DOBELN
Online Encyclopedia
Originally appearing in Volume
V08,
Page 350
of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
DOBELN
, a town of Germany, in the kingdom of Saxony, on the ( Freiberg) Mulde, two arms of which embrace the town as an island, 35 M
.
S.E. from Leipzig by rail, and at the junction of lines to Dresden, Chemnitz, Riesa and Oschatz
.
Pop
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(1905) including the garrison, 18,907
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It has two Evangelical churches, of which,the Nikolai-kirche, dating in its present form from 1485, is a handsome edifice; a medieval 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)
, a former Benedictine nunnery and a monument to Luther
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There are an agricultural and a commercial school
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The industries include wool- spinning, iron- founding, carriage, agricultural implement, and See also: - METAL
- METAL (through Fr. from Lat. metallum, mine, quarry, adapted from Gr. µATaXAov, in the same sense, probably connected with ,ueraAAdv, to search after, explore, µeTa, after, aAAos, other)
- printing and stamping works
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