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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 358 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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OSTERODE  , a

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town in the Prussian
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province of
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Hanover, at the
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south
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foot of the Harz Mountains, 34 M . N.W. of
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Nordhausen by
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rail . Pop . (1905) 7467 . The
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church of St Aegidius (Evangelical), founded in 724 and rebuilt after a
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fire in 1578, contains some
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fine tombs of the
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dukes of
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Brunswick-Grubenhagen, who made Osterode their
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residence froju 1361 to 1452 . Other buildings are the fine town-
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hall and the
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hospital . There are manufactures of
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cotton and woollen goods, cigars and
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leather, and tanneries, dyeworks and
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gypsum quarries . In
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recent years Osterode has become celebrated as a
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health resort .

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