Heidelberg

a town of Baden; on - the Jeft bank of the Neckar. The principal buildings are: The church of St. Peter; the church of the Holy Ghost; the castle, anciently the_residence of the Electors Palatine; Heidelberg University; the town house, etc. The castle, begun in the end of the 18th century, and exhibiting elaborate examples of early and late Ren a is architecture, is the most remarkable edifice in Heidelberg, It is now an ivy-clad ruin, but is carefully -preserved from further decay. Pop. 40,121, Heidelberg University, a coeducational institution in Tiffin, O.; founded in 1850 under the auspices of the Reformed Church in the United States.