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CROSSEN, or KROSSEN

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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 510 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CROSSEN, or KROSSEN , a See also:town of See also:Germany, in the See also:kingdom of See also:Prussia, on the See also:Oder, here crossed by a See also:bridge, at the influx of the See also:Bober, 31 M. S.E. of See also:Frankfort-on-Oder by See also:rail. Pop. (1900) 7369. Of the churches in the town three are See also:Protestant. 3 Dr Malmgren found a small See also:flock on See also:Bear See also:Island (See also:lat. 74 ° N.), but to this barren spot they must have been driven by stress of See also:weather. and one See also:Roman See also:Catholic. Besides the See also:modern school (Realprogymnasium), there are a technical school for viniculture and See also:fruit-growing and a See also:dairy school. There are manufactories of See also:copper and See also:brass See also:ware, See also:cloth, &c., while in the surrounding See also:country the See also:chief See also:industries are fruit and See also:grape growing. There is a brisk See also:shipping See also:trade, mainly in See also:wine, fruit and See also:fish. Crossen was founded in 1005 and was important during the See also:middle ages as a point of passage across the Oder.

It attained civic rights in 1232, was for a See also:

time the See also:capital of a Silesian duchy, which, on the See also:death of See also:Barbara of See also:Brandenburg, widow of the last See also:duke, passed to Brandenburg (1482). In May 1886 the town was devastated by a whirlwind.

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