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Rothwesten

human settlement in Germany

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 12, 2025
Entity authorityQ1475579 ↗
Source-derived summary

Rothwesten is a village in the municipality Fuldatal, in the Kassel district, Hesse, Germany. It was the site of a post World War II American sector displaced person camp, and later Rothwesten Air Base.

The Currency Reform of 1948 was planned in Rothwesten.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Rothwesten” is human settlement in Germany. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Rothwesten, human and settlement, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1948—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Rothwesten, human and settlement is the immediate research focus.
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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 12, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q1475579. VIAF identifies the subject as 137903685. Authority coordinates are 51.385, 9.523. 1 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1948.

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This entry incorporates text from “Rothwesten” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.