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BUCKEBURG , a See also:town of See also:Germany, See also:capital of the principality of Schaumburg-See also:Lippe, pleasantly situated at the See also:foot of the Harrelberg on the See also:river Aue, 6 m. from See also:Minden, on the See also:main railway from See also:Cologne to See also:Berlin . Pop . 6000 . It has a See also:palace See also:standing in extensive grounds, a gymnasium, a normal See also:seminary, a library, a See also:synagogue, and three churches, one of which has the appropriate inscription, Religions non structurae exemplum . The first houses of Biickeburg began to gather See also:round the See also:castle about 1365; and it was not till the 17th See also:century that the town was surrounded with walls, which have given See also:place to a See also:ring of See also:pretty promenades . The poet J . G. von See also:Herder was See also:court preacher here from 1771 to 1776 . |
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