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