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AROLSEN

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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 641 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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AROLSEN  , a

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town of Germany, capital of the principality of Waldeck, 25 M . N.W. of Cassel, with which it is connected by
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rail via Warburg . Pop . 3000 . It lies in a pleasant undulating country at an
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elevation of 900 ft. above the sea . The Evangelical parish church contains some
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fine statues by Christian Rauch, and the palace (built 1710-1720), in addition to a valuable library of 30,000 vols., a collection of coins and pictures, among the latter several by
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Angel'ca Kauffmann . Arolseil is the birthplace of the sculptor C . Rauch and of the painters Wilhelm and Friedrich Kaulbach .

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