The New International Encyclopædia/Engelberg

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ENGELBERG, ĕng'el-bĕrK. A health resort in Switzerland, situated in the northeast part of the Engelberg Valley, 3300 feet above sea-level, and 14 miles south of Lucerne (Map: Switzerland, C 2). The town has an historical interest as the site of a Benedictine monastery founded in 1121, with a library of 20,000 volumes, including many incunabula, besides manuscripts. There is an eleventh-century Catholic gymnasium connected with the abbey. Population, in 1900, including a number of adjacent hamlets. 1966.