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HOHENASPERG , an See also:ancient fortress of See also:Germany, in the See also:kingdom of See also:Wurttemberg, ro m. N. of See also:Stuttgart, is situated on a conical See also:- HILL
- HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
- HILL, A
- HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
- HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
- HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
- HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
- HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
- HILL, JAMES J
- HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
- HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
- HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
- HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
- HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)
hill, limo ft. high, overlooking the See also:town of Asperg. It was formerly strongly fortified and was See also:long the See also:state See also:prison of the kingdom of Wurttemberg. Among the many who have been interned here may be mentioned the notorious See also:Jew financier, See also:Joseph Suss-Oppenheimer (1692–1738) and the poet C. F. D. See also:Schubart (1739–1791). It is now a reformatory. Hohenasperg originally belonged to the See also:counts of See also:Calw; it next passed to the counts See also:palatine of See also:Tubingen and from them was acquired in 1308 by Wurttemberg. In 1535 the fortifications were extended and strengthened, and in 1635 the town was taken by the Imperialists, who occupied it until 1649.
See Schon, See also:Die Staatsgefangenen von Hohenasperg (Stuttgart, 1899) ; and Biffart, Geschichte der Wurttembergischen Feste Hohenasperg (Stuttgart, 1858).
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