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GEISLINGEN

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Originally appearing in Volume V11, Page 554 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GEISLINGEN  , a

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town of Germany in the
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kingdom of
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Wurttemberg, on the Thierbach, 38 m. by
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rail E.S.E. of
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Stuttgart . Pop . (1905) 7050 . It has shops for the
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carving and turning of bone, ivory, wood and horn, besides iron-
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works, machinery factories, glass-works,
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brewing and
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bleaching works, &c . The church of St Mary contains wood-carving by Jorg Syrlin the Younger . Above the town lie the ruins of the castle of Helfenstein, which was destroyed in 1552 . Having been for a few years in the possession of Bavaria, the town passed to Wurttemberg in 1810 . See Weitbrecht, Wanderungen durch Geislingen and seine Umgebung (Stuttgart, 1896) .

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