HOHENSTEIN (Hohenstein-Ernstthal)
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Originally appearing in Volume
V13,
Page 575
of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
HOHENSTEIN (Hohenstein-Ernstthal)
, a town of Germany, in the kingdom of Saxony, on the slopes of the Erzgebirge, and on the railway Reichenbach- Chemnitz, 12 M
.
N.E. of Zwickau
.
Pop
.
(1905) 13,903
.
Hohenstein possesses two fine Evangelical churches, a town See also: - HALL
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
, restored in 1876, and several monuments to famous men
.
The principal industries are the spinning and weaving of cotton, the manufacture of machines, stockings, gloves and woollen and silk fabrics, cotton printing and dyeing
.
Many of the inhabitants are also employed in the neighbouring copper and arsenic mines
.
Not far from Hohenstein there is a mineral spring, connected with which there are various kinds of baths
.
Hohenstein is the birthplace of the physicist G
.
H. von Schubert and of C
.
G
.
Schroter (1699-1782), one of the inventors of the pianoforte
.
Hohenstein consists of two towns, Hohenstein and Ernstthal, which were united in 1898
.
Another place of the same name is a town in East Prussia
.
Pop
.
(1900) 2467
.
This Hohenstein, which was founded by the Teutonic See also: - ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
in 1359 , has a Roman Catholic and an Evangelical See also: - CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
, a synagogue and several educational establishments
.
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