kind in Germany, covering an area of 15 acres, and having a frontage of about 600 yards. It has 1500 windows. The left wing was totally destroyed by the bombardment of 1795, but has since been restored. The palace contains a picture gallery and collections of natural history and antiquities, and in front of it are two monumental fountains and a monument to the emperor William I. The large and beautiful gardens at the back form the public park of the town. Among the other prominent buildings are the theatre, the arsenal, the synagogue, the “Kaufhaus,” the town-hall (Rathaus, 1771) and the observatory. A newer building is the fine municipal Festhalle with magnificent rooms. The only noteworthy churches are the Jesuit church (1737–1760), the interior of which is lavishly decorated with marble and painting; the Koncordienkirche and the Schlosskirche. In front of the theatre are statues of Schiller, August Wilhelm Iffland the actor, and Wolfgang Heribert von Dalberg (1750–1806), intendant of the theatre in the time of Schiller. Mannheim is the chief commercial town on the upper Rhine, and yields in importance to Cologne alone among the lower Rhenish towns. It stands at the head of the effective navigation on the Rhine, and is not only the largest port on the upper course of that stream, but is the principal emporium for south Germany for such commodities as cereals, coal, petroleum, timber, sugar and tobacco, with a large trade in hops, wine and other south German produce. Owing to the rapid increase in the traffic, a new harbour at the mouth of the Neckar was opened in 1898. The industries are equal in importance to the transit trade, and embrace metal-working, iron-founding and machine building, the manufacture of electric plant, celluloid, automobiles, furniture, cables and chemicals, sugar refining, cigar and tobacco making, and brewing.
Mannheim is the seat of the central board for the navigation of the Rhine, of a high court of justice, and of the grand ducal commissioner for north Baden.
History.—The name of Mannheim was connected with its present site in the 8th century, when a small village belonging to the abbey of Lorsch lay in the marshy district between the Neckar and the Rhine. To the south of this village, on the Rhine, was the castle of Eicholzheim, which acquired some celebrity as the place of confinement assigned to Pope John XXIII. by the council of Constance. The history of modern Mannheim begins, however, with the opening of the 17th century, when the elector palatine Frederick IV. founded a town here, which was peopled chiefly with Protestant refugees from Holland. The strongly fortified castle which he erected at the same time had the unfortunate result of making the infant town an object of contention in the Thirty Years’ War, during which it was five times taken and retaken. In 1688 Mannheim, which had in the meantime recovered from its former disasters, was captured by the French, and in 1689 it was burned down. Ten years later it was rebuilt on an extended scale, and provided with fortifications by the elector John William. For its subsequent importance it was indebted to the elector Charles Philip, who, owing to ecclesiastical disputes, transferred his residence from Heidelberg to Mannheim in 1720. It remained the capital of the Palatinate for nearly sixty years, being especially flourishing under the elector Charles Theodore. In 1794 Mannheim fell into the hands of the French, and in the following year it was retaken by the Austrians after a severe bombardment, which left scarcely a single building uninjured. In 1803 it was assigned to the grand duke of Baden, who caused the fortifications to be razed. Towards the end of the 18th century Mannheim attained great celebrity in the literary world as the place where Schiller’s early plays were performed for the first time. It was at Mannheim that Kotzebue was assassinated in 1819. During the revolution in Baden in 1849 the town was for a time in the hands of the insurgents, and was afterwards occupied by the Prussians.
See Feder, Geschichte der Stadt Mannheim (1875–1877, 2 vols., new ed. 1903); Pichler, Chronik des Hof- und National Theaters in Mannheim (Mannheim, 1879); Landgraf, Mannheim und Ludwigshafen (Zürich, 1890); Die wirtschaftliche Bedeutung Mannheims, published by the Mannheim Chamber of Commerce (Mannheim, 1905); the Forschungen zur Geschichte Mannheims und der Pfalz, published by the Mannheimer Altertumsverein (Leipzig, 1898); and the annual Chronik der Hauptstadt Mannheim (1901 seq.).
MANNING, HENRY EDWARD (1808–1892), English Roman
Catholic cardinal, was born at Totteridge, Hertfordshire, on the
15th of July 1808,[1] being the third and youngest son of William
Manning, a West India merchant, who was a director of the Bank
of England and governor, 1812–1813, and who sat in Parliament
for some thirty years, representing in the Tory interest Plympton
Earle, Lymington, Evesham, and Penryn consecutively. His
mother, Mary, daughter of Henry Leroy Hunter, of Beech Hill,
Reading, was of a family said to be of French extraction. Manning’s
boyhood was mainly spent at Coombe Bank, Sundridge,
Kent, where he had for companions Charles and Christopher
Wordsworth, afterwards bishops of St Andrews and of Lincoln.
He was educated at Harrow, 1822–1827, Dr G. Butler being
then the head master, but obtained no distinction beyond being
in the cricket eleven in 1825. He matriculated at Balliol College,
Oxford, in 1827, and soon made his mark as a debater at the
Union, where Gladstone succeeded him as president in 1830.
At this date he was ambitious of a political career, but his father
had sustained severe losses in business, and in these circumstances
Manning, having graduated with first-class honours in 1830,
obtained the year following, through Viscount Goderich, a post
as supernumerary clerk in the colonial office. This, however,
he resigned in 1832, his thoughts having been turned towards a
clerical career under Evangelical influences, which affected him
deeply throughout life. Returning to Oxford, he was elected a
fellow of Merton College, and was ordained; and in 1833 he was
presented to the rectory of Lavington-with-Graffham in Sussex
by Mrs Sargent, whose granddaughter Caroline he married on
the 7th of November 1833, the ceremony being performed by the
bride’s brother-in-law, Samuel Wilberforce, afterwards bishop
of Oxford and of Winchester. Manning’s married life was of
brief duration. His young and beautiful wife was of a consumptive
family, and died childless (July 24, 1837). The
lasting sadness that thus early overshadowed him tended to
facilitate his acceptance of the austere teaching of the Oxford
Tracts; and though he was never an acknowledged disciple of
Newman, it was due to the latter’s influence that from this date
his theology assumed an increasingly High Church character,
and his printed sermon on the “Rule of Faith” was taken as a
public profession of his alliance with the Tractarians. In 1838 he
took a leading part in the Church education movement, by which
diocesan boards were established throughout the country; and he
wrote an open letter to his bishop in criticism of the recent
appointment of the ecclesiastical commission. In December
of that year he paid his first visit to Rome, and called on Dr
Wiseman in company with W. E. Gladstone. In January 1841
Shuttleworth, bishop of Chichester, appointed him archdeacon, whereupon he began a personal visitation of each parish within his district, completing the task in 1843. In 1842 he published a treatise on The Unity of the Church, and his reputation as an eloquent and earnest preacher being by this time considerable, he was in the same year appointed select preacher by his university, thus being called upon to fill from time to time the pulpit which Newman, as vicar of St Mary’s, was just ceasing to occupy. Four volumes of his sermons appeared between the years 1842 and 1850, and these had reached the 7th, 4th, 3rd and 2nd editions respectively in 1850, but were not afterwards reprinted. In 1844 his portrait was painted by Richmond, and the same year he published a volume of university sermons, in which, however, was not included the one on the Gunpowder Plot. This sermon had much annoyed Newman and his more advanced disciples, but it was a proof that at that date Manning was loyal to the Church of England as Protestant. Newman’s secession in 1845 placed Manning in a position of greater responsibility, as one of the High Church leaders, along with Pusey and Keble and Marriott; but it was with Gladstone and James Hope (afterwards Hope-Scott) that he was at this time most closely associated. In the spring of 1847 he was seriously ill, and that autumn
- ↑ Purcell’s assertion that the year of his birth was 1807 rests on no trustworthy evidence.
