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EBERBACH , a See also:town of See also:Germany, in the See also:grand-duchy of See also:Baden, romantically situated on the See also:Neckar, at the See also:foot of the Katzenbuckel, 19 m. E. of See also:Heidelberg by the railway to Wiirzburg. Pop. (1900) 5857. It contains an Evangelical and a See also:Roman See also:Catholic 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, a commercial and a technical school, and, in addition to manufacturing cigars, See also:leather and See also:cutlery, carries on by See also:water an active See also:trade in See also:timber and See also:wine. Eberbach was founded in 1227 by the See also:German 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:- 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 VII., who acquired the See also:castle (the ruins of which overhang the town) from the See also:bishop of See also:Worms. It became an imperial town and passed later to the See also:Palatinate.
See Wirth, Geschichte der Stadt Eberbach (See also:Stuttgart, 1864). EBERBACH, a famous Cistercian monastery of Germany, in the Prussian See also:province of See also:Hesse-See also:Nassau, situated near Hattenheim in the Rheingau, ro m. N.W. from See also:Wiesbaden. Founded in 1116 by See also:Archbishop See also:Adalbert of See also:Mainz, as a See also:house of Augustinian canons See also:regular, it was bestowed by him in 1131 upon the See also:Benedictines, but was shortly afterwards repurchased and conferred upon the Cistercian See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order. The Romanesque church (consecrated in 1186) contains numerous interesting monuments and tombs, notable among them being those of the archbishop of See also:Main;
Gerlach (d. 1371) and Adolph II. of Nassau (d. 1475). It was despoiled during the See also:Thirty Years' See also:War, was secularized in 1803, and now serves as a house of correction. Its cellars contain some of the finest vintages of the See also:Rhine wines of the locality.
See See also:Bar, Di pl omatische Geschichte der A btei Eberbach (Wiesb.,1851-1858 and 1886, 3 vols.), and Schafer, See also:Die Abtei Eberbach See also:im Mittel-alter (See also:Berlin, 1901).
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