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NYMPHENBURG

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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 930 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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NYMPHENBURG , formerly a See also:

village, but since 1899 an incorporated suburb of See also:Munich, in the See also:kingdom of See also:Bavaria. It has a See also:palace, built about the See also:middle of the 17th See also:century, on the See also:model of that at See also:Versailles, and See also:long a favourite See also:residence of the Bavarian elector, See also:Maximilian See also:Joseph. The famous See also:china manufactory of Nymphenburg, founded in 1754 at Neudeck by a See also:potter named Niedermeyer, was shortly afterwards removed hither and, after being long under royal patronage, is now a private undertaking. The elector See also:Charles See also:Albert of Bavaria was reputed to have made a treaty with See also:Louis XV. of See also:France in May 1741 at the beginning of the See also:War of the See also:Austrian See also:Succession for the See also:division, of See also:Austria, and this was called the treaty of Nymphenburg. It has, however, been conclusively proved a See also:forgery. But a treaty was concluded here on the 28th of May 1741, between Bavaria and See also:Spain, and another between Bavaria and the Rhenish See also:Palatinate in 1766.

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