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WALDENBURG

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 255 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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WALDENBURG  , a

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town of Germany, in the Prussian province of
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Silesia, 39 M . S.W. of Breslau by the
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line to Hirschberg and
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Gorlitz Pop . (1905) 16,435 . It contains a handsome town hall, three
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Protestant and two
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Roman Catholic churches . Walden-
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burg lies in the centre of the productive
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coal
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district of the Waldenburger Gebirge, a branch of the Sudetic chain, and its inhabitants are largely occupied in the
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mining industry . Among other
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industrial establishments are a large
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porcelain and earthen-
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ware factory, extensive fireclay
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works, glassworks and a
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china-
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painting establishment; there are also numerous
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flax-spinneries and
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linen-factories in the neighbourhood . Adjoining the town on the south is the
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village of Oberwaldenburg, pop . (1905) 4958, with a chateau and some coal mines . Waldenburg became a town in 1426 .

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