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GREIZ

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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 578 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GREIZ  , a

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town of Germany, capital of the -principality of Reuss-Greiz (Reuss the Elder), in a pleasant valley on the right
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bank of the White
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Elster, near the
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borders of Saxony, and 66 m. by
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rail S. from
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Leipzig . Pop . (1875) 12,657; (1905) 23,114 . It consists of two parts, the old town on the right bank and the new town on the
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left bank of the
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river; it is rapidly growing and is regularly laid out . The
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principal buildings are the palace of the prince of Reuss-Greiz, surrounded by a
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fine park, the old chateau on a rocky hill overlooking the town, the summer palace with a fine garden, the old town church dating from 1225 and possessing a beautiful tower, the town hall, the govern-
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mental buildings and statues of the emperor William I. and of Bismarck . There are classical and
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modern
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schools and a school of textile industry . The
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industries are considerable, and include dyeing, tanning and the manufacture of woollen, cotton, shawls, coverlets and paper . Greiz (formerly Grewcz) is apparently a town of Slav origin . From the 12th century it was governed by advocati (V ogte), but in 1236 it came into the possession of
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Gera, and in 1S5o of the younger
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line of the house of
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Plauen . It was wholly destroyed by fire in 1494, and almost totally in 1802 .

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