VERDEN
Online Encyclopedia
Originally appearing in Volume
V27,
Page 1017
of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
VERDEN
, a See also:town of See also:Germany, in the Prussian See also:province of See also:Hanover, on the navigable Aller, 3 M. above its confluence with the See also:Weser, 22 M
.
S.E. of See also:Bremen by the railway to Hanover
.
Pop
.
(Igoo) 9842
.
The most noticeable edifices are the beautiful See also:Gothic See also:cathedral, the churches of St See also:Andrew and St See also:John, a new See also:Roman See also:Catholic 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)
church (1894), and the celebrated cathedral school
.
Its See also:industries embrace the manufacture of agricultural machinery, See also:cigar-making, See also:brewing and distilling
.
Verden was the see of a bishopric founded in the first See also:quarter of the 9th See also:century, or earlier, and secularized in 1648
.
The duchy of Verden was then ceded to See also:Sweden, passed in 1719 to Hanover and in 1810 to the See also:kingdom of See also:Westphalia
.
It was restored
to Hanover in 1814, and was, with Hanover, annexed by See also:Prussia in 1866
.
See Ostenberg, Aus Verden's Vergangenheil (See also:Stade, 1876)
.
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