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DINKELSBUHL

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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 277 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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DINKELSBUHL , a See also:

town of See also:Germany, in the See also:kingdom of See also:Bavaria, on the WSrnitz,16 m. N. from See also:Nordlingen, on the See also:rail-way to Dombuhl. Pop. 5000. It is an interesting See also:medieval town, still surrounded by old walls and towers, and has an Evangelical and two See also:Roman See also:Catholic churches. Notable is the so-called Deutsches Haus, the ancestral See also:home of the See also:counts of Drechsel-Deufstetten, a See also:fine specimen of the See also:German See also:renaissance See also:style of wooden See also:architecture. There are a Latin and See also:industrial school, several benevolent institutions, and a See also:monument to Christoph von Schmid (1768—x854), a writer of stories for the See also:young. The inhabitants carry on the manufacture of brushes, gloves, stockings and gingerbread, and See also:deal largely in See also:cattle. Fortified by the See also:emperor See also:Henry I., Dinkelsbuhl received in 1305 the same municipal rights as See also:Ulm, and obtained in 1351 the position of a See also:free imperial See also:city, which it retained till 1802, when it passed to Bavaria. Its municipal See also:code, the Dinkelsbuhler Recht, published in 1536, and revised in 1738, contained a very extensive collection of public and private See also:laws.

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