. The Encyclopaedia Britannica; ... A dictionary of arts, sciences and general literature. moats. The area«if thejwhole city, is great in proportion to its population, the houses in general being built to contain only one public buildings, situated chiully in the old town,comprise the following :—the cathedral, erected in the 12thcentury, on the site of Charlemagnes wooden church, andfamous fur its BUikdler, or lead-vault, in which boiiica maybo kept a long time without Bulicring dcconipusitiuu ; thochurch of St Au;igarius, built about 1213, with a spire 400feet high ; the Ralkhaus
. The Encyclopaedia Britannica; ... A dictionary of arts, sciences and general literature. moats. The area«if thejwhole city, is great in proportion to its population, the houses in general being built to contain only one public buildings, situated chiully in the old town,comprise the following :—the cathedral, erected in the 12thcentury, on the site of Charlemagnes wooden church, andfamous fur its BUikdler, or lead-vault, in which boiiica maybo kept a long time without Bulicring dcconipusitiuu ; thochurch of St Au;igarius, built about 1213, with a spire 400feet high ; the Ralkhaus, a building of the early part ofthe 15th century, with a celebrated underground wine-cellar ; the town-house, formerly the archiepiscopal jialacu,and converted to its present uses only in 1819 ; the iSchiit-ting, or merchants hall, originally built in 1G19 for thoguild of cloth-traders; the exchange, completed in 1807;the theatre ; the town library; the high-school, a quiterecent erection; and the new post-ofiice buildings. IStRciiiberts church and the colosseum may be mentioned in. Plan of Bremen. 1. Cathedral. 3. Museum. 5. St Anseaiiua. 2. Exchange. 4. Kathhaus. 6. S[ Stephon the Vorstadt; and the barracks in the now town. At thehead of the monetary establishments stands the BremerBank, which was founded in 1856 as a private speculation,and is only allowed to issue notes to the amount of itsrealized capital. Seven other banks were in operation inthe beginning of 1875. There are in tho city eighteenpublic and thirteen private schools, the former including anavigation and an industrial school, and the latter aninstitution for the extension of female labour. New waterworks, constructed by an English company onthe left side of the rivor, were opened in 1872, atid supplythe city with water of a good quality from the Weser; alarge fire-brigade establishment has also been founded inimitation of a similar institution at Berlin; and an exten-sive park, the Burger Park, has been l
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