startx

[Peter Niederlag]

solved.

It turned to be out to be a problem as described in the FAQ: 
http://xfree86.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-xfree-faq.html#q-error-font-eof

Thank you for pointing me there!
Now startxwin.bat from within DOS works as well.
:) Peter
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