NEUWEILER

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NEUWEILER , a town of Germany, in the imperial province of

Alsace

ALSACE (Ger. Elsass)

-Lorraine, situated under the Vosges Mountains, 6 m. N. from Zabern by the railway to

Rastatt

RASTATT

. Pop. (1905) 1go6.
It is an interesting medieval town, still surrounded by walls. The Romanesque Evangelical church dates from the 12th century; there are also a Romanesque Roman Catholic church, which was restored in 1852, a synagogue, and an old town-

hall

. The town has a considerable trade in hops and wine. Above it rise the ruins of the fortress of Herrenstein, and of the castle of Hiineburg.
See Fischer, Geschichte der Abtei and Stadt Neuweiler (Zabern, 1876). NEUWIED, a town of Germany, in the Prussian Rhine province, the

capital

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

of the mediatized countship of Wied, is situated on the right bank of the Rhine, 8 m. below Coblenz, on the railway from Frankfort-on-Main to Cologne. Pop. (1905) 18,177. The principal edifice is the chateau of the princes of Wied. This is situated in a fine park, and contains a collection of Roman antiquities. The town has an Evangelical and a Roman Catholic church. Its

chief

CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

products are

starch

STARCH

, sugar, tobacco, cigars, chicory, buttons and enamelled goods. There are large rolling-mills, and in the vicinity are several large iron-foundries. The schools of Neuwied enjoy a high reputation.
Neuwied was founded by Count Frederick of Wied in 1602, on the site of the

village

VILLAGE

of Langendorf, which was destroyed during the Thirty Years' War, and it rapidly increased owing to the toleration accorded to all religious sects. Among those who sought

refuge

REFUGE

here was a colony of Moravian Brethren; they still occupy a separate quarter of the town, where they carry on manufactures of porcelain stoves and deerskin gloves.' Near Neuwied one of the largest Roman castra on the Rhine has been excavated. In April 1797 the French, under General Hoche, defeated the Austrians near Neuwied, this being their first decisive success in the revolutionary wars. Legenhaus, in the neighbour-hood, is one of the residences of the princes of Weid.
See Wirtgen and Blenke, Neuwied and seine Umgebung (Neuwied, 1901).

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