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DINKELSBUHL

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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 277 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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DINKELSBUHL  , a

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town of Germany, in the
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kingdom of Bavaria, on the WSrnitz,16 m . N. from
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Nordlingen, on the
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rail-way to Dombuhl . Pop . 5000 . It is an interesting
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medieval town, still surrounded by old walls and towers, and has an Evangelical and two
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Roman Catholic churches . Notable is the so-called Deutsches Haus, the ancestral home of the
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counts of Drechsel-Deufstetten, a
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fine specimen of the German renaissance style of wooden architecture . There are a Latin and
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industrial school, several benevolent institutions, and a monument to Christoph von Schmid (1768—x854), a writer of stories for the young . The inhabitants carry on the manufacture of brushes, gloves, stockings and gingerbread, and
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deal largely in cattle . Fortified by the emperor Henry I., Dinkelsbuhl received in 1305 the same municipal rights as
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Ulm, and obtained in 1351 the position of a
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free imperial city, which it retained till 1802, when it passed to Bavaria . Its municipal code, the Dinkelsbuhler Recht, published in 1536, and revised in 1738, contained a very extensive collection of public and private
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laws .

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