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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 773 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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WOLFENBUTTEL , a See also:

town of See also:Germany, in the duchy of See also:Brunswick, situated on both See also:banks of the Oker, 7 M. S. of Brunswick on the railway to See also:Harzburg. Pop. (1905) 19,083. See also:Lessing was ducal librarian here, and the old library See also:building, designed in 1723 in See also:imitation of the See also:Pantheon at See also:Rome, contains a See also:marble statue of him. The library, including 300,000 printed books and 1o,000 See also:MSS., was, however, transferred to a large and new See also:Renaissance edifice in 1887. It is especially See also:rich in Bibles, See also:incunabula and books of the See also:early See also:Reformation See also:period, and contains some fragments of the See also:Gothic See also:bible of See also:Ulfilas. Opposite the old library is the See also:palace, now occupied by a See also:seminary. The ducal See also:burial-vault is in the See also:church of St See also:Mary. A See also:castle is said to have been founded on the site of Wolfenbuttel by a See also:margrave of See also:Meissen about 1046. When this began in 1267 to be the See also:residence of the early Brunswick or Wolfenbuttel See also:line of See also:counts, a town gradually See also:grew up around it. In 1542 it was taken by the See also:Saxons and Hessians, who, however, evacuated it five years later after the See also:battle of Miihlberg.

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Thirty Years' See also:War, in See also:June 1641, the Swedes, under See also:Wrangel and See also:Konigsmark, defeated the Austrians under the See also:archduke See also:Leopold at Wolfenbuttel. The town passed wholly into the See also:possession of the Brunswick-Wolfenbuttel See also:family in 1671, and for nearly one See also:hundred years enjoyed the distinction of being the ducal See also:capital. In 1754, however, See also:Duke See also:Charles transferred the ducal residence to Brunswick. See Voges, Erzahlungen aus der Geschichte der Stadt Wolfenbuttel (Wolfenbuttel, 1882); von Heinemann, See also:Die herzogliche Bibliothek zu Wolfenbuttel (2nd ed., Wolfenbuttel, 1894). For the " Wolfenbtittel fragments " see LESSING and REIMABUS.

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