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RUDOLSTADT
, a See also:town of See also:Germany, See also:capital of the principality of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, and the See also:chief See also:residence of the See also:prince, lies on the See also:left See also:bank of the See also:Saale, 18 m
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S.W. of See also:Jena, by the railway Grossheringen-See also:Saalfeld, in one of the most beautiful districts of Thuringia
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(1905) 12,494
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The picturesque town is a favourite tourist resort
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Besides containing the See also:government buildings of the little principality, Rudolstadt is well provided with See also:schools and other institutions, including a library of 65,000 volumes
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The residence of the prince is the Heidecksburg, a See also:palace on an See also:eminence 200 ft. above the Saale, which was rebuilt after a See also:fire in 1935, and contains a picture See also:gallery, a magnificent banqueting See also: The See also:industries of the See also:place include the manufacture of See also:porcelain, See also:chocolate and dye-stuffs, See also:wool-See also:spinning and See also:bell-See also:founding . The name of Rudolstadt occurs in an See also:inventory of the possessions of the See also:abbey of See also:Hersfeld in the See also:year 800 . After passing into the See also:possession of the See also:German See also:kings and then of the rulers of Orlamunde and of See also:Weimar, it came into the hands of the See also:counts of Schwarzburg in 1335 . Its civic rights were confirmed in 1404, and since 1599 it has been the residence of the ruling See also:house of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt . See Renovanz, Chronik von Rudolstadt (Rudolstadt, 1860); Anemuller, Geschichtsbilder aus der Vergangenheit Rudolstadts (Rudolstadt, 1888); and Woerl, Rudolstadt (2nd ed., See also:Leipzig, 189o) . |
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I would like to obtain a copy of two birth certificates on my great-grandparents who lived in Rudolstadt in 1859-1886. Can you tell me where I can write to obtain a copy of birth records for that town in Germany? Thank you
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