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EGER (Czech, Cheb)

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EGER (See also:Czech, Cheb) , a See also:town of Bohemia, See also:Austria, 148 M. W.N.W. of See also:Prague by See also:rail. Pop. (19oo) 23,665. It is situated on the See also:river Eger, at the See also:foot of one of the spurs of the See also:Fichtelgebirge, and lies in the centre of a See also:German See also:district of about 40,000 inhabitants, who are distinguished from the surrounding See also:population by their costumes, See also:language, See also:manners and customs. On the See also:rock, to the N.W. of the town, lies the See also:Burg or See also:Castle, built probably in the 12th See also:century, and now in ruins. It possesses a massive See also:black See also:tower, built of blocks of See also:lava, and in the courtyard is an interesting See also:chapel, in Romanesque See also:style with fantastic ornamentations, which was finished in the 13th century. In the banquet-See also:room of this castle See also:Wallenstein's See also:officers Terzky, Kinsky, Illo and See also:Neumann were assassinated a few See also:hours before Wallenstein himself was murdered by See also:Captain Devereux. The See also:murder took See also:place on the 25th of See also:February 1634 in .the town-See also:house, which was at that See also:time the burgomaster's house. The rooms occupied by Wallenstein have been transformed since 1872 into a museum, which contains many See also:historical See also:relics and antiquities of the town of Eger. The handsome and imposing St See also:Nicholas See also:church was built in the 13th century and restored in 1892. There is a considerable textile See also:industry, together with the manufacture of shoes, machinery and milling.

Eger was the birthplace of the novelist and playwright Braun von Braunthal(1802–1866). About 3 m. N.W. of Eger is the well-known watering place of See also:

Franzensbad (q.v.). The district of Eger was in 87o included in the new margraviate of See also:East See also:Franconia, which belonged at first to the Babenbergs, but from 906 to the See also:counts of Vohburg, who took the See also:title of margraves of Eger. By the See also:marriage, in 1149, of Adela of Vohburg with the See also:emperor See also:Frederick I., Eger came into the See also:possession of the house of See also:Swabia, and remained in the hands of the emperors until the 13th century. In 1265 it was taken by Ottakar II. of Bohemia, who retained it for eleven years. After being repeatedly transferred from the one See also:power to the other, according to the preponderance of Bohemia or the See also:empire, the town and territory were finally incorporated with Bohemia in 1350, after the Bohemian See also:king became the emperor See also:Charles IV. Several imperial privileges, however, continued to be enjoyed by the town till 1849. It suffered severely during the Hussite See also:war, during the See also:Swedish invasion in 1631 and 1647, and in the War of the See also:Austrian See also:Succession in 1742. See Drivok, Altere Geschichte der deutschen See also:Reichstadt Eger and See also:des Reichsgebietes Egerland (See also:Leipzig, 1875).

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