POSSNECK
Online Encyclopedia
Originally appearing in Volume
V22,
Page 175
of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
POSSNECK
, a town of Germany, in the duchy of Saxe- Meiningen, 21 M. by rail S. of Jena, on the Kotschau
.
Pop
.
(1905), 12,702
.
It has a Gothic Evangelical See also: - CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
built about 1390, and a Gothic 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)
erected during the succeeding century
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Its chief industries are the making of flannel, porcelain, furniture, machines, musical instruments and chocolate
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The town has also tanneries, breweries, dyeworks and brickworks
.
Possneck, which is of Slavonic origin, passed about 1300 to the landgrave of Thuringia
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Later it belonged to Saxony and later still to the duchy of Saxe- Coburg- Saalfeld, passing to Saxe-Meiningen in 1826
.
See E
.
Koch, Aus Possnecks Vergangenheit (Possneck, 1894–1895) ; the same writer, Beitrage zur urkundlichen Geschichte der Stadt Possneck (Possneck, 1896–1900) ; and the Geschichte der Stadt Possneck, published by the POssnecker Zeitung (Possneck, 1902)
.
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