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MUNDEN , a See also:

town of See also:Germany, in the Prussian See also:province of See also:Hanover, picturesquely situated at the confluence of the See also:Fulda and the Werra, 21 M. N.E. of See also:Cassel by See also:rail. Pop. (1go5), 10,755. It is an See also:ancient See also:place, municipal rights having been granted to it in 1247. A few ruins of its former walls still survive. The large Lutheran See also:church of St See also:Blasius (14th–15th centuries) contains the See also:sarcophagus of See also:Duke See also:Eric of See also:Brunswick-See also:Calenberg (d. 1540). The 13th-See also:century Church of St Aegidius was injured in the See also:siege of 1625—26 but was subsequently restored. There is a new See also:Roman See also:Catholic church (1895). The town See also:hall (1619), and the ducal See also:castle, built by Duke Eric II. about 1570, and rebuilt in 1898, are the See also:principal See also:secular buildings. In the latter is the municipal museum.

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industries and a See also:trade in See also:timber. Munden, often called " Hannoversch-Munden " (i.e. Hanoverian Munden), to distinguish it from Prussian See also:Minden, was founded by the landgraves of Thuringia, and passed in 1247 to the See also:house of Brunswick. It was for a See also:time the See also:residence of the See also:dukes of Bnunswick-See also:Luneburg. In 1626 it was destroyed by See also:Tilly. See Willigerod, Geschichte von Munden (See also:Gottingen, 18o8); and Henze, Fuhrer durch Munden uad Umgegend (Munden, 1900).

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