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FREISING , a See also:

town of See also:Germany, in the See also:kingdom of See also:Bavaria, on the See also:Isar, 16 m. by See also:rail N.N.E. of See also:Munich. Pop. (1905) 13,538. Among its eight See also:Roman See also:Catholic churches the most remarkable is the See also:cathedral, which See also:dates from about 116o and is famous for its curious See also:crypt. Noteworthy also are the old See also:palace of the bishops, now a clerical See also:seminary, the theological See also:lyceum and the town-See also:hall. There are several See also:schools in the town, and there is a statue to the chronicler, See also:Otto of Freising, who was See also:bishop here from 1138 to 1158. Freising has manufactures of agricultural machinery and of See also:porcelain, while See also:printing and See also:brewing are carried on. Near the town is the site of the See also:Benedictine See also:abbey of Weihenstephan, which existed from 725 to 1803. This is now a See also:model See also:farm and brewery. Freising is a very See also:ancient town and is said to have been founded by the See also:Romans. After being destroyed by the Hungarians in 955 it was fortified by the See also:emperor Otto II. in 976 and by See also:Duke Well of Bavaria in 1082. A bishopric was established here in 724 by St Corbinianus, whose See also:brother Erimbert was consecrated second bishop by St See also:Boniface in 739.

Later on the bishops acquired considerable territorial See also:

power and in the 17th See also:century became princes of the See also:Empire. In 1802 the see was secularized, the bulk of its territories being assigned to Bavaria and the See also:rest to See also:Salzburg, of which Freising had been a See also:suffragan bishopric. In 1817 an archbishopric was established at Freising, but in the following See also:year it was transferred to Munich. The occupant of the see is now called See also:archbishop of Munich and Freising. See C. Meichelbeck, Historiae Frisingensis (See also:Augsburg, 1724-1729, new and enlarged edition 1854).

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