LANDSBERG AM

LECH  , a town in the kingdom of Bavaria, on the river Lech, 38 m. by rail W. by S. of Munich . Pop . (1905) 6505 . It has eight Roman Catholic churches, among them the Liebfrauen Kirche dating from 1498, several monasteries, and a fine medieval town-hall, with frescoes by Karl von Piloty and a painting by Hubert von Herkomer . Here also are a fine gateway, the Bayer-Tor, an agricultural and other schools . Brewing, tanning and the manufacture of agricultural machinery are among the principal industries . See Schober, Landsberg am Lech and Umgebung (1902); and Zwerger, Geschzchte Landsbergs (1889) . LANDSBERG-AN-DER-WARTHE, a town in the Prussian province of Brandenburg, at the confluence of the Warthe and the Kladow, So m . N.E. of Berlin by rail . Pop . (1905) 36,934 . It has important engine and boiler works and iron-foundries; there are also manufactures of tobacco, cloth, carriages, wools, spirits, jute products and leather .

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trade is carried on in wood, cattle and the produce of the surrounding country . Landsberg obtained civic privileges in 1257, and later was besieged by the Poles and then by the Hussites . See R . Eckert, Geschichie von Landsberg-Warthe (189o) .