NYMPHENBURG
Online Encyclopedia
Originally appearing in Volume
V19,
Page 930
of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
NYMPHENBURG
, formerly a village, but since 1899 an incorporated suburb of Munich, in the kingdom of Bavaria
.
It has a palace, built about the middle of the 17th century, on the model of that at Versailles, and long a favourite residence of the Bavarian elector, Maximilian Joseph
.
The famous china manufactory of Nymphenburg, founded in 1754 at Neudeck by a potter named Niedermeyer, was shortly afterwards removed hither and, after being long under royal patronage, is now a private undertaking
.
The elector Charles Albert of Bavaria was reputed to have made a treaty with See also: - LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis XV. of France in May 1741 at the beginning of the War of the Austrian Succession for the division, of Austria, and this was called the treaty of Nymphenburg
.
It has, however, been conclusively proved a forgery
.
But a treaty was concluded here on the 28th of May 1741, between Bavaria and Spain, and another between Bavaria and the Rhenish Palatinate in 1766
.
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