HEIDENHEIM
Online Encyclopedia
Originally appearing in Volume
V13,
Page 212
of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
HEIDENHEIM
, a town of Germany, in the kingdom of Wurttemberg, 31 M. by rail north by east of Ulm
.
Pop
.
(1905), 12,173
.
It has an Evangelical 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)
,
cotton, woollen, tobacco, machinery and chemical factories, bleach- works, dye-works and breweries, and corn and cattle markets
.
The town, which received municipal privileges in 1356, is overlooked by the ruins of the castle of Hellenstein, standing on a See also: - HILL
- HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
- HILL, A
- HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
- HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
- HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
- HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
- HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
- HILL, JAMES J
- HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
- HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
- HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
- HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
- HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)
1985 ft. high
.
Heidenheim is also the name of a small place in Bavaria famous on account of the Benedictine abbey which formerly stood therein
.
Founded in 748 by Wilibald, bishop of Eichstatt, this was plundered by the peasantry in 1525 and was closed in 1537
.
End of Article: HEIDENHEIM
|
[back]
KARL ALEXANDER VON HEIDELOFF (1788–1865)
|
[next]
HEIFER
|
del.icio.us it!