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KLOSTERNEUBURG , a See also:town of See also:Austria, in See also:Lower Austria, 5z m. N.W. of See also:Vienna by See also:rail. Pop. (1goo) , 11,595. It is situated on the right See also:bank of the See also:Danube, at the See also:foot of the Kahlenberg, and is divided by a small stream into an upper and a lower town. As an important See also:pioneer station Klosterneuburg has various military buildings and stores, and among the See also:schools it possesses an See also:academy of See also:wine and See also:fruit cultivation.
On a 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 rising directly from the See also:banks of the Danube stand the magnificent buildings (erected 1730-1834) of the See also:Augustine canonry, founded in I Io6 by See also:Margrave See also:Leopold the See also:Holy. This See also:foundation is the See also:oldest and richest of the See also:kind in Austria; it
owns much of the See also:land upon which the See also:north-western suburbs of Vienna stand. Among the points of See also:interest within it are the old See also:chapel of 1318, with Leopold's See also:tomb and the See also:altar of See also:Verdun, dating from the 12th See also:century, the See also:treasury and relic-chamber, the library with 30,000 volumes and many See also:MSS., the picture See also:gallery, the collection of coins, the theological See also:- HALL
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
hall, and the wine-cellar, containing an immense See also:tun like that at See also:Heidelberg. The inhabitants of Klosterneuburg are mainly occupied in making wine, of excellent quality. There is a large See also:cement factory out-See also:side the town. In See also:Roman times the See also:castle of See also:Citium stood in the region of Klosterneuburg. The town was founded by See also:Charlemagne, and received its See also:charter as a town in 1298.
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