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Encyclopedia Britannica



ETTLINGEN

This article appears in Volume V09, Page 863 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: EMS-EUD
ETTLINGEN , a town of Germany, in the grand-duchy of Baden, on the Alb, and the railway
Mannheim
 -Basel, 41 m. S. of Karlsruhe. Pop. (1905) 8040. It is still surrounded by old walls and ditches, and presents a medieval and picturesque
appearance
 . Among its more striking edifices are an old princely residence, with extensive grounds, an Evangelical and two Roman Catholic churches, and the buildings of a former monastery. There are also many Roman remains, notable among them the " Neptune " sculpture, now embedded in the
wall
  of the town-
hall
 . Its
chief
  manufactures are
paper
 -making, spinning, weaving and machine building. The cultivation of wine and fruit is also largely carried on, and in these products considerable trade is done.
The first notice of Ettlingen
dates
  from the 8th century. It became a town in 1227 and was presented by the emperor Frederick II. to the margrave of Baden. In 1689 it was pillaged by the French, and near the town Moreau defeated the archduke Charles on the 9th and loth of July 1796.
See Schwarz, Geschichte der Stadt Ettlingen (Carlsruhe, 1900).


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