RAPPOLTSWEILER (French Ribeauville)

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RAPPOLTSWEILER (French Ribeauville) , a town of Germany, in the imperial province of

Alsace

ALSACE (Ger. Elsass)

-Lorraine. Pop. (1905) 5986. It lies at the entrance of the valley of the Strengbach, under the eastern slope of the Vosges mountains, 33 M. S.W. of Strassburg on the railway to Basel, being connected with its station on that line, 22 M. distant, by a tramway. It is in part surrounded by ancient walls, and has many picturesque medieval houses, and two old churches, of St Gregory and St Augustine, both fine

Gothic

GOTHIC

buildings. The town

hall

contains a valuable collection of antiquities. The Carolabad, a saline

spring

SPRING (from " to spring," " to leap or jump up," " burst out," O. Eng., springau, a common Teut. word, cf. Ger. springer, possibly allied to Gr. QnrFpxecOac, to move rapidly)

with a temperature of 64 F., which had a

great

GREAT

repute in the middle ages, was rediscovered in 1888, and made Rappoltsweiler awatering-place. The industries include the spinning and weaving of

cotton

and wool, printing, dyeing and tanning, while there is a brisk trade in wine.
Rappoltsweiler, known in the 8th century as Rathaldovilare, passed from the bishops of Basel to the lords of Rappoltstein, who were among the most famous nobles in

Alsace

ALSACE (Ger. Elsass)

. The lord of Rappoltstein was the king or protector of the wandering minstrels of the land, who purchased his protection by paying him a tax. When the family became extinct in 1673 this office of king of the pipers (Pfeiferkonig) passed to the counts palatine of Zweibrucken-Birkenfeld. The minstrels had a

pilgrimage

PILGRIMAGE (Fr. pelerinage, Lat. peregrinatio)

chapel near Rappoltsweiler, dedicated to their patron saint, Maria von Dusenbach, and here they held an annual feast on the 8th of September. Near the town are the ruins of three famous castles, Ulrichsburg, Girsberg and Hohrappoltstein, which formerly belonged to the lords of Rappoltstein.'
See Bernhard, Recherches sur l'histoire de la ville de Rappoltsweiler (

Colmar

COLMAR, or KOLMAR

, 1888) ; and Kube, Rappoltsweiler, das Carolabad and Umgebung (Strassburg, 1905). For the lords of Rappoltstein, see Brieger, Die Herrschaft Rappoltstein (Strassburg, 1907).

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