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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 450 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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NEUWEILER , a See also:

town of See also:Germany, in the imperial See also:province of See also:Alsace-See also:Lorraine, situated under the See also:Vosges Mountains, 6 m. N. from See also:Zabern by the railway to See also:Rastatt. Pop. (1905) 1go6. It is an interesting See also:medieval town, still surrounded by walls. The Romanesque Evangelical See also:church See also:dates from the 12th See also:century; there are also a Romanesque See also:Roman See also:Catholic church, which was restored in 1852, a See also:synagogue, and an old town-See also:hall. The town has a considerable See also:trade in hops and See also:wine. Above it rise the ruins of the fortress of Herrenstein, and of the See also:castle of Hiineburg. See See also:Fischer, Geschichte der Abtei and Stadt Neuweiler (Zabern, 1876). NEUWIED, a town of Germany, in the Prussian See also:Rhine province, the See also:capital of the mediatized countship of Wied, is situated on the right See also:bank of the Rhine, 8 m. below See also:Coblenz, on the railway from See also:Frankfort-on-See also:Main to See also:Cologne. Pop. (1905) 18,177.

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principal edifice is the See also:chateau of the princes of Wied. This is situated in a See also:fine See also:park, and contains a collection of Roman antiquities. The town has an Evangelical and a Roman Catholic church. Its See also:chief products are See also:starch, See also:sugar, See also:tobacco, cigars, See also:chicory, buttons and enamelled goods. There are large See also:rolling-See also:mills, and in the vicinity are several large See also:iron-foundries. The See also:schools of Neuwied enjoy a high reputation. Neuwied was founded by See also:Count See also:Frederick of Wied in 1602, on the site of the See also:village of Langendorf, which was destroyed during the See also:Thirty Years' See also:War, and it rapidly increased owing to the See also:toleration accorded to all religious sects. Among those who sought See also:refuge here was a See also:colony of Moravian Brethren; they still occupy a See also:separate See also:quarter of the town, where they carry on manufactures of See also:porcelain stoves and deerskin gloves.' Near Neuwied one of the largest Roman castra on the Rhine has been excavated. In See also:April 1797 the See also:French, under See also:General See also:Hoche, defeated the Austrians near Neuwied, this being their first decisive success in the revolutionary See also:wars. Legenhaus, in the See also:neighbour-See also:hood, is one of the residences of the princes of Weid. See Wirtgen and Blenke, Neuwied and See also:seine Umgebung (Neuwied, 1901).

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