RENDSBURG

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RENDSBURG , a town of Germany, in the Prussian province of Schleswig-Holstein, situated on the Eider and on the Kaiser Wilhelm canal, in a flat and sandy

district

DISTRICT

, 20 M. W. of Kiel, on the Altona-Vamdrup railway. Pop. (1905) 15,577. It consists of three partsthe crowded Altstadt, on an

island

ISLAND (O.E. ieg =isle, +land')

in the Eider; the Neuwerk, on the

south

SOUTH
SOUTH, ROBERT (1634–1716)

bank of the river; and the Kronwerk, on the north bank. .Rendsburg is the

chief

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

place in the basin of the Eider, and when in the possession of Denmark was maintained as a fortress. Its present importance, however, rests on the commercial facilities afforded by its connexion with the North Sea and the Baltic through the Kaiser Wilhelm canal, by which transit trade is carried on in grain, timber, Swedish iron and coals. The principal

industries

INDUSTRIES

are

cotton

COTTON
COTTON (Fr. coton; from Arab. qutun)
COTTON, CHARLES (163o–1687)
COTTON, GEORGE
EDWARD
- EDWARD
LYNCH
- LYNCH, PATRICIO (1825–1886)
(1813–1866)
COTTON, JOHN (1585–1652)
COTTON, SIR ROBERT BRUCE

-weaving, tanning and the manufacture of artificial manures.
Rendsburg came into existence under the shelter of a castle founded by the Danes about the year t too on an

island

ISLAND (O.E. ieg =isle, +land')

of the Eider, and was an object of dispute between the Danish kings and the

counts

COUNTS

of Holstein. In 1252 it was adjudged to the latter. The town was surrounded with ramparts in 1539, but the fortifications of the Kronwerk were not constructed till the end of the 17th century. During the Thirty Years' War Rendsburg was taken both by the Imperialists and the Swedes, but in 1645 it successfully resisted a second siege by the latter.
=IL 4The war of 1848-5o began with the capture of Rendsburg by the Holsteiners by a coup de main, and it formed the centre of the German operations. On the departure of the German troops in 1852 the Danes demolished the fortifications on the north side. Immediately after the death of King Frederick VII. (15th of November 1863) the town was occupied by the Saxon troops acting as the executive of the German Confederation, and it was the base of the operations of the Austrians and Prussians against Schleswig in the

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)

of the following year. On the termination of the Danish war in 1864 Rendsburg was jointly occupied by Austrian and Prussian military until 1866, when it fell to Prussia.
See Warmstedt, Rendsburg (Kiel, 1850).

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