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SIGMARINGEN

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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 70 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SIGMARINGEN , a See also:

town of See also:Germany, See also:chief town of the Prussian principality of See also:Hohenzollern, on the right See also:bank of the See also:Danube, 55 M. S. of See also:Tubingen, on the railway to See also:Ulm. Pop. (1905) 4621. The See also:castle of the Hohenzollerns crowns a high See also:rock above the See also:river, and contains a collection of pictures, an exceptionally interesting museum (textiles, enamels, See also:metal-See also:work, &c.), an armoury and a library. On the opposite bank of the Danube there is a See also:war See also:monument to the Hohenzollern men who See also:fell in 1866 and 187o-1871. The See also:division of Sigmaringen is composed of the two formerly See also:sovereign principalities of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen and Hohenzollern-Hechingen (see HOHENZOLLERN), and has an See also:area of 440 sq. m. and a See also:population (1905) of 68,282. The Sigmaringen See also:part of the Hohenzollern lands was the larger of the two (297 sq. m.) and See also:lay mainly to the See also:south of Hechingen, though the See also:district of Haigerloch on the See also:Neckar also belonged to it. The name of Hohenzollern is used much more frequently than the See also:official Sigmaringen to designate the combined principalities. See Woerl, Fuhrer durch Sigmaringen (See also:Wurzburg,1886).

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