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Originally appearing in Volume V14, Page 563 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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INGELHEIM (Ober-Ingelheim and Nieder-Ingelheim)  , the name of two contiguous See also:market-towns of See also:Germany, in the See also:grand-duchy of See also:Hesse-See also:Darmstadt, on the Selz, near its confluence with the See also:Rhine, 9 m . W.N.W. of See also:Mainz on the railway to See also:Coblenz . Ober-See also:Ingelheim, formerly an imperial See also:town, is still surrounded by walls . It has an Evangelical See also:church with painted windows representing scenes in the See also:life of See also:Charlemagne, a See also:Roman See also:Catholic church and a See also:synagogue . Its See also:chief See also:industry is the manufacture of red See also:wine . Pop . (1900) 3402 . Nieder-Ingelheim has an Evangelical and a Roman Catholic church, and, in addition to wine, manufactories of See also:paper, chemicals, See also:cement and See also:malt . Pop . 3435 . Nieder-Ingelheim is, according to one tradition, the birthplace of Charlemagne, and it possesses the ruins of an old See also:palace built by that See also:emperor between 768 and 774 . The See also:building contained one See also:hundred See also: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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Frederick See also:Barbarossa, and was burned down in 1270, being restored by the emperor See also:Charles IV. in 1354 . Having passed into the See also:possession of the elector See also:palatine of the Rhine, the building suffered much damage during a See also:war in 1462, the See also:Thirty Years' War, and the See also:French invasion in 1689 . 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 . Inside its boundaries there isthe restored See also:Remigius Kirche, apparently dating from the See also:time of Frederick I . See Hilz, Der Reichspalast zu Ingelheim (Ober-Ingelheim, 1868); and Clemen, " Der Karolingische Kaiserpalast zu Ingelheim," in Westdeutsche Zeitschrift, See also:Band ix . (See also:Trier, 1890) .

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