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KULMBACH, or CULMBACH

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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 944 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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KULMBACH, or CULMBACH , a See also:town of See also:Germany, in the Bavarian See also:province of Upper See also:Franconia, picturesquely situated on the Weisser See also:Main, and the See also:Munich-See also:Bamberg-See also:Hof railway, 11 m. N.W. from See also:Bayreuth. Pop. (1900), 9428. It contains a See also:Roman See also:Catholic and three See also:Protestant churches, a museum and several See also:schools. The town has several See also:linen manufactories and a large See also:cotton spinnery, but is chiefly famed for its many extensive breweries, which mainly produce a See also:black See also:beer, not unlike See also:English See also:porter, which is largely exported. Connected with these are malting and bottling See also:works. On a rocky See also:eminence, 1300 ft. in height, to the See also:south-See also:east of the town stands the former fortress of Plassenburg, during the 14th and 15th centuries the See also:residence of the margraves of Bayreuth, called also See also:mar-See also:graves of See also:Brandenburg-Kulmbach. It was dismantled in 1807, and is now used as a See also:prison. Kulmbach and Plassenburg belonged to the See also:dukes of See also:Meran, and then to the See also:counts of Orlamunde, from whom they passed in the 14th See also:century to the Hohenzollerns, burgraves of See also:Nuremberg, and thus to the margraves of Bayreuth. See F. See also:Stein, Kulmbach and See also:die Plassenburg in alter and neuer Zeit (Kulmbach, 19o3); Huther, Kulmbach and Umgebung (Kulmbach, 1886) ; and C.

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Meyer, Quellen zur Geschichte der Stadt Kulmbach (Munich, 1895).

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