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Originally appearing in Volume V16, Page 419 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LENNEP  , a

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town of Germany, in the Prussian Rhine province, 18 m . E. of
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Dusseldorf, and 9 m . S. of
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Barmen by
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rail, at a height of loon ft. above the level of the sea . Pop . (1905) 10,323 . It lies in the heart of one of the busiest
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industrial districts in Germany, and carries on important manufactures of the finer kinds of
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cloth, wool,
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yarn and felt, and also of iron and steel goods . It has an Evangelical and a
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Protestant church, a
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modern school and a well-equipped hospital . Lennep, which was the residence of the
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counts of Berg from 1226 to 1300, owes the foundation of its prosperity to an influx of Cologne weavers during the 14th century .

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