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Encyclopedia Britannica



ZWEIBRUCKEN

This article appears in Volume V28, Page 1061 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: YAK-ZYM
ZWEIBRUCKEN , a town of Germany, in the Palatinate, on the Schwarzbach, and on the railway between Germersheim and Saarbrucken. Pop. (1905) 14,711. The town was the
capital
  of the former duchy of Zweibriicken, and the Alexander-Kirche contains the tombs of the dukes. The ducal castle is now occupied by the
chief
  court of the Palatinate. There is a fine
Gothic
  Catholic church. Weaving and brewing and the manufacture of machinery, chicory, cigars, malt, boots, furniture and soap are the
chief
 
industries
 .
Zweibrucken (" two bridges ") is the Latin Bipontinum; it appears in early documents also as Geminus Pons, and was called by the French Deux-Ponts. The independent territory was at first a countship, the
counts
  being descended from
Henry
  I., youngest son of Simon I., count of Saarbrucken (d. 118o). This line became
extinct
  on the death of Count Eberhard (1393), who in 1385 had sold half his territory to the count palatine of the Rhine, and held the other half as his feudatory. Louis (d. 1489), son of Stephen, count palatine of Zimmern-Veldenz, founded the line of the dukes of Zweibrucken, which became
extinct
  in 1731, when the duchy passed to the Birkenfeld branch, whence it came under the sway of Bavaria in 1799. At the peace of Luneville Zweibrucken was ceded to France; on its reunion with Germany in 1814 the greater part of the territory was given to Bavaria, the remainder to Oldenburg and Prussia. At the ducal printing office at Zweibrucken the fine edition of the classics known as the Bipontine Editions was published (1799 sqq.).
See Lehmann, Geschichte des Herzogtums Zweibrucken (Munich, 1867).


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