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MUNSTER AM STEIN

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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 12 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MUNSTER AM See also:STEIN , a watering-See also:place of. See also:Germany, in the Prussian See also:Rhine See also:province, on the See also:Nahe, 22 m. S. of See also:Kreuznach, on the railway from See also:BingerbrUck to See also:Strassburg. Pop. (1905), 915. Above the See also:village are the ruins of the See also:castle of Rheingrafenstein (12th See also:century), formerly a seat of the See also:count See also:palatine of the Rhine, which was destroyed by the See also:French in 1689, and those of the castle of Ebernburg, the ancestral seat of the lords of See also:Sickingen, and the birthplace of See also:Franz von Sickingen, the famous See also:landsknecht See also:captain and See also:protector of See also:Ulrich von See also:Hutten, to whom a See also:monument was erected on the slope near the ruins in 1889. The See also:spa (saline and carbonate springs), specific in cases of feminine disorders, is visited by about 5000 patients annually. See Welsch, Das Sol- and Thermalbad Munster am Stein (Kreuznach, 1886) and Messer, Fiihree durch See also:Bad Kreuznach and Munster am Stein (Kreuznach, 1905).

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