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DONAUWORTH , a See also:town of See also:Germany in the See also:kingdom of See also:Bavaria, on the See also:left See also:bank of the See also:Danube, at the confluence of the WSrnitz, 25 M. N. of See also:Augsburg by See also:rail and at the junction of linesto See also:Ulm and See also:Ingolstadt. Pop. 5000. It is an See also:ancient town and has several See also:medieval buildings of See also:interest. Notable among its seven churches (six See also:Roman See also:Catholic) are the Kloster-Kirche (monasterial), a beautiful See also:Gothic edifice with the See also:sarcophagus of Maria of See also:Brabant, and that of the former See also:Benedictine See also:abbey, Heilig-Kreuz, with a lofty See also:tower. Remarkable among See also:secular buildings are the Gothic town See also:- HALL
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
hall, and the so-called Tanz-haus, which now includes both a See also:theatre and a school. The See also:industries embrace machinery, See also:brewing and saw-milling; the See also:place is of some importance as a See also:river See also:port, and the centre of a considerable agricultural See also:trade.
DonauwOrth See also:grew up in the course of the 1th and 12th centuries under the See also:protection of the See also:castle of Mangoldstein, became in the 13th a seat of the See also:duke of Upper Bavaria, who, however, soon withdrew to See also:Munich to See also:- ESCAPE (in mid. Eng. eschape or escape, from the O. Fr. eschapper, modern echapper, and escaper, low Lat. escapium, from ex, out of, and cappa, cape, cloak; cf. for the sense development the Gr. iichueoOat, literally to put off one's clothes, hence to sli
escape from the See also:manes of his wife Maria of Brabant, whom he had there beheaded on an unfounded suspicion of infidelity. The town received the freedom of the See also:Empire in 1308, and maintained its position in spite of the encroachments of Bavaria till 1607, when the interference of the See also:Protestant inhabitants with the See also:- ABBOT (from the Hebrew ab, a father, through the Syriac abba, Lat. abbas, gen. abbatis, O.E. abbad, fr. late Lat. form abbad-em changed in 13th century under influence of the Lat. form to abbat, used alternatively till the end of the 17th century; Ger. Ab
- ABBOT, EZRA (1819-1884)
- ABBOT, GEORGE (1603-1648)
- ABBOT, ROBERT (1588?–1662?)
- ABBOT, WILLIAM (1798-1843)
abbot of the Heilig-Kreuz called forth an imperial See also:law authorizing the duke of Bavaria to inflict chastisement for the offence. In the See also:Thirty Years' See also:War it was stormed by Gustavus See also:Adolphus (1632), and captured by See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
King See also:Ferdinand (1634). In the vicinity, on the Schellenberg, the Bavarians and See also:French were defeated by See also:Marlborough and See also:Prince See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis of See also:Baden on the 2nd of See also:July 1704. The imperial freedom restored to the town by See also:Joseph I. in 1705 was again lost by reincorporation with Bavaria in 1714. In the neighbourhood the Austrians under Mack were, on the 6th of See also:October 1805, decisively defeated by the French under See also:Soult.
See Konigsdorfer, Geschichte See also:des Klosters zum Heiligen Kreuz in Donauworth (1819-20).
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