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'''Lich''' is a town in the [[Gießen (district)|district of Gießen]], in [[Hesse]], [[Germany]]. It is situated 12 km southeast of [[Gießen]]. Lich has a population of around 13,000.

The town is located alongsideon the river [[Wetter (river)|Wetter]] halfway between [[Taunus]] and [[Vogelsberg]]; the northern and eastern parts of the town belongreside towithin the natural area of the [[Vogelsberg Mountains]] , the southern and western toin the [[Wetterau]].

===Constituent communities===

Besides the main town, which bears the same name as the whole municipality, the following surrounding communities belong to Lich since the 1970s''Gebietsreformen'' Hessen(administrative governmentreorganization) actof the 1970s:

* [[Kloster Arnsburg Abbey]]

[[File:Limes 06.jpg|thumb|right|Remnants of the [[Limes]] in thenear Lich surrounding]]

The region is known to behave been settled for more than 100 ,000 years. Tools found onin several places in and around Lich could bewere dated to the [[Neanderthal]] period, others to the [[Aurignacian]] culture, [[Linear Pottery culture]], the [[Bronze Age]], the [[Hallstatt culture]] and the [[La Tène culture]].

When building the ''Upper Germanic [[Limes]]'' during the regencyreign of the Roman Emperor [[Domitian]] the Romans founded alsobuilt the ''[[Castra|Castrum]] Arnsburg'', located near thewhat nowadaysis now [[Arnsburg Abbey]]. It is the most northern known Castrafull-sized ''castrum'' along the Limes.

The first known mentioning of Lich dates back to 790 in the [[Lorsch codex]]. In 1300 the town was awarded a market characterrights by Emperor [[Albert I of Germany]]. Originally belonging to the ''County of Hagen-Münzenberg'' it gotbecame tothe property of the [[Counts of Falkenstein (Rhineland-Palatinate)|Counts of Falkenstein]] following the marriage of ''Isengard of Münzenberg'' to ''Philip IV of Bolanden-Falkenstein''. As an inheritance Lich was given to the House of Solms in the middle of the 14th century. The House of Solms splittetsplit in several branches duringover the centuries – one of them is the branch [[Solms-Hohensolms-Lich]], which isretains seatedits seat in Lich up to now.

There werewas no remarkablesignificant devastationsdestruction in Lich during several wars from [[Thirty Years' War]] up to [[World War II]]. In 1993, the town hosted the 33rd [[Hessentag]] state festival.

== Twin cities Governance==

* [[Tangermünde]] in SachsenSaxony-Anhalt, State (Germany)

It is also friendly associated towith:

* The townTown centre, featuresmade nearlyup universallargely frameworkof half-timbered buildings,. theThe most notable is the '''Textorhaus''' with its richly carved façade, nowadaystoday locatinghosting the Towntown Museummuseum.

* TheLate late[[Gothic gothicarchitecture|Gothic]] '''[[Marienstiftskirche', Lich|Marienstiftskirche]]'' ''(St Mary’sMary's collegiate church)'' with worth seeing grave plates and baroquea [[Baroque architecture|Baroque]] pulpit.

* Beside someSome parts of the town wall theremain. mostOf remarkablethe medievalformer relicts arefortifications the '''[[:de:Stadtturm (Lich)|Town Tower''']] (height 48 metermeters) and the '''Town Gate''' are still extant, built at the beginning of the 14th century.

* The[[:de:Schloss '''Lich|Castle Lich''']] of the ''Fürsten '' (Princes)'' of Solms-Hohensolms-Lich in late renaissance[[Renaissance architecture|Renaissance]] and baroqueBaroque style, surrounded by a public opened park.

* TheFormer formerCistercian cistercian '''[[Arnsburg Abbey]]''', about five kilometers southwest theof cityLich.

* The '''Kino Traumstern cinema''' (cinema) is one of the leading revivalarthouse housescinemas of Hesse; it regardedhas received several hessianHessian and German cultural prices over the years.

== Gallery from LichEducation ==

File:Lich Marienstiftskirche (2).JPG|The ''Marienstiftskirche''

File:Lich Marienstiftskirche.JPG|The ''Marienstiftskirche''

File:Lich Marienstiftskirche Hauptportal.JPG| Main portal of the ''Marienstiftskirche''

File:Lich, Schloss (2).JPG|Inner court of the Lich castleCastle and Ludwig Fürst zu Solms-Hohensolms-Lich monument

File:Hofapotheke (1).JPG|The Court Pharmacypharmacy

File:Eberstadt, kath. Kirche (1).JPG|Eberstadt, catholicRoman Catholic church "''St Maria Immaculata"''

File:Ober-Bessingen, Pforte (1).JPG|Ober-Bessingen, thegate porthouse

File:Lich Ober-Bessingen Winter Stefan Schaefer 20100130.jpg|Ober-Bessingen, winterin sightwinter

==Notable Education people==

* [[Princess Eleonore of Solms-Hohensolms-Lich]] (1871–1937), wife of [[Ernest Ludwig, Grand Duke of Hesse]] and mother-in-law to the [[Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh|Duke of Edinburgh's]]s sister [[Princess Cecilie of Greece and Denmark]]

* {{Interlanguage link multi|Dorothea Gräfin [[Razumovsky]]|de}} (1935–2014), publicist

* [[{{Interlanguage link multi|Wilhelm Solms]]|de}} (b. 1937), [[Germanistik|Germanist]], Professorprofessor of [[Communicationcommunication studies]]

* [[Hermann Otto Solms]] (b. 1940), politician ([[Free Democratic Party (Germany)|FDP]]), up to 22 October 2013 Vice President of the ''[[Deutscher Bundestag]]''.

* [[{{Interlanguage link multi|Alexandra Keil]]|de}} (b. 1978), former member of the German Women's National Basketball Team

===Notable Peoplepeople connected to Lich===

* [[Daniel Hisgen]] (1733–1812), painter of the rococoRococo period

* [[{{Interlanguage link multi|Ernst Moritz Engert]]|de}} (1892–1986), silhouette artist and co-founder of the ''[[Darmstädter Sezession]]''

* [[{{Interlanguage link multi|Anne-Eva Brauneck]]|de}} (1910–2007), first female German Criminalcriminal Lawlaw Professorprofessor

* [[{{Interlanguage link multi|Joachim Dudeck]]|de}} (1932–2010), Professorprofessor of Healthhealth Informaticsinformatics and founder of the German Cancer Registry

* [[:de:Karl Starzacher (Politiker)|Karl Starzacher]] (b. 1945), politician of the [[Social Democratic Party of Germany|SPD]], 1991–1995 President of the [[Landtag of Hesse]] and Finance Minister from 1995 to 1999 Finance Minister

* [[Thorsten Schäfer-Gümbel]] (b. 1969), politician (SPD), current leader of the opposition SPD party bloc ofin the Landtag of Hesse

* [http://www.lich.de OfficialMunicipal Homepage of Lichwebsite]