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DORTMUND , a See also:town of See also:Germany, the See also:chief commercial centre of the Prussian See also:province of See also:Westphalia, on the Emscher, in a fertile See also:plain, 50 M. E. from See also:Dusseldorf by See also:rail. Pop. (1875) 57,742; (1895) 111,232; (1905) 175,292. Since the abolition of the old walls in 1863 and the See also:conversion of their site into promenades, the town has rapidly assumed a See also:modern See also:appearance. The central See also:part, however, with its winding narrow streets, is redolent of its See also:historical past, when, as one of the leading cities of the Hanseatic See also:League, it enjoyed commercial supremacy over all the towns of Westphalia. Among its See also:ancient buildings must be mentioned the Reinoldikirche, with See also:fine stained-See also:glass windows, the Marienkirche, the See also:nave of which See also:dates from the 11th See also:century, the Petrikirche, with a curious See also:altar, and the Dominican 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, with beautiful cloisters. The 13th-century 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hall was restored in 1899 and now contains the municipal antiquarian museum, having been superseded by a more commodious See also:building. Among the chief modern structures may be mentioned the magnificent See also:post See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office, erected in 1895, the provincial See also:law courts,the municipal infirmary and the large railway station. To the W. of the last there existed down to 1906 (when it was removed) one of the ancient See also:lime trees of the Konigshof, where the meetings of the Vehmgericht were held (see FEHMIC CouRTS). But the real See also:interest of Dortmund centres in its vast See also:industries, which owe their development to the situation of the town in the centre of the See also:great Westphalian See also:coal See also:basin. In the immediate vicinity are also extensive beds of See also:iron ore, and this See also:combination of See also:mineral See also:wealth has enabled the town to become a competitor with See also:Essen, See also:Oberhausen, See also:Duisburg and See also:Hagen in the products of the iron See also:industry. These in Dortmund more particularly embrace See also:steel railway rails, See also:mining plant, See also:wire See also:ropes, machinery, See also:safes and sewing See also:machines. Dortmund has also extensive breweries, and, in addition to the manufactured goods already enumerated, does a considerable See also:trade in See also:corn and See also:wood. Besides being well furnished with a convenient railway See also:system, linking it with the innumerable manufacturing towns and villages of the iron See also:district, it is also connected with the See also:river See also:Ems by the Dortmund-Ems See also:Canal, 170 M. in length.
Dortmund, the Throtmannia of See also:early See also:history, was already a town of some importance in the 9th century. In 1005 the See also:emperor See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry II. held here an ecclesiastical See also:council, and in Io16 an imperial See also:diet. The town was walled in the 12th century, and in 1387—1388 successfully withstood the troops of the See also:archbishop of See also:Cologne, who besieged it for twenty-one months. About the See also:middle of the 13th century it joined the Hanseatic League. At the See also:close of the See also:Thirty Years' See also:War the See also:population had become reduced to 3000. In 1803 Dortmund lost its rights as a See also:free town, and was annexed to See also:Nassau. The See also:French occupied it in 18o6, and in 18o8 it was made over by See also:Napoleon to the See also:grand-See also:duke of See also:Berg, and became the chief town of the See also:department of See also:Ruhr. Through the cession of Westphalia by the 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 of the See also:Netherlands, on the 31st of May 1815, it became a Prussian town.
See See also:Thiersch, Geschichte der Freireichsstadt Dortmund (See also:Dort, 1854), and Ludoff, Bau- and Kunstdenkmaler in Dortmund (See also:Paderborn, 1895) ; also A. See also:Shadwell, See also:Industrial Efficiency (See also:London, 1906).
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