HAVELBERG  , a See also:

• TOWN

town of See also:

• GERMANY
• GERMANY (Ger. Deutschland)

Germany, in the Prussian See also:

• PROVINCE
• PROVINCE (Lat. provincia; perhaps a contraction of providentia)

province of See also:

• BRANDENBURG

Brandenburg, on the See also:

• HAVEL

Havel and the railway Glowen-Havelberg . Pop . (1905), J988 . The town is built partly on an See also:

• ISLAND (O.E. ieg =isle, +land')

island in the Havel, and partly on hills on the right See also:

• BANK

bank of the See also:

• RIVER

river, on one of which stands the See also:

• FINE

fine Romanesque See also:

• CATHEDRAL

cathedral dating from the 12th See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century . The two parts, which are connected by a See also:

• BRIDGE

bridge, were incorporated as one town in 1875 . The inhabitants are chiefly engaged in See also:

• TOBACCO

tobacco manufacturing, See also:

• SUGAR

sugar-refining and See also:

• BOAT (0. Eng. bdt; the true etymological connexion with Dutch and Ger. boot, Fr. bateau, Ital. battello presents great difficulties; Celtic forms are from O. Eng.)

boat-See also:

• BUILDING

building, and in the See also:

• TIMBER

timber See also:

• TRADE (O. Eng. trod, footstep, from tredan, to tread; in M. Eng. the forms teed, trod and trade appear, the last in the sense of a beaten track)
• TRADE, BOARD OF

trade . See also:

• OTTO

Otto I. founded a bishopric at Havelberg in 946; the See also:

• BISHOP (A.S. bisceop, from Lat. episcopus, Gr. irio-Korros, " overlooker " or " overseer ")
• BISHOP, ISABELLA (1832-1904)
• BISHOP, SIR HENRY ROWLEY (1786-1855)

bishop, however, who was a See also:

• PRINCE
• PRINCE (Lat. princeps, from primus capio, " I am the first to take "; Ital. principe, Fr. prince)

prince of the See also:

• EMPIRE

Empire, generally resided at Plattenburg, or Wittstock, a few See also:

• MILES, NELSON APPLETON (1839— )

miles to the See also:

• NORTH
• NORTH, BARONS
• NORTH, MARIANNE (1830—1890)
• NORTH, ROGER (1653-1734)
• NORTH, SIR THOMAS (1535?-16o1?)

north . In 1548 the bishopric was seized by the elector of Brandenburg, who finally took See also:

• POSSESSION
• POSSESSION (Lat. possessio, possidere, to possess)

possession of it fifty years later, and the cathedral passed to the See also:

• PROTESTANT

Protestant 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)

Church, retaining its endowments till the See also:

• EDICT (Lat. edictum, from e, out, and dicere, to say, speak)

edict of 181o, by which all former ecclesiastical possessions were assumed by the See also:

• CROWN

crown . The final secularization was delayed till 1819 . Havelberg was formerly a strong fortress, but in the See also:

• THIRTY

Thirty Years' See also:

• WAR
• WAR (O. Eng. werre, Fr. guerre, of Teutonic origin; cf. O.H.G. werran, to confound)

War it was taken from the Danish by the imperial troops in 1627 . Recaptured by the Swedes in 1631, and again in 1635 and 1636, it was in 1637 retaken by the See also:

• SAXONS

Saxons . It suffered severely from a conflagration in 1870 .