NEUNKIRCHEN
, or OBER-NEUNKIRCHEN, a See also:town of See also:Germany, in the Prussian See also:Rhine See also:province, on the Blies, 12 M
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N.W. of See also:Saarbrucken by See also:rail
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Pop
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(1905) 32,358, consisting almost equally of Protestants and See also:Roman Catholics
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It contains two See also:Gothic Evangelical and a Romanesque 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, several See also:schools, and a See also:monument to Freiherr von Stumm (d.1901), a former owner of the See also:iron-See also:works here
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The See also:principal See also:industrial See also:establishment is a huge iron-foundry, employing upwards of 4800 hands, and producing about 320,000 tons of See also:pig-iron per annum; and there are also See also:boiler-works, saw-See also:mills, See also:soap manufactories and a brewery
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Around the town are important See also:coal mines from which about 21 million tons of coal are raised annually
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The See also:castle built in 1570 was destroyed in 1797, and is now a ruin
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The town is first mentioned in 1280, and became important industrially during the 18th See also:century
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