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HOCHSTADT

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

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town of Bavaria, Germany, in the
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district of Swabia, on the
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left
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bank of the Danube, 34 M . N.E. of
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Ulm by
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rail . Pop . (1905) 2305 . It has three
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Roman Catholic churches, a castle flanked by walls and towers and some small
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industries, including malting and
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brewing . Hochstadt, which came into the possession of Bavaria in 1266, has been a place of battles . Here Frederick of
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Hohenstaufen, vicegerent of the
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Empire for Henry IV., was defeated by Henry's
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rival, Hermann of Luxemburg, in 1081; in 1703 the Imperialists were routed here by Marshal Villars in command of the French; in August 1704 Marlborough and Prince
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Eugene defeated the French and Bavarians commanded by Max Emanuel, the elector of Bavaria and Marshal Tallard, this
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battle being usually known as that of Blenheim; and in
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June 1800 an engagement took place here between the Austrians and the French . There is another small town in Bavaria named Hochstadt . Pop . 2000 . This is on the
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river Aisch, not far from
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Bamberg, to which bishopric it belonged from 1157 to 1802, when it was ceded to Bavaria .

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