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HEILIGENSTADT

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

town of See also:Germany, in Prussian See also:Saxony, on the Leine, 32 M. E.N.E. of See also:Cassel, on the railway to See also:Halle. Pop. (19o5), 7955. It possesses an old See also:castle, formerly belonging to the See also:electors of See also:Mainz, one Evangelical and two See also:Roman See also:Catholic churches, several educational establishments, and an infirmary. The See also:principal manufactures are See also:cotton goods, cigars, See also:paper, See also:cement and needles. Heiligenstadt is said to have been built by the Frankish See also:king Dagobert and was formerly the See also:capital of the principality of Eichsfeld. In 1022 it was acquired by the See also:archbishop of Mainz, and in 1103 it came into the See also:possession of See also:Henry the Proud, See also:duke of Saxony, but when his son Henry the See also:Lion was placed under the See also:ban of the See also:Empire, it again came to Mainz. It was destroyed by See also:fire in 1333, and was captured in 1525 by Duke Henry of See also:Brunswick. In 1803 it came into possession of See also:Prussia. The See also:Jesuits had a celebrated See also:college here from 1581 to 1773.

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