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GEBWEILER (Fr. Guebwiller)

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Originally appearing in Volume V11, Page 546 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GEBWEILER (Fr. Guebwiller) , a See also:town of See also:Germany in the imperial See also:province of See also:Alsace-See also:Lorraine, at the See also:foot of the See also:Vosges, on the Lauch, 13 M. S. of See also:Colmar, on the railway Bollweiler-Lautenbach. Pop. (1905) 13,259. Among the See also:principal buildings are the See also:Roman See also:Catholic See also:church of St Leodgar, dating from the 12th See also:century, the Evangelical church, the See also:synagogue, the town-See also:house, and the old Dominican See also:convent now used as a See also:market and See also:concert See also:hall. The See also:chief See also:industries are See also:spinning and See also:dyeing, and. the manufacture of See also:cloth and of machinery; See also:quarrying is carried on and the town is celebrated for its See also:white wines. Gebweiler is mentioned as See also:early as 774. It belonged to the. religious See also:foundation of Murbach, and in 1759 the abbots See also:chose it for their See also:residence. In 1789, at the outbreak of the Revolution, the monastic buildings were laid in ruins, and, though the archives were rescued and removed to Colmar, the library perished.

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