GLUCKSTADT
Online Encyclopedia
Originally appearing in Volume
V12,
Page 141
of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
GLUCKSTADT
, a town of Germany, in the Prussian province of Schleswig- Holstein, on the right bank of the Elbe, at the confluence of the small river Rhin, and 28 m
.
N.W. of Altona, on the railway from Itzehoe to Elmshorn
.
Pop
.
(1905) 6586
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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)
, a handsome 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)
(restored in 1873–1874), a gymnasium, a provincial prison and a penitentiary
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The inhabitants are chiefly engaged in commerce and fishing; but the frequent losses from inundations have greatly retarded the prosperity of the town
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Gluckstadt was founded by Christian IV. of Denmark in 1617, and fortified in 162o
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It soon became an important trading centre
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In 1627–28 it was besieged for fifteen weeks by the imperialists under Tilly, without success
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In 1814 it was blockaded by the allies and capitulated, whereupon its fortifications were demolished
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In 183o it was made a free port
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It came into the possession of Prussia together with the rest of Schleswig-Holstein in 1866
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See Lucht, Gluckstadl
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Beitrage zur Geschichte dieser Sladt ( Kiel, 1854)
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