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NIENBURG ON THE WESER

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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 672 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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NIENBURG ON THE

WESER  , a
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town of Germany, in the Prussian province of Hanover, situated on the Weser, 33 M . N.W. from Hanover by the railway to
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Bremen . Pop . (1905) 9638 . It has an Evangelical and a
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Roman Catholic church, a classical school and an agricultural college . Its
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industries consist chiefly in glass-blowing, distilling, biscuit-making and the manufacture of
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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
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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
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Napoleon I. in 1807 . See Gade, Geschichte der Stadt Nienburg an der Weser (1862) .

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