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FURTH , a manufacturing See also:town of See also:Germany, in the See also:kingdom of See also:Bavaria, at the confluence of the See also:Pegnitz with the See also:Regnitz, 5 M. N.W. from See also:Nuremberg by See also:rail, at the junction of lines to See also:Hof and Wiirzburg. Pop. (1885) 35,455; (1905) 60,638. It is a See also:modern town in See also:appearance, with broad streets and palatial business houses. Of its four Evangelical churches, the old St Michaeliskirche is a handsome structure; but its See also:chief edifices are the new 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, with a See also:tower 175 it. high and the magnificent See also:synagogue. The See also:Jews have also a high school, which enjoys a See also:great reputation. There are besides a classical, a See also:wood-See also:carving and an agricultural school and a library. Furth is the seat of several important See also:industries; particularly, the See also:production of chromolithographs and picture-books, the manufacture of mirrors and See also:mirror-frames, See also:bronze and See also:gold-See also:leaf wares, pencils, toys, haberdashery, See also:optical See also:instruments, See also:silver See also:work, turnery, See also:chicory, machinery, See also:fancy boxes and cases, and an extensive See also:trade is carried on in these goods as also in hops, metals, See also:wool, groceries and See also:coal. A large See also:annual See also:fair is held at Michaelmas and lasts for eleven days. The earliest railway in Germany was that between Nuremberg and Furth (opened on the 7th of See also:December 1835).
Furth was founded, according to tradition, by See also:Charlemagne, who erected a See also:chapel there. It was for a See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time a Vogtei (See also:advocate-See also:ship) under the burgraves of Nuremberg, but about 1314 it wasbequeathed to the see of See also:Bamberg, and in 18o6 it came into the See also:possession of Bavaria. In 1632 Gustavus See also:Adolphus besieged it in vain, and in 1634 it was pillaged and burnt by the Croats. It owes its rise to prosperity to the tolerance it meted out to the Jews, who found here an See also:asylum from the oppression under which they suffered in Nuremberg.
See Fronmuller, Chronik der Stadi Fiirth (1887).
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