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WEILBURG , a See also:town of See also:Germany, in the Prussian See also:province of See also:Hesse-See also:Nassau, picturesquely situated on the See also:Lahn, just above the confluence of the Weil, 50 M. N.E. from See also:Coblenz by the See also:rail-way to See also:Giessen. Pop. (1905) 3828. The old town, built on and around a rocky See also:- HILL
- HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
- HILL, A
- HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
- HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
- HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
- HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
- HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
- HILL, JAMES J
- HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
- HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
- HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
- HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
- HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)
hill almost encircled by the See also:river, contains a See also:castle of the 16th See also:century, formerly the See also:residence of the See also:dukes of Nassau-Weilburg, and later of the See also:grand-dukes of See also:Luxemburg. It has an Evangelical and a See also:Roman See also:Catholic 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; the former, the Stadtkirche, containing the See also:burial vaults of the princes of Nassau, a gymnasium and an agricultural See also:college. Its See also:industries include See also:wool-See also:spinning, See also:mining, tanning and See also:dyeing. In the neighbourhood are the ruins of the castles of Merenberg and Freienfels. Weilburg was in the 1th century the See also:property of the bishops of See also:Worms, from whom it passed to the See also:house of Nassau. From 1355 to 1816 it was the residence of the princes of Nassau-Weilburg, a See also:branch of this house.
See C. C. Spielmann, Rarer durch Weilburg and Unagebung (Weilburg, 1894) ; and Geschichte der Stadt and Herrschaft Weilburg (Weilburg, 1896).
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