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Breisach (brī`zäkh), town (1994 pop. 11,680), Baden-Württemberg, SW Germany, on the Rhine River. Its manufactures include wine, agricultural produce, textiles, electrical goods, and paper. An old town, it has long been coveted because of its strategic location. It was fortified by the Romans, who called it Mons Brisiacus. It became an imperial town in 1275. Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar (săks`–wī`mär, zäks`ə-vī`mär) ..... Click the link for more information. took the town in 1638. Louis XIV secured it for France in the Peace of Westphalia (1648) and ceded it back to the emperor in the Treaty of Ryswick (1697), but built a new fort, Neuf-Brisach (Ger. Neu Breisach), on the opposite side of the Rhine. The French repeatedly captured Breisach during the 18th cent. but gave it to Baden in 1805. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| 1869 Neustadt; Hochberger Bote--Intelligenz- und Verkundigungsblatt fur die mter Emmendingen, Kenzingen, Breisach und Waldkirch, 19. It is rather curious that Cobelli -- the "otherwise ubiquitous Cobelli," as Breisach describes him (25, n. Inclined towards the domestic end of the scale, Spiegelhalter's buildings are characterized by the fusion of contemporary technology with quirkily mannerist form-making (for instance the extraordinary family house at Breisach, AR October 1996) and this latest project is no exception. |
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