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GLEIWITZ , a See also: town of See also: Germany, in the Prussian province of See also: Silesia, on the Klodnitz, and the railway between See also: Oppeln and See also: Cracow, 40 M
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S.E. of the former town
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Pop
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(1875) 14,156; (1905) 61,324
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It possesses two See also: Protestant and four See also: Roman Catholic churches, a synagogue, a See also: mining school, a convent, a hospital, two orphanages, and barracks
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Gleiwitz is the centre of the mining industry of Upper Silesia
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Besides the royal foundry, with which are connected machine manufactories and See also: boiler-See also: works, there are other foundries, See also: meal mills and manufactories of wire, See also: gas pipes, cement and paper
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See B
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Nietsche, Geschichte der Stadt Gleiwitz (1886); and Seidel, Die konigliche Eisengiesserei zu Gleiwitz (Berlin, 1896)
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