NEUMUNSTER
, a See also:town of See also:Germany, in the Prussian See also:province of See also:Schleswig-See also:Holstein, lies on both See also:banks of the small See also:river Schwale, in the See also:basin of the Stor, 40 M
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N. of See also:Altona-See also:Hamburg by See also:rail, and at the junction of lines to See also:Kiel, Vamdrup (See also:Denmark) and Tonning
.
Pop
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(1905) 31347• It has an Evangelical and a See also:Roman See also:Catholic See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church and several See also:schools
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It is, after Altona, the most important See also:industrial town in the province, and contains extensive See also:cloth-factories, besides manufactories of See also:leather, See also:cotton, See also:wadding, carpets, See also:paper, machinery, See also:beer and sweetmeats
.
Its See also:trade is also brisk
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The name, which was originally Wipendorp, is derived from an See also:Augustine monastery, founded in 1130 by Vicelin, the apostle of Holstein, and is mentioned as " novum monasterium " in a document of 1136
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Its industrial importance began in the 17th See also:century, when the cloth-workers of Segeberg, a town to the See also:south-See also:east, migrated to it
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It became a town in 187o
.
See Kirmis, Geschichte der Stadt Neumiinster (1900) ; and Dittmann, Aus dem See also:alten Neumunster (r879)
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