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Originally appearing in Volume V09, Page 134 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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EINBECK , or EIMBEcK, a See also:

town of See also:Germany, in the Prussian See also:province of See also:Hanover, on the Ilm, 50 M. by See also:rail S. of Hanover. Pop. (1905) 8709. It is an old-fashioned town with many See also:quaint wooden houses, notable among them the " Northeimhaus," a beautiful specimen of See also:medieval See also:architecture. There are several churches, among them the Alexanderkirche, containing the tombs of the princes or Grubenhagen, and a See also:synagogue. The See also:schools include a Realgymnasium (i.e. predominantly for " See also:modern " subjects), technical schools for the advanced study of See also:machine-making, for See also:weaving and for the textile See also:industries, a preparatory training-See also:college and a See also:police school. The industries include See also:brewing, weaving and the manufacture of See also:cloth, carpets, See also:tobacco, See also:sugar, See also:leather-grease, toys and roofing-f elt. Einbeck See also:grew up originally See also:round the monastery of St See also:Alexander (founded 1o8o), famous for its relic of the True See also:Blood. It is first recorded as a town in 1274, and in the 14th See also:century was the seat of the princes of Grubenhagen, a See also:branch of the ducal See also:house of See also:Brunswick. The town subsequently joined the Hanseatic See also:League. In the 15th century it became famous for its See also:beer (" Eimbecker," whence the See also:familiar " Bock "). In 1540 the See also:Reformation was introduced by See also:Duke See also:Philip of Brunswick-Saltzderhelden (d.

1551), with the See also:

death of whose son Philip II. (1596) the Grubenhagen See also:line became See also:extinct. In 1626, during the See also:Thirty Years' See also:War, Einbeck was taken by See also:Pappenheim and in See also:October 1641 by See also:Piccolomini. In 1643 it was evacuated by the Imperialists. In 1761 its walls were razed by the See also:French. See H. L. See also:Harland, Gesch. der Stadt Einbeck, 2 Ede. (Einbeck, 1854–1859; abridgment, ib. 1881).

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