PEGAU
Online Encyclopedia
Originally appearing in Volume
V21,
Page 56
of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
PEGAU
, a town of Germany, in the kingdom of Saxony, situated in a fertile country, on the Elster, 18 m
.
S.W. from Leipzig by the railway to Zeitz
.
Pop
.
(1905), 5656
.
It has two Evangelical churches, that of St See also: - LAWRENCE
- LAWRENCE (LAURENTIUS, LORENZO), ST
- LAWRENCE, AMOS (1786—1852)
- LAWRENCE, AMOS ADAMS (1814–1886)
- LAWRENCE, GEORGE ALFRED (1827–1876)
- LAWRENCE, JOHN LAIRD MAIR LAWRENCE, 1ST BARON (1811-1879)
- LAWRENCE, SIR HENRY MONTGOMERY (1806–1857)
- LAWRENCE, SIR THOMAS (1769–1830)
- LAWRENCE, STRINGER (1697–1775)
being a fine Gothic structure, a 16th- century town- See also: - HALL
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
; a very old hospital and an agricultural school
.
Its industries embrace the manu-
from 1039 to 1227
.
See Fiissel, Anfang and Ende des Klosters St Jacob zu Pegau (Leipzig, 1857) ; and Dillner, Gressel and Gunther, Altes and neues aus Pegau (Leipzig, 1905)
.
The Annales pegavienses are published in Bd
.
XVI. of the Monumenta Germaniae historica
.
Scriptures
.
End of Article: PEGAU
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