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KREUZNACH (CREUZNACH) , a town and watering-place of Germany, in the Prussian Rhine province, situated on the Nahe, a tributary of the Rhine, 9 M. by rail S. of Bingerbriick. Pop. (1900), 21,321. It consists of the old town on the right bank of the river, the new town on the left, and the Bade Insel (bath island), connected by a fine stone bridge. The town has two Evangelical and three Roman Catholic churches, a gymnasium, a commercial school and a hospital
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spring , the Elisabethquelle, impregnated with iodine and bromine, and prescribed for scrofulous, bronchial and rheumatic disorders. The chief
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The earliest mention of the springs of Kreuznach occurs in 1478, but it was only in the early part of the 19th century that Dr Prieger, to whom there is a statue in the town, brought them into prominence. Now the annual number of visitors amounts to several thousands. Kreuznach was evidently a Roman town, as the ruins of a Roman fortification, the Heidenmauer, and various antiquities have been found in its immediate neighbour-hood. In the gth century it was known as Cruciniacum, and it had a palace of the Carolingian kings. In 1o65 the emperor Henry
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See Schneegans, Historisch-topographische Beschreibung Kreuznachs and seiner Umgebung (7th ed., 1904) ; Engelmann, Kreuznach and seine Heilquellen (8th ed., 189o) ; and Stabel, Das Solbad Kreuznach file Arste dargestellt (Kreuznach, 1887). End of Article: KREUZNACH (CREUZNACH) If you wish, you can link directly to this article.
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