CROSSEN, or KROSSEN  , a town of Germany, in the kingdom of Prussia, on the Oder, here crossed by a bridge, at the influx of the Bober, 31 M . S.E. of Frankfort-on-Oder by rail . Pop . (1900) 7369 . Of the churches in the town three are Protestant . 3 Dr Malmgren found a small flock on Bear Island (lat . 74 ° N.), but to this barren spot they must have been driven by stress of weather . and one Roman Catholic . Besides the modern school (Realprogymnasium), there are a technical school for viniculture and fruit-growing and a dairy school . There are manufactories of copper and brass ware, cloth, &c., while in the surrounding country the chief industries are fruit and grape growing . There is a brisk shipping trade, mainly in wine, fruit and fish . Crossen was founded in 1005 and was important during the middle ages as a point of passage across the Oder .

It attained civic rights in 1232, was for a

time the capital of a Silesian duchy, which, on the death of Barbara of Brandenburg, widow of the last duke, passed to Brandenburg (1482) . In May 1886 the town was devastated by a whirlwind .