LANDECK  , a

town and spa in the Prussian province of Silesia, on the Biele, 73 M. by rail S. of Breslau and close to the Austrian frontier . Pop . (19o5) 3,481 . It is situated at an altitude of 1400 ft . It has manufactures of gloves . Landeck is visited by nearly 1o,000 people annually on account of its warm sulphur baths, which have been known since the 13th century . In the neighbourhood are the ruins of the castle of Karpenstein . See Langner, Bad Landeck (Glatz, 1872) ; Schiitze, Die Thermen von Landeck (Berlin, 1895); Wehse, Bad Landeck (Breslau, 1886); Joseph, Die Thermen von Landeck (Berlin, 1887), and Patschovsky, Fiihrer durch Bad Landeck and Umgebung (Schweidnitz, 1902) .