PIRMASENS
Online Encyclopedia
Originally appearing in Volume
V21,
Page 642
of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
PIRMASENS
, a town of Germany, in the Bavarian Palatinate, 4o m
.
W. by S. of Spires, on the railway from Biebermuhle
.
Pop
.
(1905), 34,002
.
The only noteworthy buildings are the town- See also: - HALL
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
and the principal Evangelical See also: - CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
, which contains a fine monument to 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
IX
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(d
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1790), landgrave of Hesse- Darmstadt, who made the town his residence
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The staple industry is the production of boots and shoes; but musical instruments, leather and machines are also manufactured
.
Pirmasens owes its name to a St Pirmin, who is said to have preached Christianity here in the 8th century
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It originally belonged to the count of Hanau- Lichtenberg, but passed to Hesse-Darmstadt in 1736
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In September 1793 the Prussians gained a victory here over a body of French troops
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See T
.
Weiss, Pirmasens in der Franzosenzeit (Pirmasens, 1905)
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