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HEIDE

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 209 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HEIDE  , a

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town of Germany, in the Prussian province of Schleswig-Holstein, on a small plateau which stands between the marshes and moors bordering the North Sea, 35 M . N.N.W. of Gliickstadt, at the junction of the
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railways
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Elmshorn-Hvidding and
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Neumunster-Tonning . Pop.(1905), 8758 . It has an Evangelical and a
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Roman Catholic church, a high-grade school, and
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tobacco and
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cigar manufactories and breweries . Heide in 1447 became the capital of the Ditmarsh peasant republic, but on the 13th of
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June 1559 it was the scene of the
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complete defeat of the peasant forces by the Danes .

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