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WEINHEIM , a See also:town of See also:Germany, in the See also:grand-duchy of See also:Baden, pleasantly situated on the Bergstrasse at the See also:foot of the See also:Odenwald, 't m. N. of See also:Heidelberg by the railway to See also:Frankfort-on-See also:Main. Pop. (1905) 12,560. It is still in See also:part surrounded by the ruins of its See also:ancient walls. The See also:Gothic town See also:- HALL
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
hall; the ruins of the See also:castle of Windeck and the See also:modern castle of the See also:counts of Berckheim; the See also:house of the See also:Teutonic See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
Order; and three churches are the See also:principal buildings. The town has various manufactures, notably See also:leather, machinery and See also:soap, and cultivates See also:fruit and See also:wine. It is a favourite See also:climatic See also:health resort and a See also:great tourist centre for excursions in the Odenwald range. Weinheim is mentioned in See also:chronicles as See also:early as the 8th See also:century, when it was a See also:fief of the See also:abbey of Lorsch, and it was fortified in the 14th century. In the See also:Thirty Years' See also:War it was several times taken and plundered, and its fortifications dismantled.
See Hegewald, Der Luftkurort Weinheim an der Bergstrasse (Weinheim, 1895) ; See also:Ackermann, Fiihrer durch Weinheim and Umgebung (Weinheim, 1895);_ and Zinkgraf, Bilder aus der Geschichte der Stadt Weinheim (Weinheim, 1904).
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