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Wesel (district)

Wesel is a Kreis (district) in the northwestern part of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Neighboring districts are Borken, Recklinghausen, district-free cities Bottrop, Oberhausen, Duisburg and Krefeld, districts Viersen, Cleves.

Wesel

Wesel is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is the capital of the Wesel district.

Wesel (disambiguation)

Wesel is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

Wesel may also refer to:

  • Wesel (district)
  • Wesel station
  • Wesel citadel
  • A former village, now part of Jeżewo-Wesel, Poland
  • Hermann Wesel, German ecclesiastic in Livonia, and the last Roman Catholic Bishop of Dorpat (Tartu)
  • Johann Ruchrat von Wesel, German Scholastic theologian
  • Andries van Wesel, known as Andreas Vesalius (1514– 1564), Brabançon anatomist and physician

Usage examples of "wesel".

Everybody had found out, somehow or other, that we had travelled from Wesel to Hanover together, and they were at liberty to draw whatever conclusions they pleased.

Thither the generals, appointed to command the several divisions, repaired to settle the plan of operations with their commander, the duke of Cumberland, who having left London on the ninth of April, arrived on the sixteenth at Hanover, and from thence repaired to the army, which, having been joined by three Prussian regiments that retired from Wesel, consisted of thirty-seven battalions and thirty-four squadrons.

Prior of the Dominican house at Cologne, and on 8 February, 1479, he was present, as the socius of Gerhard von Elten, at the trial of John von Ruchratt of Wesel, who was found guilty of propagating the most subversive doctrines, and was sentenced to seclusion in the Augustinian monastery at Mainz, where he died in 1481.

At Wesel I wished to get rid of my post-chaise, for the horses of the country are not used to going between shafts, but what was my surprise to meet General Bekw there.

The bargain was soon struck, and the general advised me to stay at Wesel where there was a clever young doctor from the University of Leyden, who would understand my case better than the Brunswick physicians.

CHAPTER XVII My Cure--Daturi is Beaten by Some Soldiers--I Leave Wesel for Brunswick--Redegonde--Brunswick--The Hereditary Prince--The Jew-- My Stay at Wolfen-Buttel The Library--Berlin Calsabigi and the Berlin Lottery--Mdlle.

Now when I was alone, I rubbed myne eyes, and armed my selfe to keep the corpes, and to the intent I would not sleepe, I began to sing, and so I passed the time until it was midnight, when as behold there crept in a Wesel into the chamber, and she came against me and put me in very great feare, insomuch that I marvelled greatly at the audacity of so little a beast.

I wondered if the black giant had ever heard of the 11 officers of Schill's regiment who had been shot in a summary court-martial by Napoleon's soldiers in the town of Wesel.