WALDENBURG
Online Encyclopedia
Originally appearing in Volume
V28,
Page 255
of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
WALDENBURG
, a See also:town of See also:Germany, in the Prussian See also:province of See also:Silesia, 39 M
.
S.W. of See also:Breslau by the See also:line to Hirschberg and See also:Gorlitz Pop
.
(1905) 16,435
.
It contains a handsome town See also:- HALL
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
hall, three See also:Protestant and two See also:Roman See also:Catholic churches
.
See also:Walden-See also:burg lies in the centre of the productive See also:coal See also:district of the Waldenburger Gebirge, a See also:branch of the Sudetic See also:chain, and its inhabitants are largely occupied in the See also:mining See also:industry
.
Among other See also:industrial establishments are a large See also:porcelain and earthen-See also:ware factory, extensive fireclay See also:works, glassworks and a See also:china-See also:painting See also:establishment; there are also numerous See also:flax-spinneries and See also:linen-factories in the neighbourhood
.
Adjoining the town on the See also:south is the See also:village of Oberwaldenburg, pop
.
(1905)
4958, with a See also:chateau and some coal mines
.
Waldenburg became a town in 1426
.
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