FRANKENHAUSEN
Online Encyclopedia
Originally appearing in Volume
V11,
Page 16
of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
FRANKENHAUSEN
, a town of Germany, in the principality of Schwarzburg- Rudolstadt, on an artificial arm of the Wipper, a tributary of the Saale, 36 m
.
N.N.E. of Gotha
.
Pop
.
(1905) 6534
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It consists of an old and a new town, the latter mostly rebuilt since a destructive fire in 1833, and has an old chateau of the princes of Schwarzburg, three Protestant churches, a seminary for teachers, a hospital and a modern town- See also: - HALL
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
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Its industries include the manufacture of sugar, cigars and buttons, and there are brine springs, with baths, in the vicinity
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At Frankenhausen a battle was fought on the 15th of May 1525, in which the insurgent peasants under See also: - THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
were defeated by the allied princes of Saxony and Hesse
.
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