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KAISERSWERTH , a See also:town in the Prussian See also:Rhine See also:province, on the right See also:bank of the Rhine, 6 m. below See also:Dusseldorf. Pop. (1905), 2462. It possesses a See also:Protestant and a large old Romanesque
' Though Okba founded his See also:city in a See also:desert See also:place, excavations undertaken in 1908 revealed the existence of See also:Roman ruins, including a See also:temple of See also:Saturn, in the neighbourhood.
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 of the 12th or 13th See also:century, with a valuable See also:shrine, said to contain the bones of St Suitbert, and has several benevplent institutions, of which the See also:chief is the Diakonissen Anstalt, or training-school for Protestant sisters of charity. This institution, founded by Pastor Theodor See also:Fliedner (1800–1864) in 1836, has more than too branches, some being in See also:Asia and See also:America; the See also:head See also:establishment at Kaiserswerth includes an orphanage, a lunatic See also:asylum and a Magdalen institution. The Roman Catholic See also:hospital occupies the former Franciscan See also:convent. The See also:population is engaged in See also:silk-See also:weaving and other small See also:industries.
In 710 See also:Pippin of Heristal presented the site of the town to See also:Bishop Suitbert, who built the See also:Benedictine monastery See also:round which the town gradually formed. Until 12t4 Kaiserswerth See also:lay on an See also:island, but in that See also:year See also:Count Adolph V. of See also:Berg, who was besieging it, dammed up effectually one See also:arm of the Rhine. About the beginning of the 14th century Kaiserswerth, then an imperial city, came to the archbishopric of See also:Cologne, and afterwards to the duchy of Juliers, whence, after some vicissitudes, it finally passed into the See also:possession of the princes of the See also:palatinate, whose rights, See also:long disputed by the elector of Cologne, were legally settled in 1772. In 1702 the fortress was captured by the Austrians and Prussians, and the Kaiserpfalz, whence the See also:young See also:emperor See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry IV. was abducted by See also:Archbishop See also:Anno of Cologne in 1062, was blown up.
See J. Disselhoff, Das Diaconissenmutterhaus zu Kaiserswerth (new ed., 1903; Eng. trans., 1883).
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