Münster, capital of Westphalia, a mediæval-looking town, 100 m. by rail N. of Cologne; has textile, paper, and printing industries; there is an old cathedral of 12th century, a town-hall, castle, and 16th-century wine-cellar; the place of the Catholic university has been taken by an academy with Catholic theological and philosophical faculties; here took place the Anabaptist movement of 1535; the bishops retained their secular jurisdiction till 1803.
Population (circa 1900) given as 49,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Münich * Münzer, Thomas