SCHLEIZ  , a

town of Germany, second capital of the principality of Reuss, Younger Line, situated in a fertile district on the river Wiesenthal, 20 M. by rail N.W. of Plauen . Pop . (1905) 5577• It has a palace, with a chapel and a library, three churches, one of them containing the burial vaults of the princes, several educational establishments, and various small industries such as the manufacture of hosiery, toys, sweetmeats and lamps . It has a market for cattle and pigs . Schleiz was originally a Slav settlement, but received civic privileges in 1359 . There was a settlement of the Teutonic Order here, and for some years previous to 1848 the town was the capital of the small principality of Reuss-Schleiz . In the vicinity a battle was fought, on the 9th of October ,8o6, between the French and the Prussians . See Alberti, Aus vergangenen Tagen des Reussenlandes and der Stadt Schleiz (Schleiz, 1896) .