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WERDAU

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 522 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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WERDAU  , a

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town of
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Germany, in the
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kingdom of
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Saxony, on the Pleisse, in the
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industrial
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district of
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Zwickau, and 40 M . S . of
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Leipzig . Pop . (1905) 19,473 . Its
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chief
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industries are
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cotton and
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wool-
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spinning and the
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weaving of
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cloth, but machinery of various kinds,
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paper and a few other articles are also manufactured . In addition to the usual
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schools, Werdau contains a weaving-school . The town is mentioned as
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early as 1304 and in 1398 it was
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purchased by the
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margrave of
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Meissen, who afterwards became elector of Saxony . See Stichard, Chronik der Fabrikstadt Werdau (2nd ed., Werdau, 1865) .

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