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SCHONEBERG

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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 358 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SCHONEBERG  , a

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town of Germany, in the Prussian province of
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Brandenburg, forming a suburb of Berlin, which it adjoins on the south-west . Pop . (1905) 141,010 . It has four churches, a statue of the emperor William I. and several educational establishments . It contains the railway station of the military
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line to Zossen and is connected with the metropolis by electric trams and omnibuses . Its chief manufactures are railway plant, cigars,
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soap, paper and chemicals . The foundation of Alt-Schonberg is ascribed to Albert the Bear, margrave of Brandenburg, in the 12th century, while Neu-Schoneberg was founded by Frederick the
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Great in 175o to accommodate some Bohemian weavers exiled for their religion . It was made a town in 1898 .

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