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FREYBURG

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Originally appearing in Volume V11, Page 211 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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FREYBURG  [FREYBURG AN DER UNSTRUTI, a

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town of Germany, in Prussian Saxony, in an undulating
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vine-clad country on the Unstrut, 6 m . N. from Naumberg-on-the-
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Saale, on the railway to
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Artern . Pop . 3200 . It has a parish church, a mixture of
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Gothic and Romanesque architecture, with a handsome tower . It is, however, as being the " Mecca " of the German gymnastic societies that Freyburg is best known . Here Friedrich Ludwig Jahn (1778-1852), the
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father of German gymnastic exercises, lies buried . Over his
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grave is built the Turnhalle, with a statue of the " master," while hard by it the Jahn Museum in Romanesque style, erected in 1903 . Freyburg produces sparkling wine of good quality and has some other small manufactures . On a hill commanding the town is the castle of Neuenburg, built originally in 1062 by Louis the Leaper, count in Thuringia, but in its
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present form mainly the
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work of the dukes of Saxe-
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Weissenfels .

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