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NEUMUNSTER

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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 426 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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town of See also:Germany, in the Prussian See also:province of See also:Schleswig-See also:Holstein, lies on both See also:banks of the small See also:river Schwale, in the See also:basin of the Stor, 40 M. N. of See also:Altona-See also:Hamburg by See also:rail, and at the junction of lines to See also:Kiel, Vamdrup (See also:Denmark) and Tonning. Pop. (1905) 31347• It has an Evangelical and a See also:Roman See also:Catholic See also:church and several See also:schools. It is, after Altona, the most important See also:industrial town in the province, and contains extensive See also:cloth-factories, besides manufactories of See also:leather, See also:cotton, See also:wadding, carpets, See also:paper, machinery, See also:beer and sweetmeats. Its See also:trade is also brisk. The name, which was originally Wipendorp, is derived from an See also:Augustine monastery, founded in 1130 by Vicelin, the apostle of Holstein, and is mentioned as " novum monasterium " in a document of 1136. Its industrial importance began in the 17th See also:century, when the cloth-workers of Segeberg, a town to the See also:south-See also:east, migrated to it. It became a town in 187o. See Kirmis, Geschichte der Stadt Neumiinster (1900) ; and Dittmann, Aus dem See also:alten Neumunster (r879).

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