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LISSA (Polish Lezno)

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Originally appearing in Volume V16, Page 776 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LISSA (
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Polish Lezno)
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town in the Prussian province of Posen, 25 M . N.E. from
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Glogau by
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rail and at the junction of lines to Breslau, Posen and Landsberg . Pop . (1905) 16,021 . The chief buildings are the handsome palace, the
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medieval town-hall, the four churches and the synagogue . Its manufactures consistchiefly of shoes, machinery,
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liqueurs and
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tobacco; it also possesses a large steam
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flour-mill, and carries on a brisk trade in grain and cattle . Lissa owes its rise to a number of Moravian Brothers who were banished from Bohemia by the emperor Ferdinand I. in the 16th century and found a
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refuge in a
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village on the estate of the
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Polish
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family of Leszczynski . Their settlement received municipal rights in 1561 . During the
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Thirty Years' War the population was reinforced by other refugees, and Lissa became an important commercial town and the chief seat of the Moravian Brothers in Poland . Johann Amos Comenius was long rector of the celebrated Moravian school here . In 1656 and 1707 Lissa was burned down . See Voigt, Aus Lissas erster BlStezeit (Lissa, 1905), and Sanden, Geschichte der Lissaer Schule (Lissa, 1905) .

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Lissa was my mother's birthplace. I would have loved to see some photos either historical and/or present day. thankyou There were seven girls in my late mother's family and only now, with the internet and mature wisdom I am able to learn more about my family history.
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