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GLADBACH , the name of two towns in See also:Germany distinguished as Bergisch-Gladbach and Munchen-Gladbach.
1. BERGISCII-GLADBACH is in Rhenish See also:Prussia, 8 m. N.E. of See also:Cologne by See also:rail: Pop. (1905) 13,410. It possesses four large See also:paper See also:mills and among its other See also:industries are See also:paste-See also:board, See also:powder, percussion caps, nets and machinery. Ironstone, See also:peat and See also:lime are found in the vicinity. The See also:town has four See also:Roman See also:Catholic churches and one See also:Protestant. The Stundenthalshohe, a popular resort, is in the neighbourhood, and near Gladbach is Altenberg, with a remarkably See also:fine 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, built for the Cistercian See also:abbey at this See also:place.
2. MUNCHEN-GLADBACH, also in Rhenish Prussia, 16 m. W.S.W. of See also:Dusseldorf on the See also:main See also:line of railway to See also:Aix-la-Chapelle. Pop. (1885) 44,230; (1905) 60,714. It is one of the See also:chief manufacturing places in Rhenish Prussia, its See also:principal industries being the See also:spinning and See also:weaving of See also:cotton, the manufacture of silks, See also:velvet, ribbon and damasks, and See also:dyeing and See also:bleaching. There are also tanneries, See also:tobacco manufactories, See also:machine See also:works and foundries. The town possesses a fine See also:park and has statues of the See also:emperor See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William I. and of See also:Prince See also:Bismarck. There are ten Roman Catholic churches here, among them being the beautiful See also:minster, with a See also:Gothic See also:choir dating from 1250, a See also:nave dating from the beginning of the 13th See also:century and a See also:crypt of the 8th. century. The town has two hospitals, several See also:schools, and is the headquarters of important See also:insurance See also:societies.dictine monastery was founded near it in 793. It was thus called Munchen-Gladbach or Monks' Gladbach, to distinguish it from another town of the same name. The monastery was suppressed in 1802. It became a town in 1336; weaving was introduced here towards the end of the 18th century, and having belonged for a See also:long 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 to the duchy of Juliers it came into the See also:possession of Prussia in 1815.
See See also:Strauss, Geschichte der Stadt Munchen-Gladbach (1895); and G. Eckertz, Das Verbruderungs- and Todtenbuch der Abtei Gladba'h (1881).
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