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ROLANDSECK

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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 465 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ROLANDSECK , a See also:

village of See also:Germany, in the Prussian See also:Rhine See also:province, delightfully situated on the See also:left See also:bank of the Rhine, 8 m. above See also:Bonn, with a station on the railway See also:Cologne-See also:Coblenz. The See also:place consists almost entirely of villas and is a favourite 'summer resort. Crowning the See also:vine-clad hills behind it See also:lie the ruins of the See also:castle, a picturesque See also:ivy-covered See also:arch, whence a See also:fine view is obtained of the See also:Siebengebirge and the Rhine valley as far as Bonn. Immediately below Rolandseck in See also:mid-See also:river is the See also:island of Nonnenwerth, on which is a See also:nursing school under the conduct of Franciscan nuns, established in 185o. The See also:convent which formerly stood here was founded in 1122 and secularized in 1802. Tradition assigns the See also:foundation of the castle of Rolandseck to See also:Charlemagne's See also:paladin, See also:Roland. It was certainly built at a very See also:early date, as it was restored by See also:Frederick, See also:archbishop of Cologne, in 1120, and it was a fortress until the end of the 15th See also:century.

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