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FREISING
, a See also:town of See also:Germany, in the See also:kingdom of See also:Bavaria, on the See also:Isar, 16 m. by See also:rail N.N.E. of See also:Munich
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(1905) 13,538
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Among its eight See also:Roman See also:Catholic churches the most remarkable is the See also:cathedral, which See also:dates from about 116o and is famous for its curious See also:crypt
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Noteworthy also are the old See also:palace of the bishops, now a clerical See also:seminary, the theological See also:lyceum and the town-See also: Later on the bishops acquired considerable territorial See also:power and in the 17th See also:century became princes of the See also:Empire . In 1802 the see was secularized, the bulk of its territories being assigned to Bavaria and the See also:rest to See also:Salzburg, of which Freising had been a See also:suffragan bishopric . In 1817 an archbishopric was established at Freising, but in the following See also:year it was transferred to Munich . The occupant of the see is now called See also:archbishop of Munich and Freising . See C . Meichelbeck, Historiae Frisingensis (See also:Augsburg, 1724-1729, new and enlarged edition 1854) . |
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