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HAVELBERG

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HAVELBERG , a See also:

town of See also:Germany, in the Prussian See also:province of See also:Brandenburg, on the See also:Havel and the railway Glowen-Havelberg. Pop. (1905), J988. The town is built partly on an See also:island in the Havel, and partly on hills on the right See also:bank of the See also:river, on one of which stands the See also:fine Romanesque See also:cathedral dating from the 12th See also:century. The two parts, which are connected by a See also:bridge, were incorporated as one town in 1875. The inhabitants are chiefly engaged in See also:tobacco manufacturing, See also:sugar-refining and See also:boat-See also:building, and in the See also:timber See also:trade. See also:Otto I. founded a bishopric at Havelberg in 946; the See also:bishop, however, who was a See also:prince of the See also:Empire, generally resided at Plattenburg, or Wittstock, a few See also:miles to the See also:north. In 1548 the bishopric was seized by the elector of Brandenburg, who finally took See also:possession of it fifty years later, and the cathedral passed to the See also:Protestant See also:Church, retaining its endowments till the See also:edict of 181o, by which all former ecclesiastical possessions were assumed by the See also:crown. The final secularization was delayed till 1819. Havelberg was formerly a strong fortress, but in the See also:Thirty Years' See also:War it was taken from the Danish by the imperial troops in 1627. Recaptured by the Swedes in 1631, and again in 1635 and 1636, it was in 1637 retaken by the See also:Saxons. It suffered severely from a conflagration in 1870.

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