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HELMSTEDT

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 250 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HELMSTEDT  , or more rarely Helmstedt, a

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town of Germany, in the duchy of Brunswick, 3o m . N.W. of
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Magdeburg on the main
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line of railway to Brunswick . Pop . (1905) 15,415• The
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principal buildings are the Juleum, the former university, built in the Renaissance style towards the close of the 16th century, and containing a library of 40,000 volumes; the
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fine Stephanskirche dating from the 12th century; the Walpurgiskirche restored in 1893–1894; the Marienberger Kirche, a beautiful church in the
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Roman style, and the Roman Catholic church . The Augustinian nunnery of
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Marienberg founded in 1176 is now a Lutheran school . The town contains the ruins of the
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Benedictine abbey of St Ludger, which was secularized in 1803 . The educational institutions include several
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schools . The principal manufactures are furniture,
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yarn,
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soap,
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tobacco,
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sugar,
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vitriol and earthenware . Near the town is
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Bad Helmstedt, which has an iron
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mineral spring, and the Lii.bbensteine, two blocks of granite on. which sacrifices to
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Woden are said to have been offered . Near Bad Helmstedt a monument has been erected to those who fell in the Franco-German War; in the town there is one to those killed at
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Waterloo . Helmstedt originated, according to legend, in connexion with the monastery founded by Ludger or Liudger (d . 809), the first bishop of Munster .

There appears, however, little doubt that this tradition is mythical and that Helmstedt was not founded until about goo . It obtained civic rights in 1099 and, although destroyed by the

archbishop of Magdeburg in 1199, it was soon rebuilt . In 1457 it joined the Hanseatic
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League, and in 1490 it came into the possession of Brunswick . In 1576
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Julius, duke of Brunswick, founded a university here, and throughout the 17th century this was one of the chief seats of
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Protestant learning . It was closed by Jerome, king of Westphalia, in 1809 . See Ludewig, Geschichte and Beschreibung der Stadt Helmstedt (Helmstedt, 1821) .

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