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OPPENHEIM

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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 140 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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OPPENHEIM  , a

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town of Germany, in the
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grand duchy of Hesse, picturesquely situated on the slope of
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vine-clad hills, on the
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left
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bank of the Rhine, 20 M . S. of Mainz, on the railway to
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Worms . Pop . (1905) 3696 . The only relic of its former importance is the Evangelical church of St Catherine, one of the most beautiful
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Gothic edifices of the 13th and 14th centuries in Germany, and recently restored at the public expense . The town has a
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Roman Catholic church, several
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schools and a memorial of the War of 1870-71 . Its
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industries and commerce are principally concerned with the manufacture and export of wine . Above the town are the ruins of the fortress of Landskron, built in the 11th century and destroyed in 1689 . Oppenheim, which occupies the site of the Roman Bauconica, was formerly much larger than at
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present . In 1226 it appears as a
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free town of the
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Empire and later as one of the most important members of the Rhenish
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League . It lost its independence in 1375, when it was given in
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pledge to the elector palatine of the Rhine . During the
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Thirty Years' War it was alternately occupied by the Swedes and the Imperialists, and in 1689 it was entirely destroyed by the French .

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Franck, Geschichte der ehemaligen Reichsstadt Oppenheim (
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Darmstadt, 1859) .

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