BAMBERG, A city in the District of Upper Franconia, Bavaria, beautifully situ ated on the banks of the Regnitz, not far from its continence with the Slain, about 30 miles north of Nuremberg (Slap: Germany, D 4). Numer ous bridges connect the various sections of the city, which is intersected by three branches of the river. The streets are wide and well built, and there are a nmnber of artistically laid out squares. The most noteworthy of its public buildings is the cathedral, a magnifi cent edifice in the Byzantine style, founded by Henry 11., in 1004, and restored after a fire in 1110. It contains, among other monuments, the elaborately carved tomb of the founder and his consort, Cunigunda. Attached to the cathedral is a library of over 300.000 volumes, with valu able missals and manuscripts and what is. repre sented to be the prayer-book of Henry II. There are several other fine ecclesiastical structures of early date and the old palace of the former prince bishops of Bamberg. The ruins of the Castle of
Altenburg. originally the seat of the Count of Babenberg. and the scene of many important his torical events, stand on an eminence about a mile and a half from the town. The educational insti tutions of Bamberg are numerous. as are also the charitable institutions, which include a municipal hospital, an orphan and an insane asylum. The industries consist chiefly of the manufacture of beer—which is famous throughout Germany—cot ton, woolens, gloves, musical instruments, leather, tobacco, sugar. starch, etc. The United States is represented by a consular agent. The city's gov ermuent is in the hands of a municipal council of 42 members and an executive board of 19, elected by the former. Bamberg received mu nicipal privileges in 973. Population, in 1890, 30,000; in 1901, 41.600. Consult Viige, "Veber die Bamberger Domsculptnrcn," in Repertorium fiir Kunstwissensehaft, Vol. XX1I. (Berlin, 1899).