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NEUBURG

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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 423 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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NEUBURG , a See also:

town of See also:Germany, in the See also:kingdom of See also:Bavaria, is pleasantly situated on the See also:Danube, 12 M. W. of See also:Ingolstadt, on the railway to Neuoffingen. Pop. (1905) 8532. It is a See also:place of See also:ancient origin, but is chiefly noteworthy because formerly for two centuries it was the See also:capital of the principality of Pfalz-Neuburg. Its most important See also:building is the old See also:residence of its princes, the handsomest See also:part of which is in the See also:Renaissance See also:style of the 16th See also:century. The town also contains an Evangelical and seven See also:Roman See also:Catholic churches, a town See also:hall, several See also:schools and convents, a See also:theatre, and an See also:historical museum with a valuable library. It has See also:electrical See also:works and breweries, while See also:fruit and vegetables are cultivated in the neighbourhood, a considerable See also:trade in these products being carried on by the Danube. Neuburg was originally an episcopal see. In the loth century it passed to the See also:counts of Scheyern, and through them to Bavaria, being ceded to the Rhenish See also:Palatinate at the See also:close of a See also:war in 1507. From 1557 to 1742 it was the capital of a small principality ruled by a See also:cadet See also:branch of the See also:family of the elector See also:palatine of the See also:Rhine. This principality of Pfalz-Neuburg had an See also:area of about r0oo sq. m. and about See also:ioo,000 inhabitants.

In 1742 it wasunited again with the Rhenish Palatinate, with which it passed in 1777 to Bavaria. See Gremmel, Geschichte See also:

des Herzogtums Neuburg (Neuburg, 1872); and Fuhrer durch See also:die Stadt Neuburg and deren Umgebung (Neuburg, 1904).

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