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WAIBLINGEN

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 245 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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WAIBLINGEN , a See also:

town of See also:Germany, in the See also:kingdom of See also:Wurttemberg, in the centre of a fruitful See also:vine-growing See also:district on the Rems, to m. N.E. from See also:Stuttgart by the See also:main See also:line of railway to See also:Nuremberg via See also:Nordlingen and at the junction of a See also:branch to Hessenthal. Pop. (1905) 5997. It has two Evangelical churches, one of which is a See also:fine See also:Gothic structure of the 15th See also:century, restored in 1866, a See also:Roman See also:Catholic See also:church and a See also:modern town See also:hall. Its See also:industries, which include the making of pottery and See also:silk and the cultivation of See also:fruit and vines, are considerable. Waiblingen is mentioned in the 9th century, when it had a See also:palace of the Carolingian sovereigns. Subsequently it belonged to the See also:dukes of See also:Franconia, and gave a surname to the See also:emperor See also:Conrad II. It was in this way that the See also:Hohenstaufen See also:family, which was descended in the See also:female line from Conrad, received the name of Waiblingen, corrupted by the Italians into Ghibelline.

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