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ESCHWEGE

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Originally appearing in Volume V09, Page 765 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ESCHWEGE  , a

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town of
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Germany, in the Prussian
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province of
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Hesse-
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Nassau, on the Werra, and the railway Treysa-Leinefelde, 28 m . S.E. of
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Cassel . Pop . (1905) 11,113 . It consists of the old town on the
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left, the new town on the right,
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bank of the Werra, and Bruckenhausen on a small
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island connected with the old and new town by
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bridges . It is a thriving manufacturing town, its
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chief
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industries being
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leather-making,
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yarn-
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spinning,
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cotton-and
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linen-
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weaving, the manufactures of cigars, brushes, liquors and oil, and
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glue- and
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soap-boiling . It has two
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ancient buildings, the Nikolai-turm, built in 1455, and the old
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castle . After being
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part of Thuringia, Eschwege passed to Hesse in 1263 . It was recovered by the
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landgrave of Thuringia in 1388, but soon reverted to Hesse, and it became the
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residence of one of the branches of the
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Hessian royal
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house, a
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branch which died out in 1655 .

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