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Paderborn

a town of Westphalia, throughout Germany, always with in- Prussia; 50 miles S. W. of Hanover. creasing success, and in 1889 made his The fine Romanesque cathedral (R. C.), first appearance before a Parisian aucompleted in 1163, is built over the dience. He visited the United States sources of the Pac Pader, and contains the four times. He composed more than 80 edifices are St. Bartholomew's Chapel fred," a suite for orchestra in G, and edifices are St. Bartholomew's Chapel piano and orchestra, an opera "Man- (1017) and the town house (1615; rewas sacked by the Duke of Brunswick was sacked by the Duke of Brunswick in 1622, and it suffered much during the Thirty Years' War. From 1614 to 1819 it was the seat of a Roman Catholic university. Much of it was burnt down in 1875. a

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