NEUBURG

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NEUBURG , a town of Germany, in the kingdom of Bavaria, is pleasantly situated on the Danube, 12 M. W. of Ingolstadt, on the railway to Neuoffingen. Pop. (1905) 8532. It is a place of ancient origin, but is chiefly noteworthy because formerly for two centuries it was the

capital

CAPITAL (i.e. capital stock or fund)
CAPITAL (Lat. caput, head)

of the principality of Pfalz-Neuburg. Its most important building is the old residence of its princes, the handsomest part of which is in the Renaissance style of the 16th century. The town also contains an Evangelical and seven Roman Catholic churches, a town

hall

HALL
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- HALLE, SIR CHARLES (originally KARL HALLE) (1819-1895)
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HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
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HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
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, several schools and convents, a theatre, and an historical museum with a valuable library. It has electrical works and breweries, while fruit and vegetables are cultivated in the neighbourhood, a considerable

trade

in these products being carried on by the Danube.
Neuburg was originally an episcopal see. In the loth century it passed to the

counts

COUNTS

of Scheyern, and through them to Bavaria, being ceded to the Rhenish

Palatinate

PALATINATE (Ger. Pfalz)

at the close of a war in 1507. From 1557 to 1742 it was the

capital

CAPITAL (i.e. capital stock or fund)
CAPITAL (Lat. caput, head)

of a small principality ruled by a

cadet

CADET (through the Fr. from the Late Lat. capitettum, a diminutive of caput, head, through the Provencal form capdet)

branch of the family of the elector palatine of the Rhine. This principality of Pfalz-Neuburg had an area of about r0oo sq. m. and about ioo,000 inhabitants. In 1742 it wasunited again with the Rhenish

Palatinate

PALATINATE (Ger. Pfalz)

, with which it passed in 1777 to Bavaria.
See Gremmel, Geschichte des Herzogtums Neuburg (Neuburg, 1872); and Fuhrer durch die Stadt Neuburg and deren Umgebung (Neuburg, 1904).

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