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OPPENHEIM , a See also:town of See also:Germany, in the See also:grand duchy of See also:Hesse, picturesquely situated on the slope of See also:vine-clad hills, on the See also:left See also:bank of the See also:Rhine, 20 M. S. of See also:Mainz, on the railway to See also:Worms. Pop. (1905) 3696. The only relic of its former importance is the Evangelical See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church of St See also:Catherine, one of the most beautiful See also:Gothic edifices of the 13th and 14th centuries in Germany, and recently restored at the public expense. The town has a See also:Roman See also:Catholic church, several See also:schools and a memorial of the See also:War of 1870-71. Its See also:industries and See also:commerce are principally concerned with the manufacture and export of See also:wine. Above the town are the ruins of the fortress of Landskron, built in the 11th See also:century and destroyed in 1689.
Oppenheim, which occupies the site of the Roman Bauconica, was formerly much larger than at See also:present. In 1226 it appears as a See also:free town of the See also:Empire and later as one of the most important members of the Rhenish See also:League. It lost its See also:independence in 1375, when it was given in See also:pledge to the elector See also:palatine of the Rhine. During the See also:Thirty Years' War it was alternately occupied by the Swedes and the Imperialists, and in 1689 it was entirely destroyed by the See also:French.
See W. See also:Franck, Geschichte der ehemaligen Reichsstadt Oppenheim (See also:Darmstadt, 1859).
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