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=== '''PUBLICATIONS'''<br> === | === '''PUBLICATIONS'''<br> === | ||
A full length history of Westerburg in German was published in 1999, while helpful it does not provide much coverage of the 17th and 18th centuries, probably because of the destruction of records that occurred in World War II.<br> | |||
*Grieff, Karl. ''Westerburg Stadt seit 1292''. Koblenz: Stadt Westerburg, 1999.<br> | |||
Another helpful pamphlet length history also in German with an engraving of Westerburg dated about 1700 is:<br> | |||
*Mehr, Willy. ''Kleine Stadtgeschichte''. Westerburger Hefte 21. Westerburg: Westerwaldverein, 1985.<br> | |||
Westerburg was a dynastic state, whose boundaries shifted as parcels were sold, bought, divided and inherited. To understand the jurisdictional boundaries of the ''Grafschaft ''of Leiningen-Westerburg the following two books should be consulted.<br> | |||
*Brinkmeier, Ed. ''Genealogische Geschichte des uradeligen, reichsgräflichen und reichsfürstlichen, standesherrlichen, erlauchten Hauses Leiningen und Leiningen-Westerburg''. Zweiter Band. Fascimile edition (1891). Elibron Classics, 2006. | |||
*Gensicke, Hellmuth. ''Landesgeschichte des Westerwaldes''. Third Edition. Wiesbaden: Historische Kommission für Nassau, 1999.<br><br> | |||
For a list of helpful publications about Westerburg, see [https://sites.google.com/site/geschichtswerkstattwesterburg/westerburger-chronologie-1/literatur ''Geschichtswerkstatt-Westerburg: Literatur''] | For a list of helpful publications about Westerburg, see [https://sites.google.com/site/geschichtswerkstattwesterburg/westerburger-chronologie-1/literatur ''Geschichtswerkstatt-Westerburg: Literatur''] | ||
See also the pamphlets in the very helpful series [https://sites.google.com/site/geschichtswerkstattwesterburg/westerburger-hefte ''Westerburger Hefte'' ]<br> | See also the pamphlets in the very helpful series [https://sites.google.com/site/geschichtswerkstattwesterburg/westerburger-hefte ''Westerburger Hefte'' ]<br> | ||
=== '''CHURCH RECORDS'''<br> === | === '''CHURCH RECORDS'''<br> === | ||