ULLS'WATER. The largest of the English lakes, after Windermere. lying between the coun ties of Cumberland and Westmoreland. 10 miles east of Keswick (Nap: England. D 2). Length. miles; breadth, to a mile. Its scenery is rugged and grand, and one of its chief features is Ilelvellyn, which rises 311S feet at the south west extremity.
ULM, Om. A city of the Kingdom of Wiirt temberg, Germany. and an important Imperial fortress, situated at the junction of the Iller and the Blau with the Danube, which here becomes navigable, 43 miles west of Augsburg (Nap: Germany, C 4). Two bridges unite the city with New Ulm, a village on the Bavarian side of the Danube. The streets are narrow. The minster, which is a Protestant church, is the most important and beautiful example of late Gothic architecture in Germany. and is next to the Cathedral of Cologne the largest church in that country. It is 407 feet in length, 159 feet in breadth, and the spire (finished 1890), 530 feet high, is the highest in the world. The building
was begun in 1377, and finished with the ex eeption of the spire in 1494. The leading in dustries are flax, cotton, and woolen weaving; bleaching; the manufacture of paper, leather, and mixed fabrics; beer-brewing, ship-building, book-printing. etc. Ulm is famed for ornamental pipe bowls, Its pastry, called Ulmer bread, and its trimmed lumber. Population, in 1S95. 39. 300; in 1900, 42.860. Ulm was a free Imperial city as early as the twelfth century, and had become very by I he close of the Middle Ages. In 1530 the city accepted the Ref ormation. and the majority of the people have since been Lutherans. in 1802 l'Im was at tached to Bavaria, and became part of 'Mill temberg in 1810. Here on October 17, 1803, the Austrian general lack surrendered to the French with about 23.000 men. Consult: Pres sel, Ulmisehes Urkandenbuch (Stuttgart, Loeffler, Geschiehte der Pestung Ulm (Ulm, 1883) ; Sehultes, ('hronik eon Ulm (ib., 1886).