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EMMENDINGEN

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Originally appearing in Volume V09, Page 342 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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EMMENDINGEN , a See also:

town of See also:Germany, in the See also:grand-duchy of See also:Baden, See also:close to the See also:Black See also:Forest, on the Elz and the See also:main See also:line of railway See also:Mannheim-See also:Constance. Pop. 6200. It has a See also:Protestant See also:church with a See also:fine See also:spire, a See also:Roman See also:Catholic church, a handsome town-See also:hall, an old See also:castle (now a See also:hospital), once the See also:residence of the See also:counts of Hochberg, See also:spinning See also:mills, tanneries and manufactures of photographic See also:instruments, See also:paper, machinery and cigars. There is also a considerable See also:trade in See also:timber and See also:cattle. Here the author Johann Georg See also:Schlosser (1739-1799), the See also:husband of See also:Goethe's See also:sister See also:Cornelia (who died in 1777 and is interred in the old graveyard), was Oberamtmann (See also:bailiff) for a few years. 1Including Codex H. But this distance is too See also:great for the conditions of See also:Luke's narrative and the See also:reading (16o) is evidently an See also:attempt to harmonize with the traditional See also:identification of See also:Emmaus-See also:Nicopolis held by See also:Eusebius and See also:Jerome. For a curious reading in three old Latin See also:MSS. which makes Emmaus the name of the second traveller on the See also:journey, see Expos. Times, xiii. 429, 477, 561. Emmendingen was formerly the seat of the counts of Hochberg, a See also:cadet See also:branch of the margraves of Baden.

In 1418 it received See also:

market rights from the See also:emperor, and in 1590 was raised to the status of a town, and walled, by See also:Margrave See also:Jacob III.

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