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ETTENHEIM

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Originally appearing in Volume V09, Page 863 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ETTENHEIM  , a

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town of Germany, in the
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grand-duchy of Baden, pleasantly situated on the Ettenbach, under the western slope of the Black
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Forest, 7 m . E. from the Rhine by
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rail . Pop . (1900) 3106 . It has a handsome
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Roman Catholic church, with ceiling frescoes, and containing the tomb of Cardinal Rohan, the last prince bishop of Strassburg, who resided here from 1790 till 1803; a
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Protestant church and a
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medieval town-hall . i Tile or Vipi or Tetna, of men . e.g . Titi or Vipinei or Tetinei, of
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women . (3) cognomen =additional
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family name . e.g . Faru or Petru of men, Farui, Vetui of women . (4) agnomen =
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special cognomen derived from the cognomen of the Its
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industries include the manufacture of
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tobacco,
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soap and leather, and there is a considerable trade in wine and agricultural produce .

Founded in the 8th

century by Eddo, bishop of Strassburg, Ettenheim remained attached to that see until 1802, when it passed to Baden . Louis Antoine
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Henri de Bourbon-Conde, duke of Enghien (1972-1804), who had taken
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refuge here in 18o1, was arrested in Ettenheim on the 15th of March 1804 and conveyed to Paris, where he was shot on the loth of March following . The
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Benedictine abbey of Ettenheimmunster, which was founded in the 8th century and which was dissolved in 1803, occupied a site south of the town .

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