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ANWEILER

Volume 3 · 68 words · 1860 Edition

or Annweiler, the capital of the canton of the same name, in the district of Landau in Rhenish Bavaria. Population 2800, employed in various manufactures. Near it are the ruins of the castle of Trieftels, where, under the French emperors of Germany, the crown jewels were kept, and where our Richard Cœur de Lion, in 1193, was detained as a prisoner. Lat. 49. 13. N. Long. 8. E.