place
Katzenellenbogen
A historic county in the Rhineland, now part of Rhineland-Palatinate; chosen by Madách for its comically long and unwieldy name in his satirical enumeration of minor German principalities.
Reading notes
- The Civilizer §7 Katzenellenbogen
A minor German county in the Rhineland-Palatinate region; Madách lists it alongside Bückeburg, Hechingen, Sigmaringen, Schwerin, and Strelitz — all tiny German principalities — to mock the idea of a unified German 'nation' assembled from such scraps.