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is a robotic translation of the German Wikipedia's article on Dulmen, apologies
for the stilted language. I have attempted to clean up the worst parts)
The town of Dulmen was first documented as "Dulmenni" in the year 889 in Heberegister of the monastery. Southwest of the village Dulmen 1115, work began on the construction of the ruler's castle "house Dulmen. 1299 Count Eberhard I von der Mark pillaged the village, which was secured in the aftermath of Wall and ditch. Since 1305 was located near the eastern edge of the settlement, before the later Lüdinghauser gate, a sovereign court of justice, which Gogericht "to Grein Kuhle". The foundation of the city on 22 April 1311 by the Bishop of Munster, Ludwig II Among these were next to a limited self-government market rights. The parish church of St. Victor was raised in 1323 for the church. Finally, the stylus Chapter belonged to twelve canons. Senior of the chapter was the dean.
From 1328 to 1808 directed the destinies of two annual elected mayor of the city. 1404 acquired the mayor and the city council of the land for the construction of City Hall. Since 1414 the poor were receiving assistance and the Holy Spirit Hospital. The temporal power in the Diocese of Münster from 1424 to 1803 Dulmen was divided into twelve offices one of which was the office. It included the cities and farmers and the parishes Dulmen Dulmen, Buldern and Hullern. 1434 was made after a joint agreement between the pin and capital city of a teacher. 1457 opened Augustines from Munster near modern nuns tower called a convention Agnetenberg. Dulmen was in 1470 a member of the Hanseatic League. 1498 recorded the oldest inhabitant list 288 households and 780 persons over twelve years old. 1507 joined to make better use of the common brands together within the city of five "street communities". 1538 death sentences were carried out for three Anabaptists. 1566, the plague-stricken Dulmen received from the city of Munster food. 1579 came to St. Victor, the repairs to the choir established in 1500 to a close. The ruler was arrested in 1581, some Jews who had settled without his authorization in Dulmen. 1583 was during the Spanish-Dutch war, the Bürgerschützen reorganized and strengthened the fortifications. 1591 Dulmen was sacked by the Spaniards and Dutch. In 1601, the church of St.-Victor was given a helmet and high-rising tower of gothic gallery.
In the Thirty Years War had Dulmen 1623 imperial troops to open its doors. The urban-long self-government since 1311 found that its forward end. 1628 were within four weeks two "witches" burned. Cremated in 1629 a fire nearly one third of the city and damaged walls and gates. In the course of a single year 1635 twenty Dulmen joined the military occupation. After a long, hard occupation, the Hessian mercenaries in 1651 finally cleared the place. The consequences of thirty years of war had devastated 1678: 123 buildings, 79 were inhabited by the poor. Before Lüdinghauser Tor was born in 1679, the Chapel of the Cross as a place of worship for the inhabitants of city and country. A traffic extending over Dülmen mounted post of Munster to Cologne took their 1723 operations. Johann Heinrich Schiicking built in 1752 a grain distillery, which was enlarged in 1828 a steam mill. During the Seven Years War, the French commander ordered to lie down Soubise 1761 much of the city wall.
After the abolition of the bishopric of Münster 1803, the former Office for three years a Dulmen reichsunmittelbare County of Dukes of Pomerania, which originated from the French-Belgian border region. With the integration of the Münsterland in the French Empire 1811, Napoleon dissolved the Abbey chapter at the parish church and the monastery of St. Victor Agnetenberg. As the new ruler, the King of Prussia in 1816 transferred to the District of Coesfeld Dulmen within the province of Westphalia.
After a twelve-year disease died here in the former stigmatized Augustinian nuns nun Anne Catherine Emmerich 1824th As the first "Art Street" was begun by Napoleon Street Wesel-holders Munster, Dulmen-1828 partially completed. With the construction of the Duke-of-lock Croÿschen Aloys Kirschner responsible relocated in 1834 by Havixbeck after Dulmen. The first Factory was built in 1842 during the industrialization Eisenhutte Prince Rudolph. During the March revolution in 1848 led to an outburst of social protest. Day laborers and small tradesmen of the city and surrounding areas vandalized several rooms of the castle. Then they threw merchants and officials in the windows panes, looted their stores of food and alcoholic drinks. The Protestant community, which had built the year before their house of worship, was raised by the consistory and the government 1857 at an independent parish. The new synagogue of the Jewish community since 1863, was also on the Münsterstraße. The construction of the railway line opened up the city of Essen-Münster since 1870 for railway transport between the Ruhr and North Sea. On the road Lüdinghauser Meier Bendix was 1873, a first mechanical weaving mill with 100 chairs in operation. With the opening of the line Dortmund-Gronau in 1875 was Dulmen railway junction. Town council and magistrate transferred the newly established municipal utilities in 1897, the central supply of gas and water. The old "Latin School" or the "church school" of the 19 Century, was built in 1912 a high school.
Dulmen, like Ahlen and other Westphalian towns in the Münster bishopric, had a very limited local coinage in the later 16th and early 17th centuries. Copper coins were issued in 1590, 1609, 1622, and 1625. Dulmen appears to have been somewhat more prolific in output than Ahlen and Haltern, but its coins are still extremely scarce.
KEY IDENTIFICATION NOTES: All its coins have the legend STADT DULMAN or a variety thereof, and the large cross (designated in heraldrly as a "cross bottony").
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