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RELIGION

Town

SUte

('Oft . 1919)

Town

8t»te

(SOet.,

Hamborn

Prussia.

110,102

Fiirth.

Bavaria.

68,162

Lubeck

Liibeck.

113,071

MiinehenGlad-

Munster

Prussia.

100,452

bach.

Prussia.

64,031

Oberhausen.

».

98,677

Osnabriick.

»•

85,017

Hagen.

,»

Rostock

Meckl.-

Bonn.

91,410

Sch. .

67,953

Darmstadt

Hesse

82,367

Potsdam

58,397

Gorlitz

Prussia.

80,332

Flensburg

,1

60,941

Spandan

,,

95,474

Elbing.

ii

67,127

Wttrzbvrg

Bavaria.

86,571

Bromberg

M ■

—

Freiburg

Baden.

87,946

Dessau.

Anhalt.

Ludwigshafen-

Coblenz

Prussia.

on-Rhine.

Bavaria.

90,721

Ulm.

Wurttem-

Berlin-Lkh-

berg.

56,020

tenberg

Prussia.

144,643

Kaiserslantern

Bavaria.

55,707

Bielefeld

..

79,049

Buer

Prussia.

£S,66S

Offenbach

Hesse

75,380

Gera

Reu-

73,660

Zwickau

■nv, K

69,595

Heme.

Prussia.

64,118

Linden.

Prussia.

82,374

Heidelberg.

Baden

60,831

Kunigshiitt>>.

»>

74,811

Reiklinghau^en

Prussia.

Remscheid.

>•

72,568

Hildesheim.

,,

53,499

Pforzheim

Baden

73,839

Trier.

., •

53,248

Frankfort onO.

Prus-

65,055

Rustringen.

Oldenburg

53,135

Beutlien

71,187

Brandenburg

Harburg

, ,

65,983

a H

1 Prussia.

-.972

Gleiwitz

M

69,028

Regensburg.

Bavaria.

52,510

Liepnitz

..

70,337

Religion.

The Constitution provides for entire liberty of conscience and for complete social equality among all religious denominations. There is no State Chu:ch.

There are 5 Roman Catholic archbishoprics, 14 suffragan bishoprics, and 6 bishoprics immediately subject to Rome ; there are 3 apostolic vicariates. The ' Old Catholics ' have a bishop at Bonn.

The following are the results of three religious censuses : —

Creed

1800

PerCt. ofPop.

1905

Per <*• i 1910 of Pop. mo

PerCt of Pop.

Protestants Catholics. Other Christians Jews

Others and un- classified

35,231,104

20,327,913

203,793

586,833

17,535

62 5

36 1 4 10

03

37,846,852

22,109,644

259,717

607,862

17,203

621 39,991,421

36 5 23,821,453

04 283,946

10 615,021

03 214.152

616

36 7

04

i<

3

Roman Catholics in 1905 were in the majority in Alsace-Lorraine, Bavaria, ind Baden ; and formed more than 20 per cent, of the population in Olden- Wfg, Wiirttemberg, Hesse, and Prussia.