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CAUB, or KAUB

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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 546 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CAUB, or KAUB  , a
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town of Germany, in the Prussian province of Hesse-
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Nassau, on the right
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bank of the Rhine, 28 M . N.W. from
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Wiesbaden, on the railway from
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Frankfort-on-Main to Cologne . Pop . 2200 . It has a
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Roman Catholic and an Evangelical church, and a statue of Blucher . The trade mainly consists of the wines of the
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district . On a crag above the town stands the II members. v . I8 imposing ruin of Gutenfels, and facing it, on a rock in the
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middle of the Rhine, the small castle Pfalz, or Pfalzgrafenstein, where, according to legend, the Palatine countesses awaited their confinement, but which in reality .served as a toll-
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gate for merchandise on the Rhine .
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Caub, first mentioned in the
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year 983, originally belonged to the lords of Falkenstein, passed in 1277 to the Rhenish Palatinate, and attained civic rights in 1324 . Here Blucher crossed the Rhine with the Prussian and
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Russian armies, on New Year's
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night 1813-1814, in pursuit of the French .

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