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EINBECK
, or EIMBEcK, a See also:town of See also:Germany, in the Prussian See also:province of See also:Hanover, on the Ilm, 50 M. by See also:rail S. of Hanover
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It is an old-fashioned town with many See also:quaint wooden houses, notable among them the " Northeimhaus," a beautiful specimen of See also:medieval See also:architecture
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There are several churches, among them the Alexanderkirche, containing the tombs of the princes or Grubenhagen, and a See also:synagogue
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The See also:schools include a Realgymnasium (i.e. predominantly for " See also:modern " subjects), technical schools for the advanced study of See also:machine-making, for See also:weaving and for the textile See also:industries, a preparatory training-See also:college and a See also:police school
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The industries include See also:brewing, weaving and the manufacture of See also:cloth, carpets, See also:tobacco, See also:sugar, See also:leather-grease, toys and roofing-f elt
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Einbeck See also:grew up originally See also:round the monastery of St See also: 1551), with the See also:death of whose son Philip II . (1596) the Grubenhagen See also:line became See also:extinct . In 1626, during the See also:Thirty Years' See also:War, Einbeck was taken by See also:Pappenheim and in See also:October 1641 by See also:Piccolomini . In 1643 it was evacuated by the Imperialists . In 1761 its walls were razed by the See also:French . See H . L . See also:Harland, Gesch. der Stadt Einbeck, 2 Ede . (Einbeck, 1854–1859; abridgment, ib . 1881) . |
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