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CANNSTATT, or KANNSTATT

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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 189 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CANNSTATT, or KANNSTATT , a See also:town of See also:Germany in the See also:kingdom of See also:Wurttemberg, pleasantly situated in a fertile valley on both See also:banks of the See also:Neckar, 21 M. from See also:Stuttgart, with which it has been incorporated since 1904. Pop. (1905) 26,497. It is a railway centre, has two Evangelical and a See also:Roman See also:Catholic See also:church, two See also:bridges across the Neckar, handsome streets in the See also:modern See also:quarter of the town and See also:fine promenades and gardens. There is a See also:good See also:deal of business in the town. Railway plant, automobiles and machinery are manufactured; See also:spinning and See also:weaving are carried on; and there are chemical See also:works and a brewery here. See also:Fruit and vines are largely cultivated in the neighbourhood. A large See also:population is temporarily attracted to Cannstatt by the fame of its See also:mineral springs, which are valuable for diseases of the See also:throat and weaknesses of the See also:nervous See also:system. These springs were known to the See also:Romans. Besides the usual bathing establishments there are several medical institutions for the treatment of disease. Near the town are the palaces of Rosenstein and Wilhelma; the latter, built (1842–1851) for See also:King See also:William of Wurttemberg in the Moorish See also:style, is surrounded by beautiful gardens. In the neighbourhood also are immense caves in the See also:limestone where numerous bones of mammoths and other See also:extinct animals have been found.

On the Rotenberg, where formerly stood the ancestral See also:

castle of the See also:house of Wurttemberg, is the See also:mausoleum of King William and his wife. Cannstatt (Condistat) is mentioned See also:early in the 8th See also:century as the See also:place where a See also:great See also:court was held by See also:Charlemagne for the trial of the rebellious See also:dukes of the See also:Alamanni and the Bavarians. From the See also:emperor See also:Louis the Bavarian it received the same rights and privileges as were enjoyed by the town of See also:Esslingen, and until the See also:middle of the 14th century it was the See also:capital of the See also:county of Wurttemberg. Cannstatt was the See also:scene of a victory gained by the See also:French over the Austrians on the 21st of See also:July 1796. See Veiel, Der Kurort Kannstatt and See also:seine Mineralquellen (Cannstatt, 1895).

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