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See also:KREUZNACH (CREUZNACH) , a See also:town and watering-See also:place of See also:Germany, in the Prussian See also:Rhine See also:province, situated on the See also:Nahe, a tributary of the Rhine, 9 M. by See also:rail S. of Bingerbriick. Pop. (1900), 21,321. It consists of the old town on the right See also:bank of the See also:river, the new town on the See also:left, and the Bade Insel (See also:bath See also:island), connected by a See also:fine See also:- STONE
- STONE (0. Eng. shin; the word is common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Stein, Du. steen, Dan. and Swed. sten; the root is also seen in Gr. aria, pebble)
- STONE, CHARLES POMEROY (1824-1887)
- STONE, EDWARD JAMES (1831-1897)
- STONE, FRANK (1800-1859)
- STONE, GEORGE (1708—1764)
- STONE, LUCY [BLACKWELL] (1818-1893)
- STONE, MARCUS (184o— )
- STONE, NICHOLAS (1586-1647)
stone See also:bridge. The town has two Evangelical and three See also:Roman See also:Catholic churches, a gymnasium, a commercial school and a See also:hospital. There is a collection of Roman and See also:medieval antiquities, among which is preserved a fine Roman See also:mosaic discovered in 1893. On the Bade Insel is the Kurhaus (1872) and also the See also:chief See also:spring, the Elisabethquelle, impregnated with See also:iodine and See also:bromine, and prescribed for scrofulous, bronchial and rheumatic disorders. The chief See also:industries are See also:marble-polishing and the manufacture of See also:leather, See also:glass and See also:tobacco. Vines are cultivated on the neighbouring hills, and there is a See also:trade in See also:wine and See also:corn.
The earliest mention of the springs of Kreuznach occurs in 1478, but it was only in the See also:early See also:part of the 19th See also:century that Dr Prieger, to whom there is a statue in the town, brought them into prominence. Now the See also:annual number of visitors amounts to several thousands. Kreuznach was evidently a Roman town, as the ruins of a Roman fortification, the Heidenmauer, and various antiquities have been found in its immediate See also:neighbour-See also:hood. In the gth century it was known as Cruciniacum, and it had a See also:palace of the Carolingian See also:kings. In 1o65 the 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. presented it to the bishopric of See also:Spires; in the 13th century it obtained civic privileges and passed to the See also:counts of Sponheim; in 1416 it became part of the See also:Palatinate. The town was ceded to See also:Prussia in 1814. In 1689 the See also:French reduced the strong See also:castle of Kauzenberg to the ruin which now stands 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 above Kreuznach.
See Schneegans, Historisch-topographische Beschreibung Kreuznachs and seiner Umgebung (7th ed., 1904) ; Engelmann, Kreuznach and See also:seine Heilquellen (8th ed., 189o) ; and Stabel, Das Solbad Kreuznach See also:file Arste dargestellt (Kreuznach, 1887).
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