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HUBERTUSBURG

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 846 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HUBERTUSBURG  , a

chateau in the
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kingdom of Saxony, near the
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village of Wermsdorf and midway 6 m. between the towns
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Oschatz and
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Grimma . It was built in 1721-1724 by Frederick Augustus II., elector of Saxony, subsequently King Augustus III. of Poland, as a hunting box, and was often the scene of brilliant festivities . It is famous for the peace signed here on the 15th of
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February 1763, which ended the Seven Years' War . After undergoing various vicissitudes, it now serves the purpose of a lunatic asylum and a training school for
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nursing sisters . See Riemer, Das Schloss Hubertusburg, sons, and jetzt (Oschatz, 1881) .

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