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WEINSBERG , a small See also:town of See also:Germany, in the See also:kingdom of See also:Wurttemberg, pleasantly situated on the Sulm, 5 M. E. from See also:Heilbronn by the railway to See also:Crailsheim. Pop. (1905) 3097. It has an See also:ancient Romanesque 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, a See also:monument to the re-former See also:Oecolampadius (q.v.), and a school of viticulture, which is the See also:chief occupation of the inhabitants. On the Schlossberg above the town See also:lie the ruins of the See also:castle of Weibertreu, and atits See also:foot is the See also:house once inhabited by Justinus See also:Kerner (q.v.), with a public See also:garden and a monument to the poet.
The See also:German See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king See also:Conrad III. defeated See also:Count Well VI. of See also:Bavaria near Weinsberg in See also:December 1140, and took the town, which later became a See also:free imperial See also:city. In 1331 it joined the See also:league of the Swabian cities, but was taken by the nobles in 1440 and sold to the elector See also:palatine, thus losing its liberties. It was burnt in 1525 as a See also:punishment for the atrocities committed by the revolted peasants. The famous See also:legend of Weibertreu (" See also:women's faithfulness "), immortalized in a ballad by See also:Chamisso, is connected with the See also:siege of 1140, although the See also:story is told of other places. It is said that Conrad III. allowed the women to leave the town with whatever they could carry, where-upon they came out with their husbands on their backs.
See Bernheim, " See also:Die See also:Sage von den treuen Weibern zu Weinsberg " (in the Forschungen zur deutschen Geschichte, vol. xv., See also:Gottingen, 1875) ; Merk, Geschichte der Stadt Weinsberg and ihrer See also:Burg Weibertreu (Heilbronn, i88o).
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