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BROMBERG

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 631 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BROMBERG , a See also:

town of See also:Germany, in the Prussian See also:province of See also:Posen, 32 M. by See also:rail W.N.W. from the fortress of See also:Thorn, 7 M. W. from the See also:bank of the See also:Vistula, and at the centre of an important network of See also:railways, connecting it with the strategical points on the Prusso-See also:Russian frontier. Pop. (1900) 52,082; (1905) 54,229. Its public buildings comprise two See also:Roman See also:Catholic and three See also:Protestant churches, a Jewish See also:synagogue, a See also:seminary, high grade See also:schools and a See also:theatre. The town also possesses a See also:bronze statue of the See also:emperor See also:William I., a See also:monument of the See also:war of 187o-71, and a statue of Benkenhoff, the constructor of the.Bromberg See also:Canal. This See also:engineering See also:work, constructed in 1773-1774, by command of See also:Frederick II., connects the See also:Brahe with the See also:Netze, and thus establishes communication between the Vistula, the See also:Oder and the See also:Elbe. The See also:principal See also:industrial See also:works are See also:iron foundries and See also:machine shops, See also:paper factories and See also:flour See also:mills; the town has, moreover, an active See also:trade in agricultural and other products. In view of its strategical position, a large See also:garrison is concentrated in and about the town. Bromberg is mentioned as See also:early as 1252. It See also:fell soon afterwards into the hands of the Poles, from whom it was taken in 1327 by the See also:Teutonic See also:Order, which held it till 1343, when the Poles re-captured it. Destroyed in the course of these struggles, it was restored by Casimir of See also:Poland in 1346, and down to the See also:close of the 16th See also:century. it continued to be a flourishing commercial See also:city.

It afterwards suffered so much from war and pestilence that about 1772, when the Prussians took See also:

possession, it contained only from five to six See also:hundred inhabitants. By the treaty of See also:Tilsit it was transferred to the duchy of See also:Warsaw; in 1813 it was occupied by the Russians, and in 1815 was restored to See also:Prussia.

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