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HITZACKER

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 540 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HITZACKER  , a See also:

town of See also:Germany, in the Prussian See also:province of See also:Hanover at the influx of the Jeetze into the See also:Elbe, 33 M . N.E. of See also:Luneburg by the railway to See also:Wittenberge . Pop . (1905) iro6 . It has an Evangelical See also:church and an old See also:castle and numerous See also:medieval remains . There are chalybeate springs and a hydropathic See also:establishment in the town . The famous library now in Wolfenbiittel was originally founded here by See also:Augustus, See also:duke of See also:Brunswick (d . 1666) and was removed to its See also:present habitation in 1643 .

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