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13-498: The river's source is located close to the town of Leinefelde in Thuringia. About 40 km (25 mi) downriver, the river enters Lower Saxony and runs northwards. Important towns along its course, from upstream to downstream, are Göttingen , Einbeck , Freden , Alfeld , and Gronau , before the river enters Hanover , the largest city on its banks. Downstream some 40 km (25 mi) north of Hanover, near Schwarmstedt ,

26-617: A copy of the Mazarin Bible (usually known as the Gutenberg Bible), and within a period of forty years he possessed six separate copies of this rare and valuable edition. In 1860 he moved to Piccadilly . In 1873 he published the Bibliotheca Xylographica, Typographica et Palaeographica , a remarkable catalogue of early productions of the printing press of all countries. He became a regular buyer at all

39-471: A significant barrier to an advancing army. Leinefelde Leinefelde-Worbis is a town in the district of Eichsfeld , in northwestern Thuringia , Germany . The town was formed on March 16, 2004, from the former independent towns Leinefelde and Worbis along with the municipalities of Breitenbach and Wintzingerode. In July 2018 the former municipality of Hundeshagen , and in January 2019 Kallmerode

52-599: The Gotha–Leinefelde railways . Since 1997 Worbis has become known for its bear sanctuary, the Alternativer Bärenpark Worbis , which is operated by the German animal welfare organisation Stiftung für Bären – Wildtier- und Artenschutz . The Borderland Museum Eichsfeld , a Cold War history museum located only a few miles away from Leinefelde-Worbis, presents different topics of the history of

65-733: The University of Tübingen . Worbis is the birthplace of Bernard Quaritch (1819-1899), the London second-hand bookseller and publisher, and of Barbara Saß-Viehweger (born 1943), a German politician, lawyer and civil law notary. Bernard Quaritch Bernard Alexander Christian Quaritch ( / ˈ k w ɒr ɪ tʃ / KWORR -itch ; April 23, 1819 – December 17, 1899) was a German-born British bookseller and collector. The company established by Bernard Quaritch in 1847 lives on in London as Bernard Quaritch Ltd , dealing in rare books and manuscripts, as well as publishing books. Quaritch

78-408: The 1960s, it has enjoyed increasingly cleaner waters since the implementation of environmental controls. Sport fishing is enjoyed from small boats and along the banks, although yields are normally low. At least one point of the river (Göttingen) is partially diverted into a canal that runs more or less parallel to the river. Serial killer Fritz Haarmann disposed of most of his victims' remains in

91-549: The German division and the GDR on an area of 1,000 squaremetres. The exhibition is displayed in both German and English. Leinefelde is the birthplace of Johann Carl Fuhlrott , the discoverer of Neanderthal man . It is also the birthplace of Johannes Krause , who determined the Denisovan are a distinct line of homo distinct from modern humans and Neanderthals. Fuhlrott and Krause, born nearly 180 years apart, were also professors at

104-682: The Leine river. In his 1986 bestseller Red Storm Rising , author Tom Clancy uses the Leine as a major obstacle to the Soviet Union 's Red Army drive to the Rhine and the North Sea ports of the Netherlands and Belgium through West Germany . In reality, the river is a rather minor one, and, for most of its length, is quite narrow with a small flow volume. As such, it would not provide

117-559: The largest trade in old books in the world. Among the books that he published was Edward Fitzgerald 's translation of Omar Khayyám 's poetry collection Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam . He was also the agent for the publications of the British Museum and the Society of Antiquaries . He died at Hampstead, London , leaving the business to his son Bernard Alfred Quaritch , who died in 1913. Both father and son are buried together on

130-635: The principal book-sales of Europe and America , and from time to time published a variety of other catalogues of old books. Amongst these may be mentioned the Supplemental Catalogue (1877), and in 1880 an immense catalogue of considerably over 2,000 pages. The last complete catalogue of his stock was published in 1887-88 under the title General Catalogue of Old Books and Manuscripts , in seven volumes, increased with subsequent supplements to twelve. All these catalogues are of considerable bibliographical value. By this time Quaritch had developed

143-632: The river joins the Aller and reaches the North Sea via the Weser . Its northern (lower) reaches are only navigable today by the smallest commercial carriers, though in the past, it served as an important pre- railway barge transport artery as far upriver as Göttingen. The river is somewhat polluted by industry, so the water is not used for drinking, but the pollution has never been severe enough to prevent fish from living in it. Like many western rivers since

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156-486: Was born in Worbis , Germany . After being apprenticed to a bookseller, he went to London in 1842, and was employed by Henry Bohn , the publisher. In 1847 he started a bookseller's business off Leicester Square , becoming naturalized as a British subject. In 1848 he started to issue a monthly Catalogue of Foreign and English Books . About 1858 he began to purchase rare books, one of the earliest of such purchases being

169-457: Was merged into Leinefelde-Worbis. The population before the amalgamation was 14,387 for Leinefelde, 5,541 for Worbis, 1,021 for Breitenbach and 614 for Wintzingerode. The 10 parts of Leinefelde-Worbis are Leinefelde, Worbis, Breitenbach, Kirchohmfeld, Birkungen, Beuren, Hundeshagen, Kaltohmfeld, Wintzingrode, Kallmerode and Breitenholz. Leinefelde station is located on the Halle–Hann. Münden and

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