Heilbronn
a town of Württemberg, situated on the right bank of the Neckar.
The streets of the old medieval town are narrow, and the houses have quaintly ornamented gable-ends and tapering pinnacles. The church of St.
Kilian, partly Gothic and partly Renaissance ; the old town hall; the Diebsthurm ("Thief's Tower"), in which Götz von von Berlichingen was confined; and the house of the Teutonic Knights, now a barrack, are the principal buildings. The chief industries include the manufacture of silver plate, paper, sugar, salt, chicory , and chemicals, and there are iron and other metal foundries and machine shops.
Fruit and wine are largely grown. Commercially the importance of Heilbronn depends on its trade in groceries, corn, groceries, corn , and wood, and on its fairs for cattle, leather, wool, and fruit. In the vicinity gypsum and sandstone are quarried .
Heilbronn is first mentioned in 741; in 1360 it became an imperial town; it suffered during the Peasants' War and the Thirty Years' War, and in 1802 it fell into the hands of Württemberg. Pop. about 43,000.
HEINE (hi'ne), HEINRICH, a German poet and author; born of Jewish parents in Düsseldorf, Dec. 13, 1799. He studied law at Bonn, Berlin, and Göttingen; took his degree at the last mentioned place, and in 1825 embraced Christianity. He afterward lived at Hamburg, Berlin, and Munich, but in 1830 he settled in Paris, supported himself by his literary labors, and dwelt there till his death. From 1837 to the overthrow of Louis Philippe in 1848 he enjoyed a pension of $960 from the French Government. Of the numerous literary works of Heine may be mentioned in particular: "Poems"; "Pictures of Travel"; "Book of Songs "; "Germany, a Winter Tale"; "Shakespeare's Maidens and Wives "; "Last Poems and Thoughts"; etc. As a poet Heine is remarkable for the simplicity and pathos of many of his lyric pieces His powers of wit and raillery were also great. During the latter years of his life he suffered great agony from a spinal complaint, which confined him al- HELENA Paris, Feb. 17, 1856.