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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 57 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PEGNITZ , a See also:

river of See also:Germany. It rises near Lindenhard in Upper See also:Franconia (See also:Bavaria) from two See also:sources. At first it is called the Fichtenohe, but at Buchau it takes the name of the Pegnitz, and flowing in a See also:south-See also:westerly direction disappears below the small See also:town of Pegnitz in a See also:mountain cavern. It emerges through three orifices, enters See also:Middle Franconia, and after flowing through the See also:heart of the See also:city of See also:Nuremberg falls into the See also:Regnitz at See also:Furth. See Specht, Das Pegnitzgebiet in Bezug auf seinen Wasserhaushalt (See also:Munich, 1905). The Pegnitz See also:Order (Order of the society of Pegnitz shepherds), also known as " the crowned See also:flower order on the Pegnitz," was one of the See also:societies founded in Germany in the course of the 17th See also:century for the See also:purification and improvement of the See also:German See also:language, especially in the domain of See also:poetry. Georg Philipp See also:Harsdorffer and Johann See also:Klaj instituted the order in Nuremberg in 1644, and named it after the river. Its See also:emblem was the See also:passion flower with See also:Pan's pipes, and the See also:motto Mit Nutzen erfreulich, or Alle zu einem Ton einstimmig. The members set themselves the task of counteracting the pedantry of another school of poetry by See also:imagination and gaiety, but lacking imagination and broad views they took See also:refuge in allegorical subjects and puerile trifling. The result was to debase rather than to raise the See also:standard of poetic See also:art in Germany. At first the meetings of the order were held in private grounds, but in 1681 they were transferred to a See also:forest near Kraftshof or Naunhof. In 1794 the order was reorganized, and it now exists merely as a See also:literary society.

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Die nurnberger Dichterschule (See also:Gottingen, 1847) ; and the Festschrift zur 250 jahrigen Jubelfeier See also:des pegnesischen Blumenordens (Nuremberg, 1894).

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