FEHRBELLLN
Online Encyclopedia
Originally appearing in Volume
V10,
Page 237
of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
FEHRBELLLN
, a town of Germany, in the kingdom of Prussia, on the Rhine, 40 M
.
N.W. from Berlin on the railway to Neu- Ruppin
.
Pop
.
(1905) 1602
.
It has a Protestant and a Roman Catholic See also: - CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
and some small industries, among them that of wooden shoes
.
Fehrbellin is memorable in history as the scene of the famous victory gained, on the 18th of June 1675, by the great elector, Frederick See also: - WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
of Prussia, over the Swedes under See also: - FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
- FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
- FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
- FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
- FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
- FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
- FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
- FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
- FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
- FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
- FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)
- Marshal Wrangel
.
A monument was erected in 1879 on the field of battle, near the village of Hakenberg, to commemorate this great feat of arms
.
See A. von Witzleben and P
.
Hassel, Zum Zoo-jdhrigen Gedenktag von Fehrbellin (Berlin, 1875) ; G
.
Sello, " Fehrbellin," in Deutsche Zeitschrift fur Geschichtswissenschaften, vii.; M
.
Jahns, " Der Grosse Kurfurst bei Fehrbellin, &c.," in Hohenzollern Jahrbuch, i
.
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