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BRAUNAU (Czech Broumov)

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 437 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BRAUNAU (See also:Czech Broumov) , a See also:town of Bohemia, See also:Austria, 139 M. E.N.E. of See also:Prague by See also:rail. Pop. (1900) 7622, chiefly See also:German. The town is built on a rocky See also:eminence on the right See also:bank of the Steine. It has an imposing See also:Benedictine See also:abbey, once a See also:castle, but converted into a religious See also:house in 1322, when Ottakar I. gave the See also:district to the See also:Benedictines. Noteworthy also is the See also:great See also:church of See also:Saints See also:Wenceslaus and See also:Adalbert, built between 1683 and 1733. This stands on the site where, in 1618, the Protestants attempted to build a church, the forcible prevention of which by See also:Abbot Wolfgang Solander was the immediate cause of the protest of the Bohemian estates and the " defenestration " of the ministers Martinic and Slavata, which opened the See also:Thirty Years' See also:War. After the See also:battle of the See also:White See also:Hill, near Prague (162o), the town was deprived of all its privileges, which were, however, in great See also:part restored nine years later. It is now a manufacturing centre (See also:cloth, woollen and See also:cotton stuffs, &c.) and has a considerable See also:trade.

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