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HEPPENHEIM

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 305 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HEPPENHEIM  , a

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town of Germany, in the
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grand-duchy of Hesse-
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Darmstadt, on the Bergstrasse, between Darmstadt and
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Heidelberg, 21 M . N. of the latter by
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rail . Pop . (1905), 6364 . It possesses a parish church, occupying the site of one reputed to have been built by Charlemagne about 805, an interesting town hall and several
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schools . On an isolated hill close by stand the extensive ruins of the castle of Starkenburg, built by the abbot,
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Ulrich von Lorsch, about 1064 and destroyed during the Seven Years' War, and another hill, the Landberg, was a place of assembly in the
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middle ages . Heppenheim, at first the
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property of the abbey of Lorsch, became a town in 1318 . After belonging to the Rhenish Palatinate, it came into the possession of Hesse-Darmstadt in 1803 . Hops, wine and
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tobacco are grown, and there are large stone quarries, and several small
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industries in the town .

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