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WANDSBEK

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 303 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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WANDSBEK  , a

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town of Germany, in the Prussian province of Schleswig-Holstein, practically forming a populous suburb of
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Hamburg, with which it is connected by a railway and an electric
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tramway . Pop . (1905) 31,563 . It is best known as the place of residence of the poet Johann Heinrich Voss and of Matthias Claudius, who here issued (1771—1775) the Wandsbecker Bolen . There is a monument to Claudius in the town . Its leading manufactures are
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spirits,
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tobacco,
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beer, leather and confectionery; other
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industries are machine
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building and gardening .

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