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LEISNIG

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Originally appearing in Volume V16, Page 403 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LEISNIG  , a

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town in the
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kingdom of
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Saxony, prettily situated on the Freiberger
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Mulde, 7 M . S. of
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Grimma by the railway from
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Leipzig to
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Dresden via
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Dobeln . Pop . (1905) 8147 . On a high
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rock above the town lies the old
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castle of Mildenstein, now utilized as administrative offices . The
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industries include the manufacture of
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cloth,
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furniture, boots, buttons, cigars,
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beer, machinery and chemicals . Leisnig is a
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place of considerabl antiquity . About 108o it passed into the
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possession of the
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counts of Groitzsch, but was
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purchased in '157 by the
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emperor
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Frederick I., who committed it to the
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charge of counts . It
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fell to
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Meissen in 1365, and later to Saxony .

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