HUBERTUSBURG
Online Encyclopedia
Originally appearing in Volume
V13,
Page 846
of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
HUBERTUSBURG
, a See also:chateau in the See also:kingdom of See also:Saxony, near the See also:village of Wermsdorf and midway 6 m. between the towns See also:Oschatz and See also:Grimma
.
It was built in 1721-1724 by See also:Frederick See also:Augustus II., elector of Saxony, subsequently See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
King Augustus III. of See also:Poland, as a See also:hunting See also:box, and was often the See also:scene of brilliant festivities
.
It is famous for the See also:peace signed here on the 15th of See also:February 1763, which ended the Seven Years' See also:War
.
After undergoing various vicissitudes, it now serves the purpose of a lunatic See also:asylum and a training school for See also:nursing sisters
.
See Riemer, Das Schloss Hubertusburg, sons, and jetzt (Oschatz, 1881)
.
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