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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 432 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JOHANNISBERG  , a

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village of
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Germany, in the Prussian
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province of
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Hesse-
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Nassau, in the Rheingau, on the right
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bank of the
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Rhine, 6 m . S. of
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Rudesheim by railway . The
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place is mainly celebrated for the beautiful Schloss which crowns a
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hill overlooking the Rhine valley, and is surrounded by vineyards yielding the famous Johannisberger
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wine . The Schloss, built in 1757–1759 by the abbots of
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Fulda on the site of a
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Benedictine monastery founded in 1090, was bestowed, in 1807, by
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Napoleon upon
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Marshal
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Kellermann . In 1814 it was given by
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Francis,
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emperor of
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Austria, to
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Prince Metternich, in whose
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family it still remains .

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