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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 372 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HERMSDORF  , a

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village of
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Germany, in the Prussian
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province of
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Silesia . Pop . (1900) 10,975 . There are
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coal and
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iron mines and
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lime quarries in the vicinity, and in the
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town there are large iron-
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works . Hermsdorf is known as Niederhermsdorf to distinguish it from other places of the same name . Perhaps the most noteworthy of these is a village in Silesia at the
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foot of the
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Riesengebirge, chiefly famous for the ruins of the
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castle of Kynast . This castle, formerly the seat of the Schaffgotsch
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family, was destroyed by
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lightning in 1695 . A third Hermsdorf is a village in
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Saxe-
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Altenburg, where
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porcelain is made .

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