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REICHENBACH

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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 49 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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REICHENBACH  , a

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town in the
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kingdom of
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Saxony, situated in a hilly
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district, known as the
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Vogtland, r I m . S.W. of
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Zwickau, at the junction of the
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main lines of railway
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Dresden-
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Leipzig-
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Hof . Pop . (1905) 24,915 . It contains a handsome town-
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hall rebuilt in 1833, and a natural
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history museum . The
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industries embrace the manufacture of
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cloth, machinery and carriages, also
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dyeing and
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bleaching . The earliest mention of the town occurs in a document of
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I212, and it acquired municipal rights in 1367 . The woollen manufacture was introduced in the 15th
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century, and took the
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place of the
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mining
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industry which had been established earlier .

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