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PADERBORN (Lat. Paderae Fontes, i.e. the springs of the Pader)

PADERBORN (See also:
LAT
Lat. Paderae Fontes, i.e. the springs of the Pader) , a See also:

TOWN

town and episcopal see of See also:

Germany, in the Prussian See also:

province of See also:

Westphalia, 63 m. N.E. from See also:

DORTMUND

Dortmund on the railway to See also:

Berlin via Altenbeken. Pop. (19o5), 26,468, of whom about 8o% are See also:

ROMAN

Roman Catholics. It derives its name from the springs of the Pader, a small affluent of the See also:

LIPPE

Lippe, which rise in the town under the See also:

CATHEDRAL

cathedral to the number of nearly 200, and with such force as to drive several See also:

mills within a few yards of their source. A large See also:

PART

part of the town has been rebuilt since a See also:

GREAT

great See also:

FIRE (in O. Eng. f j'r; the word is common to West German languages, cf. Dutch vuur, Ger. Feuer; the pre-Teutonic form is seen in Sanskrit pu, pavaka, and Gr. irup; the ultimate origin is usually taken to be a root meaning to purify, cf. Lat. purus)

fire of 1875. The most prominent of See also:

HALF

half-a-dozen churches is the Roman See also:

CATHOLIC (Gr. KcaBoXuK6s, general, universal)

Catholic cathedral, the western part of which See also:

DATES

dates from the 11th, the central part from the 12th, and the eastern part from the 13th See also:

CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century; it was restored in 1891-1893. Among other treasures it contains the See also:

SILVER

silver See also:

COFFIN (from Lat. cophinus, Gr. K64wos, a coffer, chest or basket, but never meaning " coffin " in its present sense)

coffin of St Liborius, a substitute for one which was coined into dollars in 1622 by See also:

Christian of See also:

Brunswick, the celebrated freebooter. The See also:

CHAPEL

chapel of St See also:

Bartholomew, although externally insignificant, dates from the earlier part of the 11th century, and is counted among the most interesting buildings in Westphalia; it was restored in 1852. The Jesuit See also:

church and the See also:

PROTESTANT

Protestant Abdinghofkirche are also interesting. The town See also:

hall is a picturesque edifice of the 13th century; it was partly rebuilt in the 16th, and was restored in the 19th century.

Paderborn formerly possessed a university, founded in 1614, with faculties of See also:

THEOLOGY

theology and See also:

PHILOSOPHY (Gr. gthos, fond of, and vo4 (a, wisdom)

philosophy, but this was closed in 1819. The manufactures of the town include railway plant, See also:

glass, See also:

SOAP

soap, See also:

TOBACCO

tobacco and See also:

BEER

beer; and there is a See also:

trade in See also:

GRAIN (derived through the French from Lat. granum, seed, from an Aryan root meaning " to wear down," which also appears in the common Teutonic word " corn ")

grain, See also:

CATTLE (Norman Fr. catel, from Late Lat. capitale, wealth or property, a word applied in the feudal system to movable property and particularly to live stock, and surviving in its wider meaning as " chattel " or " chattle ")

cattle, See also:

FRUIT (through the French from the Lat. fructus; frui, to enjoy)

fruit and See also:

WOOL, WORSTED AND WOOLLEN MANUFACTURES

wool. Paderborn owes its See also:

early development to See also:

Charlemagne, who held a See also:

DIET

diet here in 777 and made it the seat of a See also:

bishop a few years later. The Saxon emperors also held diets in the See also:

CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

city, which about the See also:

YEAR

year l000 was surrounded with walls. It joined the Hanseatic See also:

LEAGUE

League, obtained many of the privileges of a See also:

FREE

free Imperial town, and endeavoured to assert its See also:

independence of the bishop. The citizens gladly accepted the reformed doctrines, but the supremacy of the older faith was restored in 1604 by Bishop See also:

Theodore von See also:

FURSTENBERG

Furstenberg, who forcibly took See also:

possession of the city. It underwent the same See also:

FATE

fate at the hands of Christian of Brunswick during the See also:

THIRTY

Thirty Years' See also:

War. The bishopric of Paderborn formed part of the See also:

arch-See also:

DIOCESE (formed on Fr. diocese, in place of the Eng. form diocess—current until the 19th century—from Lat. dioecesis, med. Lat. variant diocesis, from Gr. Swucio•tc, " house-keeping," " administration," &miceas, " to keep house," " to govern ")

diocese of See also:

MAINZ (Fr. Mayence)

Mainz, and its bishop became a See also:

prince of the See also:

EMPIRE

empire about t too. Some of the bishops were men of great activity, and the bishopric attained a certain measure of importance in See also:

North Germany, in spite of ravages during the Thirty Years' War and the Seven Years' War. It was secularized in 1803 and was given to See also:

Prussia, and after losing it for a few years that See also:

COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country regained it by the See also:

settlement of 1815. The last bishop was See also:

FRANZ, ROBERT (1815-1892)

Franz Egon von Furstenberg (d. 1825).

The bishopric had an See also:

AREA

area of nearly loon sq. in.. and a See also:

POPULATION (Lat. populus, people; populare, to populate)

population of about roo,000. A new bishopric of Paderborn, with ecclesiastical authority only, was established in 1821. See W. See also:

Richter, Geschichte der Stadt Paderborn (Paderborn, 1899—1903) ; A. Hubinger, See also:

Die Verfassung der Stadt Paderborn See also:

IM(K2+a2+h2—2 ah cos 0)

im Mittelalter (See also:

Munster, 1899) ; and J. Freisen, Die Universitett Paderborn (Paderborn, 1898). For the See also:

HISTORY

history of the bishopric see W. F. Giefers, Die Anfange See also:

des Bistums Paderborn (Paderborn, 186o); L. A. T. Holscher, Die tiltere Diozese Paderborn (Paderborn, 1886) ; the Urkunden des Bistums Paderborn, edited by R.

Wilmans (Munster 1874—188o); and W. Richter, Studien and Quellen zur Paderborner Geschichte (Paderborn, 1893).

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