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AURICH

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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 925 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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AURICH  , a

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town of Germany, in the Prussian province of Hanover, chief town of the
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district of East Friesland, on the
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Ems-Jade canal, 18 m . N.W. from
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Emden by
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rail . Pop . (1900) 6013 . It is built in the Dutch style, and lies in a sandy but fertile plain, surrounded by pleasant promenades which have taken the place of the old fortifications . It has a palace, formerly the residence of the
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counts of East Friesland and now used as government offices, a
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Roman Catholic and two
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Protestant churches, a gymnasium, and four
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libraries . There are breweries and small manufactories of paper and
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tobacco . Close by is the Upstallsboom, the hill of oath and liberty, where every
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year at Whitsuntide representatives of the seven Frisian coast lands assembled to deliberate . See Wiarda, Bruchstacke zur Geschichte der Stadt Aurich (Emden, 1835) .

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