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HADERSLEBEN (Dan. Haderslev)

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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 798 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HADERSLEBEN (See also:Dan. Haderslev) , a See also:town of See also:Germany, in the Prussian See also:province of See also:Schleswig-See also:Holstein, 31 M. N. from Flensburg. Pop. (1905) 9289. It lies in a pleasant valley on the Hadersleben See also:fjord, which is about 9 m. in length, and communicates with the Little See also:Belt, and at the junction of the See also:main See also:line of railway from Woyens with three vicinal lines. The See also:principal buildings are the beautiful See also:church of St See also:Mary, dating from the 13th See also:century, the theological See also:seminary established in 1870, the gymnasium and the See also:hospital. The See also:industries include See also:iron-See also:founding, tanning, and the manufacture of See also:machines, See also:tobacco and gloves. The See also:harbour is only accessible to small vessels. Hadersleben is first mentioned in 1228, and received municipal rights from See also:Duke Waldemar II. in 1292. It suffered considerably during the See also:wars between Schleswig and Holstein in the 15thcentury. In See also:November 1864 it passed with Schleswig to See also:Prussia.

Two Danish See also:

kings, See also:Frederick II. and Frederick III., were See also:born at Hadersleben. See A. Sach, Der Ursprung der Stadt Hadersleben (Hadersleben, 1892).

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