WEILBURG  , a See also:

• TOWN

town of See also:

• GERMANY
• GERMANY (Ger. Deutschland)

Germany, in the Prussian See also:

• PROVINCE
• PROVINCE (Lat. provincia; perhaps a contraction of providentia)

province of See also:

• HESSE
• HESSE (Lat. Hessia, Ger. Hessen)

Hesse-See also:

• NASSAU

Nassau, picturesquely situated on the See also:

• LAHN

Lahn, just above the confluence of the Weil, 50 M . N.E. from See also:

• COBLENZ (KOBLENZ)

Coblenz by the See also:

• RAIL

rail-way to See also:

• GIESSEN

Giessen . Pop . (1905) 3828 . The old town, built on and around a rocky See also:

• HILL
• HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
• HILL, A
• HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
• HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
• HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
• HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
• HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
• HILL, JAMES J
• HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
• HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
• HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
• HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
• HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)

hill almost encircled by the See also:

• RIVER

river, contains a See also:

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

castle of the 16th See also:

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

century, formerly the See also:

• RESIDENCE (Latin residere, to remain behind, to dwell, reside)

residence of the See also:

• DUKES
• DUKES, LEOPOLD (1810-1891)

dukes of Nassau-Weilburg, and later of the See also:

• GRAND

grand-dukes of See also:

• LUXEMBURG
• LUXEMBURG, FRANCOIS HENRI DE MONTMORENCYBOUTEVILLE, DUKE

Luxemburg . It has an Evangelical and a See also:

• ROMAN

Roman See also:

• CATHOLIC (Gr. KcaBoXuK6s, general, universal)

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; the former, the Stadtkirche, containing the See also:

• BURIAL

burial vaults of the princes of Nassau, a gymnasium and an agricultural See also:

• COLLEGE (Collegium)

college . Its See also:

• INDUSTRIES

industries include See also:

• WOOL, WORSTED AND WOOLLEN MANUFACTURES

wool-See also:

• SPINNING (from O. Eng. spinnen, to spin, cf. Ger. spinnen, &c., the Teut. root is seen, to draw out, cf. span, spider)

spinning, See also:

• MINING

mining, tanning and See also:

• DYEING (0. Eng. dedgian, dealt ; Mid. Eng. deyen)

dyeing . In the neighbourhood are the ruins of the castles of Merenberg and Freienfels . Weilburg was in the 1th century the See also:

• PROPERTY

property of the bishops of See also:

• WORMS

Worms, from whom it passed to the See also:

• HOUSE
• HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in Gothic it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)

house of Nassau . From 1355 to 1816 it was the residence of the princes of Nassau-Weilburg, a See also:

• BRANCH (from the Fr. branche, late Lat. branca, an animal's paw)

branch of this house . See C . C .

Spielmann, Rarer durch Weilburg and Unagebung (Weilburg, 1894) ; and Geschichte der Stadt and Herrschaft Weilburg (Weilburg, 1896) .