringia, waiting to return when needed by his country. Hitler called his campaign against the Soviet Union...


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A House That Bismarck Built
Magazine article by Jacob Heilbrunn; The National Interest, November 2011
Subjects: Bismarck: A Life (Biography)--Book reviews, Books--Book reviews
...for ever since the days of Frederick Barbarossa (legend has it that the sleeping kaiser lies resting in the mountains of Kyffhauser with his knights, waiting to reunite Germany after the ravens stop flying around him). For others, such as Theodor Fontane...
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The Romantic Revolution
Magazine article by Daniel Snowman; History Today, Vol. 60, November 2010
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, The Romantic Revolution (Nonfiction work)--Book reviews
...Fuseli or Berlioz. Romanticism did not die, Blanning concludes, but is only resting (like Frederick Barbarossa in the Kyffhauser mountain) and he hints that our own cultural confusions may be succeeded by a new, updated romanticism redivirus. In which...


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Hohenstaufen
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...German empires greatness under the Hohenstaufen played a part in later German history and inspired legends such as that of the Kyffhauser . See T. F. Tout, The Empire and the Papacy, 918 1273 (8th ed. 1941); J. W. Thompson, Feudal Germany (1928, repr...
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Sondershausen
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...SONDERSHAUSEN zon d rs-hou z n, commune (1994 pop. 22,370), Thuringia, central Germany, near the western foot of Kyffhauser Mt. It is an industrial city and a potash-mining center. Manufactures include textiles, clothing, and paper. Nearby...
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Frederick I , Holy Roman Emperor and German King
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...out (1189) on the Third Crusade (see Crusades ). He was drowned in Cilicia. Legend, however, has him asleep in the Kyffhauser , waiting to restore the empire to its former greatness. Among the positive and lasting achievements of Fredericks reign...
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KyffhÄuser
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
KYFFHAUSER kif hoiz r, forested mountain, c.1,550 ft (470 m), Saxony-Analt, central Germany. It is crowned by the two ruined...


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