Samstag, 18. Dezember 2010


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Nassau Expressway and Conduit Avenue at New York JFK Airport
With kind permission of Google Earth

The origin of the Dukedom of Nassau in Germany is attributed to the historic epoch of 915 – 1150 d.c. - the cruzaders epoch – when in the nowadays town of Nassau between Koblenz and Limburg in the Lahn river valley was constructed a fortress that registers for first time this naming. In 1195 the castle became a so called `Reichsburg` - means that the feudal sovereignty was hold by the german empire. Until the year of 1400 the territory related to Nassau extended by marriages, inheritances and acquisitions over the neighbouring eastern regions until Weilburg (1195), Siegen (1224), Usingen (1255), Dillenburg, Hadamar and Beilstein (1303). Since 1420 joined the counties of Luxemburg, Vianden and Diez and territories of Arnsberg, Muenzenberg and Breda. Between 1530 and 1702 the independent town of Orange in Southern France, related to the Avignon papal state and forming there the enclave of Orange County, belonged to or was governed by the Nassau Duchy families. This relationship founded the matrimonial line of Nassau-Oranien and is still namegiving for the royal netherlands dynasty of Oranje-Nassau. The historical german Dukedom of Nassau eclipsed until the year of 1866, including more far than the proper dukedom also the towns of Frankfurt / Main, Wiesbaden and the Biedenkopf district near Marburg, but in consequence of the so called `War of 1866` the duchy was incorporated into the Prussian-german state.




Upper Nassau Avenue @ Varick Street, Queens / New York
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Lower Nassau Avenue @ at Berry Park, Queens / New York
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Even if the disperse extensions of the proper Nassau homeland territory by marriage relationships to South of France, Saarland, Luxembourg and Netherlands brought prosperity of the central Hessen region to a higher level, the Nassau mountains of Taunus and Westerwald remained during the medieval epoch an region overexploited by deforestation, minery and agriculture. Since the discovery of the continents overseas – Africa, Asia, Australia and America – the homelands economic situation promoted so repeatedly or generationwise emigration waves to far abroad. The Nassau Dukedoms long time independence from the greater prussian or german states explains the lack of own overseas transport structures – an own fleet with deep sea ships or an own colonial company. So the emigrational and or comercial initiatives from Nassau Dukedom forced the adventurers to integrate in existing structures of the allied nations as Netherlands and later also England and Ireland with their respective East Indian and West Indian Companies (VOC et. al.).



Little Nassau Street, Queens / New York
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The participation as formal `foreigners` in foreign comercial oversea adventures, colonial or military campaigns and the lack of own colonial structures is a reason, why destiny and success of the emigrants from Nassau Germany is still a far-reaching unwritten chapter of worlds emigrational and resettlement history. This contrasts with the widespread distribution of the site and settlement names Nassau, Orange and Oranje over all continents of the so called `new worlds`. Over the whole geography of planet earth we can find islands, capes, bays, rivers and mountain heights but also administrative structures as districts, counties, nature reserves, town quartes, streets and bridges without forgetting here to mention the remains of ancient former colonial military structures consisting in a more than a dozen of forts, fortresses and castles that all carry the names Nassau, Orange or Oranje.



Nassau Street turns to Frankfurt Street, Manhattan / New York
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Nassau Street - John Street - Dey Street, Manhattan / New York
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Nassau Street - Broad Street - Wall Street, Manhattan / New York
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Most prominent namegiving in this margin might have been the Nassau County founded by european sailors on the Long Island at the eastern coast of North America. During the following centuries this site remained the most important arrival point for all ships with immigrants from Europe and here began the development of one of the most important metropolis of the world – New York. Today we find besides the old original Nassau County on Long Island several more sites named following the Orange-Nassau terminology such as the Nassau Heights in upper Queens, several Nassau streets, roads and avenues as well as the Orange quarters in the west of Manhattan, commonly titeled as `The Oranges`.

In June 2007 CID Investigation started a library and Internet literature research concerning the worldwide distribution of the Orange and Nassau site names. Data and material remained partially and unsystematically reviewed until in 2010 a largely complete site list was composed and a projects homepage established, that can be visited at http://www.orange-nassau.blogspot.com. Projected is the stepwise description of all listed Orange and Nassau sites with an compilative article about namegiving, geography, history, cultural, natural and environmental facts. When affordable CID Investigation intents to visit and document photographically selected places in case that not sufficient Internet ressources are available to describe the site in mention.

Beneath the completion of the site list (http://www.orange-nassau-map.blogspot.com) two first articles where composed using nearly exclusively Internet ressources. These are the Cap Nassau and Oranjen Islands at the northern coast of the island Novaja Semlja in russian arctic sea (Bering Sea) http://www.capnassau-novsem.blogspot.com and the Nassau River in Cape York Province, Queensland (Gulf of Carpentaria), Australia http://www.nassau-river-queensland.blogspot.com.

Actually a data research about the former Nassau Bay in Guandong Province, China, is advanced. Contact by email with several german East Asia research institutes as well as with the Dutch East India Company has been established with a data research request but until the report date in no case an answer has been given.


New York 1908, map detail West, East & South Orange (left) until Hudson River (right)
With kind permission of Leipzig Bibliographic Institute



New York 1908, map detail Nassau Heights / Queens (center right) until Manhattan Island (left)
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The Oranges & Nassaus of the World©

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