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RECKLINGHAUSEN

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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 954 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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RECKLINGHAUSEN  , a

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town of
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Germany, in the Prussian
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province of
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Westphalia, 22 M. by
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rail N.W. of
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Dortmund on the railway to
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Munster . Pop . (1905) 44,396 . In the
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neighbour-
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hood are extensive
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coal-mines and
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brick-
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works, and the
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industries embrace the manufacture of
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linen,
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beer,
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spirits and
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tobacco . The
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county of Recklinghausen belonged to the archbishopric of
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Cologne until 1803, when it passed to the
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duke of Arenberg . It was known as the Vest Recklinghausen . In 1810 it was divided by
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Napoleon between the
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grand duchy of
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Berg and
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France, but was, in 1815, restored to the duke of Arenberg as a
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fief under Prussian
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sovereignty . See Ritz,
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Die allere Geschichte
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des Veste and der Stadt Recklinghausen (Erzen, 1904) .

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