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HOCHHEIM

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 554 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HOCHHEIM  , a

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town of Germany, in the Prussian province of Hesse-
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Nassau, situated on an
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elevation not far from the right
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bank of the Main, 3 M. above its influx into the Rhine and 3 M . E. of Mainz by the railway from Cassel to
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Frankfort-on-Main . Pop . (1905) 3779 . It has an Evangelical and a
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Roman Catholic church, and carries on an extensive trade in wine, the
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English word " Hock," the generic
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term for Rhine wine, being derived from its name . Hochheim is mentioned in the chronicles as early as the 7th century . It is also memorable as the scene of a victory gained here, on the 7th of November 1813 by the Austrians over the French . See Schuler, Geschiclzte der Stadt Hochheim am Main (Hochheim, 1888) .

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