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EISENACH , a See also:town of See also:Germany, second See also:capital of the See also:grand-duchy of See also:Saxe-See also:Weimar-Eisenach, lies at the See also:north-See also:west See also:foot of the Thuringian See also:forest, at the confluence of the Nesse and Horsel, 32 M. b.y See also:rail W. from See also:Erfurt. Pop. (1905) 35,123. The town mainly consists of a See also:long See also:street, See also:running from See also:east to west. Off this are the See also:market square, containing the grand-ducal See also:palace, built in 1742, where the duchess Helene of See also:- ORLEANS
- ORLEANS, CHARLES, DUKE OF (1391-1465)
- ORLEANS, DUKES OF
- ORLEANS, FERDINAND PHILIP LOUIS CHARLES HENRY, DUKE OF (1810-1842)
- ORLEANS, HENRI, PRINCE
- ORLEANS, HENRIETTA, DUCHESS
- ORLEANS, JEAN BAPTISTE GASTON, DUKE
- ORLEANS, LOUIS
- ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE JOSEPH
- ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ROBERT, DUKE
- ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE, DUKE OF (1725–1785)
- ORLEANS, LOUIS, DUKE OF (1372–1407)
- ORLEANS, PHILIP I
- ORLEANS, PHILIP II
Orleans Iong resided, the 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 See also:late See also:Gothic St Georgenkirche; and the square on which stands the Nikolaikirche, a See also:fine Romanesque See also:building, built about 1150 and restored in 1887. Noteworthy are also the Klemda, a small See also:castle dating from 126o; the Lutherhaus, in which the reformer stayed with the See also:Cotta See also:family in 1498; the See also:house in which See also:Sebastian See also:Bach was See also:born, and that (now a museum) in which Fritz See also:Reuter lived (1863-1874). There are monuments to the two former in the town, while the resting-See also:place of the latter in the See also:cemetery is marked by a less pretentious memorial. Eisenach has a school of forestry, a school of See also:design, a classical school (Gymnasium) and See also:modern school (Realgymnasium), a See also:deaf and dumb school, a teachers' See also:seminary, a See also:theatre and a See also:Wagner museum. The most important See also:industries of the town are worsted-See also:spinning, See also:carriage and See also:wagon building, and the making of See also:colours and pottery. Among others are the manufacture of cigars, See also:cement pipes, See also:iron-See also:ware and See also:machines, See also:alabaster ware, shoes, See also:leather, &c., See also:cabinet-making, See also:brewing, See also:granite See also:quarrying and working, See also:tile-making, and saw- and See also:corn-milling.
The natural beauty of its surroundings and the extensive forests of the See also:district have of late years attracted many summer residents. Magnificently situated on a precipitous See also:- HILL
- HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
- HILL, A
- HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
- HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
- HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
- HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
- HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
- HILL, JAMES J
- HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
- HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
- HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
- HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
- HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)
hill, 600 ft. above the town to the See also:south, is the historic See also:Wartburg (q.v.), the See also:ancient castle of the landgraves of Thuringia, famous as the See also:scene of the contest of See also:Minnesingers immortalized in Wagner's Tannhduser, and as the place where See also:Luther, on his return from the See also:diet of See also:Worms in 1521, was kept in hiding and made his See also:translation of the See also:Bible. On a high See also:rock adjacent to the See also:Wart-See also:burg are the ruins of the castle of Madelstein.
Eisenach (Isenacum) was founded in 1070 by 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 II. the See also:Springer, See also:landgrave of Thuringia, and its See also:history during the See also:middle ages was closely See also:bound up with that of the Wartburg, the seat of the landgraves. The Klemda, mentioned above, was built by See also:Sophia (d. 1284), daughter of the landgrave Louis IV., and wife of See also:Duke 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. of See also:Brabant, to defend the town against Henry III., See also:margrave of See also:Meissen, during the See also:succession contest that followed the extinction of the male See also:line of the Thuringian landgraves in 1247. The principality of Eisenach See also:fell to the Saxon house of See also:Wettin in 1440, and in the See also:partition of 1485 formed See also:part of the territories given to the Ernestine line. It was a See also:separate Saxon duchy from 1596 to 1638, from 164o .
to 164.4, and again from 1662 to 1741, when it finally fell to Saxe-Weimar. The town of Eisenach, by See also:reason of its associations, has been a favourite centre for the religious propaganda of Evangelical Germany, and since 1852 it has been the scene of the See also:annual See also:conference of the See also:German Evangelical 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, known as the Eisenach conference.
See Trinius, Eisenach and Umgebung (See also:Minden, 1900) ; and H. A. See also:Daniel, Deutschland (See also:Leipzig, 1895), and further references in U. See also:Chevalier, " Repertoire See also:des See also:sources," &c., Topo-bibliogr. (See also:Montbeliard, 1894-1899), S.V.
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