CUSTRIN, or KUSTRIN
Online Encyclopedia
Originally appearing in Volume
V07,
Page 669
of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
CUSTRIN, or KUSTRIN
, a town of Germany, in the kingdom of Prussia, a fortress of the first rank, at the confluence of the Oder and Warthe, 18 m
.
N.E. from Frankfort-on-Oder and 51 M
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N.E. of Berlin by rail
.
Pop
.
(1900) 16,473 (including the garrison)
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It consists of the town proper within the strong fortifications, a suburb on the left bank of the Oder, and one on the right bank of the Warthe
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There are three Evangelical churches and one Roman Catholic, and a handsome town See also: - HALL
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
hall
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There are bridges over both rivers
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Custrin has some manufactories of potato- meal, machinery, pianos, furniture, cigars, &c., and there is a considerable river trade
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About 1250 a town was erected on the site of Custrin, where a fishing village originally stood
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From 1535 till 1571 it was the residence of John, margrave of Brandenburg-Custrin, who died without male heirs in 1571
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Custrin was the prison of Frederick the Great when crown- prince, and the scene of the execution of his friend Hans Hermann von Katte on the 6th of November 1730
.
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