Limburg

Limburg is the name of the following places:

  • Limburg an der Lahn, the district town of the Limburg-Weilburg district, Hesse
  • Hohenlimburg, a district of the city of Hagen, North Rhine-Westphalia (until 1876 Limburg an der Lenne)
  • Limbourg, a town in the Belgian province of Liège


Limburg is the name of the following provinces:

  • Province of Limburg (Netherlands)
  • Province of Limburg (Belgium)
  • Province of Limburg, former administrative unit of the Kingdom of the United Netherlands from 1815 to 1839


Limburg is the name of the following castles and mountains:

  • Alte Limburg, castle ruin near Sasbach am Kaiserstuhl in the district of Emmendingen in Baden-Württemberg
  • Limburg (Bad Berleburg) (580.3 m), southeastern town mountain of Bad Berleburg, Rothaar Mountains
  • Castle Limburg (Baden) (Limpurg), castle ruin near Sasbach am Kaiserstuhl in the district of Emmendingen in Baden-Württemberg
  • Limburg Castle (Hesse) (Limburc, Limburg Castle), castle in Limburg an der Lahn in the district of Limburg-Weilburg in Hesse
  • Limburg Castle (Swabian Alb), a former hilltop castle near Weilheim an der Teck in the district of Esslingen in Baden-Württemberg
  • Burgstall Limburg, former fortress Limburg and today hamlet at the river Wörnitz in the municipality Wilburgstetten, district Ansbach, Bavaria
  • Limbourg (Château de Limbourg), former castle in Limbourg (Belgium)
  • Slotje Limburg, noble house in Oosterhout, province of North Brabant


Limburg is the surname of the following people:

  • Limburg (Hanoverian patrician family), also Limborg
  • Limbourg brothers (Hermann, Paul, Johan; 138x-1416), Dutch painters
  • Fritz Limburg, German gymnast
  • Georg Limburg (* 1925), German trade unionist (FDGB)
  • Helge Limburg (* 1982), German politician
  • Josef Limburg (1874-1955), German sculptor
  • Kai Limburg (* 1962), German basketball player
  • Michael Limburg (* 1940), German author, politician (AfD) and Vice President of EIKE
  • Olga Limburg (1881-1970), German actress
  • Werner Hoffmann-Limburg (1936-2020), German teacher, singer and actor


Limburg also stands for:

  • Limburg Monastery, a former monastery in what is now Bad Dürkheim in the Palatinate region of Germany
  • Limburg-Stirum, a ruling noble family from Westphalia
  • County Limburg, the historical county of this family in the western Sauerland with the castle Hohenlimburg
  • Limburg-Broich, an extinct collateral line of this family
  • Limburg (noble family), a noble family formerly ruling in Limburg/Lahn
  • Duchy of Limburg, a historical territory in the Holy Roman Empire with a core area in the northeast of present-day Belgium (province of Liège with the capital Limbourg)
  • Duchy of Limburg (1839-1866), a duchy which belonged to the German Confederation and later became a province of the Netherlands
  • Diocese of Limburg
  • Limburg (Weilheim an der Teck), a mountain in the Swabian Alb
  • Limburg (ship), a French oil tanker badly damaged by an explosive attack off the coast of Yemen in 2002


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