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RENDSBURG

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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 97 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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RENDSBURG , a See also:

town of See also:Germany, in the Prussian See also:province of See also:Schleswig-See also:Holstein, situated on the See also:Eider and on the Kaiser Wilhelm See also:canal, in a See also:flat and sandy See also:district, 20 M. W. of See also:Kiel, on the See also:Altona-Vamdrup railway. Pop. (1905) 15,577. It consists of three parts—the crowded Altstadt, on an See also:island in the Eider; the Neuwerk, on the See also:south See also:bank of the See also:river; and the Kronwerk, on the See also:north bank. .Rendsburg is the See also:chief See also:place in the See also:basin of the Eider, and when in the See also:possession of See also:Denmark was maintained as a fortress. Its See also:present importance, however, rests on the commercial facilities afforded by its connexion with the North See also:Sea and the Baltic through the Kaiser Wilhelm canal, by which transit See also:trade is carried on in See also:grain, See also:timber, See also:Swedish See also:iron and coals. The See also:principal See also:industries are See also:cotton-See also:weaving, tanning and the manufacture of artificial See also:manures. Rendsburg came into existence under the shelter of a See also:castle founded by the Danes about the See also:year t too on an island of the Eider, and was an See also:object of dispute between the Danish See also:kings and the See also:counts of Holstein. In 1252 it was adjudged to the latter. The town was surrounded with ramparts in 1539, but the fortifications of the Kronwerk were not constructed till the end of the 17th See also:century. During the See also:Thirty Years' See also:War Rendsburg was taken both by the Imperialists and the Swedes, but in 1645 it successfully resisted a second See also:siege by the latter.

=IL 4The war of 1848-5o began with the See also:

capture of Rendsburg by the Holsteiners by a coup de See also:main, and it formed the centre of the See also:German operations. On the departure of the German troops in 1852 the Danes demolished the fortifications on the north See also:side. Immediately after the See also:death of See also:King See also:Frederick VII. (15th of See also:November 1863) the town was occupied by the Saxon troops acting as the executive of the German See also:Confederation, and it was the See also:base of the operations of the Austrians and Prussians against Schleswig in the See also:spring of the following year. On the termination of the Danish war in 1864 Rendsburg was jointly occupied by See also:Austrian and Prussian military until 1866, when it See also:fell to See also:Prussia. See Warmstedt, Rendsburg (Kiel, 1850).

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