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MERGENTHEIM

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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 164 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MERGENTHEIM , a See also:

town of See also:Germany, in the See also:kingdom of See also:Wurttemberg, situated in the valley of the Tauber, 7 M. S. from Lauda by See also:rail. Pop. (1905), 4535• It contains an Evangelical and three See also:Roman See also:Catholic churches, a Latin and other See also:schools, and a magnificent See also:castle with a natural See also:history collection and the archives of the See also:Teutonic See also:order. This is now used as See also:barracks. The See also:industries of the town include tanning, the manufacture of agricultural machinery and See also:wine-making. Near the town is a medicinal See also:spring called the Karlsbad. Mergentheim (Marine domes) is mentioned in See also:chronicles as See also:early as 1058, as the See also:residence of the See also:family of the See also:counts of See also:Hohenlohe, who early in the 13th See also:century assigned the greater See also:part of their estates in and around Mergentheim to the Teutonic order. It rapidly increased in fame, and became the most important of the eleven commanderies of that society. On the secularization of the Teutonic Order in See also:Prussia in 1525, Mergentheim became the residence of the See also:grand See also:master, and remained so until the final See also:dissolution of the order in 1809. See Honing, Das Karlsbad bei Mergentheim (Mergentheim, 1887); and Schmitt, Garnisongeschichte der Stadt Mergentheim (See also:Stuttgart, 1895).

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