and Nassau County, New York, in the United States. The name also occurs in the titles of ships, buildings, and even a type of bet used in golf. Main sights Located in Nassau, south of the river Lahn, is the Nassau Castle. It is the eponymous ancestral seat of the counts of Nassau and thus the joint ancestral castle of the Grand Dukes of Luxembourg and Dutch royal house of Nassau. The town is also home to the Steinische Hof, the seat of the Reichsfreiherren (Barons) vom und zum Stein, and birthplace of the Prussian reformer and Minister Heinrich Friedrich Karl, Reichsfreiherr vom und zum Stein. People The Imperial Baron Heinrich Friedrich Karl vom und zum Stein, Prussian statesman and reformer, was born in Nassau on October 25, 1757. Here he wrote his famous Nassauer Memorandum of 1807. Stein descended from an ancient aristocratic dynasty, who had been residents of Nassau since the 12th century. The family estate lies in the centre of the town, called the Steinische Hof, which today is still in the possession of the descendants of the reformer, the Counts von Kanitz. He died in Cappenberg, district of Selm in the year 1831. Sons and daughters of the city Johann Philipp Bethmann (1715-1793), banker, founder of the banking firm Bethmann brothers in Frankfurt Johann Jakob Bethmann (1717-1792), merchant and shipowner, imperial consul in Bordeaux Simon Moritz Bethmann, (1721-1782), banker and patron, co-founder of the Bethmann brothers' bank in Frankfurt Arnold Rönnebeck (1885-1947), German-American sculptor, lithograph and museum director of the Denver Art Museum Wolfgang Franz (born 1944), economist, 1997-2013 President of the ZEW Personalities who are associated with Nassau Constantin Fahlberg (Tambov 1850 – Nassau 1910), chemist and science researcher Alexander von Falkenhausen (Gut Blumenthal 1878 – Nassau 1966), general; military advisor to Chiang Kai-shek; head of the military government of Belgium during German occupation 1940-1944. References External links Nassau Homepage Nassau on Google Earth Towns in Rhineland-Palatinate Rhein-Lahn-Kreis