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WOLFENBUTTEL , a town of Germany, in the duchy of Brunswick, situated on both banks of the Oker, 7 M. S. of Brunswick on the railway to Harzburg
marble statue of him. The library, including 300,000 printed books and 1o,000 MSS., was, however, transferred to a large and new Renaissance edifice in 1887. It is especially rich
Gothic
seminary . The ducal burial-vault is in the church of St Mary.A castle is said to have been founded on the site of Wolfenbuttel by a margrave of Meissen about 1046. When this began in 1267 to be the residence of the early Brunswick or Wolfenbuttel line of counts
Saxons
Wrangel
Leopold at Wolfenbuttel. The town passed wholly into the possession of the Brunswick-Wolfenbuttel family in 1671, and for nearly one hundred years enjoyed the distinction of being the ducal capital . In 1754, however, Duke Charles transferred the ducal residence to Brunswick.See Voges, Erzahlungen aus der Geschichte der Stadt Wolfenbuttel (Wolfenbuttel, 1882); von Heinemann, Die herzogliche Bibliothek zu Wolfenbuttel (2nd ed., Wolfenbuttel, 1894). For the " Wolfenbtittel fragments " see LESSING and REIMABUS. End of Article: WOLFENBUTTEL If you wish, you can link directly to this article.
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