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town in the Swiss See also:canton of See also:Aargau, on the See also:left See also:bank of the See also:river Limmat, 14 M. by See also:rail N.W. of See also:Zurich. It is now chiefly visited by See also:reason of its hot See also:sulphur springs, which. are mentioned by See also:Tacitus (Hist. i. cap. 67) and were very fashionable in the 15th and 16th centuries. They are especially efficacious in cases of gouty and rheumatic affections, and are much frequented by Swiss invalids, See also:foreign visitors being but few in number. They See also:lie a little See also:north of the old town, with which they are now connected by a See also:fine See also:boulevard. Many See also:Roman remains have been found in the gardens of the Kursaal. The town is very picturesque, with its steep and narrow streets, and its one surviving gateway, while it is dominated on the See also:west by the ruined See also:castle of See also:Stein,formerly a stronghold of the Habsburgs, but destroyed in 1415 and again in 1712. In 1415 Baden (with the Aargau) was conquered by the Eight Swiss Confederates, whose See also:bailiff inhabited the other castle, on the right bank of the Limmat, which defends the See also:ancient See also:bridge across that river. As the See also:conquest of the Aargau was the first made by the Confederates, their delegates (or the federal See also:diet) naturally met at Baden, from 1426 to about 1712, to See also:settle matters See also:relating to these subject lands, so that during that See also:period Baden was really the See also:capital of See also:Switzerland. The diet sat in See also:tire old town-See also:hall or Rathaus, where was also signed in '714 the treaty of Baden which put an end to the See also:war between See also:France and the See also:Empire, and thus completed the treaty of See also:Utrecht (1713). Baden was the capital of the canton of Baden, from 1798 to 1803, when the canton of Aargau was created. To the N.W. of the See also:baths a new See also:industrial See also:quarter has sprung up of See also:late years, the largest See also:works being for electric See also:engineering.

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population of Baden was 6050 (See also:German-speaking, mainly Romanists, with many See also:Jews), but it is greatly swelled in summer by the influx of visitors. One mile S. of Baden, on the Limmat, is the famous Cistercian monastery of Wettingen (1227-1841—the monks are now at Mehrerau near See also:Bregenz), with splendid old painted See also:glass in the cloisters and magnificent See also:early 17th-See also:century carved stalls, in the See also:choir of the See also:church. Six See also:miles W. of Baden is the small town of Brugg (2345 inhabitants) in a fine position on the See also:Aar, and See also:close to the remains of the Roman See also:colony of Vindonissa (Windisch), as well as to the monastery (founded 131o) of Konigsfelden, formerly the See also:burial-See also:place of the early Habsburgs (the castle of See also:Habsburg is but a See also:short way off), still retaining much fine painted glass. See See also:Barth. Frisker, Geschichte der Stadt and Bader zu Baden (Aarau, i88o). (W. A. B.

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