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ROTTENBURG

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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 766 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ROTTENBURG , a See also:

town and episcopal see of See also:Germany, is the See also:kingdom of See also:Wurttemberg, situated on the See also:left See also:bank of the See also:Neckar, which is here crossed by two See also:bridges connecting the i Both miniatures are reproduced by J. 0. Westwood in Facsimiles (See also:London, 1868). x Reproduced in Jahreshefte d. Wiirtemb. Altertums Ver. vol. iii. (See also:Stuttgart, 1846), pl. viii. See also:figs. to and ii. ' See Facsimile, by See also:Comte Auguste de See also:Bastard (See also:Paris, 1883). ',;The whole See also:case of this much-discussed Psalter, with resumes of the See also:principal writings on the subject of facsimiles of the miniatures bearing on the See also:evolution of the See also:cithara, will be found in Kathleen Schlesinger's See also:Instruments of the See also:Orchestra, pp. 343-82 and pl. iii., vi. and vii. (London, 1909). ' See Kathleen Schlesinger, op. cit., pp.

334, 338-39 n. and 441-5o. town with the suburb of Ehingen, 7 M. by See also:

rail S.W. of See also:Tubingen. Pop. (1905) 7554. It is the seat of a See also:Roman See also:Catholic See also:bishop, and possesses the See also:fine See also:Gothic See also:cathedral of St See also:Martin; several other churches; an old See also:castle now used as a See also:prison;. and a See also:building, formerly a Jesuit monastery and now the See also:residence of the bishop. The See also:chief See also:industries are the manufacture of machinery, screws, watches and See also:beer, tanning and the cultivation of See also:fruit and hops. Rottenburg passed into the See also:possession of See also:Austria in 1281 and into that of Wurttemberg in 18o5. Near the town are the remains of the Roman station of Sumalocenna or Salmulocenae.

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