The New International Encyclopædia/Kaiserswerth

KAISERSWERTH, kī'zẽrs-vĕrt. A town in the Rhine Province, Prussia, situated on the right bank of the Rhine, six miles from Düsseldorf (Map: Germany, B 3). It is chiefly important for the house of evangelical deaconesses established by Theodor Fliedner (q.v.) in 1836 and now having branches all over the civilized world. Population, in 1890, 2379.