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Encyclopedia Britannica



GMUND

This article appears in Volume V12, Page 148 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: GEO-GNU
GMUND , a town of Germany, in the kingdom of Wurttemberg,' in a charming and fruitful valley on the Hems, here spanned by a beautiful bridge, 31 M. E.N.E. of
Stuttgart
  on the railway to Nordlingen. Pop. (1905) 18,699. It is surrounded by old walls, flanked with towers, and has a considerable number of ancient buildings, among which are the fine church of the Holy Cross; St John's church, which
dates
  from the time of the Hohenstaufen; and, situated on a height near the town, partly hewn out of the rock, the
pilgrimage
  church of the Saviour. Among the modern buildings are the gymnasium, the drawing and trade schools, the Roman Catholic
seminary
 , the town
hall
  and the industrial art museum. Clocks and watches are manufactured here and also other articles of silver, while the town has a considerable trade in corn, hops and fruit. The scenery in the neighbourhood is very beautiful, near the town being the
district
  called Little Switzerland.
Gmund was surrounded by walls in the beginning of the 12th century by Duke Frederick of Swabia. It received town rights from Frederick
Barbarossa
 , and after the extinction of the Hohenstaufen became a free imperial town, It retained its independence till 1803, when it came into the possession of Wurttemberg. Gmund is the
birth
 -place of the painter Hans= Baldung (14751545) and of the architect Heinrich Arler or Parler (fl. 1350). In the middle ages the population was about 1o,000.
See Kaiser, Gmund and seine Umgebung (1888).
' There are two places of this name in Austria. (I) Gmund, a town in Lower Austria, containing a palace belonging to the imperial family, (2) a town in Carinthia, with a beautiful
Gothic
  church and some interesting ruins. -


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