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BIRKENFELD

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 982 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BIRKENFELD , a See also:

town of See also:Germany, See also:capital of the principality of the same name, on the Zimmerbach, 25 M. S.E. of See also:Trier and on the See also:main See also:line of railway from See also:Bingerbruck to See also:Neunkirchen. Pop. 2500. See also:Close by, on an See also:eminence, See also:lie the ruins of the See also:castle of Birkenfeld, dating from the 14th See also:century, once the See also:residence of the See also:counts See also:palatine of Zweibriicken. The town has an Evangelical and a See also:Roman See also:Catholic See also:church, a See also:grand-ducal high school and a See also:hospital. Besides See also:brewing and tanning, its See also:industries include the manufacture of See also:tobacco and See also:chicory. There is also a considerable See also:trade in See also:cattle. The PRINCIPALITY OF BIRKENFELD iS hilly and well-forested; See also:agriculture prospers on the cleared lands, and See also:fruit is grown in the valley of the See also:Nahe, the See also:principal stream. Ironstone and roofing slates are quarried, and there is some See also:industry in See also:agate-polishing and the manufacture of trinkets. The principality a, Pileus of See also:Archbishop See also:Warham (d. 1532).

b, Square cap of Archbishop See also:

Cranmer (d. 1556). c, Square cap of Archbishop See also:Parker (d. 1575). d, Square cap of Archbishop See also:Whitgift (d. 1583). e, Square cap of Archbishop See also:Laud (d. 1645). All these are from portraits at See also:Lambeth. f, Square cap of of See also:George See also:Morley, See also:bishop of g, See also:Modern See also:college cap. f (Redrawn from Braun's Liturgische Gewandung.) a, See also:Brandenburg (1280. e, See also:Wurzburg (1521). b, See also:Augsburg (1342). f, See also:Regensburg(1564).

c, See also:

Bamberg (1483). g, ib. (16o5?). d, Regensburg (1550). h, Bamberg (1626). has an See also:area of 312 sq. M. and a See also:population (1900) of 43,409, chiefly Protestants. It is formed out of the former lordships of Dachstuhl and See also:Oberstein, of See also:part of the See also:ancient countship of Sponheim, and sections of the duchy of Jtilich, which were granted to the grand-See also:duke of See also:Oldenburg by the See also:congress of See also:Vienna in 1815. It is entirely an See also:enclave in Prussian territory, and though it is represented in the Oldenburg See also:diet, it is governed by a See also:separate Regierungskollegium, consisting of a See also:president and two members, who are responsible to the Oldenburg See also:ministry.

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