These 1500 sabres scattered twenty battalions of the enemy and brought
in 2500 prisoners and 66 Austrian colours, and in this astounding charge
they themselves lost no more than 94 men. By nine o'clock the battle was
over, and the wrecks of the Austro-Saxon army were retreating to the
mountains. The Prussians, who had been marching all night, were too far
spent to pursue.
The loss of the allies was in all 15,224, 7985 killed and wounded, and
7239 prisoners, as well as 72 guns and 83 standards and colours. The
Prussians lost 4666 killed and wounded, 71 missing.
HOHENHEIM, a village of Germany, in the kingdom of Wurttemberg, 7 m. S.
of Stuttgart by rail. Pop. 300. It came in 1768 from the counts of
Hohenheim to the dukes of Wurttemberg, and in 1785 Duke Karl Eugen built
a country house here. This house with grounds is now the seat of the
most important agricultural college in Germany; it was founded in 1817,
was raised to the position of a high school in 1865, and now ranks as a
technical high school with university status.
See Frohlich, _Das Schloss und die Akademie Hohenheim_ (Stuttgart,
1870).
HOHENLIMBURG, a town of Germany, on the Lenne, in the Prussian prov. of
Westphalia, 30 m. by rail S.E. of Dortmund. Pop. (1905) 12,790. It has
two Evangelical churches, a Roman Catholic church and a synagogue. The
town is the seat of various iron and metal industries, while dyeing,
cloth-making and linen-weaving are also carried on here. It is the chief
town of the county of Limburg, and formerly belonged to the counts of
Limburg, a family which became extinct in 1508. Later it passed to the
counts of Bentheim-Tecklenburg. The castle of Hohenlimburg, which
overlooks the town, is now the residence of Prince Adolf of
Bentheim-Tecklenburg.
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