ISERLOHN  , a

town in the Prussian province of Westphalia, on the Baar, in a bleak and hilly region, 17 M . W. of Arnsberg, and 30 M . E.N.E. from Barmen by rail . Pop . (1900) 27,265 . Iserlohn is one of the most important manufacturing towns in Westphalia . Both in the town and neighbourhood there are numerous foundries and works for iron, brass, steel and bronze goods, while other manufactures include wire, needles and pins, fish-hooks, machinery, umbrella-frames, thimbles, bits, furniture, chemicals, coffee-mills, and pinchbeck and britanniametal goods . Iserlohn is a very old town, its gild of armourers being referred to as " ancient " in 1443 .