WEINSBERG

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WEINSBERG , a small town of Germany, in the kingdom of Wurttemberg, pleasantly situated on the Sulm, 5 M. E. from Heilbronn by the railway to Crailsheim. Pop. (1905) 3097. It has an ancient Romanesque church, a

monument

MONUMENT (Lat. monumentum or monumentum; from monere, to advise, bring to mind, remind; the German equivalent is Denkmal)

to the re-former

Oecolampadius

OECOLAMPADIUS, JOHN (1482-1531)

(q.v.), and a school of viticulture, which is the

chief

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

occupation of the inhabitants. On the Schlossberg above the town lie the ruins of the castle of Weibertreu, and atits foot is the

house

HOUSE
HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in
Gothic
- GOTHIC
it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)

once inhabited by Justinus Kerner (q.v.), with a public

garden

GARDEN (from O. Fr. garden, mod. Fr. jardin; this, like our words " garth," a paddock attached to a building, and " yard," comes from a Teutonic word for an enclosure which appears in Gothic as gards and O. H. Ger. gart, cf. Dutch gaarde and Ger. .garten)

and a

monument

MONUMENT (Lat. monumentum or monumentum; from monere, to advise, bring to mind, remind; the German equivalent is Denkmal)

to the poet.
The German king

Conrad

III. defeated

Count

COUNT (Lat. comes, gen. comitis, Fr. comte, Ital. conte, Span. conde)

Well VI. of Bavaria near Weinsberg in December 1140, and took the town, which later became a free imperial city. In 1331 it joined the league of the Swabian cities, but was taken by the nobles in 1440 and sold to the elector palatine, thus losing its liberties. It was burnt in 1525 as a

punishment

PUNISHMENT (from Lat. punire, to punish, from poena, punishment, Gr. 7rocvil)

for the atrocities committed by the revolted peasants. The famous legend of Weibertreu (" women's faithfulness "), immortalized in a ballad by

Chamisso

CHAMISSO, ADELBERT VON [Louis CHARLES ADELAIDE DE] (1781–1838)

, is connected with the siege of 1140, although the story is told of other places. It is said that

Conrad

III. allowed the women to leave the town with whatever they could carry, where-upon they came out with their husbands on their backs.
See Bernheim, " Die Sage von den treuen Weibern zu Weinsberg " (in the Forschungen zur deutschen Geschichte, vol. xv., Gottingen, 1875) ; Merk, Geschichte der Stadt Weinsberg and ihrer Burg Weibertreu (Heilbronn, i88o).

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