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See also:MARKIRCH (See also:French, Ste-See also:Marie-aux-Mines) , a See also:town of See also:Germany, in Upper See also:Alsace, prettily situated in the valley of the See also:Leber, an affluent of the See also:Rhine, near the See also:French frontier . Pop . (1900), 12,372 . The once productive See also:silver, See also:copper and See also:lead mines of the neighbourhood were practically unworked during the whole of the 19th See also:century, but have recently been reopened . The See also:main See also:industries of the See also:place are, however, See also:weaving and See also:dyeing, and it is estimated that there are about 40,000 See also:work-See also:people in the See also:industrial See also:district of which See also:Markirch is the centre . The small See also:river Leber, which intersects the town, was at one See also:time the boundary between the See also:German and French See also:languages, and traces of this separation still exist . The German-speaking inhabitants on the right See also:bank were Protestants, and subject to the See also:counts of Rappoltstein, while the French inhabitants were See also:Roman Catholics, and under the See also:rule of the See also:dukes of See also:Lorraine . See Muhlenbeck, Documents historiques concernant Ste-See also:Marie aux Mines (Markirch, 1876–1897); See also:Hauser, Das Bergbaugebiet von Markirch (Strass., 1900) . |
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