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OELSNITZ

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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 14 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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OELSNITZ  , a

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town of
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Germany, in the
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kingdom of
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Saxony, on the
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Weisse
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Elster, 26 m. by
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rail S.W. of
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Zwickau . Pop . (1905) 13,966 . It has two Evangelical churches, one of them being the old
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Gothic Jakobskirche, and several
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schools . There are various manufactories . Oelsnitz belonged in the 14th and 15th centuries to the margraves of
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Meissen, and later to the
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electors of Saxony . Near it is the
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village of Voigtsberg, with the remains of a
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castle, once a
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residence of the
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governor (
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Vogt) of the
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Vogtland . See
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Jahn, Chronik der Stadt Olsnitz (1875) .

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