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  Hildesheim
Hildesheim is a city in Lower Saxony, Germany.
It is located in the district of Hildesheim, about 25 km southeast of Hanover on the banks of the Innerste[?] river, which is a small affluent of the Leine river.
The town was founded in 815 and became a bishopric.
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  Bishopric of Hildesheim - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Bishopric of Hildesheim is a Roman Catholic diocese in Lower Saxony; it was founded in 815.
The Bishopric of Hildesheim was also a state of the Holy Roman Empire from the Middle Ages until 1803.
During the German Mediatisation of 1803, Hildesheim lost its statehood, and the territory was given to Prussia.
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 Hildesheim - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
It is located in the district of Hildesheim, about 25 km southeast of Hanover on the banks of the Innerste river, which is a small tributary of the Leine river.
The town became the seat of the Bishopric of Hildesheim in 815.
Hildesheim has a very good traffic infrastructure: it is a regional hub for interstate roads and railroad (high speed railroad station), is connected to the motorway (Autobahn), has a harbor at the artificial waterway Mittellandkanal and an airport.
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 Hildesheim - LoveToKnow 1911   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
HILDESHEIM, a town and episcopal see of Germany, in the Prussian province of Hanover, beautifully situated at the north foot of the Harz Mountains, on the right bank of the Innerste, 18 m.
Hildesheim owes its rise and prosperity to the fact that in 822 it was made the seat of the bishopric which Charlemagne had founded at Elze a few years before.
In 1801 the bishopric was secularized and in 1803 was granted to Prussia; in 1807 it was incorporated with the kingdom of Westphalia and in 1813 was transferred to Hanover.
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Hildesheim has served as the cultural center between the Harz Mountains and the Luneburger Heath, between the Weser River and the Elbe River for more than 1100 years.
It was not until after a bishopric had been established here that the city community began to grow; knights, tradesmen and merchants settled under the protection of the church.
On March 22, 1945 Hildesheim was badly damaged in an air raid at the end of WW II.
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 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Bishopric
He obtained the bishopric of St. Asaph in 1444 and transferred to Chichester in 1450.
Lucas Muller (born 1472, Cranach, bishopric of Bamberg—died Oct. 16, 1553, Weimar, Saxe-Weimar) German painter and printmaker.
Boniface founded a bishopric in Erfurt in 742, and by 805 it was an important centre on the Frankish empire's eastern border.
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 HILDESHEIM - Online Information article about HILDESHEIM
Hildesheim owes its rise and prosperity to the fact that in 822 it was made the seat of the bishopric which See also:
War to seize the lost lands, and at the beginning of the 19th century the extent of the prince bishopric was 682 sq.
Dobner, Studlen zur Hildesheimischen Geschichte (Hildesheim, 1901); Lachner, Die Holzarchitektur Hildeshelms (Hildesheim, 1882); Seifart, Sagen, Marchen, Schwanke and Gebrduche aus Stadt and Stift Hildesheims (Hildesheim, 1889).
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 Hildesheim - Civil Population In WW2
In Hildesheim, the Air Protection office was situated in the cellars of the Police Headquarters known as Hermann Goring House on the corner of the street of the SA/and Adolph Hitler Str today known as Kaiser Str/ Bahnhofsallee.
Hildesheim is 20 miles SE of Hannover and is a railway junction of some importance.
On March 22, 1945 Hildesheim was badly damaged in an air raid at the end of WW During the reconstruction of the city during the following years, a great deal of attention was given to restoring what was left of the old part of the city.
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 Hildesheim at AllExperts
It is located in the district of Hildesheim, about 25 km southeast of Hanover on the banks of the Innerste river, which is a small tributary of the Leine river.
The town became the seat of the Bishopric of Hildesheim in 815.
Hildesheim has an afficient traffic infrastructure: it is a regional hub for interstate roads and railroad (high speed railroad station), is connected to the motorway (Autobahn), has a harbor at the artificial waterway Mittellandkanal and an airport.
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 JewishEncyclopedia.com - HILDESHEIM:   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
On July 27, 1428, Bishop Magnus pledged the Jews in the town and bishopric of Hildesheim to the council as security for a loan of 600 Rhenish gulden; and the same prelate granted them on Aug. 26, 1439, a privilege of protection, which in 1441 received the sanction of the council.
After Hildesheim had become incorporated with the kingdom of Hanover the Jews were again obliged to pay for protection, until at last an end was put to this system by the law of Sept. 30, 1842.
Of well-known men who were born in Hildesheim may be mentioned: Ludwig Schulmann, editor and author (deceased); Moritz Güdemann (chief rabbi in Vienna); Dr. Wolfssohn (formerly rabbi in Stargard, Pomerania; now living in Berlin as rabbi emeritus); Max Landsberg, rabbi in Rochester, N. Y.; and Professor Landsberg, of the Polytechnicum in Darmstadt.
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 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Bishopric of Hildesheim
The Bishopric of Hildesheim is a Roman Catholic diocese in Lower Saxony; it was founded in 815.
The Bishopric of Hildesheim was also a state of the Holy Roman Empire from the Middle Ages until 1803.
But the Bishopric managed to retain its independence from the surrounding Protestant states of Brunswick-Lüneburg, mostly because its bishops were members of the powerful House of Wittelsbach from 1573 until 1761.
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 Hildesheim   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
It is located in the district Hildesheim about 25 km southeast of Hannover on the banks of the Innerste which is a small affluent of the Leine river.
It rebuilt in a completely different style and houses took the place of the destroyed In the late 1970s the reconstruction of the historic centre The concrete buildings were torn down and by copies of the old buildings.
Hildesheim has a very good traffic infrastructure: is a regional hub for interstate roads railroad (high speed railroad station) is connected the motorway (Autobahn) has a harbor at the artificial Mittellandkanal and an airport.
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 JewishEncyclopedia.com - PEINE:   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
It belonged formerly to the bishopric of Hildesheim.
On July 27, 1428, Magnus, Bishop of Hildesheim, pawned the Jews of the city and bishopric, including those of Peine, to the municipal council of Hildesheim for 600 Rhenish gulden.
The bishops of Hildesheim, as independent sovereigns, granted letters of protection to the Jews of Peine (as in the case of Bishop Maximilian Heinrich, on Oct. 24, 1662).
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 Hildesheim: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Hildesheim is a district in lower saxony, germany....
The university of hildesheim (in german: universität hildesheim) was founded in 1978....
Diane kruger (born july 15, 1976 near hildesheim, germany) is a german model (person)model and actress....
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 Hildesheim   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
It is located in the district of Hildesheim, about 25 km southeast of Hannover on thebanks of the Innerste river, which is asmall affluent of the Leine river.
In the late 1970s the reconstruction of the historiccentre began: The concrete buildings were torn down and replaced by copies of the old buildings.
It was built in the 9thcentury, but destroyed in 1945; it was reconstructed soon after the war.
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 Religion in Eastern Europe
Noteworthy was the fact that the bishoprics were not named according to their geographic location but according to the patron saints of the respective cathedrals.
The bishoprics that were already established from the time of Czarina Catherine the Great are used as evidence that the Catholic Church is rooted in Russian history.
Bishoprics could be established at that time, but under circumstances that scarcely redound to the credit of Vatican policy on Eastern Europe.
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 Hildesheim Palaver @ KJ5.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Entwined around the apse is a rose tree, claimed to have been planted simultaneously with the foundation of the church.
That's the age the world's oldest living rose is thought to be.
Today it continues to flourish on the wall of the Hildesheim Cathedral.
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 AllRefer.com - Hildesheim, Germany (German Political Geography) - Encyclopedia
In 815, Emperor Louis I made Hildesheim the seat of a bishopric; Hildesheim's bishops later became territorial princes of the Holy Roman Empire.
The bishopric was secularized at the beginning of the 19th cent.; in 1813 it passed to Hanover, and in 1866 it passed, with Hanover, to Prussia.
Hildesheim owes much of its architectural beauty to one of its early bishops, St. Bernward (d.
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 Hildesheim   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Louis I the Pious, son of Charlemagne (742-814), founded a bishopric there in 815, an event linked with the “thousand-year-old rosebush” (probably 300–500 years old) that blooms above the east choir of the cathedral.
It became a member of the Hanseatic League and was chartered in 1300.
Hildesheim passed to Prussia in 1803 and then to Hanover in 1815.
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 Hildesheim, Lower Saxony, Pictures
In the early 9th century Hildesheim became the seat of a bishopric; in the early 11th century the bishop of Hildesheim, Saint Bernward, made the city an important center of Romanesque art.
After it became a free city of the Holy Roman Empire in the 13th century, Hildesheim was accorded municipal rights (1249) and in the same period joined the Hanseatic League.
The bishopric of Hildesheim was secularized in 1803 and was incorporated into the kingdom of Hannover in 1815.
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 Hildesheim 1803
The Bishopric of Hildesheim was incorporated into the Kingdom of Prussia following the Reichsdeputationshauptschluß of 25 February 1803.
In 1806, Emperor Napoleon defeated Prussia, and Hildesheim temporarily became part of France until it was taken into the Kingdom of Westfalia in 1807.
Hildesheim today still has an impressive number of historic buildings and churches, most of which have been beautifully restored.
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 Hanover (state) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The influence of the electors in Germany grew also: they inherited the Principality of Lüneburg in 1705, and the formerly Swedish territories of Bremen and Verden in 1719.
As part of the German Mediatisation of 1803, the Electorate received the Bishopric of Osnabrück.
Hanover gained the Bishopric of Hildesheim, East Frisia, the Lower County of Lingen, and the northern part of the Bishopric of Münster.
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 Hanover (state) - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
The influence of the electors in Germany grew also: they inherited the Principality of Lüneburg in 1705, and the formerly Swedish territories of Bremen and Verden in 1719.
As part of the German Mediatisation of 1803, the Electorate received the Bishopric of Osnabrück.
Hanover gained the Bishopric of Hildesheim, East Frisia, the Lower County of Lingen, and the northern part of the Bishopric of Münster.
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 HENRY (c. 11081139) - LoveToKnow Article on HENRY (c. 11081139)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
He began to reign in 1514, but his brother William objected to the indivisibility of the duchy which had been decreed by the elder Henry, and it was only in 1535, after an imprisonment of eleven years, that William recognized his brothers title.
Sharing in an attack on John, bishop of Hildesheim, Henry was defeated at the battle of Soltau in June 1519, but afterwards he was more successful, and when peace was made received some lands from the bishop.
At Whitsuntide 1127 he was married to Gertrude, the only child of the German king, Lothair the Saxon, and at once took part in the warfare between the king,and the Hohenstaufen brothers, Frederick II., duke of Swabia, and Conrad, afterwards the German king Conrad III.
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 The Anatomy of the German Empire 1648-1918
Bishoprics: Augsburg, Bamberg, Basel, Brixen (Bressanone), Eichstätt, Freising, Hildesheim, Konstanz, Lübeck, Lüttich, Münster, Osnabrück, Paderborn, Passau, Regensburg, Schwerin, Speyer, Straßburg, Trient (Trento), Worms, Würzburg.
Prussia (for example) acquires the bishoprics of Münster, Hildesheim and Paderborn, Erfurt and the Eichsfeld area of Mainz.
Prussia cedes Ansbach and Bayreuth to Bavaria, East Frisia, Hildesheim, Goslar and Lingen to Hanover, the territories of the Third Polish Division to Russia; instead, Prussia obtains parts of Hither Pomerania from Denmark, the Rhine Province (formerly French), parts of Westfalia, almost half of Saxony (to form the Prussian province of Sachsen).
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 Hildesheim, Niedersachsen   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Hildesheim is located in the NW foothills of the Harz Mountains and lies in the flat valley of the Innerste.
Thanks to the construction efforts of Bishop Bernward (993-1022) and his successors Hildesheim has become a main site of early Romanesque art.
Taking this as a sign from heavan he founded first a chapel and then a bishopric on the spot.
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 ipedia.com: List of states in the Holy Roman Empire Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Bishopric of Regensburg (became an Archbishopric in 1803)
Bishopric of Passau (secularized 1803, to Bavaria and Salzburg)
Bishopric of Chur (secularized 1798, to the Helvetic Republic)
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 chap29a2
The bishoprics of Freisengen (5,500 inhabitants) and Passau ;
The bishoprics of Brixen (im-Thale, in the Austrian Tyrol), Ratisbonne (21,000 inhabitants).
- the bishopric of Bamberg and the county of Vertheim
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 Introduction
Thus Provence (1246), Dauphiné (1335), the bishoprics of Metz, Toul, Verdun (1558), Alsace (1648), Franche-Comté (1678), Lorraine (1766), the west bank of the Rhine (1801) were incorporated into France after being ceded by the Emperors.
There were losses elsewhere: the Swiss cantons, practically independent of their Habsburg overlords since the Middle Ages, were formally set free at the Peace of Westphalia in 1648.
Chapter or Bishopric of Speier County of Wittgenstein
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