RAVENSBURG  , a See also:

• TOWN

town of See also:

• GERMANY
• GERMANY (Ger. Deutschland)

Germany, in the See also:

• KINGDOM

kingdom of See also:

• WURTTEMBERG

Wurttemberg, pleasantly situated amid See also:

• VINE

vine-clad hills on the See also:

• RIVER

river Schussen, 12 M . N. of See also:

• FRIEDRICHSHAFEN

Friedrichshafen on the See also:

• LAKE
• LAKE, GERARD LAKE, 1ST VISCOUNT (1744-1808)

lake of See also:

• CONSTANCE
• CONSTANCE (Ger. Konstanz or Costnitz)
• CONSTANCE, COUNCIL OF
• CONSTANCE, LAKE OF (called by the Romans Lacus Brigantinus or lake of Bregenz, and now usually named in German Bodensee, as well as the " Swabian Sea ")

Constance, by the railway of See also:

• ULM

Ulm . Pop . (1905) 14,614, the See also:

• GREAT

great See also:

• MAJORITY (Fr. majorite; Med. Lat. majoritas; Lat. major, greater)

majority of whom are See also:

• ROMAN

Roman Catholics . Its aspect is See also:

• MEDIEVAL

medieval; it still retains its walls and nine picturesque towers, the most prominent of which, dating from the 15th See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century, is known as the " Mehlsack," or See also:

• SACK

sack of See also:

• FLOUR

flour . The town See also:

• HALL
• 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 (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
• 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)

hall is a handsome 15th-century See also:

• BUILDING

building . The manufactures include See also:

• LINEN

linen, See also:

• COTTON
• COTTON (Fr. coton; from Arab. qutun)
• COTTON, CHARLES (163o–1687)
• COTTON, GEORGE EDWARD LYNCH (1813–1866)
• COTTON, JOHN (1585–1652)
• COTTON, SIR ROBERT BRUCE

cotton, embroidered muslins, pottery, See also:

• GLASS
• GLASS (O.E. glees, cf. Ger. Glas, perhaps derived from an old Teutonic root gla-, a variant of glo-, having the general sense of shining, cf. " glare," " glow ")
• GLASS, STAINED

glass and playing-See also:

• CARDS, PLAYING

cards . The See also:

• FRUIT (through the French from the Lat. fructus; frui, to enjoy)

fruit See also:

• MARKET (Lat. mercatus, trade or place of trade)

market is important, and there is See also:

• TRADE (O. Eng. trod, footstep, from tredan, to tread; in M. Eng. the forms teed, trod and trade appear, the last in the sense of a beaten track)
• TRADE, BOARD OF

trade in See also:

• CATTLE (Norman Fr. catel, from Late Lat. capitale, wealth or property, a word applied in the feudal system to movable property and particularly to live stock, and surviving in its wider meaning as " chattel " or " chattle ")

cattle, See also:

• GRAIN (derived through the French from Lat. granum, seed, from an Aryan root meaning " to wear down," which also appears in the common Teutonic word " corn ")

grain and See also:

• TIMBER

timber . Ravensburg was founded in the 11th century by the Guelphs, and in their ancestral See also:

• CASTLE
• CASTLE (Lat. castellum, a fort, diminutive of castra, a camp; Fr. chateau and chdtel)

castle on the Veitsburg, which was partially restored in 1892, the Saxon See also:

• DUKE (corresponding to Fr. duc, Ital. duca, Ger. Herzog)

duke, See also:

• HENRY
• HENRY (1129-1195)
• HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
• HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
• HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
• HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
• HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
• HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
• HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
• HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
• HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
• HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
• HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
• HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)

Henry the See also:

• LION
• LION (Lat, leo, leonis; Gr. Mew)

Lion, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born . In 118o the town passed to the Hohenstaufens, and a century later it became a See also:

• FREE

free town of the See also:

• EMPIRE

Empire . In the 15th century it was a flourishing commercial See also:

• PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place, its See also:

• CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief See also:

• INDUSTRY (Lat. industria, from indu-, a form of the pre, position in, and either stare, to stand, or struere, to pile up)

industry being the manufacture of See also:

• PAPER
• PAPER (Fr. papier, from Lat. papyrus)

paper . Annexed to See also:

• BAVARIA (Ger. Bayern)

Bavaria from 1803 to 181o, it was ceded to Wurttemberg in the latter See also:

• YEAR

year .

See Hafner, Geschichte von Ravensburg (Ravensburg, 1887) .