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were thereby heavily damaged and 47 properties were utterly destroyed. The whole of Eissen was damaged, but only two villagers were wounded and none killed. At the end, 14 German and 3 American soldiers had fallen, and 65 Wehrmacht soldiers had become
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times between 500 and 800, at which time it formed the western part of the "Mark Löwen". It was in this time that most places with names ending in
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doorframes. This coat of arms was based on the town's oldest known seal, from 1318, and the seal itself had been based on one used by the local
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seven years earlier so that she could pay her mother and uncle off. This brought an end to the
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