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HERFORD , a See also:town in the Prussian See also:province of See also:Westphalia, situated at the confluence of the Werre and Aa, on the See also:Minden & See also:Cologne railway, 9 M. N.E. of See also:Bielefeld, and at the junction of the railway to Detmold and Altenbeken. Pop. (1885) 15,902; (1905) 24,821. It possesses six Evangelical churches, notably the Munsterkirche, a Romanesque See also:building with a See also:Gothic See also:apse of the 15th See also:century; the Marienkirche, in the Gothic See also:style; and the Johanniskirche, with a See also:steeple 280 ft. high. The other See also:principal buildings are the See also:Roman See also:Catholic 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, the See also:synagogue, the gymnasium founded in 1540, the agricultural school and the See also:theatre. There is a statue of See also:Frederick 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 of See also:Brandenburg. The See also:industries include See also:cotton and See also:flax-See also:spinning, and the manufacture of See also:linen See also:cloth, carpets, See also:furniture, machinery, See also:sugar, See also:tobacco and See also:leather.
Herford owes its origin to a See also:Benedictine nunnery which is said to have been founded in 832, and was confirmed by the See also:emperor See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis the Pious in 839. From the emperor Frederick I. the See also:abbess obtained princely See also:rank and a seat in the imperial See also:diet. Among the abbesses was the celebrated See also:Elizabeth (r618-168o), eldest daughter of the elector See also:palatine Frederick V., who was a philosophical princess, and a See also:- PUPIL (Lat. pupillus, orphan, minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from root pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for " doll," the name given to the stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain insects)
pupil of See also:Descartes. Under her See also:rule the See also:sect of the Labadists settled for some 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 in Herford. The See also:foundation was secularized in 1803. Herford was a member of the Hanseatic See also:League, and its See also:suzerainty passed in 1547 from the abbesses to the See also:dukes of Juliers. In 1631 it became a See also:free imperial town, but in 1647 it was subjugated by the elector of Brandenburg. It came into the See also:possession of Westphalia in 1807, and in 1813 into that of See also:Prussia.
See L. Holscher, Ref ormationsgeschichte der Stadt Herford (Giitersloh, 1888).
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