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FRAUENBURG

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Originally appearing in Volume V11, Page 42 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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FRAUENBURG  , a

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town of
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Germany, in the
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kingdom of
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Prussia, on the Frische Haff, at the mouth of the Bande, 41 M . S.W. from
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Konigsberg on the railway to
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Elbing . Pop . 2500 . The
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cathedral (founded 1329), with six towers, stands on a commanding
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eminence adjoining the town and surrounded by castellated wails and bastions . This is known as Dom-Frauenburg, and is the seat of the
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Roman
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Catholic
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bishop of
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Ermeland . Within the cathedral is a
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monument to the astronomer
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Copernicus bearing the inscription Astronomo celeberrimo, cujus nomen et gloria utrumque implevit orbem . There is a small
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port with inconsiderable
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trade . Frauenberg was founded in 1287 and received the rights of a town in 1310 .

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