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DELITZSCH

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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 965 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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DELITZSCH  , a

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town of Germany, in the Prussian province of Saxony, on the Lober, an affluent of the
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Mulde, 12 M. north of
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Leipzig at the junction of the
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railways,
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Bitterfeld-Leipzig and Halle-
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Cottbus . Pop . (1905) 10,479 . Its public buildings comprise an old castle of the 14th century now used as a
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female penitentiary, a
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Roman Catholic and three
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Protestant churches, a normal college (Schullehrerseminar) established in 1873 and several other educational institutions . Besides Kuhschwanz, a
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peculiar kind of
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beer, it manufactures
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tobacco, cigars, shoes and
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hosiery; and
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coal-
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mining is carried on in the neighbourhood, It was the birthplace of the naturalist Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg (1795–1876), and the
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political economist Hermann Schulze-Delitzsch (1808–1883), to the latter of whom a statue has been erected . Originally a settlement of the Sorbian
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Wends, and in the 12th century
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part of the possessions of the bishops of
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Merseburg, Delitzsch ultimately passed to the Saxe-Merseburg
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family, and, on their extinction in 1738, was incorporated with Electoral Saxony .

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