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RASTATT , a See also: town of See also: Germany, in the See also: grand duchy of See also: Baden, on the Murg, 4 M. above its junction with the Rhine and 15 M
.
by See also: rail S.W. of See also: Karlsruhe
.
Pop
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(1905) 14,404
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The old palace of the margraves of Baden, a large See also: Renaissance edifice in red See also: sandstone, is now partly used for military purposes and contains a collection of pictures, antiquities and trophies from the See also: Turkish See also: wars
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The chief manufactures are stoves, See also: beer and See also: tobacco
.
Until the end of the 17th century Rastatt was unimportant, but after its destruction by the French in 1689 it was rebuilt on a larger See also: scale by See also: Louis
See also: William,
See also: margrave of Baden, the imperial general in the Turkish wars
.
It was then the residence of the margraves until 1771
.
The Baden revolution of 1849 began with a See also: mutiny of soldiers at Rastatt in May 1849, and ended here a few See also: weeks later with the capture of the town by the Prussians
.
For some years Rastatt was one of the strongest fortresses of the See also: German See also: empire, but its fortifications were dismantled in 189o
.
See Schuster, Rastatt, die ehemalige badische Residenz and Bundesfestung (See also: Lahr, 1902) ; and Lederle, Rastatt and See also: seine Umgebung (Rastatt, 1905)
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Rastatt has been the scene of two congresses
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At the first congress, which was opened inSee also: November 1713, negotiations were carried on between See also: France and See also: Austria for the purpose of ending the war of the See also: Spanish succession
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These culminated in the treaty of Rastatt signed on the 7th of See also: March 1714
.
The second congress, which was opened in
See also: December 1797, was intended to rearrange the map of Germany by providing compensation for those princes whose lands on the See also: left See also: bank of the Rhine had been seized by France
.
It had no result, however, as it was ended by the outbreak of the See also: European war, but it had a sequel of some See also: interest
.
As the three French representatives were leaving the town in See also: April 1799 they were waylaid, and two of them were assassinated by some Hungarian soldiers
.
The origin of this outrage remains shrouded in mystery, but the balance of evidence seems to show that the See also: Austrian authorities had commanded their men to seize the papers of the French plenipotentiaries in See also: order to avoid damaging disclosures about Austria's designs on See also: Bavaria, and that the soldiers had exceeded their instructions
.
On the other See also: hand, some authorities think that the deed was the See also: work of French emigrants, or of the party in France in favour of war
.
For See also: fuller particulars of the two sides of this controversy see K
.
Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Der Rastadter Gesandtenmord (See also: Heidelberg, 1869); J
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A
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Freiherr von Helfert, Der Rastadter Gesandtenmord (Vienna, 1874) ; See also: Bohtlingk, See also: Napoleon and der Rastadter Gesandtenmord (See also: Leipzig, 1883) ; and Zum Rastadter Gesandtenmord (Heidelberg, 1895) ; H
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Huffer, Der Rastadter Gesandtenmord (See also: Bonn, 1896) ; and H. von See also: Sybel, in See also: Band 39 of the Historische Zeitschrift
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