NORTHEIM  , a

town of Germany, in the Prussian province of Hanover, on the Ruhme, 12 M. by rail N. of Gottingen and at the junction of railways to Cassel and Nordhausen . Pop . (19o5) 7984 . It has an interesting Evangelical church, containing some old wood-carving and stained glass, a Roman Catholic church, several schools and a training college for schoolmasters . There are manufactures of tobacco, sugar and boots; other industries are flour-milling, tanning and brewing . The place is said to date from the 9th century; it obtained civic rights in 1208, and later became a member of the Hanseatic League . It was stormed by the imperial troops in June 1627 . The Benedictine abbey of St Blasius was founded in ra63 and dissolved at the Reformation . See Wennigerholz, Beschreibung and Geschichte der Stadt Northeim (Northeim, 1896) .