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SIEGBURG , a See also:town of See also:Germany, in the Prussian See also:Rhine See also:Province, on the See also:river Sieg, 16 m. by See also:rail S.E. of See also:Cologne by the railway to See also:Giessen. Pop. (1905) 14,878. It has a royal See also:- SHELL
- SHELL (O. Eng. scell, scyll, cf. Du. sceel, shell, Goth. skalja, tile; the word means originally a thin flake,. cf. Swed. skalja, to peel off; it is allied to " scale " and " skill," from a root meaning to cleave, divide, separate)
shell factory, See also:calico-See also:printing See also:mills, See also:lignite mines, See also:- STONE
- STONE (0. Eng. shin; the word is common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Stein, Du. steen, Dan. and Swed. sten; the root is also seen in Gr. aria, pebble)
- STONE, CHARLES POMEROY (1824-1887)
- STONE, EDWARD JAMES (1831-1897)
- STONE, FRANK (1800-1859)
- STONE, GEORGE (1708—1764)
- STONE, LUCY [BLACKWELL] (1818-1893)
- STONE, MARCUS (184o— )
- STONE, NICHOLAS (1586-1647)
stone quarries and pottery and See also:tobacco factories. The See also:parish See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church, dating from the 13th See also:century, possesses several richly decorated reliquaries of the 12th to 15th centuries. The buildings of the See also:Benedictine See also:abbey, founded in Io66, are now used as a See also:prison. The town, which was founded in the 11th century, attained the height of its prosperity in the 15th and 16th centuries owing to its pottery wares. Siegburg pitchers (Siegburger Kruge) were widely famed. Their shape was often fantastic and they are now eagerly sought by collectors.
See R. Heinekamp, Siegburgs Vergangenheit and Gegenwart (Siegburg, 1897) ; and See also:Renard, See also:Die Kunstdenkmdler See also:des Siegkreises (See also:Dusseldorf, 1907).
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