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INGELHEIM (Ober-Ingelheim and Nieder-Ingelheim) , the name of two contiguous market-towns ofSee also: Germany, in the See also: grand-duchy of Hesse-See also: Darmstadt, on the Selz, near its confluence with the Rhine, 9 m
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W.N.W. of See also: Mainz on the railway to See also: Coblenz
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Ober-Ingelheim, formerly an imperial See also: town, is still surrounded by walls
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It has an Evangelical See also: church with painted windows representing scenes in the
See also: life of Charlemagne, a See also: Roman Catholic church and a synagogue
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Its chief industry is the manufacture of red See also: wine
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Pop
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(1900) 3402
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Nieder-Ingelheim has an Evangelical and a Roman Catholic church, and, in addition to wine, manufactories of paper, chemicals, cement and malt
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Pop
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3435
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Nieder-Ingelheim is, according to one tradition, the birthplace of Charlemagne, and it possesses the ruins of an old palace built by that emperor between 768 and 774
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The See also: building contained one See also: hundred marble pillars, and was also adorned with sculptures and mosaics sent from See also: Ravenna by See also: Pope See also: Adrian I
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It was extended by See also: Frederick See also: Barbarossa, and was burned down in 1270, being restored by the emperor See also: Charles IV. in 1354
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Having passed into the possession of the elector palatine of the Rhine, the building suffered much damage during a war in 1462, the
See also: Thirty Years' War, and the French invasion in 1689
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Only few remains of it are now See also: standing; but of the pillars, several are in See also: Paris, one is in the museum at See also: Wiesbaden and another on the Scliillerplatz in Mainz
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Inside its boundaries there isthe restored See also: Remigius Kirche, apparently dating from the See also: time of Frederick I
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See Hilz, Der Reichspalast zu Ingelheim (Ober-Ingelheim, 1868); and Clemen, " Der Karolingische Kaiserpalast zu Ingelheim," in Westdeutsche Zeitschrift, See also: Band ix
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(See also: Trier, 1890)
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