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FREIBURG , a See also:

town of See also:Germany in Prussian See also:Silesia, on the Polsnitz, 35 m. S.W. of See also:Breslau, on the railway to Halbstadt. Pop. (1905) 9917. It has an Evangelical and See also:Roman See also:Catholic See also:church, and its See also:industries include See also:watch-making, See also:linen-See also:weaving and distilling. In the neighbourhood are the old and See also:modern castles of the Furstenstein See also:family, whence the town is sometimes distinguished as Freiburg unter dem Furstenstein. At Freiburg, on the 22nd of See also:July 1762, the Prussians defended themselves successfully against the See also:superior forces of the Austrians.

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