NIENBURG ON THE

WESER  , a town of Germany, in the Prussian province of Hanover, situated on the Weser, 33 M . N.W. from Hanover by the railway to Bremen . Pop . (1905) 9638 . It has an Evangelical and a Roman Catholic church, a classical school and an agricultural college . Its industries consist chiefly in glass-blowing, distilling, biscuit-making and the manufacture of manures . The town is mentioned as early as 1025 . It was fortified in the 12th century, obtained municipal rights in 1569, and passed in 1582 to the house of Luneburg . It was occupied by the imperialists from 1627 to 1634, and by the French during the Seven Years' War . The walls were dismantled by order of Napoleon I. in 1807 . See Gade, Geschichte der Stadt Nienburg an der Weser (1862) .