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HEIDENHEIM

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 212 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HEIDENHEIM , a See also:

town of See also:Germany, in the See also:kingdom of See also:Wurttemberg, 31 M. by See also:rail See also:north by See also:east of See also:Ulm. Pop. (1905), 12,173. It has an Evangelical and a See also:Roman See also:Catholic See also:church, See also:cotton, woollen, See also:tobacco, machinery and chemical factories, bleach-See also:works, dye-works and breweries, and See also:corn and See also:cattle markets. The town, which received municipal privileges in 1356, is overlooked by the ruins of the See also:castle of Hellenstein, See also:standing on a See also:hill 1985 ft. high. Heidenheim is also the name of a small See also:place in See also:Bavaria famous on See also:account of the See also:Benedictine See also:abbey which formerly stood therein. Founded in 748 by Wilibald, See also:bishop of See also:Eichstatt, this was plundered by the peasantry in 1525 and was closed in 1537.

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