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CLAUSTHAL, or KLAUSTIIAL

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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 468 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CLAUSTHAL, or KLAUSTIIAL , a See also:town of See also:Germany, in the Prussian Harz, lying on a See also:bleak See also:plateau, 186o ft. above See also:sea-level, 50 . M. by See also:rail W.S.W. of See also:Halberstadt. Pop. (1905) 8565. Clausthal is the See also:chief See also:mining town of the Upper Harz Mountains, and practically forms one town with Zellerfeld, which is separated from it by a small stream, the Zellbach. The streets are broad, opportunity for improvement having been given by fires in 1844 and 1854; the houses are mostly of See also:wood. There are an Evangelical and a See also:Roman See also:Catholic See also:church, and a gymnasium. Clausthal has a famous mining See also:college with a mineralogical museum, and a disused See also:mint. Its chief mines are See also:silver and See also:lead, but it also smelts See also:copper and a little See also:gold. Four or five sanatoria are in the neighbourhood. The museum of the Upper Harz is at Zellerfeld. Clausthal was founded about the See also:middle of the 12th See also:century in consequence probably of the erection of a See also:Benedictine monastery (closed in 1431), remains of which still exist in Zellerfeld.

At the beginning of the 16th century the See also:

dukes of See also:Brunswick made a new See also:settlement here, and under their directions the mining, which had been begun by the monks, was carried on more energetically. The first church was built at Clausthal in 1570. In 1864 the See also:control of the mines passed into the hands of the See also:state.

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