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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 776 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ALZEY  , a

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town of
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Germany, in the
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grand duchy of
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Hesse-
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Darmstadt, 18 m . S. of
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Mainz by
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rail . Pop . (1900) 6893 . There are a
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Roman
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Catholic and two
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Protestant churches, several high-grade
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schools and a teachers'
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seminary . Alzey has
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industries of
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dyeing and
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weaving, breweries, and does a considerable
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trade in
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wine . It is immortalized in the
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Nibelungenlied in the
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person of " Volker von Alzeie," the
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warrior who in the last
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part of the epic plays a part second only to that of
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Hagen, and who " was called the
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minstrel (spilman) because he could
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fiddle." It became an imperial
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city in 1277 . In 162o it was sacked by the Spaniards and in 1689 burnt by the
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French . Annexed to
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France during the
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Napoleonic
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wars, it passed in 1815 to the grand-duchy of Hesse-Darmstadt .

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